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The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. Johnson.

To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat. Arbuthnot.

State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [R.] Boyle.

A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.

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.

To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

(Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

The small white European heron. See Egret.

nstrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument Whewell.

In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerne.

The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast th…

allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

Almacantar. [Archaic] Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass.

Height of degree; highest point or degree. He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue. Shak.

ss of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.

e quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition. Every excellency is a degree of amiability. Jer. Taylor.

Not changed in form by inversion. Anallagmatic curves, a class of curves of the fourth degree which have certain peculiar relations to circles; -- sometimes called bicircular quartics. -- Anallagmatic surfaces, a certain class of surfaces of the fourth degree.

ing moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.