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Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. Acoustic duct, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient the…

Of or pertaining to acoustics.

In relation to sound or to hearing. Tyndall.

To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with. Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3.

Easy to be acquainted with; affable. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.

To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to. They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not re…

Submission to an injury by the party injured.

Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

To quiet. [Obs.] Acquiet his mind from stirring you against your own peace. Sir A. Sherley.

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his hei…

Acquired. [Obs.] He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite. A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted. I. Taylor.

To acquit. [Obs.] Shak.

Partial or total absence of the skull.

To craze. [Obs.] Grafton.

Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.

f disposition or manners. John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. South.