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Acuminate
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from Lat. acumen, point), sharpened or pointed, a word used principally in botany and ornithology, to denote the narrowing or lance-shaping of a leaf or of a bird's feather into a point, generally at the tip, though sometimes (with regard to a leaf) at the base. The poet William Cowper used the word to denote sharp and keen despair, but other authors, Sir T. Browne, Bacon, Bulwer, &c., use it to explain a material pointed shape.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Acuminate'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/acuminate.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Acuminate'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/acuminate.html. 1910.
