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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To sharpen; make pungent or sharp, literally or figuratively.
  2. Sharpened; pointed.
  3. Having an elongate smooth form pointed at one end; needle-shaped: applied to sponge-spicules.
  4. An acuate monactinellid sponge-spicule.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Sharpened; sharp-pointed.
  2. v. obsolete, transitive To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
  2. adj. Sharpened; sharp-pointed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. ending in a sharp point

Etymologies

  1. From medieval Latin acuatus, past participle of acuare, variant of acuere "to sharpen", from acus "needle". (Wiktionary)

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