An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.
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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.
Acceptance.
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.
To gather together; to collect.
A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting of an embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
A combining together.
That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree.
The quality or condition of being accommodable.
Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
Suitably; fitly.
Fitness.
Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
He who, or that which, accommodates.
Sociable.
having companions or an escort
He who, or that which, accompanies.
That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
To associate in a company; to keep company.
a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano).
Tending to accomplish.
The state of being an accomplice.
The act or state of being an accomplice.
To complete, as time or distance.
Capable of being accomplished; practicable.
Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.
One who accomplishes.
The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
See Account.
See Accountable.
See Accountant.
To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
Agreeing.
Agreement; harmony; conformity.
Accordance.
Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to.
In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
One who accords, assents, or concedes.
Accordingly; correspondingly.
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