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e angle: we 'll to the river there. Shak. A fisher next his trembling angle bears. Pope. Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90º. -- Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. -- Alternate angles. See Alternate. -- Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle…

The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.

Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.

The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. Blackstone.

A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton.

One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.

An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd. The active preacher . . . the argue schoolman. Milman.

Acuteness. Dryden.

rom particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

An anchor is said to be astay, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.

A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

warrant (Law), is for a justice of the peace, in the county where the warrant is to be executed, to sign or indorse a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender. -- To back water (Naut.), to reverse the action of the oars, paddles, or propeller, so as to force the boat or ship backward.…

or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. Blackstone. Kent.

ial purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. Blackstone.

rowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons. Bless them which persecute you. Rom. xii. 14.