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as, "The armorers accomplishing the knights." Shak.SYN. To perform; fulill; realize; effect; effectuate; obtain; complete; execute; achieve; perfect; equip; furnish. AC-COMPLISHED, pp. 1. Finished; completed; fulfilled; executed; effected. 2. a. Well endowed with good qualities and manners; complete in acquirements; having a finished education. 3. Fashionable. Swift. AG-COMPLISH-ER, R. One who accomplishes. AC-COMPLISH-ING, ppr. Finishing; completing; fulfilling; executing; effecting: furnishing with valuable qualities. AC-COMPLISH-MENT, n. 1. Entire performance, as of a prophecy. 2. The act of carrying into effect, or obtaining an object designed. 3. Acquirement; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education.-SYN. Completion; fulfillment; perfection; performance; acquirement; embellishment; orn ment; qualification.

AC-COMPT (ak-kownt), n. See ACCOUNT. AC-COMPTANT (ak-kowntant), n. See ACCOUNTANT. AC-CORD, n. [Fr. accord.) 1. Agreement; harmony of minds; consent or concurrence of opinions or wills. 2. Concert; harmony of sounds; the union of different sounds, which is agreeable to the ear; agreement in pitch and tone. 3. Agreement; just correspondence of things. 4. Will: voluntary or spontaneous motion; used of the will of persons, or the natural motion of other bodies, and preceded by own. 5. Adjustment of a difference; reconciliation-6. In law, an agreement between parties in controversy. 7. Permission; leave.

AC-CORD, . . 1. To grant or concede; as, to accord due praise to any one. 2. To make to agree, or correspond; to adjust one thing to another. Sidney. 3. To bring to an agreement; to settle, adjust, or compose.-Hall. AC-CORD, . i. 1. To agree; to be in correspondence. 2. To agree in pitch and tone.

AC-CORD'A-BLE, a. Agreeable; consonant. AC-CORDANCE, n. Agreement with a person; conformity with a thing.-SYN. Harmony; unison; coincidence.

value. 3. To reckon. or compute; to assign as a debt. These uses are antiquated.

AC-COUNT, v. i. 1. To render an account or relation of particulars. 2. To give reasons; to assign the causes; to explain; with for. 3. To render reasons; to answer for in a responsible character.

AC-COUNT-A-BILI-TY, n. 1. The state of being liable to answer for one's conduct.-R. Hall. 2. Liability to the payment of money or of damages; responsibility for a trust. AC-COUNT A-BLE, a. 1. Liable to be called to account; answerable to a superior. 2. Subject to pay, or make good, in case of loss. -SYN. Amenable; responsible. AC-COUNT'A-BLE-NESS, n. Liableness to answer, or to give account; the state of being answerable. AC-COUNT'A-BLY, adv. In an accountable manner. AC-COUNTAΝΤ, η. One skilled in mercantile accounts; more generally, a person who keeps accounts. AC-COUNTANT-SHIP, n. The office or duties of an ac

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AC-COUPLE (ak-kup'pl), v. t. To couple; to join or link together. See COUPLE.

AC-COUPLE-MENT (ak-kup'pl-ment), n. A coupling; connecting in pairs; junction. [Little used.] AC-COURAGE (ak-kuraje), v. 1. To encourage.-Spenser. AC-COURT, v. t. To entertain with courtesy.-Spenser. AC-COUTER, [Fr. accoutrer.] general sense, to dress; to

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equip; but, appropriately, to array in a military dress; to put on, or to furnish with a military dress and arms; to equip the body for military service.

ACCORDANTLY, Corresponding; consonant; agreeable. ACCOUTERED, } PP.

AC-CORDED, pp. Made to agree; adjusted.

AC-CORDER One that aids or favors.

AC-CORDING, ppr. or a. (commonly, though not correctly, classed among prepositions).

Dressed in arms; equipped. AC-COUTER-ING, ppr. Equipping with military habiliAC-COUTRING, ments. AC-COUTER-MENTS,

n. pl. 1. Dress; equipage; fur

AC-COUTREMENTS, (ak-kooter-ments){ 1. Agreeing; harmonizing.

2. Suitable; agreeing; in accordance with. In these senses, the word agrees with or refers to a sentence. Our zeal should be according to knowledge: according, here, has its true participial sense, agreeing, and is followed by to. It is never a preposition: accordingly to, is an error. AC-CORIVING-LY, adv. Agreeably; suitably; in a manner

conformable to.

AC-CORDI-ON, n. [from accord. A small keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by the play of wind upon metallic reeds.

LAC-CORPO-RATE, .. To unite.-Milton. AC-COST, n. t. [Fr. accoster.] 1. To approach; to draw near; to front, or face, (not in use.] 2. To speak first to; to address; to salute-Milton.

niture for the body; appropriately, military dress and arms; equipage for military service. 2. In common usage, an old or unusual dress.

AC-COY', v. t. [Old Fr. accoisir.] To render quiet or diffident; to soothe; to caress.-Spenser.

AC-CREDIT, v. t. [Fr. accrediter. To give credit, or authority, especially to an agent or representative; as, to accredit a consul or minister. Cowper.

AC-CRED-IT-ATION, n. That which gives title to credit. [Little used.]

AC-CREDIT-ED, pp. or a. Allowed; received with repu-
tation; authorized in a public character.-Christ. Obs.
AC-CREDIT-ING, ppr. Giving authority or reputation.
AC-CRESCENT, a. Increasing-Shuckford.

AC-CRETION, n. [L. accretio.] 1. A growing to, or increase. 2. An increase by an accession of parts externally.-Bacon.

AC-CO-T, . i. To adjoin.-Spenser. [Not in use.]
AC-COSTA-BLE, a. Easy of access; familiar.
AC-COSTED, pp. or a. Addressed; first spoken to. In her AC-CRETIVE, a. Increasing by growth; growing; adding
aldry, being side by side.

- AC-COSTING, ppr. Addressing by first speaking to.

AC-COUCHEMENT (ak-koosh'mong), n. [Fr.) Delivery in

childbed.

