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Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden.

Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to Ant: dull or Ant: stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness…

Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. "Adagial verse." Barrow.

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

pted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

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

To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.

Pertaining to adenography.

Pertaining to adenology.

Pertaining to adenotomy.

produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc.

To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.

To admit, as a person or thing; to take in. Muirhead.

Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. Shipley.

Not pervious to heat.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty. Adipose fin (Zoöl.), a soft boneless fin. -- Adipose tissue (Anat.), that form of animal tissue which forms or contains fat.