Emily Dickinson Lexicon

A-CAL'E-PHA, n.

An order of marine animals. See Acalephe. Currier.

A-CAL-E'PHAN, or AC-A-LE'PHE, n. [Gr. ακαληφη, a nettle.]

The class of marine animals comprehending the sea-nettle, jelly-fish, medusæ, &c. They are radiate and invertebrate, and have the property, when touched, of irritating the skin.

AC'A-LOT, n. [Contracted from acacalotl.]

A Mexican fowl, called by some the aquatic crow. It is the ibis, or a fowl that very much resembles it.

A-CAM'A-CU, n.

A bird, the Brazilian fly catcher, or Todus. Cyc.

AC-A-NA'CEOUS, a. [acana'shus; Gr. ακανος, a prickly shrub.]

Armed with prickles. A class of plants are called Acanaceæ. Milne.

A-CANTH'A, n. [Gr. ακανθα, a spine or thorn.]

In botany, a prickle; in zoology, a spine or prickly fin; an acute process of the vertebers. Encyc.

A-CANTH-A'CEOUS, a.

Armed with prickles, as a plant.

A-CANTH'A-RIS, n. [Gr. ακανθιας.]

In entomology, a species of Cimex, with a spinous thorax, and a ciliated abdomen, with spines, found in Jamaica. Cyc.

A-CANTH'ICE, n.

The sweet juice of ivy buds.

A-CANTHINE, a. [See Acanthus.]

Pertaining to the plant acanthus. The acanthine garments of the ancients were made of the down of thistles, or embroidered in imitation of the acanthus. Encyc.

A-CAN'THO-PODE, n. [Gr. ακανθος, a spine, and πους, foot.]

A spine-footed insect, clavicorn and coleopterous.

A-CANTH-OP-TE-RYG'I-OUS, a. [Gr. ακανθος, a thorn, and πτερυθιον, a little feather, from πτερον, a feather.]

In zoology, having back fins, which are hard, bony and prickly, a term applied to certain fishes. Linn.

A-CANTH'US, n. [Gr. ακανθος, L. acanthus, from ακανθα, a prickle or thorn. See Acantha.]

1. The plant bear's breech or brink ursine; a genus of several species, receiving their name from their prickles.
2. In architecture, an ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus, used in capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders. Milton. Encyc.

A-CAN'TI-CONE, n. [See PISTACITE.]

A-CAN'ZI-I, n. [plur.]

The name given to light-horse in Turkey. Knowles.

A-CARN'AR, n.

A bright star of the first magnitude, as in Eridanus. Bailey.

AC'A-RUS, n.

A tick; a small articulated animal.

A-CAT-A-LEC'TIC, n. [Gr. ακαταληκτος, not defective at the end, of κατα and ληγω to cease; Ir. lieghim.]

A verse, which has the complete number of syllables without defect or superfluity. Johnson.

A-CAT'A-LEP-SY, n. [Gr. ακαταληψια; α and καταλαμβανω, to comprehend.]

Impossibility of complete discovery or comprehension; incomprehensibility. [Little used.] Whitaker.

A-CAT-A-LEP'TIC, a.

Incomprehensible.

A-CAT'E-CHI-TI, n.

A Mexican bird, a species of Fringilla, of the size of the siskin.

A-CA-TER, or A-CA-TES, n. [See CATERER and CATES.]

A-CA-THAR'SIA, n. [Gr.]

In surgery, the filth or sordes proceeding from a wound; impurity.

A-CAU'LOUS, a. [L. α. priv. and caulis, Gr. καυλος, a stalk; W. kaul; D. kool, cabbage. See Colewort.]

In botany, without the stem called caulis; as the Carline thistle.

AC-CEDE', v.i. [L. accedo, of ad and cedo, to yield or give of place, or rather to move.]

1. To agree or assent, as to a proposition, or proposed by another. Hence in a negotiation –
2. To become a party, by agreeing to the terms of a treaty, or convention.