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

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

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

The entire upper surface of the foot.

The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.

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

A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

From 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.

After the manner of an acrostic.

The instep or front of the tarsus.

The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.

One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

Pertaining to or affecting the surface.

Having a cleavage parallel with the base.

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

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses:

Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth. L. Agassiz.

imple 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.