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Acquitted; set free; rid of. [Archaic] Shak.

A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier.

a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

he decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.

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.

t. [Obs.] "A great adamant of acquaintance." Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. Greene.

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…

your decays adapts my sight. Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

To thrive or grow; to ripen. [Prov. Eng.] Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. Tusser.

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.

To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree. "Nor time nor place did then adhere." Every thing adheres together." Shak.

Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.

Hydrolyzing fats; converting neutral fats into glycerin and free fatty acids, esp. by the action of an enzyme; as, adipolytic action.

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

nd to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.