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-- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.

Acquitted; set free; rid of. [Archaic] Shak.

Any field of arable or pasture land. [Obs.]

Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. [Archaic] Harvey.

A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. [Archaic] Bacon.

Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. Watts.

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

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.

Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

s 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.

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

lass Anthozoa, and family Actinidæ. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].

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

Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light.

; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor. The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3.

ere contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.

Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

The twisting of an artery with a needle to arrest hemorrhage.