the temple of Proserpina was so called from the immense treasures which it was supposed to contain. ANTISIAN, ab-is-sina'e-an, a. Pertaining to Abys - a native of Abyssinia. Abyssinians, a of Christians in Abyssinia, who admit but one secure in Christ, and reject the council of ChalceThey are governed by a bishop, or metropactas, called Abuna, who is appointed by the Ceptic patriarch of Cairo. dc.uk, &. In Saxon, the name of the oak, which it sifies in the initial of names, as Acton, i. e. Oak MACIA, a-ka ́she-a, &. (Latin; akakia, the Egypthorn, Gr. a plant mentioned by Dioscorides, as a fui astringent thorn yielding a white transpet gum, corresponding with gum-arabic plants of noders Egypt.) In Modern Botany, a genus of Leguminous plants, consisting of trees and rs, some of the species of which yield catechu and gam-arabic, others tannin. The trees possess Fat beauty of foliage and colouring. Three hunand species belong to this genera: Suborder, Paplace. Among Antiquaries, a name given to rill or bag seen on Roman medals in the hands of the emperors and consuls, Some consider it as meeting a bandkerchief rolled up, with which sps were given at the games; others, a roll of petitions; and some a bag of earth to remind them of their mortality. Acacia gum,-see Gum-arabic. ACADEMIAL, ak-a-de'me-al, a. Pertaining to an acadrosy. MADEMIAN, ak-a-de'me-an, s. A member of a university; a student attending a college or university. ACADEMIC, ak-a-demik, s. One who belonged to the school, or adhered to the philosophy of Socrates and Plato, the leading doctrines of which were that matter is eternal and infinite, but with farm, refractory, and tending to disorder; and that there is an intelligent cause, the author of spirital being, and of the natural world. ACADEMICALLY, ak-a-dem'e-kal-le, ad. In an academical manner. ACADEMICIAN, ak-a-de-mish'an, s. (academicien, Fr.) A member of an academy or society for propating arts and sciences, particularly a member of French academies. ACADEMISM, a-kad ́em-izm, s. The doctrine of the ancient academic philosophy. This is the great principle of academism and scepticism, that truth cannot be perceived-Bazter. ACADEMIST, a-kad'e-mist, 8. A member of an academy, in which the arts and sciences are taught; in academic. MADEMY, a-kad'e-me, s. (akademia, Gr. academia, Lat. from Academicus, whose premises at Athens was converted into an academy.) Originally, a pere, garden, or villa, at Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; school of learning, holding a rank between a alege or university, and a common school; the buse in which the members of an academy meet; a place of education; a society of men united for the promotion of the arts and sciences, or of some particular science or art. Academy figure, in the Fine Arts, a drawing in light and ade, made after a living model, regulated by the rules and orders of an academy. or university; belonging to the school of philosophy of Plato, as, the academic sect. ACENA, a-se'na, s. (akaina, a thorn, Gr.) A genus of exotic herbaceous perennial plants: Order, Sanguisorbaceæ. ACENITUS, a-se'ne-tus, s. A genus of insects of the tribe Ichneumonides. ACALEPHA, a-kal ́e-fa, s. (a, priv. kalos, pleasant, and aphe, a touching, Gr.) A genus of prickly plants: Order, Euphorbiaceæ. ACALEPHÆ, a-kal ́e-fe, 8. ACALEPHANS, a-kal'e-fans,} (akalephe, a nettle, Gr.) A class of gelatinous, marine, radiated animals, which, when touched, produce a disagreeable sensation, like that arising from the sting of a nettle. ACALEPHE, a-kal ́e-fe, s. An acalephan,—see Âcalephæ. The Brazilian Fly ACAMACA, a-kam'a-ka, 8. catcher, a bird of the genus Todus. ACAMARCHUS, a-ka-mark'us, s. A genus of corals: Family, Cellularia. ACAMPSY, a-kamp'se, s. (acampsia, Lat. from a, priv. and kampto, I bend, Gr.) Same as Anchylosis,-which see. ACAMUS, a-ka’mus, s. A chambered fossil shell, of ACANACEOUS, a-kan-a'shus, a. (akanos, Gr. ACANTHACEÆ, a-kan-tha'se-e, s. (akanthus, one of ACANTHE, a-kan'the, s. plu. (Latin.) The prickles of thorny plants or spines of fishes. ACANTHACEOUS, a-kan-tha'shus, a. (akanthēcis, thorny.) Prickly. ACANTHARINÆ, a-kan-tha-ri'ne, s. A subfamily of ACANTHICONE.