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Acquisition; gain. Milton.

To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.] Shak.

Acquittal. [Obs.] Milton.

To craze. [Obs.] Grafton.

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.

To end in, or come to, a sharp point. "Acuminating in a cone of prelacy." Milton.

High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his amp…

Of adamant; hard as adamant. Milton.

ood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

A fine cotton cloth of India.

To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate. [Obs.] Skelton.

o add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton.

That which adheres; an appendage. [R.] Milton.

to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. When one man's land adjoins to another's. Blackstone.

condemn. Without reprieve, adjudged to death For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. Milton.

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. Wotton.

A helper or assistant. [Archaic] Drayton.