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The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.

A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.

Of or pertaining to the Acrita. -- n. An individual of the Acrita.

Pertaining to an acrobat. -- Ac`ro*bat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder- smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. Shelley.

ds having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge. -- a. Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.

ned by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. Watts.

Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith.

Of or pertaining to the acromion. Dunglison.

Pertaining to an acropolis.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

Pertaining to an acroterium; as, ornaments. P. Cyc.

Pertaining to or affecting the surface.

Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

sed to designate an act declaring pardon or amnesty to numerous offenders, as at the beginning of a new reign. -- Act of indemnity, a statute passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. Abbott. -- Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the countr…

Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth. L. Agassiz.

Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays.

Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite.

Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic.

Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.