Vocabulary : Acuminous to Acuteness

Acuminous : Characterized by acumen; keen.
Acupressure : A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.
Acupuncturation : See Acupuncture.
Acupuncture : Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. ;; The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes. ;; To treat with acupuncture.
Acustumaunce : See Accustomance.

Acutangular : Acute-angled.
Acute : Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf. ;; Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning. ;; Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure. ;; High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent. ;; Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. ;; To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.
Acute-angled : Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
Acutely : In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.
Acuteness : The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle. ;; The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. ;; Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds. ;; Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

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