Acerose :: Acerose (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

Acerose :: Acerose (a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine..

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

Acrospire :: Acrospire (v. i.) To put forth the first sprout.

Acrospore :: Acrospore (n.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

Acrosporous :: Acrosporous (a.) Having acrospores.

Across :: Across (n.) From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river..

Across :: Across (adv.) From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across..

Across :: Across (adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto..

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) Alt. of Acrostica.

Acrostical :: Acrostical (n.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics..

Acrostically :: Acrostically (adv.) After the manner of an acrostic.

Aeroscope :: Aeroscope (n.) An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air..

Aeroscopy :: Aeroscopy (n.) The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere.

Aerose :: Aerose (a.) Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy..

Aerosiderite :: Aerosiderite (n.) A mass of meteoric iron.

Aerosphere :: Aerosphere (n.) The atmosphere.

Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloon.

Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloonist; an aeronaut.

Aerostatic :: Aerostatic (a.) Alt. of Aerostatica.

Aerostatical :: Aerostatical (a.) Of or pertaining to aerostatics; pneumatic.

Aerostatical :: Aerostatical (a.) Aeronautic; as, an aerostatic voyage..

Aerostatics :: Aerostatics (n.) The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aeronautics..

Aerostation :: Aerostation (n.) Aerial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

Aerostation :: Aerostation (n.) The science of weighing air; aerostatics.

Aggerose :: Aggerose (a.) In heaps; full of heaps.

Agrostis :: Agrostis (n.) A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses..

Agrostographic :: Agrostographic (a.) Alt. of Agrostographica.

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