Acerbitas

(From acer, sharp,) acerbity, sourness.

Acerbus

Sour, harsh; or a sourness with as-tringency; also bitter.

Acerides

(from α, negative, and wax ). Plasters made without wax.

Acerosus

(From chaff). It is used to signify that sort of brown bread which is made without first separating the bran; and in botany it is applied to a leaf which is surrounded at the base by branny scales.

Acescent

Substances which readily run into the acid fermentation; sometimes applied to fluids in which this fermentation has commenced.

Acestides

(From a point). The names of the chimneys of the furnaces where brass was made. They were narrow at the top to receive the fumes of the melting metal, and to collect them, that the cadmia might be produced more abundantly. Also the roof of the furnaces in which copper is fused: they arc closed so as to detain the corpuscles which fly off.

Acestis

See Borax.

Acestoris

( from to cure). It strictly signifies a female physician, and is used for midwife. Hence curable diseases are called Acestae.

Acestrides

Midwives.

Acetar

(From acetum, vinegar,) a Ballad of c vegetables, to be eaten with vinegar, oil, and salt.

Acetaria

Pickles. The unripe melons, young cucumbers, the seeds of the nasturtium, are preserved with vinegar and rendered warmer with garlic and shallot, under this name. The East-india mango is a plum highly flavoured with garlic; and, in imitation of this flavour, cabbage shred in slips, broccoli heads, onions, etc. with garlic, and Cayenne pepper, are sold under the title of Pickalella. See Condiments.

Acetarium Scorbuticum

A kind of pickle, in which Dr. Bates advises scorbutic patients to dip their victuals before they eat it. It is thus made: R,. Fol. cochlear. marin. iij. sacchar alb. vj. sal cochlear. i. bene contund. simul. et adde succ. aurant. vj.

Acetosa

See Acetosella.

Achahi

See Aqua aluminosa under Alu-me.v.

Achanaca

An Indian plant much used by the natives as a remedy for venereal complaints: its genus is unknown.

Ache

A pain: in old authors the name of the apium palustre: the smallage.

Achia Achiar, Achar

The buds of the bamboo tree pickled with spices and other ingredients, imported from India to Holland in earthen vessels: they partake of the virtues and inconveniences of Pickles. See Condiments and Acetaria.

Achicolum

The fornix, or sudatorium, sudatory, of the ancient baths, which was a hot room to sweat in, called also archilholus.