acor (akor)

[L., a sour taste, and are still eaten in various countries. The sweet acorn is the fruit of the Quercus Ballot a of northwestern Africa, and is quite palatable, as are also several American species. All are excellent food for swine. Thei weren wont lyghtly to slaken hir hunger at euene with acornes of okes. Chaucer , Boëthius, ii. meter 5. Besides the gall which is his proper fruite, hee shootes out cakerns , i. e., ut nunc vocamus acornes , and oakes apples and polypody and mo . Sir T. Browne , Works, I. 203 (ed. Bohn). 2. Naut . , a small ornamental piece of wood, of a conical or globular shape, sometimes fixed on the point of the spindle above the vane, on a masthead, to keep the vane from being blown off.-3. Any similar ornamental tip. 4. Same as acorn - shell , 2. IMG:content-0189.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors] Acorn-moth ( Holcocera glandulella , Riley). a, larva within acorn; & , acorn infested with the larva; c, head and thoracic segments of larva; d , one of the abdominal segments of larva, lateral view; e, one of the abdominal segments of larva, dorsal view;, moth (the cro shows natural size); g , basal joint of antenna in the male moth. 51 acuchi. acquaint IMG:content-0190.png:[graphic] 2. Fed with acorns. Shak ., Cymbeline, ii. 5. acorn-moth (ā'kôrn-môth), n. A guest-moth, described as Holcocera glandulella , but subsequently referred to the genus Blast obas is , belonging to the Tineid a . Its color is ash-gray, with two distinct spots near the middle of the fore wings and a transverse pale stripe acro the basal third. Its larva is grayish-white, with a light-brown head and cervical and caudal shields, and is commonly met with in mast, feeding chiefly on those acorns that have been occupied by the acorn-weevil. See cut in preceding column. A volatile oil, of but acorn-oil (ā'kôrn-oil), n. tery consistence and pungent odor, obtained from the acorns of Quercus robur. acorn-shell (a'kôrn-shel), n. 1. The shell of the acorn.-2. One of the cirripeds of the genus Balanus; a barnacle: called by this name from a supposed resemblance of some of the species to acorns. See Balanus and Cirriped i a. acorn-weevil (a'kôrn-wē"vl), n. The popular name for certain species of the curculio nid genus Bal an in us, as B. uniform is (Le Conte), B. rectus (Say), and B. quercus (Horn), which live in the larval state within acorns. The females po e extremely long and slender beaks, by means of which they pierce the rind of the acorn and push an egg curved shape, not differing e entially from other curcuinto the interior. The larva is a legle grub of elongate lionid larvæ. The affected acorn drops prematurely, and the full-grown larva eats its way out to change to a pupa in the ground. See cut under Bal an in us. acorn-worm (a'kôrn-wėrm), n. A name given to the Bal a no glo us, the type and sole member of the order Enteropneust a: so called from the acorn-like shape of the anterior end of its body. See Bal a no glo us , Enteropneust a . Acorus (ak'ō-rus), n. [NL., Araceæ , of two species. flag-like A. Calamus , the Calamus aromatic us of druggists, is native or widely naturalized in northern temperate regions, and is known as sweet - flag or sweet- rush . See sweet - flag .