The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.
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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.
Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable.
A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
A player on the accordion.
Agreement; reconcilement.
To unite; to attach; to incorporate.
Address; greeting.
Approachable; affable.
Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.
Delivery in childbed
A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.
A midwife.
To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected; accountableness.
Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
In an accountable manner.
The art or employment of an accountant.
Accountable.
The office or employment of an accountant.
To join; to couple.
The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union.
To encourage.
To treat courteously; to court.
To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.
provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose especially military; as, troops accoutered for battle
an item of clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of one's main clothing.
Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers.
To render quiet; to soothe.
The capital city of Ghana. Population (2000) = nk.
To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.
Pertaining to accremention.
The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respects like the individual from which it proceeds.
To accrue.
Continuous growth; an accretion.
Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.
Marked or produced by accretion.
Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.
To accuse of a crime.
To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.
An encroachment; usurpation.
Accrument.
Something that accrues; advantage accruing.
The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.
The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.
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