AC-COUCH-EUR' (ak-koo-shaur), n. [Fr.) A man who assists women in childbirth.

AC-COUNT", n. [Fr.conte. Formerly, writers used accompt, from the Fr. compt.) L. A sum stated on paper; a registry of a debt or credit, of debts and credits, or charges; an entry in a book, or on paper, of things bought or sold, of payments, services, &c., including the names of the parties to the transaction, date, and price or value of the thing. 2. A computation of debts and credits, or a general statement of particular sums. 3. A computation or mode of reckoning; applied to other things than money or trade; as, the Julian account of time. 4. A statement of facts; recital of particular transactions and events, verbal or written; as, an account of the Revolution in France. Hence, 5. An assignment of reasons; explanation by a recital of particular transactions; answering for conduct; as, "give an account of thy stewardship." 6. Reason or consideration, as a motive; as, on all accounts. 7. Value; importance; estimation; as, a thing of no account. 8. Profit; advantage; that is, a result or production worthy of esti mation; as, you will find your account in doing it. 9. Regard; behalf: sake; a sense deduced from charges on book; as, on account of public affairs. - SYN. Narrative; marration: relation; detail; recital; description; explanation: computation; bill; reckoning; sake; end; reason; advantage: consideration; value; importance.

ΔΕ-ΕΟΥΝΤ, r. 1. 1. To deem, judge, consider, think, or hold in ovinion. 2. To account of; to hold in esteem; to

to by growth.

AC-CRIM-IN-A'TION, n. Accusation; reproach.

AC-CROACH', v. i. [Fr. accrocher.] 1. To hook, or draw to as with a hook, [obs.] 2. To encroach; to draw away from another. The noun accroachment, an encroachment, is rarely or never used. See ENCROACH. AC-CRUE' (ak-kru), v. i. [Fr. accroitre, accru.] Literally, to grow to; hence, to arise, proceed, or come; to be added, as increase, profit, or damage; as, a profit accrues to government from the coinage of copper; a loss accrues from the coinage of gold and silver.

AC-CRUE' (ak-kru), n. Something that accedes to, or follows the property of another. AC-CRUING, ppr. Growing to; arising; coming; being added. AC-CRŪMENT, n. Addition; increase. AC-CU-BATION, n. [L. accubatio.] A lying or reclining on a couch, as the ancients at their meals.

1AC-CUMB' (-kum), v. i. [L. accumbo.] To recline, as at table. AE-CUMBEN-CY, n. State of being accumbent or reclining. AC-CUMBENT, a. [L. accumbens.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients at their meals. In botany, the word is used in cases where one organ is applied to another by its edge.

AC-CUMBENT. n. One who is placed at a dinner-table. AC-CUMU-LĀTE, v. t. [L. accumulo.] 1. To heap up; to pile. 2. To collect or bring together.-SYN. To collect; pile up: amass; gather; aggregate; heap together. AC-CUMU-LATE, v. i. To grow to a great size, number, or quantity; to increase greatly. AC-CU MU-LATE, a. Collected into a mass or quantity. AC-CU'MU-LA-TED, pp. or a. Collected into a heap or great quantity.

40-CU MU-LA-TING, ppr. Heaping up; amassing; increas- | A-CEPH'A-LIST, n. One who acknowledges no head or su

ing greatly.

AE-CU-MU-LATION, n. The act of accumulating; the state of being accumulated; a collecting together.-In law, the concurrence of several titles to the same thing. In universities, an accumulation of degrees is taking several at once. -SYN. Mass; pile; heap; collection; amassing.

AC-CU MU-LA-TIVE, a. That accumulates; heaping up; accumulating.

AC-CU'MU-LA-TIVE-LY, adv. In an accumulative manner; in heaps.

AC-CU'MU-LA-TOR, n. One that accumulates, gathers, or

amasses.

ACCU-RA-CY, n. [L. accuratio.] 1. Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; freedom from mistake; precision which results from care. 2. Closeness; tightness; as, to seal up a tube with accuracy. -SYN. Exactness; correctness; exactitude; nicety; precision.

ACCU-RATE, a. [L. accurdus.] 1. In exact conformity to truth, or to a standard, or rule, or to a model; free from failure, error, or defect. 2. Determinate; precisely fixed. 3. Close; perfectly tight; as, an accurate junction.-SYN. Correct; exact; precise; just; nice.

ACCU-RATE-LY, adv. 1. Exactly; in an accurate manner; with precision; without error or defect. 2. Closely; so as to be perfectly tight. Comstock.

ACCU-RATE-NESS, n. Accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

AC-CURSE' (ak-kurs), v. t. [ac for ad. and curse). To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon. [Rarely used.] See CURSE.

AC-CURSED, pp. or a. [part. pro. ak-kurst, and adj. ak, kurs'ed]. 1. Doomed to destruction or misery. 2. Separated from the faithful; cast out of the church; excommunicated. 3. Worthy of the curse; detestable; execrable. 4. Wicked; malignant in the extreme.

AC-CURST. The same as ACCURSED.

AC-CU'SA-BLE, 4. That may be accused; chargeable with a crime; blamable; liable to censure; followed by of. AC-CU'SANT, n. One who accuses.-Hall.

AC-CU-SATION, n. 1. The act of charging with a crime or offense; the act of accusing of any wrong or injustice. 2. The charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.-SYN. Impeachment; crimination; censure; charge.

AC-CU'SA-TIVE, a. or n. A term given to a case of nouns, in grammars, on which the action of a verb terminates or falls; called, in English grammar, the objective case. Censuring; accusing.

AC-CU'SA-TIVE-LY, adv. 1. In an accusative manner. 2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar.

AC-CU'SA-TO-RY, a. Accusing; containing an accusation. AC-CUSE', v. t. [L. accuso.] 1. To charge with, or declare to have committed a crime. 2. To charge with a fault. SYN. To charge; blame; censure; indict; impeach; arraign. To accuse falsely, to asperse; calumniate; defame; slander; vilify; detract,

AC-CUSED (ak-küzd), pp. or a. Charged with a crime, by a legal process; charged with an offense; blamed.

