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Of the nature of aconite.

Easy to be acquainted with; affable. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.…

A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.

An acquaintance. [R.] Swift.

The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.

nce of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special officers. Shak.

The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed.

Of or pertaining to the Acrita. -- n. An individual of the Acrita.

loping from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

Pertaining to an acropolis.

The instep or front of the tarsus.

Capable of being acted. Tennyson.

Acute-angled.

A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.

Capable of being adapted.

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.

Adaptive. Stubbs.

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