acquirer (akwirer)

acquiryt (a-kwir'i), n. [ No art requireth more hard study and pain toward the acquiry of it than contentment. Barrow , Sermons, III. 62. IMG:content-0193.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0194.png:[blocks in formation] =Syn. 1. To exonerate, exculpate, discharge, set free. See absolve .-4. (b) To behave, act, bear, conduct, demean, deport, or quit (one's self). acquisitive (a-kwiz'i-tiv), (a-kwiz'i-tiv), a. [L. as if * acqui- sitivus , acquis it us , pp.: see acquisite .] 1. Acquired. He died not in his acquisitive , but in his native soil. Wotton , Reliquiæ, p. 106. 2. Making or tending to make acquisitions; having a propensity to acquire: as, an acquis- itive disposition. acquitet (a-kwit'), v. t. Same as acquit . [Com intemperate, exce ive, requite .] acquitment (a-kwit'ment), n. The act of ac- quitting, or the state of being acquitted; ac- quittal. [Rare.] acquittal (a-kwit'al), n . [ acquitalle , -ayle ; acquit + -al .] 1. The act of acquitting, or the state of being acquitted. Specifically, in law : (a) A judicial setting free or deliverance from the charge of an offense by pronouncing a verdict of not guilty. (b) In England, freedom from entries and molestations by a superior lord for services i uing out of lands. Cowell. 2. Performance, as of a duty; discharge of an obligation or a debt. acquittance (a-kwit'ans), n. [ aquitance , -ans, acquit ance, -aunce , aquitance , aqui- ter , discharge: see acquit and-ance.] 1. The act of acquitting or discharging from a debt or any other liability; the state of being so dis- charged. Now must your conscience my acquittance seal. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 7. 2. A writing in evidence of a discharge; a re- ceipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances Being suspected and put for their acquittance to take the sacrament of the altar. Jer. Taylor. acquistt (a-kwist'), n. [A form of acquest , after It. acquis to , ML. acquistum , L. acquis i tum .] Ac- quest; acquirement. Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me From all the impure blots and stains thereof. acquittance-roll (a-kwit'ans-rōl), n. In the British army, the pay-roll of a company, troop, or battery. Acræa (a-krē'ä), n. [NL., ἀκραῖος , equiv. to άκρος , at the top or extremity.] A genus of nymphalid butterflies, typical of the subfamily Acræina. A. anti as is an example. Acræinæ (ak-re-īnē), n. pl . [NL., Acræa + -inæ.] A subfamily of butterflies of the family Nymphalid a , taking name from the leading genus Acræa , and containing mostly African species of small or moderate size, with semi- transparent wings, reddish-brown marked with black. There are about 85 species. Acramphibrya (ak-ram-fib'ri-ä), n. pl. [NL., άκρος , at the end, + ἀμφί , on both sides, + βρύον , a flower, blo om, βρύειν , swell, be full to bursting.] In bot . , a term used by Endlicher as a cla name for exogenous plants, which he described as plants growing both at the apex and at the sides. a crania (a-kra'ni-ä), n . [NL., cranium , the skull.) 1. [NL., fem. sing.] In teratol . , a malformation consisting in an entire absence of the bones and integu- ments forming the vault of the skull. Also sible to acquit him without offering the gro est outrage to justice and common sense. Macaulay , Lord Bacon. 2. To atone for. [Rare.] Till life to death acquit my forced offence. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 1071. Aquyte hym wel for goddes love, quod he. Chaucer , Troilus, ii. 1200. Midst foes (as champion of the faith) he ment That pal me or cypre should his paines acquite . IMG:content-0195.png:[blocks in formation] acrany (ak'rā-ni), n . Same as a crania , 1. acraset, v . t. See acraze. acrasiat, n. See acrasy . Carew , Ta o. Acraspeda, Acraspedota (a-kras'pe-dä, a- kras-pe-do'tä), n. pl . [NL., Aurelia ) with a contractile marginal fold or velum: nearly synonymous with Discophora (which see): opposed to Cras- pedota. See cut under acaleph . acraspedote (a-kras'pe-dot), a. [ craspedote , or as Acraspeda + -ote .] IMG:content-0196.png:[blocks in formation] OS. akkar = OFries. ekker = D. akker = OHG. ahhar , achar , accar , MHG. G. acker =Icel. akr = Sw. åker Dan.ager =Goth.akrs= L.ager = Gr. ἀγρός = Skt. ajra , all in the sense of field, orig. a pasture or a chase, hunting-ground; ag , Skt. aj = Gr. άγειν = L. agere = Icel. aka , drive: see ake = achel , and ( acorn , q. v. The spelling acre in- stead of the reg. aker (cf. baker , AS. bæcere ) is due to its legal use in imitation of OF. acre , , from Teut.] 1. Originally, an open plowed or sowed field. This signification was gradually lost after the acre was made a definite measure of surface. Still used in the plural to denote fields or land in general. My bosky acres , and my unshrubb'd down. Shak ., Tempest, iv. 1. Over whose acres walked those ble ed feet. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 1. 2. A superficial measure of land, usually stated to be 40 poles in length by 4 in breadth; but 160 perches (= 4840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet) make an acre, however shaped. An acre, as a specific quantity of land, was reckoned in England as much as a yoke of oxen could plow in a day 3t. A lineal measure equal to a furrow's length, or 40 poles; more frequently, an acre's breadth, 4 poles, equal to 22 or 25 yards. - Burgh acres. See burgh . God's acre. See God's -acre. acre able (ā'ker-a-bl), a. [ acre + -able .] Ac- cording to the acre; measured or estimated in acres or by the acre. The acre able produce of the two methods was nearly the Complete Farmer , Art. Potatoe (Ord. MS.). IMG:content-0197.png:[blocks in formation] acrecbolic acrecbolic (ak-rek-bol'ik), α. [ acrecencia (Sp. pron. ä-krā-then'the-ä), n. [Sp., E. accrescence, q. v.] Increase; augmentation; growth; accretion. More specifically, the enhancement of the portions of one or more of several heirs, legatees, etc., resulting when the others do not accept are incapable of sharing the inheritance. Used in the law of parts of the United States originally settled by Span iards. IMG:content-0198.png:[blocks in formation] He was not unfrequently a son of a noble, or at least of The Nation, July 26, 1877, p. 58. an acred, house. acre-dale (a'ker-dal), n. [