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Anger; wrath. [Poet.]

Full of ire; angry; wroth. "The ireful bastard Orleans." Shak. -- Ire"ful*ly, adv.

Wrathfulness. Wyclif.

An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace. [Written also eirenarch.]

Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory; peaceful. Bp. Hall.

A proposition or device for securing peace, especially in the church. South.

f securing unity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology. Schaff-Herzog.

Any very hard rock.

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his hei…

The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. "Rules for the acquirement of a taste." Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

A person who acquires.

The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.

or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. [Archaic] Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller.

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly. Cowper.

On fire.

A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint.

One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism, n.