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A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies.

Materia medica; the science of remedies.

Acquired. [Obs.] He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton.

clear one's self.k. (b) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly.

A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. [Archaic] Bacon.

. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes. Cowper.

ught, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

s words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.

or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.

An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.

To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.