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acrostic
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Acrostic
(gcide) | Acrostic \A*cros"tic\, n. [Gr. ?; ? extreme + ? order, line,
verse.]
1. A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the
last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken
in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
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2. A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the
letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.).
See Abecedarian.
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Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to
be guessed whose initial and final letters form other
words.
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Acrostic
(gcide) | Acrostic \A*cros"tic\, Acrostical \A*cros"tic*al\, n.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.
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acrostic
(wn) | acrostic
n 1: a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading
the same down as across [syn: word square, acrostic]
2: verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line
form a word or message |
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acrostic
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Acrostical
(gcide) | Acrostic \A*cros"tic\, Acrostical \A*cros"tic*al\, n.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.
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Acrostically
(gcide) | Acrostically \A*cros"tic*al*ly\, adv.
After the manner of an acrostic.
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Aspidium acrostichoides
(gcide) | Christmas \Christ"mas\, n. [Christ + mass.]
An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a
legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often
celebrated by a particular church service, and also by
special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
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Christmas box.
(a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas.
(b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and
servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift.
Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for,
Christmas.
Christmas day. Same as Christmas.
Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas.
Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern
(Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for
decoration in winter.
Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a
poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern
Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers
midwinter.
Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to
be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated
on Christmas eve.
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Double acrostic
(gcide) | Acrostic \A*cros"tic\, n. [Gr. ?; ? extreme + ? order, line,
verse.]
1. A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the
last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken
in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
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2. A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the
letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.).
See Abecedarian.
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Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to
be guessed whose initial and final letters form other
words.
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Paracrostic
(gcide) | Paracrostic \Par`a*cros"tic\, n. [Pref. para- + acrostic.]
A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in
order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem.
--Brande & C.
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Pentacrostic
(gcide) | Pentacrostic \Pen`ta*cros"tic\, n. [Penta- + acrostic.]
A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject
of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses
being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.
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acrostic
(wn) | acrostic
n 1: a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading
the same down as across [syn: word square, acrostic]
2: verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line
form a word or message |
acrostichum
(wn) | Acrostichum
n 1: in some classification systems placed in family
Polypodiaceae [syn: Acrostichum, genus Acrostichum] |
acrostichum aureum
(wn) | Acrostichum aureum
n 1: stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America)
having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering
the undersides [syn: golden fern, leather fern,
Acrostichum aureum] |
cryptogramma acrostichoides
(wn) | Cryptogramma acrostichoides
n 1: rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in
massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley [syn:
American rock brake, American parsley fern,
Cryptogramma acrostichoides] |
deparia acrostichoides
(wn) | Deparia acrostichoides
n 1: fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the
developing spores [syn: silvery spleenwort, {Deparia
acrostichoides}, Athyrium thelypteroides] |
genus acrostichum
(wn) | genus Acrostichum
n 1: in some classification systems placed in family
Polypodiaceae [syn: Acrostichum, genus Acrostichum] |
polystichum acrostichoides
(wn) | Polystichum acrostichoides
n 1: North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and
dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds [syn: {Christmas
fern}, canker brake, dagger fern, {evergreen wood
fern}, Polystichum acrostichoides] |
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