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Identifier: centurydictionary01whit Title: The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894 Smith, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Eli), 1857-1913 Subjects: English language Atlases Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries Publisher: New York : The Century Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: , a field.Thus acorn has nothing to do with either onfc orcorn.] 1. The fruit of the oak; a one-celled,one-seeded, coriaceous, rounded or elongatedinit, the base of which is siiiTounded by an in-durated scaly cup. Acorns have been used for food,and are still eaten in various countries. The sweet acornis tile fruit of the Quercus Ballota of northwestern Africa,and is ipiite palatable, as arc also several American species.All are excellent food for swine. Thei weren wont lyghtly to slaken hir hunger at euenewith (ffu-;j(.s of okes. Chaucer, Boethius, ii. meter 5. Besides the gall which is his proper fruite, hee shootesout vakirns, i. c, ut lunic vocamus acornes, and oakes ap-ples aud polypody and moss. Sir T. Browne, Works, I. 203 (ed. Bohn).2. Xant., a small ornamental piece of wood, ofa conical or globular shape, sometimes fixedon the point of the spindle above the vane, ona masthead, to keep the vane from beingblown off.— 3. Any similar ornamental tip.—4. Same as acorn-shell, 2.

Text Appearing After Image: Acorn-moth [ffolcoceraglanduUlla, Riley).a, larv.-i williin acorn; *, iicom infested with the larva; c. headand thor.^cic bcpments of larv.-i; d, one of the abdominal seprmentsoflarv.^, Literal view ; f, one of the abdominal segrraentsof larva, dorsalview;/, moth ^ the cross showt, natural size}; ^, basal Joint of antennain the male moth. 51 acorn-cup (ak6m-kup), n. The hardened in-volucre covering the base of an acorn. Theacorn-cups of the Qaercun ^Kijitopti, under the name va-Innia, have become an important article of commerce,lai-ge quantities being usetl in tanning. See valoni<t. acorned (akomd), a. 1. Furnished or loadedwith acoms. SpeeilU-ally, in krr., said of an oak repre-sented on a coat of arms as loaded with acorns.2. Fed with acorns. !<hak., Cymbeline, ii. 5. acorn-moth (ak()rn-m6th), «. A guest-moth,ilcscribed as Iloleocera ejlandulcUa, but subse-(|iiiiilly Inferred to the genus lilastohasis, be-longing to tile Tineida: Its color is ash-gi-ay, with(wo distinct spo

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