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The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.

Having sharp-pointed leaves.

Having acute lobes, as some leaves.

The twisting of an artery with a needle to arrest hemorrhage.

See Allocution. [Obs.]

The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

An obtaining or acquiring. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A man who digs chalk.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.

lain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.

Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.

Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

See Clear-cut.

Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson.

A joint executor.

A joint executrix.