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t. [ACT.] To enact. ( Scotch.) ack-a-wa-î nutmeg, s. [Local name.] The fruit of the Acrodiclidium Camara, a plant of the order Lauraceæ. "But verray love is vertue as I fele, For verray love may freile desire ackele ." Courte of Love, 1,076. *āck'-er, *āk'-ër, *āk'-ýr, * āg'-ar ( Eng .); ai'-ker ( Scotch ), s. [A.S. egor = the flowing of the sea.] A ripple on the surface of the water, a tide; also the bore in a river. [EAGER, BORE.] "Wel know they the reume yf it a-rysе, An aker is it clept, I understonde, Whos myght there may no shippe or wynd wytstonde."- MS . Cott . Titus , A. xxiii., f. 49. āck'-ér, s. [A.S. æcer = an acre.] An acre. ( Scotch .)