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Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidæ, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidæ. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars.

Wet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The wryneck; -- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

The common European sandpiper.

Knowingly. [Obs.] Spenser.

Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning. [Obs.] Spenser.

tened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long.

ers used without application to things, as 6, 8, 10; but when applied to any thing, as 6 feet, 10 men, they become concrete. -- Abstract or Pure mathematics. See Mathematics.

To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

at which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.

A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candle…

Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones. Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. Sir J. Davies.

To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.

A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.

One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge. -- a. Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.

h; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.