| Acuteness | |
  | The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. |
| Acuteness | |
| Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds. |
| Acuteness | |
| Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. |
| Acutifoliate | |
| Having sharp-pointed leaves. |
| Acutilobate | |
| Having acute lobes, as some leaves. |
| Ad- | |
| As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce. |
| Adact | |
| To compel; to drive. |
| Adactyl | |
| Alt. of Adactylous |
| Adactylous | |
| Without fingers or without toes. |
| Adactylous | |
| Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals). |
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