Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. A spiny-finned fish.

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned.

shaped like a spine or thorn

a family of fishes consisting of the surgeonfishes.

type genus of the family Acanthuridae; doctorfishes.

Having no capsule.

Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus.

very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks.

the family of arachnids of the order Acarina consisting of mites.

One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.

The order of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

A member of the order Acarina.

Shaped like or resembling a mite.

Having no carpels. Opposite of carpellate.

Not producing fruit; unfruitful.

A genus including many species of small mites.

Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

See Caterer.

See Cates.

Tailless.

Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.

Same as Acaulescent.

Same as Acaulescent.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.

The act of acceding.

One who accedes.

Gradually accelerating the movement.

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

caused to move faster

The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation.

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.

Accelerative.

An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.

To set on fire; to kindle.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable.

The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.

One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

having the main stress of a word; -- used of syllables

the act of giving special importance or significance to something.

Without accent.

One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.

Capable of being accented.

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

The quality of being accentual.

In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Act of accentuating; applications of accent. pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.

Accepted.

The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.

The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.

In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.

The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.

An accepter.

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

A person who accepts; a taker.

Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

Acceptation; the received meaning.

Fit for acceptance.

One who accepts one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

In the manner of an accessary.

The state of being accessary.

One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility.

Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

In an accessible manner.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Pertaining to accession; additional.

Additional.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.

The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.

Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.

A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.

Accidental character or effect.

The quality of being accidental; accidentalness.

In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

The quality of being accidental; casualness.

Sloth; torpor.

See Acipenser.

A receiver.

A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike.

The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

a family of birds consisting of the hawks; -- this family includes the Old World vultures; kites; harriers; and eagles.

in some classifications an alternative name for the Falconiformes.

Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

Affected refusal; coyness.

To cite; to summon.

Acclamation.

One who acclaims.

A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.

Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

Capable of being acclimated.

Acclimatization.

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Acclimation.

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

Capable of being acclimatized.

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.

Acclivous.

Acclivous.

A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.

Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.

To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy.

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.