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To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.

See Accustomance. [Obs.]

Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle (Geom.), an angle less than a right angle.

That part of anatomy which describes the glands.

nauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison.

A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

The quality of being aged; oldness. Custom without truth is but agedness of error. Milton.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air.

ia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.

A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

ed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.

ts open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. Ure.

istance to oxidation, and for its lightness, pertaining a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.