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To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. [R.] Dr. John Smith.

In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.

The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.

A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.

Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker.

Superciliary.

plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.

inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

Familiar through use; usual; customary. "An accustomed action." Shak.

ortion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.

kalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are…

To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with. Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3.

Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.

A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.

f Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.