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One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. G. H. Lewes.

A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. Macaulay.

A person who acquires.

One who acquires.

One who acquits or releases.

One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

. See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

inning of a new reign. -- Act of indemnity, a statute passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. Abbott. -- Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the country), and not a matter of record.

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist. J. Grote.

The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

One who actuates, or puts into action. [R.] Melville.

Not cyclic; not disposed in cycles or whorls; as: (a) (Bot.)

One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

lways in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

One who adapts.

One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.