acierage (asieraj)

[F. aciérage, acierate (as'i-e-rat), v. t. To convert into steel. acieration (asi-e-ra's hon), n. [ F.acier, steel, +-ation.] Conversion into steel: a word occasionally used by writers on the metallurgy of iron and steel. Withdrawing trial pieces from time to time and breaking them so as to ascertain to what depth the acieration has proceeded, Encyc. Brit., XIII. 342. the characteristic knobbed radiating proce es make their appearance, the cilia vanish, and the animal pa es into the Acineta state. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 94. acinetan (as-i-nē'tan), n. One of the Acineta ; a suctorial tentaculiferous infusorian. Acinetidæ (as-i-net'i-dē), n. pl . [NL., Acineta + -ida .] A family constituting the order Aci- netæ . The leading genus is Acineta . acinetiform (as-i-net'i-fôrm), a . and n. [ Acineta + L. -form is , form a , shape.] I. a. Having the form of Acinetæ ; resembling an aci- net an in form. IMG:content-0183.png:[blocks in formation] Acipenser