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An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. [Obs.] Holland.

A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.

To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise. Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it. I. Taylor.…

Without a lip.

Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.

Without chyle.

Without chyme.

ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon.

Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. Prof. August.

Being without joints; jointless.

Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidæ), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniæ when irritated.

A small species of agouti (Dasyprocta acouchy).

A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.

To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to. They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not re…

is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.

with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. South.

his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.

ally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.