Acquittal, n. Discharge, release, deliverance, liberation, exoneration, exculpation, clearance, absolution, acquittance.

Acquittance, n.

    1. Discharge. See acquittal.
    2. Receipt, receipt in full, quittance.

Acrid, a.

    1. Sharp, biting, pungent, hot, burning, poignant, caustic, corrosive, bitter.
    2. Severe, harsh. See acrimonious.

Acridity, n. See acridness.

Acridness, n.

    1. Acridity, sharpness, pungency, poignancy.
    2. Severity, harshness, hardness. See acrimony, 2.

Acrimonious, a.

    1. (Rare.) Corrosive, caustic, sharp.
    2. Severe, harsh, hard, acrid, sarcastic, bitter, virulent, malignant, censorious, crabbed, snarling, snappish, testy, pettish, petulant, cross, sour, tart, splenetic, peevish, ill-tempered, ill-natured, rancorous, spiteful, envenomed, galling, grinding, biting, mordacious.

Acrimony, n.

    1. Sharpness, corrosiveness, causticity.
    2. Severity, harshness, hardness, sourness, tartness, acridity, acridness, asperity, virulence, bitterness, acerbity, rancor, venom, crabbedness, moroseness, churlishness, ill-temper, spite, spitefulness, abusiveness.

Acroamatic, Acroamatical, Acroatic, a. Esoteric, esoterical, secret, private, abstruse, deep, profound, difficult, interior, obscure, arcane, adytal, for the initiate.

Acrobat, n. Rope-dancer, funambulist, highvaulter, lofty-tumbler, flying-trapezist, aerial athlete, equilibrist, aerosaltant.

Acrospire, n. Shoot, sprout, plumule.

Across, prep. and ad. Athwart, over, from one side of to the other, thwart, transversely.


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