Acis (A`cis) , a Sicilian shepherd enamoured of Galatea, whom the Cyclops Polyphemus, out of jealousy, overwhelmed under a rock, from under which his blood has since flowed as a river.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
A`ci-Rea`lë * Ack`ermann, R.