Acronyc
(A*cron"yc A*cron"ych*al) a. [Gr. 'akro`nychos at nightfall; 'a`kros + ny`x night.] (Astron.)
Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; — opposed to cosmical.
The word is sometimes incorrectly written acronical, achronychal, acronichal, and acronical.
Acronycally
(A*cron"yc*al*ly), adv. In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vice
versa.
Acronyctous
(Ac"ro*nyc"tous) a. [Gr. 'akro`nyktos; 'a`kros + ny`x, nykto`s, night.] (Astron.) Acronycal.
Acrook
(A*crook") adv. Crookedly. [R.] Udall.
Acropetal
(A*crop"e*tal) a. [Gr. 'a`kros summit + L. petere to seek.] (Bot.) Developing from below
towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; — said of certain inflorescence.
Acrophony
(A*croph"o*ny) n. [Gr. 'a`kros extreme + sound.] The use of a picture symbol of an object
to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.
Acropodium
(||Ac`ro*po"di*um) n. [Gr. 'a`kros topmost + poy`s, podo`s, foot.] (Zoöl.) The entire upper
surface of the foot.
Acropolis
(A*crop"o*lis) n. [Gr. 'akro`polis; 'a`kros extreme + po`lis city.] The upper part, or the citadel,
of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.
Acropolitan
(Ac"ro*pol"i*tan) a. Pertaining to an acropolis.
Acrospire
(Ac"ro*spire) n. [Gr. + anything twisted.] (Bot.) The sprout at the end of a seed when it
begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; — so called from its spiral form.
Acrospire
(Ac"ro*spire), v. i. To put forth the first sprout.
Acrospore
(Ac"ro*spore) n. (Bot.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
Acrosporous
(Ac"ro*spor"ous) a. Having acrospores.
Across
(A*cross") prep. [Pref. a- + cross: cf. F. en croix. See Cross, n.] From side to side; athwart; crosswise,
or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden.
To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. — To go across the country, to go
by a direct course across a region without following the roads.
Across
(A*cross"), adv.
1. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. Shak.
2. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.]
The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ.
Bp. Hall.
Acrostic
(A*cros"tic) n. [Gr. extreme + order, line, verse.]
1. A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters,
taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
2. A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order
See Abecedarian.
