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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.

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

Shaped like a needle.

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

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.

Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidæ), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniæ when irritated.

aking audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith.

Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone.

Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

Like a prickle.

ich has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage. Shak.

Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison.

Glandlike; glandular.

A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. -- Ad`e*nom"a*tous, a.

Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

ed; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.