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ACUMINATE (from Lat. acumen, point)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 166 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACUMINATE (from See also:Lat. acumen, point)  , sharpened or pointed, a word used principally in See also:botany and See also:ornithology, to denote the narrowing or See also:lance-shaping of a See also:leaf or of a See also:bird's See also:feather into a point, generally at the tip, though sometimes (with regard to a leaf) at the See also:base . The poet See also:William See also:Cowper used the word to denote See also:sharp and keen despair, but other authors, See also:Sir T . See also:Browne, See also:Bacon, Bulwer, &c., use it to explain a material pointed shape .

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