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Excess; intemperance. [Obs. except in Med.] Farindon.

Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. Acrid poison, a poison which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.

Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.

Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners. John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. South.

Consideration; deliberation; consultation. Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser.

ent consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.

, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness. A sweetness and amenity of temper. Buckle. This climate has not seduced by its amenities. W. Howitt.

Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptoca…

us, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.

in the body of a living animal, by means of which the animal is kept at nearly a uniform temperature. -- Animal spirits. See under Spirit. -- Animal kingdom, the whole class of beings endowed with animal life. It embraces several subkingdoms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and…

Vehemence of temper. [Obs.]

Animating spirit; intention; temper. nimus furandi Etym: [L.] (Law), intention of stealing.

glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

eavy green oil (partially solidifying on cooling), which distills over from coal tar at a temperature above 270º. It is the principal source of anthracene.

e shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

h, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.

apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.

pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.