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In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.

om side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, 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.

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

Same as Acroterium.

Pertaining to an acroterium; as, ornaments. P. Cyc.

Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

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

Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an superintendent.

Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays.

energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.

ng to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.…

That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.

ty of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to Ant: passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.

tive manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively.

of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

pposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.

Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.