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Accompany

To associate in a company; to keep company.

accompanyist

a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano).

Accomplished

Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.

Accomplishment

The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.

Accord

To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.

Accordant

Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to.

Accordantly

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.

Accorder

One who accords, assents, or concedes.

Accordingly

Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable.

Accordion

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

Accosted

Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.

Accoucheur

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Account

To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

Accountability

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.

Accountable

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

Accouplement

The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union.

Accourt

To treat courteously; to court.

Accoutre Accouter

To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.

accoutred accoutered

provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose especially military; as, troops accoutered for battle

accoutrement

an item of clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of one's main clothing.

Accoy

To render quiet; to soothe.

Accra

The capital city of Ghana. Population (2000) = nk.

Accredit

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

Accreditation

The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.

accrementition

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.

accrete

Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.

accretive

Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.

accroach

To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.

Accrue

Something that accrues; advantage accruing.

Accruer

The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.

Accrument

The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.

Accubation

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

Accumb

To recline, as at table.

Accumbency

The state of being accumbent or reclining.

Accumulation

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.

Accumulative

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

Accumulator

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

Accuracy

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.

Accurate

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.

Accurately

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

Accurateness

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

Accurse

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

Accurst Accursed

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

Accusable

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

Accusatory

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

Accuse

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.

Accused

Charged with offense; as, an accused person.

Accuser

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

accusing

serving to accuse; expressing accusation

ace

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

acedia

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

Aceldama

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.

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.

Acephali

A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.

Acephalist

One who acknowledges no head or superior.

Acephalocyst

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.

Acequia

A canal or trench for irrigating land.

Acer

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

Aceraceae

the family of trees including the maples.

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