-See Epidote. ACANTHOCEPHALA, a-kan-tho-sef'a-la, s. (akantha, ACANTHOCERUS-ACARDIA. ACANTHOCERUS, a-kan-thos'er-us, s. (akantha, and keras, a horn, Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Scarabaida. ACANTHOCINUS, a-kan-tho-si'nus, 8. (akantha, and kineo, I move, Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Longicornes. ACANTHOBOLE, a-kan ́tho-bole, s. (French, from akantha, a thorn, and ballo, I strike, Gr.) An instrument used for the extraction of splinters of bone, or other foreign bodies from a wound. ACANTHODERMA, a-kan-oth-der'ma, s. (akantha, and derma, the skin, Gr.) A genus of fossil fishes from Glaris. ACANTHODES, a-kan'tho-dis, 8. (akantha, and odous, a tooth, Gr.) A genus of Ganoid fossil | fishes from the carboniferous strata of Scotland. ACANTHOMERA, a-kan-tho-me'ra, s. (akantha, and meros, the thigh, Gr.) A genus of Dipterous insects of the family Notacantha; also, a genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Melasoma. ACANTHONOTUS, a-kan-tho-no'tus, s. (akantha, and notos, the back, Gr.) A genus of fishes, furnished with a row of ten detached spines in front of the dorsal and the anal fins. ACANTHOPHIS, a-kan'tho-fis, s. (akantha, and ophis, a serpent, Gr.) A genus of serpents, furnished with a single series of plates beneath the tail. ACANTHOPTERA, a-kan-thop'ter-a, s. (akantha, and pteron, a wing, Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Cerambycidæ. ACANTHOPODUS, a-kan-thop'o-dus, s. A genus of fishes, mouth small, teeth short and thick set: body greatly compressed, as deep as long; ventral fins represented by two short spines: Family, Squamipennes. 8. ACANTHOPTERYGIANS, a-kan-thop-ter-ije-ans, ACANTHOPTERYGII, a-kan-thop-ter-ij'e-i, (akantha, a spine, pteryr, a wing, Gr.) An extensive order of fishes, distinguished from others by having the first rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins supported by a simple spinous process, as in the perch. ACANTHOPTERYGIOUS, a-kan-thop'ter-rij-e-us, s. Armed with hard spiny dorsal fins, belonging to the order Acanthopterygii. ACANTHOSCELES, a-kan-thos'e-lis, 8. (akantha, and skelos, the leg and foot, Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Carabidæ. ACANTHUS, a-kan'thus, s. The plant Bear's breech, a genus of plants, type of the natural order Acanthaceae. In Architecture, an ornament which resembles the leaves of the plant so called. It is used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders, and is said to have been introduced into the former by Callimachus, an architect who was struck with the beauty of the leaves surrounding a basket, which, covered with a tile, had been left so near the plant, that the leaves had grown over it. ACANUS, a-ka'nus, s. A genus of fossil fishes from Glaris. ACANZI, a-kan'zi, s. The name of the Turkish light horse, which form the van of the Grand Signior's army when on the march. ACARDA, a-kar'da, s. Cuvier's name for the Rudista of Lamarck.-See Cardia. ACARDIA, a-kar'de-a, a. (a, priv. Gr. cardo, a hinge, Lat.) A genus of fossil bivalve shells of the oyster kind, with a flat lid-like valve applied to the convex one, and connected, without a hinge ACARDO-ACCELERATE. by the abductor muscle only. The condition of a foetus born without a heart. ACARDO, a-kár do, s. A genus of flat nearly equalvalved, bivalve shells, with hinge or ligament, having one muscular impression in the centre of the valves. ACARI, a-kaʼri, 8. pl. (Greek ; akari, a mite.) Those small arachnoid, or spider-like animals, which have a single-jointed chalice or pincer, resembling an antenna, or a suctorious mouth.-See Acarides. ACARIDES, a-ka're-dis, s. (akari, a mite, Gr.) A subdivision of the Arachnides, comprehending the small spider-like animals called acari or mites, as well as water-mites and ticks.-See Acari. ACARNA, a-kār ́na, s. (Greek.) A genus of plants allied to the Thistle tribe. ACARNAR, a-kurn'ar, s. A bright star of the first magnitude in the constellation Eridanus. ACARUS, sing. of Acari.