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Violescent. [R.]

Tending to a violet color; violascent.

Beginning to be green; slightly green; greenish.

Slightly green; greenish.

Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.

Same as Acaulescent.

Same as Acaulescent.

ll, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.

The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. Johnson.

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.

ill, 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 heir at law. Blackstone.

In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

t or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

Connection in the way of descent. H. Spencer.

d in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. "The agnatic succession." Blackstone.