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Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.

Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

Sourness and harshness. [Obs.] Bailey.

Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

An apparatus for hastening acetification. Knight.

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

in, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Shak.

same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it. I. Taylor.

scutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. Cussans.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

pt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecom…

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless. A*cic"u*lar*ly, adv.

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered. He was stern and his face as acid as ever. A. Trollope.

Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. "With anxious, acidulent face." Carlyle.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.