AC-CUSER, n. One who accuses or blames. AC-CUSING, ppr. Charging with a crime; blaming. AC-CUSTOM, v. t. [Fr. accoutumer.] To make familiar by use; to form a habit by practice.--SYN. To habituate; inure: exercise; train; familiarize.

AC-CUSTOM, v. i. 1. To be wont, or habituated to do any thing, [little used.] 2. To cohabit. Milton, [not used.]

FAC-CUSTOM, n. Custom.-Milton.

ΔΕ-CUSTOM-A-BLE, a. Of long custom; habitual; customary. [Little used.]

AC-CUSTOM-A-BLY, adv. According to custom or habit. [Little used.]

AC-CUSTOM-ANCE, n. Custom; habitual use or practice.

-Boule.

AC-CUSTOM-A-RI-LY, adv. According to custom or common practice. [Little used.]

AC-CUSTOM-A-RY, a. Usual; customary. [Little used.] AC-CUSTOMED, pp. 1. Being familiar by use; habituated; trained; inured. 2. a. Usual; often practiced.

AC-CUSTOMED-NESS, n. Familiarity. AC-CUSTOM-ING, ppr. Making familiar by practice; inuring.

ICE, n. [L. as.] 1. A unit; a single point on a card or die; or the card or die so marked. 2. Á very small quantity; a particle; an atom; a trifle.

A-CEL'DA-MA, Child, and

Ch. Syr. and

Sam., blood.] A field purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood.

A-CEPHA-LAN, n. Terms applied to a class of mollusA-CEPH'A-LA, n. plu. 3 can animals having no head, as the oyster and muscle. - Bell.

A-CEPH'A-LI. n. pl. (Gr. a and κεφ λη.] A sect of levelers who acknowledged no chief or head.

perior.

A-CEPHA-LOUS, a. [Gr. a, priv., and κεφαλη, a head.) 1. In botany, without a head; headless; applied to ovaries, the style of which springs from their base, instead of their apex.-Brande's Cyc. 2. In history, the term Acephali, or Acephalites, was given to several sects who refused to follow some noted leader.

A-CEPH'A-LUS, n. 1. An obsolete name of the tania, or tape-worm. 2. A verse defective in the beginning. ACE-POINT, n. The side of a die or card that has but one spot.

ACE-RAN, n. [Gr. a, priv., and κερας, horn.] Terms apACE-RA, n. pl. plied to a family of apterous insects, without antennse; and to a family of gastropod molluscous animals, without tentacles.-Brande.

A-CERB', a. [L. acerbus.] Sour, bitter, and astringent; sour, with bitterness and astringency; a quality of unripe fruits. †A-CERBATE, v. t. To make sour, bitter, or harsh to the

taste.

A-CERBI-TY, n. 1. A sourness, with bitterness and astrin gency. 2. Figuratively, harshness, bitterness, or severity; applied to persons or things.

A-CERIE, a. [L. acer.] Pertaining to the maple.-Ure.
A-CERI-DES, n. pl. Plasters made without wax.-Knowles.
ACER-OUS, a. [L. acerosus.) In botany, chaffy; resem-
ACER-OSE, bling chaff. The term is also applied to
leaves which are narrow, stiff, and prickly, like those of
the fir.

A-CERRA, n. A vessel in which incense has been burned.
A-CERV'AL, a. Pertaining to or occurring in heaps.
A-CERVATE, v. t. To heap up.

A-CERVATE, a. In natural history, heaped, or growing in
heaps, or in closely-compacted clusters.
1A-CERVOSE, a. Full of heaps.
A-CESCENCE, n. [L. accscens.] A turning sour by spon-
A-CESCEN-CY, 3 taneous decomposition; a tendency to
turn sour; and, hence, a state of being moderately sour.
A-CES CENT, a. Turning sour; becoming tart or acid by
spontaneous decomposition.

A-CESTIS, n. [Gr.] A factitious sort of chrysocolla, made of Cyprian verdigris, urine, and nitre. Cус. A-CE-TABU-LUM, n. [L.) 1. Among the Romans, a vinegar cruse, or like vessel.-2. In anatomy, a cavity in a bone for receiving the end of another bone, as the hip-bone. Also, a glandular substance found in the placenta of some animals. 3. In botany, a kind of lichen.

AC-E-TARI-OUS, a. Belonging to the salad tribe of vege tables.

ACE-TA-RY, n. An acid, pulpy substance in certain fruits. ACE-TĀTE, n. In chemistry, a salt, formed by the union of the acetic acid with any salifiable base. ACE-TA-TED, a. Combined with acetic acid. A-CETIC, a. Relating to acetic acid. A-CETIC ACID, n. The pure acid of vinegar, composed of equal parts of carbon and oxygen, with 5-100ths of hydro

gen.

A-CE-TI-FI-CATION, n. The act of making acetous or sour; or the operation of making vinegar.

A-CETI-FY, v. t. or v. i. To turn into acid or vinegar. AC-E-TIME-TER, n. [L. acetum, vinegar, and Gr. μετρον, measure.) An instrument for ascertaining the strength of vinegar. Ure.

AC-E-TIME-TRY, n. The art or process of ascertaining the strength of vinegar of acetic acid.

ΑCE-ΤΟΝΕ, n. A recent name for the hydro-acetic spirit. AC-E-TOSI TY, n. The state of being acetose.

A-CETOUS, a. 1. Sour; acid. 2. Causing acetification; AC-E-TOSE, S as, acetous fermentation. The term acetous acid was formerly applied to impure and dilute acetic acid but is now disused.

A-CETUM, n. [L.] Vinegar.

ACHE (ake), v. i. [Sax. ace, ece.] 1. To suffer pain; to have or be in pain, or in continued pain; as, the head aches. 2 To suffer grief, or extreme grief; to be distressed; as, the heart aches.

ACHE (ake), n. Pain, or continued pain, in opposition to sud-
den twinges, or spasmodic pain.
A-CHE'AN, a. Pertaining to Achain.
A-CHĒNI-UM, n. [Gr. axm, poor.] In botany, a small, long
fruit, consisting of a single seed, which does not open when
ripe.

