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Intersecting at acute angles. Sir T. Browne.

al figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.

ng (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

ouths, a young man void of understanding. Prov. vii. 7. Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. Beattie. I wake, and I discern the truth. Tennyson.

Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. Macaulay.

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth.

objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.

The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means.

so disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other.

One who disputes; one who argues A singularly eager, acute, and pertinacious disputant. Macaulay.

ling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament. Dogtooth spar (Min.), a variety of calcite, in acute crystals, resembling the tooth of a dog. See Calcite. -- Dogtooth violet (Bot.), a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [Written also dog'…

e in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person. Dunglison.

A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth. To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing. [Colloq.]

Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.

Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases. Dunglison.

An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder. James White.

One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness. Center of gravity See under Center. -- Gravity battery, See Battery, n., 4. -- Specific gravity, the ratio of the weight of a body to the weight of an equal volume of some other body taken as the standard or unit. This standard is usually water for solids and liquids, and air…

A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.