{ A*cond"dy*lose` (&?;), A*con"dy*lous (&?;), } a. [Gr. 'a priv. + &?; joint.] (Nat. Hist.) Being without joints; jointless.
Ac`o*ni"tal (&?;), a. Of the nature of aconite.
Ac"o*nite (&?;), n. [L. aconitum, Gr. &?;: cf. F. aconit.] 1. (Bot.) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.
2. An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.
Winter aconite, a plant (Eranthis hyemalis) allied to the aconites.
||Ac`o*ni"ti*a (&?;), n. (Chem.) Same as Aconitine.
Ac`o*nit"ic (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to aconite.
A*con"i*tine (&?;), n. (Chem.) An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite.
||Ac`o*ni"tum (&?;), n. [L. See Aconite.] The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it.
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As aconitum or rash gunpowder.
Shak.
||A*con"ti*a (&?;), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; a little dart.] (Zoöl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidæ), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniæ when irritated.
||A*con"ti*as (&?;), n. [NL., from Gr. &?;, fr. &?;, dim. &?; dart.] (Zoöl.) Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.
A*cop"ic (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; priv. + &?; striking. weariness, &?; to strike.] (Med.) Relieving weariness; restorative.
A"corn (&?;), n. [AS. æcern, fr. æcer field, acre; akin to D. aker acorn, Ger. ecker, Icel. akarn, Dan. agern, Goth. akran fruit, akrs field; -- orig. fruit of the field. See Acre.] 1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
2. (Naut.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.