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The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. The Roman.. accumbent posture in eating. Arbuthnot.

accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.

A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.

Methyl ketol; also, any of various homologues of the same.

Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. -- n.

ngle seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.

One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

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.

p, 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.

ne of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. Quain.

act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.…

said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. Prof. August.

The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. Shak.

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