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An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coördinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.

To feign or counterfeit; to simulate. With acted fear the villain thus pursued. Dryden. To act a part, to sustain the part of one of the characters in a play; hence, to simulate; to dissemble. -- To act the part of, to take the character of; to fulfill the duties of.

A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.

A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. [Spelled also hacqueton.] [Obs.] Halliwell. Sir W. Scott.

The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and fill…

dded. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system. Adjusting the orthography. Johnson.

l plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.

Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord".

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

A man who violates his religious covenant. Jer. ix. 2.

A woman who violates her religious engagements. James iv. 4.

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.

Related to, or of the nature of, aërobies; as, aërobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.

Related by marriage; from the same source.

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review.

Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life. Marshall.