in antiquity, a measure used by the ancients, equal to one-eighth of our pint. It seems to have acquired its name from a vessel in which acetum or vinegar was brought to their tables, and which probably contained about this quantity.

in Anatomy, a cavity in any bone for for receiving the protuberant head of another, and thereby forming that species of articulation called Enarthrosis.

Botany, the trivial name of a species of the peziza, or cup peziza, a genus belonging to the cryptogamia fungi of Linnaeus. It has got the name of acetabulum, from the resemblance its leaves bear to a cup. See Peziza, Botany Index.

Acetary, Grew, in his anatomy of plants, applies this term to a pulpy substance, in certain fruits, e.g., the pear, which is enclosed in a congeries of small calculous bodies towards the base of the fruit, and is always of an acid taste.