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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 A·cros·tic n.
 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.
 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.
 Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.