A-CHERN'AR, n. The name of a star of the first magnitude.
ACHE-RON. n. (Gr. axos, pain, and poos, a river or stream.]
A fabled river of hell, or the lower region.-Ancient poets
ACHER SET, n. An old measure of eight bushels.
ACH-E-RU'SIAN, a. Pertaining to Acherusia, a lake in Cam-
pania, in Italy.

A-CHIEVA-BLE, a That may be performed.-Barrow.
A-CHIEVANCE, n. Performance.-Elyot.
A-CHIEVE', v. 1. [Fr. achever.] 1. To finish, or carry on to 2
final close. 2. To gain or obtain, as the result of exertion
as, "the spoils by valiant kings achieved." -SYN. To accom

plish; effect; fulfill; complete; execute; perform; realize; obtain.

A-CHIEVED (a-cheevd), pp. Performed; obtained; accomplished.

A-CHIEVEMENT, n. 1. The performance of an action. 2.
A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor
or boldness. 3. An obtaining by exertion. 4. An escutch-
eon, or ensigns armorial-SYN. Accomplishment; per-
formance; completion; exploit; feat; deed.
A-CHIEVER, . One who accomplishes a purpose, or ob-
tains an object by his exertions.

A-CHIEVING, ppr. Performing; executing; gaining.
CHING (aking), ppr. Being in pain; suffering distress.
ICHING, 2. Pain; continued pain or distress.
ICHI-OTE,. The anotta; a tree, and a drug used for dye-
ing red-Clavigero.

ACHI-RITE. See DIOPTASE.

-CHLAM-YDE-OUS, a. [a neg., and Gr. χλαμυς, a garment.] In botany, naked, having no floral envelope.-Lindley. A'CHOR,. [Gr. αχωρ.] 1. The scald head, a disease forming scaly eruptions.-2. In mythology, the god of flies. ΑΘΗ-RO-MATIC, a. [Gr. a priv., and χρωμα, color.] Destitute of color. Achromatic telescopes are formed of a combination of lenses, and so contrived as to remedy aberrations and colors.

ACH-RO-MA-TICT-TY, n. State of being achromatic.
ACH-ROMA-TISM, n. 1. A destruction of the primary col-
ors which ordinarily accompany the image of an object
seen through a lens or prism. 2. The state of being achro-
matic.-Brewster.

A-CICU-LE, n. plu. The prickles of some animals. Knowles.
A-CICU-LAR, a. [L. acicula.] In the shape of a needle.
A-CICU-LAR-LY, adv. In the manner of needles, or prickles.
A-CICU-LATE, a. [L.) In the form of a needle.

A-CICU-LI-FORM, a. [L.) Having the form of needles. ACID, a. [L. acidus.] Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; having the taste of vinegar.-Figuratively, applied to the feelings; as, an acid temper.

ACID, n. A sour substance. In chemistry, a substance capable of uniting with salifiable bases, and forming salts. AC-ID-IFER-OUS, a. [acid, and L. fero.] Containing acids,

or an acid.

A-CIDI-FI-A-BLE, e. [from acidify.] Capable of being con

verted into an acid.

A-CID-I-FI-CATION, η. The act or process of acidifying or changing into an acid.

A-CIDIFIED, pp. Made acid; converted into an acid. A-CIDI-FI-ER, R. A principle, whether simple or compound, whose presence is necessary for acidity.

A-CIDT-FY, 8. L. To make acid; but, appropriately, to con

vert into an acid.

A-CIDI-FI-ING, ppr. or a. Making acid; having power to change into an acid. AC-ID-IME-TER, n.

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.-Ure.

A-CIDI-TY, [Fr. acidité.) The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste.

ACID-NESS, n. The quality of being sour; acidity. A-CIDU-LE, n. pl. Medicinal springs impregnated with carbonic acid.

A-CIDU-LATE, 2. 1. [L. acidulus.] To tinge with an acid; to make acid in a moderate degree.

A-CIDU-LA-TED, pp. or a. Tinged with an acid; made slightly sour.

A-CIDU-LA-TING, ppr. Tinging with an acid.
ACID-ULE, a. In chemistry, a salt in which the acid is in
A-CIDU-LUM, 5 excess.

A-CIDU-LOUS, a. [L. acidulus.] Slightly sour; sub-acid. Acidulous mineral waters are such as contain carbonic acid-Brande.

ACT-FORM, a. [L.] Needle-shaped.
AC-I-NICEOUS, a. [L.) Full of kernels.
AC-I-NACT-FORM, a. [L. acinaces.] In botany, formed like,
or resembling a cimeter.
A-CINI-FORM, a. [L. acinus, a grape-stone, and forma, shape.]
Having clusters like grape-stones; full of kernels.
ACIN-ONE, 4. Consisting of minute granular concretions.
ACIN-OUS, -Kirwan.

ACTN-US, [L.] In botany, one of the small grains which compose the fruit of the blackberry, &c.

AC-I-PEN'SER, a. In ichthyology, a genus of fishes, to which belong the sturgeon, &c.

TAG-KNOW' (ak-no), v. z. To acknowledge; to confess.

B. Jonson,

AC-KNOWLEDGE (ak-noled)), v. t. 1. To admit to be true by a declaration of assent. 2. To own or notice with particular regard; as, "in all thy ways acknowledge Him." 3. To own or confess, as implying a consciousness of guilt. 4. To own with assent; to admit or receive with approbation. 5. To own with gratitude; to own as a benefit. 6. To own or admit to belong to; as, to acknowledge a child. 7. To receive with respect. 8. To assent to an act in a le

SYN. To avow; proclaim; recognize; own; admit; allow; concede; confess.

AC-KNOWLEDGED, pp. or a. Owned; confessed; noticed with regard or gratitude; received with approbation; own ed before authority.

AC-KNOWLEDG-ER, n. One who acknowledges. AC-KNOWLEDG-ING, ppr. Owning; confessing; approving. AC-KNOWLEDG-MENT, n. 1. The act of owning. 2. The owning with approbation, or in the true character. 3. Admission of the truth, as of a fact, position, or principle. 4. The owning of a benefit received, accompanied with grat itude. 5. A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity. SYN. Confession; concession; recogni tion; admission; avowal; recognizance.

ACME (ak'my), n. [Gr. ακμη.] The top, or highest point. ΑΘΜΙΤΕ, η. [Gr. ακμη, a point.) A mineral of the angite family, having long, pointed crystals of a dark brownish color, and a bright and somewhat resinous lustre.

ΑΘΝΕ (ak'ny), n. [Gr.] A small, hard pimple or tubercle on the face. Quincy.

†A-COLD', adv. Cold.-Shak.
A-COLO-THIST, n. [Gr. ακολουθεω.] In the ancient church,
ACO-LYTH,
S

a subordinate officer or attendant.

ΑΘΟ-ΝΙΤΕ, n. [L. aconitum.) The herb wolf's-bane, and, in poetry, used for poison in general. Α-ΕΟΝΤ-ΤΙΝ, n. A poisonous vegetable principle or alkaloid extracted from the aconite.-Brande.

A-CONTI-AS, n. [Gr. ακοντιας.] 1. A species of serpent, called dart-snake, from its darting swiftly on its prey, 2. A comet or meteor resembling the serpent. A-COP', adv. [a and cope.] At the top. Jonson. A'CORN (a'kurn), n. [Sax. acern.) The fruit of the oak. A'CORN, v. i. To pick up and feed on acorns. A'CORNED, a. Furnished or loaded with acorns; fed with acorns. Shaks.

ACOR-US, n. [L.] 1. Sweet flag, or sweet rush.-2. In nat ural history, blue coral.

A-COSMI-A, n. Irregularity of disease; a bad state of health, and a loss of natural color. - Knowles.

A-CO-TYL-EDON, n. A plant whose seeds have no seed. lobes or cotyledons.

A-CO-TYL-EDON-OUS, a. Having no seed-lobes. A-COUCHÝ (a-koosh'y), n. [Fr. acouchi.] A small species of eavy; the olive cavy; sometimes called the Surinam rabbit A-COUSTIC, α. [Gr. ακουστικος.] Pertaining to the ears, to the sense of hearing, or to the doctrine of sounds.

A-COUSTICS, n. 1. The science of sounds, teaching their cause, nature, and phenomena.-2. In medicine, this term is sometimes used for remedies for deafness.

AC-QUAINT, v. t. [old Fr. accointer.] 1. To make known; to make fully or intimately known; to make familiar. 2 To communicate notice to; as, he acquainted me with his plans. 3. To acquaint one's self, is to gain an intimate or particular knowledge of; followed by with. SYN. To inform; apprise; disclose; communicate; make known. AC-QUAINTANCE, n. 1. Familiar knowledge; a state of being acquainted, or of having intimate or more than slight or superficial knowledge. 2. A person or persons well known; usually, persons we have been accustomed to see and converse with, though not on the footing of close friendship. Acquaintances, in the plural, is used as applied to individual persons known; but, more generally, acquaintance is used for one or more. Acquaintant, in a like sense, is not used.-SYN. Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge. AC-QUAINTANCE-SHIP, n. State of being acquainted. AC-QUAINTED, pp. Known; familiarly known; informed; having personal knowledge. AC-QUAINTING, ppr. Making known to; giving notice or information to.

AC-QUEST, n. [L. acquisitus.] 1. Acquisition; the thing gained.-Bacon. 2. Conquest; a place acquired by force. AC-QUI-ESCE' (ak-que-ess), v. i. [L. acquiesco.] 1. To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent. 2. To assent to upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in a given sentiment.-Acquiesced in, in a passive sense; complied with; submitted to without opposition.-SYN. To repose; rest in; submit; comply; yield; assent; agree; consent; accede.

AC-QUI-ESCENCE, n. A quiet assent; a silent submission, or submission with apparent content. AC-QUI-ESCENT, a. Resting satisfied; easy; submitting; disposed to submit.-Johnson.

AC-QUI-ES'CING, ppr. Quietly submitting; resting content. AC-QUIR-A-BIL'I-TY, n. State of being acquirable.-Paley AC-QUIR'A-BLE, a. That may be acquired. AC-QUIRE', v. t. [L. acquiro.] To gain, by any means, something which is in a degree permanent, or which becomes vested or inherent in the possessor. SYN. To obtain, gain; attain; procure; win; earn; secure. AC-QUIRED (ak-quird), pp. or a. Gained, obtained, or received from art, labor, or other means, in distinction from those things which are bestowed by nature.

gal form to give it validity; as, to acknowledge a deed. - | AC-QUIREMENT. n. The act of acquiring, or that which Is acquired. It is used in opposition to natural gifts. -SYN. | A-CRONTE-AL-LY, adv. In an acronical manner; at the risAttainment; acquisition; gain.

AC-QUIRER, n. A person who acquires.

46-QUIRING, ppr. Gaining by labor, or other means, something that has a degree of permanence in the pos

sessor.

AC-QUIRING, n. The act of acquiring; acquirement. 1AC-QUIRY, n. Acquirement.-Barrow.

ACQUIS-ITE, a. Gained.-Burton.

AC-QUI-SITION, n. [L. acquisitio.] 1. The act of acquiring. 2. The thing acquired or gained.

AC-QUISI-TIVE, That is acquired; acquired [but improper].-Wotton.

AC-QUIST-TIVE-LY, adv. Noting acquirement, with to or for following.-Lilly.

AC-QUISIT-IVE-NESS, n. Desire of possession.

FAC-QUIST, n. See ACQUEST.-Milton.

AE-QUIT, v. 1. [Fr. acquitter.] 1. To release or discharge from an obligation, accusation, guilt, censure, or suspicion. 2. To acquit one's self; to perform whatever lies upon a person as a charge or duty. SYN. To clear; set free; absolve; pardon; forgive.

†AC-QUITMENT, n. The act of acquitting, or state of being acquitted; now superseded by acquittal.-South.

AE-QUIT TAL, n. A judicial setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense.

AE-QUITTANCE, n. 1. A discharge or release from a debt. 2. The writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.

AC-QUIT TANCE, ο. ι. Τo acquit.-Shak.

AC-QUIT TED, pp. Set free, or judicially discharged from an accusation; released from a debt, duty, obligation, charge, or suspicion of guilt.

AC-QUITTING, ppr. Setting free from accusation; releas-
ing from a charge, obligation, or suspicion of guilt,
A-CRASE, v. t. 1. To make crazy; to infatuate. 2. Το
A-CRAZE, impair; to destroy.

ACRA-SY, n. [Gr. ακρισία.] In medical authors, an excess or predominancy of one quality above another, in mixture, or in the human constitution.-Bailey.

'ERE (a'ker), n. [Sax. acer, acera, or acer.) A quantity of land, cortaining 160 square rods or perches, or 4840 square yards.

ACRED (a'kerd), a. Possessing acres or landed property.Pope.

AC'RID, a. [Fr. acre; L. acer.) Sharp; pungent; bitter; sharp or biting to the taste; acrimonious. ACRID-NESS, n. A sharp, bitter, pungent quality. AC-RI-MO'NI-OUS, a. 1. Sharp; bitter; corrosive; abounding with acrimony. 2. Figuratively, severe; sarcastic; applied to language or temper. AC-RI-MO'NI-OUS-LY, adv. With sharpness or bitterness. AC-RI-MO'NI-OUS-NESS, n. The state or quality of being acrimonious.

ACRI-MO-NY, n. [L. acrimonia.] 1. Sharpness; a quality of bodies which corrodes, dissolves, or destroys others. 2. Figuratively, sharpness or severity of temper; bitterness of expression proceeding from anger, ill nature, or petulance. SYN. Asperity; harshness; severity; bitterness. ACRI-SY, n. [Gr. a and κριτες.] A state or condition of which no right judgment can be formed; that of which no choice is made; matter in dispute; injudiciousness.-Bailey, [little used.]

A-CRITAN, n. (n. Terms applied to such animals as the A-CRĪTA, n. plu. S sponges, polypus, &c., which have no discernible nervous system, and whose alimentary canal is not contained in a distinct cavity.

ACRI-TUDE, n. [Sce ACRID.] An acrid quality; bitterness to the taste; biting heat.

ACRI-TY, n. Sharpness; eagerness. A-CRO-A-MΑΤΙΕ, λα. [Gr. ακροαματικός.] Abstruse; A-CRO-A-MATIC-AL.) pertaining to deep learning. A-CRO-ATIC, α. [Gr. ακροατικός.] Abstruse; pertaining to deep learning, and opposed to exoteric. A-CRO-CE-RAUNI-AN, a. [Gr. ακρι and κερτυνος.] An epithet applied to certain mountains between Epirus and Illyricum.

ACRO-CHORD, n. [L. acrochordus.) A genus of serpents in Java, covered with small scales resembling granulated warts when the body is inflated.-P. Cyc.

ACRO-GEN, n. [Gr. ακρος and γινομαι.] A cryptogamic or acotyledonous plant, so called from increasing, in growth, chiefly at its extremity.-Brande.

ACRO-LITH, n. [Gr. ακρος and λιθος.] In architecture and sculpture, a statue whose extremities were of stone and the other parts of wood.-Elmes.

A-CROLTTH-AN, a. Pertaining to an acrolith; formed like an acrolith; as, an acrolithan statue.-Brande.

A-CROMI-ON, n. [Gr. ακρος and wμ.] In anatomy, the upper part of the spine of the scapula. A-CRONIC, Ja. (Gr. axpo, and u.] In astronomy, a term A-CRONTE-AL, applied to the rising of a star at sunset, or its setting at sunrise.

ing or setting of the sun.

A-CROPO-LIS, n. [Gr. ακρος and πολις.] A citadel; the cit adel in Athens.

ACRO-SPIRE, n. [Gr. ακρος and σπειρ 1.) The sprout at the ends of seeds when they begin to germinate. ACRO-SPIRED, a. Having a sprout, or having sprouted at both ends. Mortimer. This and the preceding word are especially used by the English maltsters.

A-CROSS', prep. 1. From side to side, opposed to along, which is in the direction of the length; athwart; quite over; as, a bridge is laid across a river. 2. Intersecting: passing over at any angle; as, a line passing across another.

A-CROSTIC, n. [Gr. ακρι and στιχος.] A composition in verse, in which the first letters of the lines, taken in order, form the name of a person, kingdom, city, &c. A-CROS'TIE, a. That relates to, or contains an acrostic. A-CROSTIC-AL-LY, adv. In the manner of an acrostic. A-CRO-TE-LEŬΤΙΕ, η. [Gr. ακρος and τελευτη.] Among ec clesiastical writers, an appellation given to any thing added to the end of a psalın or hymn.

A-CROTER, n.

3[Gr. κριτηρ.] In architecture, a small

A-CRO-TERI-A, n. pl. pedestal, usually without a base. A-CRO-TE'RI-AL, a. Pertaining to the acroteria; as, acrote rial ornaments.-P. Cyc.

A-CRO-THYMT-ON, n. [Gr. ακρος and θυμος.] Among physicians, a species of wart, with a narrow basis and broad top, having the color of thyme. It is called thymus. A-CROTO-MOUS, a. In mineralogy, having a cleavage parallel with the top of a crystal.

ACT, v. 1. [Gr. αγω, L. ago.] 1. To exert power; as, the stomach acts upon food. 2. To be in action or motion; to move. 3. To behave, demean, or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices. To act up to, is to equal in action; to fulfill, or perform a correspondent action.

ΑΕΤ, v. t. 1. To perform; to represent a character on the stage. 2. To feign or counterfeit. - Dryden, [improper.] 3. To put in motion; to actuate; to regulate movements. -Locke, [obs.]

ACT, n. 1. The exertion of power; the effect, of which power exerted is the cause. 2. That which is done; a deed, exploit, or achievement, whether good or ill. 3. Action; performance; production of effects; as, an act of charity. 4. A state of reality or real existence, as opposed to a possibility. 5. In general, act denotes action completed; but, preceded by in, it denotes incomplete action; as, taken in the very act. 6. A part or division of a play, to be performed without interruption; after which the action is suspended to give respite to the performers. 7. The result of public deliberation, or the decision of a prince, legislative body, council, court of justice, or magistrate; a decree, edict, law, judgment, resolve, award, determination; as, an act of parliament-Act, in English universitics, is a thesis maintained in public by a candidate for a degree.-Act of faith, auto da fe, in Roman Catholic countries, is a solemn day held by the Inquisition for the punishment of heretics. ACTED, pp. Done; performed; represented on the stage. ACTI-AN, a. Relating to Actium.

ACTING, ppr. Doing; performing; behaving; representing the character of another.

ACTING, n. Action; act of performing a part of a play. ΑΕ-ΤΙΝΊ-A, n. [Gr. ακτιν, a ray.] A genus of acalephans, soft animals having a circle of tentacles or rays round the mouth. They are called sea anemones. Se ANIMAL FLOWER. AC-TINI-FORM, a. Having a radiated form. AC-TINO-LITE, n. [Gr. ακτιν and λιθος.] The bright-green variety of hornblende, occurring usually in glassy, prismatic crystals, and also fibrous.

AC-TIN-O-LITIC. a. Like or pertaining to actinolite. ΑΘ-ΤΙΝ-ΟΜΕ-TER, n. (Gr. ακτιν, a ray, and μετρη, measure.) An instrument for measuring the intensity of solar radiation. Daubeny.

ΑΘΤΙΟΝ, n. [L. actio.] 1. Literally, a driving; hence, the state of acting or moving; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another. 2. An act or thing done; a deed. 3. In mechanics, agency; operation; driving; impulse; effort of one body upon another.-4. In ethics, the external signs or expression of the sentiments of a moral agent; conduct; behavior; demeanor.-5. In podry, a series of events, called also the subject or fable-6. In oratory. gesture or gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker.-7. In physiology, the motions or functions of the body, vital, animal, and natural.-8. In law, a suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right; a claim made before a tribunal. In France, action is a share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, equivalent to our term share; and consequently, in a more general sense, to stocks. Brande's Cyc.-10. In painting and sculpture, the attitude or position of the several parts of the body, by which they seem to be actuated by passions. 11. Battle; fight; engagement between troops in war, whether on lend or water. ACTION-A-BLF, a. That will bear a suit, or for which an action at law may be sustained.

ACTION-A-BLY, adv. In a manner that subjects to legal process.

ACTION-A-RY, n. In France, a proprietor of stock in a ACTION-IST, 3 joint-stock company; one who owns actions or shares of stock.

ACTIV-ATE, v. t. To make active. --Bacon.

ACTIVE, &. [L. activus; Fr. actif.] 1. That has the power or quality of acting; that contains the principle of action, independent of any visible external force. 2. Having the power of quick motion, or disposition to move with speed. 3. Busy; constantly engaged in action. 4. Requiring acthon or exertion; practical; operative; producing real effects; opposed to speculative; as, the active duties of life.SYN. Agile; alert; brisk; vigorous; nimble; lively; quick; sprightly; prompt: industrious; operative; laborious. ACTIVE-LY, ade. In an active manner; by action; nimbly: briskly.-In grammar, in an active signification. ACTIVE-NESS, n. The quality of being active; the faculty of acting; quickness of motion.

ACT-IV1-TY, n. The quality of being active; the active faculty; also, the habit of diligent and vigorous pursuit of business.-SYN. Agility; nimbleness; liveliness; briskness; quickness.

ACTLESS, n. Without action or spirit. ACTOR, n. 1. He that acts or performs; an active agent. 2. He that represents a character, or acts a part in a play; a stage-player.-3. Among civilians, an advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.

ACTRESS, π. A female who acts or performs, and especially on the stage or in a play.

ACTU-AL, a. [Fr. actuel.] 1. Real or effective, or that exists truly and absolutely. 2. Existing in act; real; in op position to speculative. 3. Existing at the present time; as, the actual situation of the country.-Burke.

ACT-U-ALI-TY, . Reality.-Haweis.
ACTU-AL-IZE, .t. To make actual.

ACTU-AL-IZ-ING, ppr. Making actual.-Coleridge.
ACTU-AL-LY, ade. In fact; really; in truth.

ACTU-AL-NESS, 2. The quality of being actual. ACTE-A-RY, n. [L. actuarius.) A register or clerk. The manager of an insurance office is usually called an actuary in England, as one of a life insurance office is in the U. S. ACTUATE, a. Put in action. [Little used.] ACTU-ATE, 2. &. To put into action; to move or incite to action.-SYN. To move; impel; incite; rouse; instigate;

animate.

ACTUATED pp. Put in action; incited to action. ACTU-A-TING, ppr. Putting in action; inciting to action. ACT-U-ITION, R. The state of being put in action; effectual operation.-Glanville.

ACTUS, n. Among the Romans, a measure in building, equal to 120 Roman feet.

ACU-ITE, D.L. [L. acuo.] To sharpen; to make pungent or
corrosive.-Harvey. (little used.]
AC-E-BENE. n. A star of the fourth magnitude.
AC-U-ITION, n. The act of sharpening.

A-CULF-ATE, a. [L. aculeus.] 1. În botany, having prickles, or sharp points; pointed.-2. In zoology, having a sting, or prickles.

A-CULEI. n. plu. [L.] In botany and zoology, prickles. ACU-LON (π. [Gr.σκυλος.] The fruit or acorn of the ilex, 4CU-LOS. 5 or scarlet oak.

A-CUMEN, n. [L.) A sharp point; and, figuratively, quickness of perception: the faculty of nice discrimination; penetration of mind-SYN. Sagacity; keenness; sharpness. A-CUMIN-ATE, a. [L. acuminatus.) Having a long, tapering sharp point.

A-COMIN-A-TED, a. Sharpened to a tapering point.
A-CU-MIN-ATION, n. A sharpening; termination in a sharp

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AC-U-PUNG-TUR-ATION. See ACUPUNCTURE.

A-CUTE, a. [L. acutus.] 1. Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; opposed to blunt or obtuse. 2. Figuratively, applied to mental powers; penetrating; having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; opposed to dull or stupid. 3. Applied to the senses; having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible of slight impressions; having power to feel or perceive small objects. 4 An acute disease is one which is attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and comes speedily to a crisis, as a pleurisy; opposed to chronic, 5. An acute accent is that which elevates or sharpens the voice.-6. In music, acute is applied to a tone which is sharp, or high; opposed to grane. -7. In botany, ending in an acute angle. -SYN. Sharp; pointed; keen; shrewd; penetrating; piercing; sagacious;

subtile.

A-CUTE, e. t. To render the accent acute.

4-CUTELY, ade. Sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination. 4- ECTENESS, n. 1. Sharpness. 2. The faculty of nice discernment or perception; applied to the senses, or the under

standing. 3. Sharpness, or elevation of sound. 4. Vio lence of a disease. - SYN. Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness.

A-CU-TIATOR, n. In the middle ages, a person whose office was to sharpen instruments.

AD. A Latin preposition, signifying to. Ad hominem, to the man, in logic, an argument addressed to the interests, feelings, &c., of a person. Ad inquirendum, in law, a judi. cial writ, commanding inquiry to be made.-Ad libitum [L.], at pleasure. Ad valorem, according to the value, in commerce and finance.

A-DACTYL, a. Having no digits or fingers. AD'AGE, n. [L. adagium, or adagio.] An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a wise observation, hauded down from antiquity.-SYN. Maxim; proverb; aphorism; apophthegm; saying.

AD-A'GI-O, n. [It.] In music, a slow movement.-An adagio, a slow piece of music. As an adverb, slowly, leisurely, and with grace.

AD'AM, n. [In Heb., Ch., Syr., Eth., Ar., man.] Primarily, the name of the human species, mankind; appropriately. the first man; the progenitor of the human race.

AD'AM'S APPLE, n. A species of citron [see CITRON); also, the prominent part of the throat.

AD'AM'S NEEDLE, n. The popular name of the plant yuсса. AD'A-MANT, n. [Gr. αδαμας; L. adamas.) The name of a supposed impenetrable stone; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness. AD-A-MANT-E'AN, a. Hard as adamant. --Milton. AD-A-ΜΑΝΤΙΝΕ, α. Made of adamant; having the qualities of adamant; that can not be broken, dissolved, or penetrated. Adamantine spar. A variety of corundum, with gray, brown, or greenish shades. It is of extreme hardness. AD-AMIC, a. Pertaining to Adam.

AD'AM-ITES, n. plu. In church history, a sect of visionaries, who pretended to establish a state of innocence, and, like Adam, went naked.

AD-AM-ITIC, a. Like the Adamites.-Taylor. AD-AN-SONI-A, n. Ethiopian sour gourd, monkey's bread, or African calabash tree. The largest of trees. AD'A-PIS, n. An animal of the pachydermatous order of mammals, somewhat resembling a hedge-hog; now extinct-Buckland.

A-DAPT, v. 1. [Sp. adaptar; L. ad and apto.] To make suit able; as, to adapt an instrument to its uses. -SYN. To suit; fit; accommodate; adjust.

A-DAPT-A-BILI-TY, n. The quality of adaptation.
A-DAPTA-BLE, a. That may be adapted.
A-DAPTA-BLE-NESS, n. The quality of being capable of
adaptation.

AD-APT-ATION, n. The act of making suitable, or the
state of being suitable, or fit; fitness.
A-DAPTED, pp. Suited; made suitable; fitted.
A-DAPTED-NESS, 7. The state of being fitted; suitable.
ness: fitness; adaptation.

A-DAPTER, n. One who adapts. Sce ADOPTER.
A-DAPTING, ppr. Suiting; making fit.

A-DAP'TION, n. Adaptation; the act of fitting.
+A-DAPTNESS, n. A state of being fitted.

ADAR, n. A Hebrew month, answering to the latter part of
February and the beginning of March.
AD AR-BITRI-UM. [L.) At will or pleasure.
A-DÄRCE, n. [Gr. αδάρκης.] A saltish concretion on reeds
and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia.

A-DAR'ME, n. A Spanish weight, the sixteenth of an ounce. AD'A-TIS, n. A muslin or species of cotton cloth from India. +A-DAUNT, v. t. To subdue.

† AD-AW', v. 1. To daunt; to subject.-Spenser. A-DAYS', adv. On or in days; as in the phrase now adays. AD CAP-TANDUM. [L.] To captivate; ad captandum vul gus, to please and attract the populace. AD-CORPO-RATE, 2. 1. Τo unite one body with another. ADD, v. t. [L. addo.] 1. To set or put together, join, or unite, as one thing or sum to another, in an aggregate. 2. Το unite in idea or consideration; to subjoin. 3. To increase number. 4. To augment.

AD-DECI-MATE, v. 1. [L. ad and decimus.] To take, or to ascertain tithes.

ADDED, pp. Joined in place, in sum, in mass, or aggregate, in number, in idea, or consideration; united; put together. AD-DEEM', v. t. To award; to sentence. [Little used.) AD-DENDUM, n.; plu. ADDENDA. (L.) A thing or things to be added; an addition, or an appendix. ADDER, n. [Sax, actter, or settor.] A venomous serpent of several species, belonging to the viper family. ADDER-FLY, n. A name of the dragon-fly. ADDER'S-GRASS, n. A plant about which serpents lurk. ADDER'S-TONGUE, n. Á plant whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. AD'DER'S-WORT, n. Snakeweed, so named from its supposed virtue in curing the bite of serpents. AD-DI-BILI-TY, n. The possibility of being added. AD'DI-BLE, a. That may be added.-Locke.

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