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

n; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

n. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

gradation; ruin. [Obs.] You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. B. Jonson.

To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aërate soil; to aërate water.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

prehension; in fear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil." Milton.

A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist. Dodsley.

fruit of Ammi Copticum, syn. Carum Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. [R.] "These home alarms." Shak. Thy palace fill with insults and alarms. Pope.

ot incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

hia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids.…

made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.