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Lacking bile.

Lacking, or deficient in, color; as, achromatous blood.

Colorless; achromatic.

Without chyle.

Without chyme.

Containing or yielding an acid.

Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. E. Burke. Acidulous mineral waters, such as contain carbonic anhydride.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. Kirwan.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

Being without joints; jointless.

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

ng 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 theaters to…

Of or pertaining to acoustics.

In relation to sound or to hearing. Tyndall.

One versed in acoustics. Tyndall.

The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

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

In an acrimonious manner.

The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.