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Having a sour taste; sour; acid. "An acetous spirit." Boyle. "A liquid of an acetous kind." Bp. Lowth.

composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.

A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. W…

Armed with prickles, as a plant.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

A short sword or saber.

The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

So as to be adjacent.

A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.

The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

See Aggrace. [Obs.]

A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria.

See under Lace.

Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions.

A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.

Leathery.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the