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acclimated | of acclimate |
acclimatement | acclimation. |
acclimating | of acclimate |
acclimation | the process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization. |
acclimatizable | capable of being acclimatized. |
acclimatization | the act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. |
acclimatize | to inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants. |
acclimatized | of acclimatize |
acclimatizing | of acclimatize |
acclimature | the act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. |
acclive | acclivous. |
acclivities | of acclivity |
acclivitous | acclivous. |
acclivity | a slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent. |
acclivous | sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous. |
accloy | to fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. see cloy. |
accoast | to lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. |
accoil | to gather together; to collect.-to coil together. |
accolade | a ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.-a brace used to join two or more staves. |
accombination | a combining together. |
accommodable | that may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. |
accommodableness | the quality or condition of being accommodable. |
accommodate | to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.-to bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.-to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.-to show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.-to adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.-suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. |
accommodated | of accommodate |
accommodately | suitably; fitly. |
accommodateness | fitness. |
accommodating | of accommodate-affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement. |
accommodation | the act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.-willingness to accommodate; obligingness.-whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.-an adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.-the application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.-a loan of money.-an accommodation bill or note. |
accommodator | he who, or that which, accommodates. |
accompanable | sociable. |
accompanied | of accompany |
accompanier | he who, or that which, accompanies. |
accompaniment | that which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.-a part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass. |
accompanist | the performer in music who takes the accompanying part. |
accompany | to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow.-to cohabit with.-to associate in a company; to keep company.-to cohabit (with).-to perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition. |
accompanying | of accompany |
accompletive | tending to accomplish. |
accomplice | a cooperator.-an associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. |
accompliceship | the state of being an accomplice. |
accomplicity | the act or state of being an accomplice. |
accomplish | to complete, as time or distance.-to bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.-to equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.-to gain; to obtain. |
accomplishable | capable of being accomplished; practicable. |
accomplished | of accomplish-completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.-complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. |
accomplisher | one who accomplishes. |
accomplishing | of accomplish |
accomplishment | the act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.-that which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. |
accompt | see account. |
accomptable | see accountable. |
accomptant | see accountant. |
accord | agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.-harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.-agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.-voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.-an agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.-to make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.-to bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.-to grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.-to agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.-to agree in pitch and tone. |
accordable | agreeing.-reconcilable; in accordance. |
accordance | agreement; harmony; conformity. |
accordancy | accordance. |
accordant | agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. |
accordantly | in accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to. |
accorded | of accord |
accorder | one who accords, assents, or concedes. |
according | of accord-agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.-accordingly; correspondingly. |
accordingly | agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable.-in natural sequence; consequently; so. |
accordion | a small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds. |
accordionist | a player on the accordion. |
accordment | agreement; reconcilement. |
accorporate | to unite; to attach; to incorporate. |
accost | to join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.-to approach; to make up to.-to speak to first; to address; to greet.-to adjoin; to lie alongside.-address; greeting. |
accostable | approachable; affable. |
accosted | of accost-supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side. |
accosting | of accost |
accouchement | delivery in childbed |
accoucheur | a man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician. |
accoucheuse | a midwife. |
account | a reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the julian account of time.-a registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.-a statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.-a statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.-a statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.-an estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.-importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.-to reckon; to compute; to count.-to place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.-to value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.-to recount; to relate.-to render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.-to render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.-to give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. |
account book | a book in which accounts are kept. |
accountability | the state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. |
accountable | liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to god for his conduct.-capable of being accounted for; explicable. |
accountable ness | the quality or state of being accountable; accountability. |
accountably | in an accountable manner. |
accountancy | the art or employment of an accountant. |
accountant | one who renders account; one accountable.-a reckoner.-one who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.-accountable. |
accountantship | the office or employment of an accountant. |
accounted | of account |
accounting | of account |
accouple | to join; to couple. |
accouplement | the act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union.-that which couples, as a tie or brace. |
accourage | to encourage. |
accourt | to treat courteously; to court. |
accouter | alt. of accoutre |
accoutered | of accoutre |
accoutering | of accoutre |
accouterments | alt. of accoutrements |
accoutre | to furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. |
accoutred | of accoutre |
accoutrements | dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. |
accoutring | of accoutre |
accoy | to render quiet; to soothe.-to subdue; to tame; to daunt. |
accredit | to put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.-to send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.-to believe; to credit; to put trust in.-to credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one. |
accreditation | the act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation. |
accredited | of accredit |
accrediting | of accredit |
accrementitial | pertaining to accremention. |
accrementition | the process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds. |