v. t. [ L. ablaqueatus, p. p. of. ablaqueare; fr. ab + laqueus a noose. ] To lay bare, as the roots of a tree. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ablaqueatio. ] The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take one's self off; to decamp. [ A jocular word. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., without this. ] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. ] A canal or trench for irrigating land. [ Sp. Amer. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ OF. acoint. See Acquaint, v. t. ] Acquainted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acquainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Acquainting. ] [ OE. aqueinten, acointen, OF. acointier, LL. adcognitare, fr. L. ad + cognitus, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con- + noscere to know. See Quaint, Know. ] 1. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must acquaint you that I have received
New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To familiarize; to accustom. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To inform; apprise; communicate; advise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. acointable ]. Easy to be acquainted with; affable. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. aqueintance, OF. acointance, fr. acointier. See Acquaint. ] 1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. [ 1913 Webster ]

Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense the collective term acquaintance was formerly both singular and plural, but it is now commonly singular, and has the regular plural acquaintances. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be of acquaintance, to be intimate. --
To take acquaintance of or
with, to make the acquaintance of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge. -- Acquaintance, Familiarity, Intimacy. These words mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, the intimacy of established friendship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. acointant, p. pr. ] An acquaintance. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. aquest, F. acquêt, fr. LL. acquestum, acquisītum, for L. acquisītum, p. p. (used substantively) of acquirere to acquire. See Acquire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Acquisition; the thing gained. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Acquiesced p. pr. & vb. n. Acquiescing [ L. acquiescere; ad + quiescere to be quiet, fr. quies rest: cf. F. acquiescer. See Quiet. ] 1. To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To submit; comply; yield; assent; agree; consent; accede; concur; conform; accept tacitly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. acquiescence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Crim. Law) (a) Submission to an injury by the party injured. (b) Tacit concurrence in the action of another. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acquiescens, -centis; p. pr. ] Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an acquiescent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ LL. acquietare; L. ad + quies rest. See Quiet and cf. Acquit. ] To quiet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Acquiet his mind from stirring you against your own peace. Sir A. Sherley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [ R. ] Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being acquired. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acquired p. pr. & vb. n. Acquiring ] [ L. acquirere, acquisitum; ad + quarere to seek for. In OE. was a verb aqueren, fr. the same, through OF. aquerre. See Quest.. ] To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To obtain; gain; attain; procure; win; earn; secure. See Obtain. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 (Biol.) gotten through environmental forces. Contrasted with inherited. acquired characteristics cannot be passed on noninheritable (vs. inheritable), nonheritable
Syn. -- nurtural [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. “Rules for the acquirement of a taste.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Acquisition, Acquirement. Acquirement is used in opposition to a natural gift or talent; as, eloquence, and skill in music and painting, are acquirements; genius is the gift or endowment of nature. It denotes especially personal attainments, in opposition to material or external things gained, which are more usually called acquisitions; but this distinction is not always observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who acquires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Acquirement. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acquisitus, p. p. of acquirere. See Acquire. ] Acquired. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acquisitio, fr. acquirere: cf. F. acquisition. See Acquire. ] 1. The act or process of acquiring. [ 1913 Webster ]

The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: (Business, Finance) The purchase of one commercial enterprise by another, whether for cash, or in a trade of stock of the purchasing company for that of the purchased company.
Syn. -- buyout, takeover. [ PJC ]

3. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Acquirement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Acquired. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the way of acquisition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who acquires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Acquest. ] Acquisition; gain. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Acquitted; set free; rid of. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acquitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Acquitting. ] [ OE. aquiten, OF. aquiter, F. acquitter; &unr_; (L. ad) + OF. quiter, F. quitter, to quit. See Quit, and cf. Acquiet. ] 1. To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite. [ 1913 Webster ]

A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pay for; to atone for. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Reflexively: (a) To clear one's self. Shak. (b) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To absolve; clear; exonerate; exonerate; exculpate; release; discharge. See Absolve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. aquitement. ] Acquittal. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. aquitance, fr. aquiter. See Acquit. ] 1. The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

You can produce acquittances
For such a sum, from special officers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To acquit. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who acquits or releases. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Adequate. ] The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adaequatus, p. p. of adaequare to make equal to; ad + aequare to make equal, aequus equal. See Equal. ] Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable; competent; capable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Adequate, a. ] 1. To equalize; to make adequate. [ R. ] Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To equal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It [ is ] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an adequate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adaequatio. ] The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [ Obs. ] Bp. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } prop. n. One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100, 000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. -- n. An Algonquian Indian. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]