Acharnement

1. n. Savage fierceness; ferocity.

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Achate

1. n. Provisions. Same as Cates.
2. n. An agate.
3. n. Purchase; bargaining.

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Achatina

1. n. A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.

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Acescent

1. n. A substance liable to become sour.
2. a. Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.

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Acetable

1. n. An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.

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Acetabular

1. a. Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

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Acetabulifera

1. n. pl. The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

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Acetabuliferous

1. a. Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

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Acetabuliform

1. a. Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx.

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Acetabulum

1. n. One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
2. n. A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.
3. n. The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
4. n. The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
5. n. A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
6. n. The large posterior sucker of the leeches.

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