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accresce

to accrue.-to increase; to grow.

accrescence

continuous growth; an accretion.

accrescent

growing; increasing.-growing larger after flowering.

accrete

to grow together.-to adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.-to make adhere; to add.-characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.-grown together.

accretion

the act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.-the act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.-concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.-a growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes.-the adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.-gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share.

accretive

relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.

accriminate

to accuse of a crime.

accroach

to hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.-to usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.

accroachment

an encroachment; usurpation.

accrual

accrument.

accrue

to increase; to augment.-to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.-something that accrues; advantage accruing.

accrued

of accrue

accruer

the act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.

accruing

of accrue

accrument

the process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.

accubation

the act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

accumb

to recline, as at table.

accumbency

the state of being accumbent or reclining.

accumbent

leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.-lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.-one who reclines at table.

accumber

to encumber.

accumulate

to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.-to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.-collected; accumulated.

accumulated

of accumulate

accumulating

of accumulate

accumulation

the act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.-the concurrence of several titles to the same proof.

accumulative

characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

accumulator

one who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.-an apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.-a system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.

accuracy

the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.

accurate

in exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.-precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

accurately

in an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.

accurateness

the state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

accurse

to devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

accursed

alt. of accurst

accurst

doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed.

accusable

liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

accusal

accusation.

accusant

an accuser.

accusation

the act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.-that of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.

accusatival

pertaining to the accusative case.

accusative

producing accusations; accusatory.-applied to the case (as the fourth case of latin and greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. it corresponds to the objective case in english.-the accusative case.

accusatively

in an accusative manner.-in relation to the accusative case in grammar.

accusatorial

accusatory.

accusatorially

by way accusation.

accusatory

pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.

accuse

accusation.-to charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense-to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.-to charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.-to betray; to show. [l.]

accused

of accuse-charged with offense; as, an accused person.

accusement

accusation.

accuser

one who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

accusing

of accuse

accusingly

in an accusing manner.

accustom

to make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.-to be wont.-to cohabit.-custom.

accustomable

habitual; customary; wonted.

accustomably

according to custom; ordinarily; customarily.

accustomance

custom; habitual use.

accustomarily

customarily.

accustomary

usual; customary.

accustomed

of accustom-familiar through use; usual; customary.-frequented by customers.

accustomedness

habituation.

accustoming

of accustom

ace

a unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.-hence: a very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.

aceldama

the potter's field, said to have lain south of jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood. fig.: a field of bloodshed.

acentric

not centered; without a center.

acephal

one of the acephala.

acephala

that division of the mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. formerly the group included the tunicata, brachiopoda, and sometimes the bryozoa. see mollusca.

acephalan

same as acephal.-belonging to the acephala.

acephali

a fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.-a christian sect without a leader.-bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.-a class of levelers in the time of k. henry i.

acephalist

one who acknowledges no head or superior.

acephalocyst

a larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. these cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

acephalocystic

pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.

acephalous

headless.-without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.-having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.-without a leader or chief.-wanting the beginning.-deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry.

acerate

a combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.-acerose; needle-shaped.

acerb

sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

acerbate

to sour; to imbitter; to irritate.

acerbic

sour or severe.

acerbitude

sourness and harshness.

acerbity

sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.-harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.

aceric

pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.

acerose

having the nature of chaff; chaffy.-needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

acerous

same as acerose.-destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.-without antennae, as some insects.

acerval

pertaining to a heap.

acervate

to heap up.-heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

acervation

a heaping up; accumulation.

acervative

heaped up; tending to heap up.

acervose

full of heaps.

acervuline

resembling little heaps.

aces

of ace

acescence

alt. of acescency

acescency

the quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.

acescent

turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.-a substance liable to become sour.

acetable

an acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.

acetabular

cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

acetabulifera

the division of cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the dibranchiata. see cephalopoda.

acetabuliferous

furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

acetabuliform

shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx.

acetabulum

a vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.-the bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.-the cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.-a sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.-the large posterior sucker of the leeches.-one of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

acetal

a limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

acetaldehyde

acetic aldehyde. see aldehyde.

acetamide

a white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

acetanilide

a compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.

acetarious

used in salads; as, acetarious plants.

acetary

an acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear.