AB-SINTHI-UM, n. [Gr. αψινθιον.] The common wormwood; a bitter plant, used as a tonic. A species of Artemisia. ABSIS. In astronomy. See APSIS. * AB-SIST', v. i. To stand off; to leave off. ABSO-LUTE, a. [L. absolutus.] 1. Literally, in a general sense, free, independent of any thing extraneous. Hence, 2. Complete in itself; positive; as, an absolute declaration. 3. Unconditional; as, an absolute promise. 4. Existing independent of any other cause; as, God is absolute. 5. Unlimited by extraneous power or control; as, an absolute government or prince. 6. Not relative; as, absolute space. AB/SO-LUTE-LY, adv. 1. Completely, wholly. 2. Without dependence or relation; in a state unconnected. 3. Without restriction or limitation. 4. Without condition. 5. Positively, peremptorily. AB'SO-LUTE-NESS, n. 1. Independence; completeness in itself. 2. Despotic authority, or that which is subject to no extraneous restriction, or control. AB-SO-LUTION, n. In the civil law, an acquittal or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent.In the canon law, a remission of sins pronounced by a priest in favor of a penitent.-Among Protestants, a sentence by which an excommunicated person is released from his liability to punishment. ABSO-LU-TO-RY, a. Absolving; that absolves. AB-SOLVIA-TO-RY, a. Containing absolution, pardon, or release; having power to absolve. AB-SOLVE, (ab-zolv1) v. t. [L. absolvo.] To set free or release from some obligation; as, to absolve a person from a promise; to absolve an offender. Hence, in the civil far, the word was used for acquit; and in the canon law, for forgive, or a sentence of remission. In ordinary language, its sense is, to set free or release from an engagement. Formerly, good writers used the word in the sense of finish, accomplish; as, to absolve work, in Milton; but, in this sense, it seems to be obsolete. AB-SOLVED, (ab-zolvd) pp. Released; acquitted; remitted; declared innocent. AB-SOLVER, 2. One who absolves; also one that pronounces sin to be remitted. AB-SOLVING, ppr. Setting free from a debt, or charge; acquitting; remitting. AB/SO-NANT, 4. Wide from the purpose; contrary to rea son. ABSO-NOUS, a. [L. absonus.] Unmusical, or untunable. AB-SORB, e. t. [L. absorbeo.] 1. To drink in; to suck up; to imbibe, as a spunge. 2. To drink in, swallow up, or overwhelm with water, as a body in a whirlpool. 3. To waste wholly or sink in expenses; to exhaust; as, to absorb an estate in luxury. 4. To engross or engage wholly; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth. AB-SORB-A-BIL/I-TY, n. The state or quality of being ab sorbable. AB-SORBA-BLE, a. That may be imbibed or swallowed. AB SORBENT, n. In anatomy, a vessel which imbibes; as the lacteals, lymphatics, and inhaling arteries. In medicine, a testaceous powder, or other substance, which imbibes the humors of the body. ABSORBING, ppr. Imbibing; engrossing; wasting. AB-SORPTION, n. 1. The act or process of imbibing or swallowing; either by water which overwhelms, or by substances which drink in and retain liquids; as, the absorption of a body in a whirlpool.-2. In chemistry, the conversion of a gaseous fluid into a liquid or solid, by union with another substance. AB-SORPTIVE, a. Having power to imbibe. AB-STAIN, v. i. [L. abstineo. In a general sense, to forbear, or refrain from, voluntarily; but used chiefly to denote a restraint upon the passions or appetites; to refrain from indulgence. AB-STE MI-OUS, a. [L. abstemius.] 1. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks. 2. Sparing in the enjoyment of animal pleasures of any kind. 3. Sparingly used, or used with temperance; belonging to abstinence; as, an abstemious diet; an abstemious life. AB-STE'MI-OUS-LY, adv. Temperately; with a sparing use of meat or drink. AB-STE MI-OUS-NESS, n. The quality of being temperate or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. AB-STERGE', (ab-sterj1) v. t. [L. abstergeo.] To wipe, on make clean by wiping; to cleanse by resolving obstruc tions in the body. AB-STERG ENT, a. Wiping; cleansing. AB-STERG ENT, n. A medicine which frees the body from obstructions, as soap; but the use of the word is nearly superseded by detergent, which see. AB-STER'SION, n. [L abstergeo, abstersus.] The act of wiping clean; or a cleansing by medicines which resolve obstructions. AB-STER/SIVE, a. Cleansing; having the quality of removing obstructions. AB'STI-NENCE, n. [L. abstinentia.] 1 In general, the act or practice of voluntarily refraining from, or forbearing any action. 2. The refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal propensities. It denotes a total forbearance, as in fasting, or a forbearance of the usual quantity. ABSTI-NENT, a. Refraining from indulgence, especially in the use of food and drink. AB'STI-NENT-LY, adv. With abstinence. ABSTI-NENTS. A sect which appeared in France and Spain in the third century. †AB-STORT'ED, part. a. [L. abstortus.] Forced away. ABSTRACT', v. t. [L. abstraho.] 1. To draw from, or to separate. 2. To separate ideas by the operation of the mind; to consider one part of a complex object, or to have a partial idea of it in the mind. 3. To select or separate the substance of a book or writing; to epitomize or reduce to a summary.-4. In chemistry, to separate, as the more volatile parts of a substance by repeated distilla tion, or at least by distillation. ABSTRACT, a. [L. abstractus.] 1. Separate; distinct from something else. An abstract idea, in metaphysics, is an idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it, as the solidity of marble contemplated apart from its color or figure. Abstract terms are those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any subject in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera, or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities. 2. Separate, existing in the mind only; as, an abstract subject; an abstract ques tion; and hence difficult, abstruse. ABSTRACT, п. 1. A summary, or epitome, containing the substance, a general view, or the principal heads of a treatise or writing. 2. Formerly, an extract, or a smaller quantity, containing the essence of a larger. In the abstract, in a state of separation, as a subiect considered in the abstract, i. e. without reference to particular persons or things. AB-STRACTED, pp. Separated; refined; exalted; ab. struse; absent in mind. AB-STRACTED-LY, adv. In a separate state, or in contemplation only. AB-STRACTED-NESS, n. The state of being abstracted. Baxter. AB-STRACTER, n. One who makes an abstract, or sum mary. AB-STRACTING, ppr. Separating; making a summary. AB-STRACTION, n. 1. The act of separating, or state of being separated. 2. The operation of the mind when occupied by abstract ideas; as when we contemplate some particular part or property of a complex object, as separate from the rest. 3. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. 4. Absence of mind; inattention to present objects. 5. In the process of distillation, the term is used to denote the separation of the volatile parts, which rise, come over, and are condensed in a receiver, from those which are fixed. AB-STRACTIVE, a. Having the power or quality of abstracting. AB-STRACTIVE, or AB-STRAC-TITIOUS, a. Abstracted, or drawn from other substances, particularly from vegetables, without fermentation. ABSTRACT-LY, adv. Separately; absolutely; in a state or manner unconnected with any thing else. ABSTRACT-NESS, n. A separate state; a state of being in contemplation only, or not connected with any object †AB-STRICT ED, part. a. [L. abstrictus.] Unbound. AB-STRINGE', v. t. To unbind. AB-STRUDE/', v. t. To thrust or pull away. AB-STROSE', a. [L. abstrusus.] Hid; concealed, hence, remote from apprehension; difficult to be compreher.ded or understood; opposed to what is obvious. AB-STRUSE/LY, adv. In a concealed manner; obscurely, in a manner not to be easily understood. AB-STROSE NESS, n. Obscurity of meaning; the state or quality of being difficult to be understood. †AB-STRO'SI-TY, n. Abstruseness. Brown. AB-SOME', v. t. [L. absumo.] To bring to an end by grad ual waste. AR-SUMPTION, n. Destruction. AB-SURD, a. [L. absurdus.] Opposed to manifest truth, inconsistent with reason, or the plain dictates of common sense. An absurd man acts contrary to the clear dictates of reason or sound judginent. An absurd proposition contradicts obvious truth. An absurd practice or opinion is repugnant to the reason or common apprehension of men. It is absurd to say, six and six make ten. AB-SURDI-TY, n. 1. The quality of being inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. Want of judgment, applied to men; n; want of propriety, applied to things. Johnson. 2. That which is absurd: in this sense it has a plural; the absurdities of men. AB-SURD'LY, ado. In a manner inconsistent with reason, or obvious propriety. AB-SURDINESS, n. The same as absurdity, and less used. A-BUNDANCE, n. [Fr. abondance.] Great plenty; an overflowing quantity; ample sufficiency; in strictness, applicable to quantity only; but customarily used of number; as, an abundance of peasants. It denotes also fullness, overflowing; as, the abundance of the heart. Mat. xii. A-BUND'ANT, a. Plentiful; in great quantity; fully sufficient; as, an abundant supply. In Scripture, abounding; having in great quantity; overflowing with. A-BUND ANT-LY, adv. Fully; amply; plentifully; sufficient degree. ABU'SAGE, n. Abuse. in a A-BOSE', v. t. [Fr. abuser.] 1. To use ill; to maltreat; to misuse; to use with bad motives or to wrong purposes; as, to abuse privileges. 2. To violate; to defile by improper sexual intercourse. 3. To deceive; to impose on. 4. To treat rudely, or with reproachful language; to revile. 5. To pervert the meaning of; to misapply; as, to abuse words. A-BUSE, n. 1. Ill use; improper treatment or employment; application to a wrong purpose; as, an abuse of our natural powers. 2. A corrupt practice or custom; as, the abuses of government. 3. Rude speech; reproachful language addressed to a person; contumely; reviling words. 4. Seduction. 5. Perversion of meaning; improper use or application; as, an abuse of words. A-BUSED, (a-būzd) pp. Ill-used; used to a bad purpose; treated with rude language; misemployed; perverted to bad or wrong ends; deceived; defiled; violated. ↑A-BUSE FUL, a. Using or practicing abuse; abusive. A-BŪSER, n. One who abuses; one that deceives; a ravisher. A-BŪSING, ppr. Using ill; employing to bad purposes; deceiving; violating the person; perverting. A-BŪSION, (a-bu-zhun) n. Abuse; evil or corrupt usage; reproach. [Little used. A-BUSIVE, a. 1. Practicing abuse; offering harsh words, or ill treatment. 2. Containing abuse, or that is the instrument of abuse; as, abusive words; rude reproachful. A-BU'SIVE-LY, adv. In an abusive manner; rudely; reproachfully. A-BUSIVE-NESS, n. III-usage; the quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. A-BUT', v. i. [Fr aboutir.] To border upon; to be contiguous to; to ineet; in strictness, to adjoin to at the end. A-BUT'MENT, n. 1. The head or end; that which unites one end of a thing to another. 2. That which abuts or borders on another. A-BUTITAL, n. The butting or boundary of land at the end; a head-land. Spelman. †A-BY', v. t. or i. [probably contracted from abide.] To endure; to pay dearly; to remain. Spenser. A-BYSM', (a-byzm') n. [Old Fr.; now abime.] A gulf. Shak. ↑ A-BYS'MAL, 4. Bottomless. Coles. A-BYSS', n. [Gr. αβυσσος.] 1. A bottomless gulf; used also for a deep mass of waters, supposed by some to have encompassed the earth before the flood. The word is also used for an immense cavern in the earth, in which God is supposed to have collected all the waters on the third day of the creation. It is used also for hell, Erebus. 2. That which is immeasurable; that in which any thing is lost. AB-YS-SINI-AN, a. Belonging to Abyssinia. AB-YS-SINI-ANS, n. A sect of Christians in Abyssinia, who admit but one nature in Jesus Christ, and reject the council of Chalcedon. Encycс. AC, in Saxon, oak; the initial syllable of names; as, Acton, Oaktown A-CACA-LOT, or ACA-LOT, n. A Mexican fowl, the Tantalus Mexicanus, or water raven. See ACALOT. A-CA'CIA, n. [L.] Egyptian thorn.-In medicine, it is a name given to the inspissated juice of the unripe fruit of the mimosa Nilotica, which is brought from Egypt in roundish masses, in bladders. A-CA'CIANS, in church history, were certain sects, so de- AC-A-DEMI-AN, n. A member of an academy; a studen in a university or college. AC-A-DEMIC, or AC-A-DEMI-CAL, a. Belonging to an academy, or to a college or university; as, academic studies; also noting what belongs to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect. AC-A-DEMIC, n. One who belonged to the school, or adhered to the philosophy, of Socrates and Plato; a student. AC-A-DEMI-CAL-LY, adv. In an academical manner. AC-A-DE-MICIAN, n. [Fr. académicien.] A member of an academy, or society for promoting arts and sciences; par ticularly, a member of the French academies. A-CAD'E-MISM, n. The doctrine of the academic philoso phy. Bazter. A-CAD'E-MIST, n. A member of an academy for promoting arts and sciences, also an academic philosopher. A-CAD'E-MY, n. [L. academia.) Originally, it is said, a garden, grove, or villa, near Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences. 1. A school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a university or college and a common school; also a school for teaching a particular art, or particular sciences; as, a military academy. 2. A house, in which the students or members of an academy meet; a place of education. 3. A society of men united for the promotion of arts and seiences in general, or of some particular art. ACA-LOT, n. [contracted from acacalotl.] A Mexican fowl, called by some the aquatic crow. AC-A-MACU, n. A bird; the Brazilian fly-catcher, or to dus. A-CANTHA, n. [Gr ακανθα.] In botany, a prickle.-In zoology, a spine or prickly fin; an acute process of the vertebers. AC-AN-THACEOUS, a. Armed with prickles, as a plant AC-AN-THOP-TE-RYGI-OUS, α. [Gr. ακανθος.] In zoology, having back fins which are hard, bony, and prickly; a term applied to certain fishes. A-CANTHUS, n. [Gr. ακανθος.] 1. The plant dear's breech, or brank ursine.-2. In architecture, an ornamens resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus. A-CANTI-CONE, n. See PISTACITE. A-CAT-A-LECΤΙΕ, η. [Gr. ακαταληκτος.] A verse, which A-CAT'E-CHI-LI, n. A Mexican bird. A CATER, ACATES. See CATERER and CATES. AC-CEDE', v. i. [L. accedo.] 1. To agree or assent, as to a proposition, or to terms proposed by another. 2. To become a party, by agreeing to the terms of a treaty. AC-CEDING, ppr. Agreeing; assenting. AC-CELER-ATE, v. t. [L. accelero.] 1. To cause to move faster; to hasten; to quicken motion; to add to the velocity of a moving body. 2. To add to natural or ordinary progression; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant. 3. To bring nearer in time; to shorten the time between the present time and a future event. AC-CEL'ER-A-TED, pp. Quickened in motion; hastened in progress. AC-CEL'ER-A-TING, ppr. Hastening; increasing vele city or progression. AC-CEL-ER-A'TION, n. The act of increasing velocity or progress; the state of being quickened in motion or ae tion. AC-CEL/ER-A-TIVE, a. Adding to velocity; quickening progression. Reid. AC-CELER-A-TO-RY, a. Accelerating; quickening mo tion. AC-CEND', v. t. [L. accendo.] To kindle; to set on fire. AC-CEND-I-BILITY, n. Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed. AC-CENDI-BLE, a. Capable of being inflamed or kindled. Ure. AC-CENSION, n. The act of kindling or setting on fire; or the state of being kindled; inflammation. Chemis try. ACCENT, n. [L. accentus) 1 The modulation of the voice in reading or speaking. 2. A particular stress on force of voice upon certain syllables of words, which distinguishes them from the others. Accent is of two kinds, primary and secondary, as in aspiration. 3. A mark or character used in writing to direct the stress of the voice in pronunciation. 4. A modulation of the voice expressive of passions or sentiments. Prior. 5. Manner of speaking. Obs. Shak.-6. Poetically, words, language, or expressions in general. Dryden.-7. In music, a swelling of sounds, for the purpose of variety or expression. 8. A peculiar tone or inflection of voice. ΑΕ-CENT', τ. 1. To express accent; to utter a syllable with a particular stress or modulation of the voice. In poetry, to utter or pronounce in general. Also, to note accents by marks in writing. AC-CENTED, pp. Uttered with accent; marked with ac cent. AC-CENTING, ppr. Pronouncing or marking with ac cent. AC-CENTU-AL, a. Pertaining to accent. AC-CENTU-ATE, v. t. To mark or pronounce with an accent, or with accents. AC-CENT-U-A'TION, n. The act of placing accents in writing, or of pronouncing them in speaking. AC-CEPTI, v. t. [L. accepto.] 1. To take or receive what is offered with a consenting mind; to receive with approbation or favor. 2. To regard with partiality; to value or esteen. 3. To consent or agree to; to receive as terms of a contract; as, to accept a treaty; often followed by of. 4. To understand; to have a particular idea of; to receive in a particular sense.-5. In commerce, to agree or promise to pay, as a bill of exchange. See ACCEPTANCE. AC-CEPT'A-BLE, a. 1. That may be received with pleasure; hence, pleasing to a receiver; gratifying. 2. Agreeable or pleasing in person. AC-CEPT'A-BLE-NESS, or AC-CEPT-A-BIL/I-TY, n. AC-CEPTANCE, n. 1. A receiving with approbation or satisfaction; favorable reception. 2. The receiving of a bill of exchange, or order, in such a manner as to bind the acceptor to make payment. 3. An agreeing to terms or proposals in commerce, by which a bargain is concluded, and the parties bound. 4. An agreeing to the act or contract of another, by some act which binds the person in law.-5. In mercantile language, a bill of exchange accepted; as, a merchant receives another's acceptance in payment. 6. Formerly, the sense in which a word is understood. Obs. AC-CEP-TATION, n. 1. Kind reception; a receiving with favor or approbation. 2. A state of being acceptable; favorable regard. 3. The meaning or sense in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received. 4. Reception in general. Obs. AC-CEPTED, pp. Kindly received; regarded; agreed to; understood; received as a bill of exchange. AC-CEPTER, or AC-CEPTOR, n. A person who accepts. AC-CEP-TI-LATION, n. The remission of a debt by an acquittance from the creditor. Cotgrave. ACCEPTING, ppr. Receiving favorably; agreeing to; understanding. ↑ AC-CEPTION, n. The received sense of a word. AC-CEPTIVE, a. Ready to accept. B. Jonson. AC-CESS, n. [L. accessus.] 1. A coming to; near approach; admittance; admission; as, to gain access to a prince. 2. Approach, or the way by which a thing may be approached; as, the access is by a neck of land. 3. Means of approach; liberty to approach; implying previous obstacles. 4. Admission to sexual intercourse. 5. Addition; increase by something added; as, an access of territory. 6. The return of a fit or paroxysm of disease. ACCES-SA-RI-LY. See ACCESSORILY. ACCES-SA-RI-NESS. See ACCESSORINESS ACCES-SA-RY. Ses ACCESSORY. AC-CES-SI-BIL/I-TY, n. The quality of being approachable, or of admitting access. AC-CESSI-BLE, a. 1. That may be approached or reached. 2. Easy of approach; affable. AC-CESSION, n. [L. accessio.] 1. A coming to; an acceding to and joining. 2 Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation.-3. In law, a mode of acquiring property. 4. The act of arriving at a throne, an office, or dignity. 5 That which is added. 6. The invasion of a fit of a periodical disease, or fever. AC-CESSION-AL, a. Additional. AC-CES-SO/RI-AL, a. Pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt. Burr's Trial. ACCES-SO-RI-LY, adv. In the manner of an accessory; by subordinate means. ACCES-SO-RI-NESS, n. The state of being accessory. ACCES-SO-RY, a. [L. accessorius.] 1. Acceding; contributing; aiding in producing some effect, or acting in subordination to the principal agent. Usually in a bad sense. 2. Aiding in certain acts or effects in a secondary manner; as, accessory sounds in music. ACCES-SO-RY, n. 1. In law, one who is guilty of a felony, not by committing the offense in person, or as principal, but by advising or commanding another to commit the crime, or by oncealing the offender. 2. That which accedes or belongs to something else, as its principal. ACCI-DENCE, n. [See ACCIDENT.] A small book, contain ing the rudiments of grammar. ACCI-DENT, n. [L. accidens.] 1. A coming or falling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency. 2. That which takes place or begins to exist without an efficient intelligent cause, and without design. Dwight. -3. In logic, a property or quality of a being which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper.-4. In grammar, something belonging to a word but not essential to it, as gender.-5. In heraldry, a point or mark, not essential to a coat of arms. AC-CI-DENTIAL, a. 1. Happening by chance, or rather un expectedly; casual; fortuitous; taking place not according to the usual course of things; opposed to that which is constant, regular, or intended; as, an accidental visit. 2. Non-essential; not necessarily belonging to; as, songs are accidental to a play. AC-CI-DENTIAL-LY, adv. By chance; casually; fortuitously; not essentially. AC-CI-DENT AL-NESS, n. The quality of being casual. [Little used.] † AC-CI-DEN/TIA-RY, a. Pertaining to the accidence AC-CIPI-ENT, n. A receiver. AC-CIPI-TER, n. [L. ad and capio.] 1. A name given to a fish, the milvus or lucerna.-2. In ornithology, the name of the order of rapacious fowls. AC-CIPI-TRINE, a. Seizing; rapacious; as the accipitrine order of fowls. Ed. Encyc. † AC-CITE', v. t. [L. ad and cito.] To call; to cite; to AC-CLAIM', n. A shout of joy; acclamation. AC-CLAM'A-TO-RY, a. Expressing joy or applause by shouts, or clapping of hands. AC-CLIMA-TED, a. [ac for ad, and climate.] Habituated to a foreign climate, or a climate not native. Med. Repos itory. AC-CLIVE, a. Rising. Aubrey. AC-CLIVITY, n. [L. acclivus, acclivis.] A slope, or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or a side descending. Rising ground; ascent; the talus of a rampart. AC-CLI VOUS, a. Rising, as a hill, with a slope. AC-CLOY, v. t. To fill; to stuff; to fill to satiety. AC-COIL. See COIL. ACCO-LA, n. A delicate fish eaten at Malta. AC-CO-LADE, n. [L. ad and collum.] A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood. ACCO-LENT, n. One who inhabits near a place; a borderer. AC-COM'MO-DA-BLE, a. [Fr.] That may be fitted, made suitable, or made to agree. [Little used.] AC-COM'MO-DATE, v. t. [L. accommodo.] 1. To fit, adapt, or make suitable; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. Paley. 2. To supply with or furnish; followed by with. 3. To supply with conveniences; as, to accommodate a friend. 4. To reconcile things which are at variance; to adjust. 5. To show fitness or agreement; to apply. 6. To lend-a commercial sense. In an intransitive sense, to agree, to be conformable to, as used by Boyle. Obs. AC-COM'MO-DATE, a. Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to the end. Ray. AC-COM'MO-DA-TED, pp. Fitted; adjusted; applied ; al so, furnished with conveniences. AC-COM'MO-DATE-LY, adv. Suitably; fitly. AC-COM'MO-DATE-NESS, n. Fitness. (Little used.] AC-COM'MO-DA-TING, ppr. Adapting; making suitable reconciling; furnishing with conveniences; applying. AC-COM'MO-DA-TING, a. Adapting one's self to; oblig ing; disposed to comply, and to oblige another. AC-COM-MO-DATION, n. 1. Fitness; adaptation; fol lowed by to. 2. Adjustment of differences; reconcilia tion, as of parties in dispute. 3. Provision of conven iences. 4. In the plural; conveniences; things furnish ed for use; chiefly applied to lodgings.-5. In mercantile. language, accommodation is used for a loan of money. In England, accommodation bill is one given instead of a loan of money. Crabbe. 6. It is also used of a note lent merely to accommodate the borrower.-7. In theology, accommodation is the application of one thing to another by analogy, as of the words of a prophecy to a future event. Paley. AC-COM'MO-DA-TOR, n. One that accommodates; one that adjusts. TAG-COM FA-NA-BLE, a. Sociable. AC-COM PA NIED, pp. Attended; joined with in society. AC-COM/PA-NI-ER, n. He who accompanies. AC-COM'PA-NI-MENT, n. [Fr. accompagnement.] Something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added by way of ornament to the principal thing, or for the sake of symmetry. AC-COM/PA-NIST, n. The performer in music, who takes the accompanying part. Busby. AC-COMPA-NY, v. t. [Fr. accompagner.] 1. To go with, or attend, as a companion. 2. To be with as connected; to attend. AC-COMPA-ΝΥ, υ. ί. 1. Τo attend; to be an associate; [obs.] Bacon. 2. To cohabit. 3. In music, to perform the accompanying part in a composition. AC-COMPA-NY-ING, ppr. Attending; going with as a companion. AC-COMPLICE, n [Fr. complice.] An associate in a crime; a partner or partaker in guilt. It was formerly used in a good sense for a co-operator, but this sense is wholly obsolete. AC-COMPLISH, v. t. (Fr. accomplir.] 1. To complete; to finish entirely. 2. To execute. 3. To gain; to obtain or effect by successful exertions. 4. To fulfill or bring to pass; as, to accomplish a prophecy. 5. To furnish with qualities which serve to render the mind or body complete. 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. AC-COMPLISH-ER, n. One who accomplishes. AC-COMPLISH-ING, ppr. Finishing; completing; fulfilling; executing; effecting; furnishing with valuable qualities. AC-COMPLISH-MENT, n. 1. Completion; fulfillment; entire performance; as of a prophecy. 2. The act of car relation; statement of facts; recital of particuiar 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. 6. Reason or consideration, as a motive; as, on all accounts. 7. Value; importance; estimation. 8. Profit; advantage; that is, a result or production worthy of estimation. 9. Regard; behalf; sake;-a sense deduced from charges on book; as, on account of public affairs. AC-COUNT, v. t. 1. To deem, judge, consider, think, or hold in opinion. 2. To account of; to hold in esteem; to value. 3. To reckon, or compute; to assign as a debt. These uses are antiquated. ΑΕ-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-BIL/I-TY, n. 1. The state of being liable to answer for one's conduct. R. Hall. 2. Liability to the pay ment of money or of damages; responsibility for a trust. AC-COUNTIA-BLE, a. 1. Liable to be called to account; answerable to a superior. 2. Subject to pay, or make good, in case of loss. AC-COUNTIA-BLE-NESS, n. Liableness to answer or te give account; the state of being answerable. AC-COUNT ANT, n. One skilled in mercantile accounts, more generally, a person who keeps accounts. AC-COUNT-BOOK, n. A book in which accounts are kept. Swift. AC-COUNTED, pp. Esteemed; deemed; considered; regarded; valued.-Accounted for; explained. AC-COUNTING, ppr. Deening; esteeming; reckoning; rendering an account.-Accounting for; rendering an ac count. AC-COUNTING, n. The act of reckoning or adjusting ac counts. rying into effect, or obtaining an object designed; attain-AC-COUPLE, (ak-kup/pl) v. t. To couple; to join or link ment. 3. Acquirement; that which constitutes excel lence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by edu cation. AC-COMPT'. See ACCOUNT. AC-COMPTANT. See ACCOUNTANT. ACCORD', 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', v. t. 1. To make to agree, or correspond; to adjust one thing to another. Sidney. 2. To bring to an agreement; to settle, adjust, or compose. Hall. AC-CORD, v. i. 1. To agree; to be in correspondence. 2. To agree in pitch and tone. AC-CORDIA-BLE, a. Agreeable; consonant. AC-CORDANCE, n. Agreement with a person; conformity with a thing. AC-CORDIANT, a. Corresponding; consonant; agreeable. AC-CORDING, ppr. (commonly, though not correctly, classed among prepositions.) 1. Agreeing; harmonizing. 2. Suitable; agreeable; 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 always followed by to. It is never a preposition. AC-CORDING-LÝ, adv. Agreeably; suitably; in a manner conformable to. AC-CORPO-RATE, v. t. To unite. Milton. AC-COST', v. t. [Fr. accoster.] 1. To approach; to draw near; to come side by side, or face to face; [not in use.] 2. To speak first to; to address. Milton. AC-COST', v. i. To adjoin. Spenser. AC-COST/A-BLE, a. Easy of access; familiar. AC-COSTED, pp. Addressed; first spoken to. In heraldry, being side by side. AC-COSTING, ppr. Addressing by first speaking to. AC-COU-CHEUR', (ak-koo-shūre, or ak-koo-shaur') n. [Fr.] A man who assists women in childbirth. AC COUNT', n. [Fr. conte. Formerly, writers used accompt, from the Fr. compte.] 1. 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. Narrative; together. See COUPLE. AC-COUPLE-MENT. (ak-kup/pl-ment) n. A coupling; a connecting in pairs, junction. [Little used.] AC-COUR AGE, (ak-kur/aje) v. t. To encourage. Spenser. AC-COURT', v. t. To entertain with courtesy. Spenser. AC-COU TRE, (ak-kooter) v. to [Fr. accoutrer.] In a 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. AC-COU TRED, pp. Dressed in arms; equipped. ments. AC-COU/TRE-MENTS, (ak-koo/ter-ments) n. plu. 1. Dress equipage; furniture for the body; appropriately, military dress and arms; equipage for military service.-2. In common usage, an old or unusual dress. † ΑΕ-ΕΟΥ, v. t. [Old Fr. accoisir. Todd.] To render quiet or diffident; to soothe; to caress. Spenser. AC-CREDIT, v. t. [Fr. accrediter.] To give credit, authority, or reputation. AC-CRED-I-TATION, n. That which gives title to credit. [Little used.] AC-CREDIT-ED, pp. Allowed; received with reputation; 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.] A growing to; an increase by natural growth. AC-CREATIVE, a. Increasing by growth; growing; adding to by growth. AC-CRIM-I-NATION, 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. Ste ENCROACH. AC-CRUE', (ak-kru') v. i. [Fr. accroître, accru.] Laterally, 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-CRUMENT, n. Addition; increase. AC-CU-BATION, n. [L. accubatio.] A lying or reclining on a couch, as the ancients at their meals. † AC-CUMB, v. i. [L. accumbo.] To recline as at table. AC-CUM'BEN-CY, n. State of being accumbent or reclining. AC-CUMBENT, a. [L. accumbens.] Leaning or reclining, as the ancients at their meals. †AC-CUM/BENT', n. One who is placed at a dinner-table. AC-CÜ MU-LATÉ, v. t. [L. accumulo.] 1. To heap up; to pile; to amass. 2. To collect or bring together. AC-CÜ MU-LATE, v. i. To grow to a great size, number, or quantity; to increase greatly. AG-COMU-LATE, a. Collected into a mass or quantity. AC-COMU-LA-TED, pp. Collected into a heap or great quamity. AC-CO MU-LA-TING, ppr Heaping up; amassing; increasing greatly. AC-CU-MU-LATION, n. The act of accumulating; the scate of being accumulated; an amassing; a collecting together. AC-CO MU-LA-TIVE, a. That accumulates; heaping up; accumulating. AC-CO/MU-LA-TOR, n. One that accumulates, gathers or amasses. ACCU-RA-CY, n. [L. accuratio.] 1. Exactness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; freedom from mistake; nicety; correctness; precision which results from care. 2. Closeness; tightness. ACCU-RATE, a. [L. accuratus.] 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. 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. 1. Doomed to destruction or mise2. Separated from the faithful; cast out of the church; excommunicated. 3. Worthy of the curse; detestable; execrable. 4. Wicked; malignant in the ex ry. treme. AC-CUSA-BLE, 4. That may be accused; chargeable with a crime; blamable; liable to censure; followed by of. AC-CUSANT, 2. 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. AC-CC/SA-TIVE, a. 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-COSA-TIVE-LY, adv. 1. In an accusative manner. 2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar. AC-COSA-TO-RY, a. Accusing; containing an accusa tion. AC-COSE, v. t. [L. accuso.] 1. To charge with, or declare to have committed a crime. 2. To charge with a fault; to blame. AC-CUSED, (ak-küzd1) pp. Charged with a crime, by a legal process; charged with an offense; blamed. AC-CUS'ER, u. One who accuses or blames. AC-CUS/ING, ppr Charging with a crime; blaming. AC-CUSTOM, τ. 1. [Fr. accoutumer.] To make familiar by use; to form a habit by practice; to habituate or inure. AC-CUSTOM, v. i. 1. To be wont, or habituated to do any thing. Little used.] 2. To cohabit. [Not used.] Milton. AC-CUSTOM, n. Custom. Milton. AC-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 prac tice. Boule. AC-CUSTOM-A-RI-LY, adv. According to custom or common practice. [Little used.] AC-CUSTOM-A-RY, a. Usual; customary. [Little used.] ACCUSTOMED, pp. 1. Being familiar by use; habituated; inured. 2. 4. Usnal; often practiced. AC-CUSTOM-ED-NESS, 2. Familiarity. AC-CUSTOM-ING, ppr. Making familiar by practice; inuring. ACE, n. [L. as.] 1. A unit; a single point on a card or die; or the card or die so marked. 2. A very small quantity; a particie; an atom; a trifle. A-CERIC, a. [L. acer.] Pertaining to the maple. Ure. ACER-OUS, a. [L. acerosus.] In botany, chafty; resem bling chaff. A-CER VATE, v. t. To heap up. A-CES/CEN-CY, n. [L. acescens.] A turning sour by spontaneous decomposition; a state of becoming sour, tart, or acid, and hence, a being moderately sour. A-CESCENT, a. Turning sour; becoming tart or acid by spontaneous decomposition. A-CESTE, n. In entomology, a species of butterfly. A-CES'TIS, n. [Gr.] A factitious sort of chrysocolla, made of Cyprian verdigris, urine and niter. Cyc. AC-E-TAB'U-LUM, n. [L.] Among the Romans, a vinegar cruise, or like vessel. A species of lichen. ACE-TA-RY, n. An acid, pulpy substance in certain fruits. Grew. ACE-TATE, n. In chemistry, a neutral salt, formed by the union of the acetic acid with any salifiable base. La A-CET-I-FI-CATION, n. The act of making acetous or sour; or the operation of making vinegar. A-CETI-FY, v. t. To convert into acid or vinegar. ACE-TITE, n. A neutral salt, formed by the acetous acid with a salifiable base. AC-E-TOM'E-TER, n. [L. acetum, vinegar, and Gr. μετρον, measure.] An instrument for ascertaining the strength of vinegar. Ure. A-CE TOUS, a. Sour; like or having the nature of vinegar. AC-E-TOSE, a. Sour; sharp. †AC-E-TOSÍ-TY, n. The state of being acetose. 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 tude. ACHER-SET, n. An ancient measure of corn. A-CHIEVE', v. t. [Fr. achever.] 1. To pertorm, or execute; to accomplish; to finish, or carry on to a final close 2 To gain or obtain, as the result of exertion. 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 escutcheon, or ensigns armorial. A-CHIEVER, n. One who accomplishes a purpose, or ob- ACHI-OTE, n. The anotta; a tree, and a drug used for dyeing red. Clavigero. A'CHOR, n. [Gr. αχωρ.] 1. The scald head, a disease forming scaly eruptions. 2. In mythology, the god of flies. ACH-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. A-CICU-LAR, a. [L. acicula.] In the shape of a needle. A-CIC/U-LAR-LY, adv. In the manner of needles, or prickles. ACID, a. [L. acidus.] Sour, sharp or biting to the taste, having the taste of vinegar. ACID, n. In chemistry, acids are a class of substances, so denominated from their taste, or the sensation of sourness which they produce on the tongue. AC-I-DIFIER-OUS, a. [acid, and L. fero.] Containing acids, or an acid. A-CIDI-FI-A-BLE, a. [from acidify.] Capable of being converted into an acid. A-CID-I-FI-CATION, n. The act or process of acidifying or changing into an acid. A-CIDI-FIED, pp. Made acid; converted into an acid. A-CIDI-FI-ER, n. That which by combination forms an acid, as oxygen and hydrogen. A-CIDI-FY, v. t. To make acid; but, appropriately, to con vert into an acid. |