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Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning. [Colloq.]

Acuteness; cunning. [Colloq.]

harp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.

Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.

In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.

The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.

To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n.

complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform; Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fixed on this day Milton.

One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.

Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects.

To strike or stamp in. [Obs.] Becon.

Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. [R.] Harvey.

ip. Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Matt. v. 44.

The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.

To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim. I am beloved Hermia; Why should not I, then, prosecute my right Shak.

A small shield. [Obs.] Skelton.

See Scutellum.

Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. Woodward.

the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.