Noah Webster
Academy
ACAD'EMY, noun [Latin academia.] Originally, it is said, a garden, grove, or villa, near Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences.
1. A school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a university or college, and a common school; also a school for teaching a particular art, or particular sciences, as a military academy
2. A house in which the students or members of an academy meet; a place of education.
3. A society of men united for the promotion of arts and sciences in general, or of some particular art.
AC'ALOT, noun [Contracted from acacalotl.]
A Mexican fowl, called by some the aquatic crow. It is the ibis, or a fowl that very much resembles it.