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.

The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

of or pertaining to acculturation (definition 3).

To recline, as at table.

The state of being accumbent or reclining.

One who reclines at table.

To encumber.

Collected; accumulated.

brought together into a group or crowd

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.

The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.

In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.

The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed.

Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

Accusation.

Pertaining to the accusative case.

The accusative case.

In an accusative manner.

Accusatory.

By way accusation.

Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.

To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

Charged with offense; as, an accused person.

Accusation.

One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

serving to accuse; expressing accusation

In an accusing manner.

Custom.

Habitual; customary; wonted.

According to custom; ordinarily; customarily.

Custom; habitual use.

Customarily.

Usual; customary.

Familiar through use; usual; customary.

Habituation.

to get a grade of "A"; as, to ace an exam.

apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed.

not containing cells

Not centered; without a center.

One of the Acephala.

That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

Belonging to the Acephala.

A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.

One who acknowledges no head or superior.

A larval entozo/n in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.

A canal or trench for irrigating land.

type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit.

the family of trees including the maples.

Acerose; needle-shaped.

Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.

Sour or severe.

Sourness and harshness.

Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.

Having the nature of chaff; chaffy. Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks. Without antenn/, as some insects.

Pertaining to a heap.

Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

A heaping up; accumulation.

Heaped up; tending to heap up.

Full of heaps.

Resembling little heaps.

The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.

A substance liable to become sour.

An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.

Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.