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Having no carpels.

Same as Acaulescent.

To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A larval entozoön in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts o…

Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

Without a lip.

Lacking bile.

Without chyle.

Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. E. Burke. Acidulous mineral waters, such as contain carbonic anhydride.

Pertaining to acology.

Materia medica; the science of remedies.

See Acolythist.

Being without joints; jointless.

The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays.

Having acute lobes, as some leaves.

invoice, - - in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.

Without fingers or without toes.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.