Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AC-CUS'TOM-A-BLY, adv.

According to custom or habit. [Little used.]

AC-CUS'TOM-ANCE, n.

Custom; habitual use or practice. [Not used.] Boyle.

AC-CUS'TOM-A-RI-LY, adv.

According to custom or common practice. [See Customarily.] [Little used.]

AC-CUS'TOM-A-RY, a.

Usual; customary. [See Customary.] [Little used.]

AC-CUS'TOM-ED, pp.

1. Being familiar by use; habituated; inured.
2. adj. Usual; often practiced; as, in their accustomed manner.

AC-CUS'TOM-ING, ppr.

Making familiar by practice; inuring.

AC-CUTMU-LA-TIVE-LY, adv.

In an accumulative manner; in heaps.

AC-DA-TIVE, a.

Furnishing accommodation.

ACE, n. [L. as, a unit or pound; Fr. as; It. asso; D. aas; G. ass; Sp. as.]

1. A unit; a single point on a card or die; or the card or die so marked.
2. A very small quantity; a particle; an atom; a trifle; as, a creditor will not abate an ace of his demand.

A-CEL'DA-MA, n. [Ch. {foreign}, a field, and {foreign}, Ch. Syr. and Sam., blood.]

A field said to have lain south of Jerusalem, the same as the potter's field, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood. It was appropriated to the interment of strangers.

A-CEPHA-LA, n. plur. [Gr. {foreign}.]

A class of molluscous animals, comprehending those which have no head; as the oyster and muscle. Bell.

A-CEPH'A-LA, n. plu.

Molluscan animals having no head, as the oyster and muscle. Bell.

A-CEPH'A-LI, n. [G. α and {foreign}.]

A sect of levelers who acknowledged no chief or head.

A-CEPHA-LOUS, a.

1. In botany, applied to ovaries, the style of which springs from their base, instead of their apex.
2. In anatomy, applied to a fetus having no head.

A-CEPH'A-LOUS, a. [Gr. {foreign} priv. and {foreign}, a head.]

Without a head, headless. In history, the term Acephali, or Acephalites, was given to several sects who refused to follow some noted leader, and to such bishops as were exempt from the jurisdiction and discipline of their patriarch. It was also given to certain levelers who acknowledged no head in the reign of Henry I. It was also applied to the Blemmyes, a pretended nation of Africa, and to other tribes in the East, whom ancient naturalists represented as having no head; their eyes and mouth being placed in other parts. Modern discoveries have dissipated these fictions. In English Laws, men who held lands of no particular lord, and clergymen who were under no bishop. LL. Hen I. Cowel.

A-CEPH'A-LUS, n.

An obsolete name of the trenia or tapeworm, which was formerly supposed to have no head; an error now exploded. The term is also used to express a verse defective in the beginning.

A-CERB', a. [L. acerbus; G. herbe, harsh, sour, tart, bitter, rough, whence herbst, autumn, herbstzeit, harvest time; D. herfst, harvest. See Harvest.]

Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste; sour, with astringency or roughness; a quality of unripe fruits. Quincy.

A-CERB'ATE, v.t.

To make sour, bitter or harsh to the taste.

A-CERBA-TING, ppr.

Making sour.

A-CERB'I-TY, n.

1. A sourness, with roughness, or astringency.
2. Figuratively, harshness or severity of temper in man.

A-CER'IC, a. [L. acer, a maple-tree.]

Pertaining to the maple; obtained from the maple, as aceric acid. Ure.

A-CER'I-DES, n. plur.

Plasters which have no wax. Knowles.

AC'ER-OUS, a. [L. acerosus, chaffy, from acus, chaff or a point.]

1. In botany, chaffy; resembling chaff.
2. An acerous or acerose leaf is one which is linear and permanent, in form of a needle, as in pine. Martyn.

A-CERTRA, n.

A vessel in which incense has been burnt. Knowles.

A-CERV'AL, a.

Pertaining to a heap.