Webster's Dictionary 1828

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ACIDIFICATION

ACIDIFICA'TION, noun The act or process of acidifying or changing into an acid.

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ACIDIFIED

ACID'IFIED, participle passive Made acid; converted into an acid.

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ACIDIFIER

ACID'IFIER, noun That which by combination forms an acid, as oxygen and hydrogen.

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ACIDIFY

ACID'IFY, verb transitive [Acid and Latin facio.]To make acid; but appropriately to convert into an acid, chimically so called, by combination with any substance.

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ACIDIFYING

ACID'IFYING, participle present tense Making acid; converting into an acid; having power to change into an acid. Oxygen is called the acidifying principle or element.

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ACIDIMETER

ACIDIM'ETER, noun [Acid and Gr. measure.]An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

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ACIDITY

ACID'ITY, noun The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste.

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ACIDNESS

AC'IDNESS, noun The quality of being sour; acidity.

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ACIDULATE

ACID'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin acidulus, slightly sour;To tinge with an acid; to make acid in a moderate degree.

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ACIDULATED

ACID'ULATED, participle passive Tinged with an acid; made slightly sour.

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ACIDULATING

ACID'ULATING, participle present tense Tinging with an acid.

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ACIDULE

AC'IDULE, noun In chimistry, a compound base is supersaturated

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ACIDULOUS

ACID'ULOUS, adjective [Latin acidulus. See Acid.]Slightly sour; sub-acid, or having an excess of acid; as acidulous sulphate.

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ACIDULUM

ACID'ULUM, with acid; as, tartareous acidulum; oxalic acidulum

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ACINACIFORM

ACINAC'IFORM, adjective [Latin acinaces, a cimeter, Gr. and Latin forma, form.]In botany, formed like, or resembling a cimeter.

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ACINIFORM

AC'INIFORM, adjective [Latin acinus, a grape stone, and forma, shape.]Having the form of grapes; being in clusters like grapes. The uvea or posterior lamen of the iris in the ey...

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ACINOSE

AC'INOSE, adjective [From Latin acinus. See Aciniform.]

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ACINOUS

AC'INOUS,Consisting of minute granular concretions; used in mineralogy.

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ACINUS

AC'INUS, noun [Latin] In botany, one of the small grains, which compose the fruit of the blackberry, etc.

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ACIPENSER

AC'IPENSER, adjective In ichthyology, a genus of fishes, of the order of chondropterygii, having an obtuse head; the mouth under the head, retractile and without teeth. To this ...

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ACITLI

ACIT'LI, noun A name of the water hare, or great crested grebe or diver.

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ACKNOWLEDGE

ACKNOWL'EDGE, verb transitive Aknol'edge, [ad and knowledge. See Know.]1. To own, avow or admit to be true, by a declaration of assent; as to acknowledge the being of a God.2. T...

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ACKNOWLEDGED

ACKNOWL'EDGED, participle passive Owned; confessed; noticed with regard or gratitude; received with approbation; owned before authority.

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ACKNOWLEDGING

ACKNOWL'EDGING, participle present tense Owning; confessing; approving; grateful; but the latter sense is a gallicism, not to be used.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

ACKNOWL'EDGMENT, noun1. The act of owning; confession; as, the acknowledgment of a fault.2. The owning, with approbation, or in the true character; as the acknowledgment of a Go...

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ACME

AC'ME, noun Ac'my [Gr.]The top or highest point. It is used to denote the maturity or perfection of an animal. Among physicians, the crisis of a disease, or its utmost violence....

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ACNE

AC'NE, noun Ac'ny. [Gr.]A small hard pimple or tubercle on the face.