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The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.

Of or pertaining to the Actinozoa.

Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.

Act of sharpening. [R.]

The act of sharpening. [Obs.]

A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. Bp. Pearson.

wd; -- opposed to Ant: dull or Ant: stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. "Adagial verse." Barrow.

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

Dangling. Browning.

Earnings. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.

Pertaining to adenography.

Pertaining to adenology.

The hardening of a gland.

Pertaining to adenotomy.

An obtaining; attainment. [Obs.] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton.

n of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [Obs.] Potter.

Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. Shipley.