—Which see. ACASTA, a-kas'ta, s. A genus of cirripeds, having sessile, ovate, subconic, compressed shells, consisting of six parts, two of the valves small and four large, slightly united, with an orbicular plate internally concave at the base. ACATALECTIC, a-kat-a-lek ́tik, 8. (akatalektikos, A gentel manciple was ther of a temple, For to ben wise in buying of vitaile.-Chaucer. ACATES, a-kayts', s. (acheter, to purchase, pronounced acater in Picardy and Languedoc, old Fr.) Provisions; viands. In more modern languagecates. Obsolete. The kitchen clerk that hight digestion, Did order all the acates in seemly wize.-Spenser. ACCEDE, ak-sede', v. a. (accedo; ad and cedo, to ACCELERATED-ACCENT. him; to add to velocity; to add to natural my progression. AXELERATED, ak-seller-ay-ted, a. Hastened; assed. Accelerated motion, a rapidity of mo cmdantly increasing. The velocity of a falling bady increases each second in the arithmetical , 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and the whole space passed wr in the geometrical ratio of squares, 1, 4, 9, 16, Scelerated force, the increase which a body santa in consequence of its increased motion. ADELERATION, ak-sel-er-a'shun, s. The act of casing to move faster; the state of moving faster. In Mechanics, acceleration of motion is the contical accession of velocity which a falling body es. In Music, quickening the time in the mandie of a piece. In Military tactics, to carry a under the works of a fortified place, in der to take it by prompt assault. Acceleration g the moon, the increase of the moon's mean estion from the sun, compared with the diurnal tion of the earth; the moon moving with prater velocity than it did in ancient times—a y made by Dr. Halley. Diurnal acceleratom of the fired stars, is the time by which they matipate the mean diurnal revolution of the sun, which is nearly 53 minutes 56 seconds. Accelerationej a planet is when its real diameter exceeds tama diurnal motion. ACCELERATIVE, ak-sel ́er-a-tiv, ACELERATORY, ak-seller-a-tur-e, ty: quickening progression. ACCELERATOR, ak-sel ́er-ay-tur, s. A muscle which, by its contraction, accelerates the discharge of &c; one of the pairs of muscles called Ameratures urince. a. Increasing velo A-END, ak-send', v. a. (accendo; ad and candeo, , I am white, from canus, white, Lat.) To et on fire; to kindle. Our beration, if sufficiently accended, would, as theirs, ra opierable books of this sort-Decay of Piety. ACCENDIBILITY, ak-send-e-bil'e-te, 8. The capacity of being ignited, kindled, or inflamed. ACCENDIBLE, ak-send'e-bl, a. Capable of being famed or kinaled. ACCENDONES, ak-sen'do-nis, 8. In Roman AnACCENOSES, ak-se'do-nis, tiquity, a kind of stant gladiators, whose office was to excite and te the combatants. ATSI, ak-sen ́si, s. In Antiquity, supernumerary siders taken from the fifth class of Roman citi as a kind of reserved force; also, an inferior war of officers, attendant on the Roman magistrates as ushers, sergeants, &c. ACCENT, ak'sent, &. (accentus, from cano, cantum, to sing, Lat.) The modulation of the voice, or mer of speaking or pronouncing with regard to fre or eloquence; I know, sir, I am no flatterer; he that beguileth you 21 pain accent was a plain man; which, for my part, I be-Shaka. the particular stress or force laid upon a syllable; accent in this sense is primary or secondary-it is poster or less, as in the word ac'la-ma”shun, ma ng the primary, ac the secondary. When an accent is placed on a vowel, it has its long name ad, as in recent; when placed on a consonant red by a vowel, the vowel has its shut or tout sound, as malice; the mark of accentuation. The Greeks, whom we have copied in this respect, ted three accents-the acute, which raises the ACCENT-ACCEPTABLE. intonation of the voice; the grave, which depresses The tender accents of a woman's cry poetically, language or expression in general; Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er In states unborn, and accents yet unknown.-Shaks. a particular tone or inflection of voice in pronouncing sentences or words, as, an Irish, Scotch, or English accent; to write or mark the accentuation of words. In Music, a swelling of sounds for the purpose of variety or expression, or an enforcement of particular sounds by the voice or instruments where the emphasis falls. In common time, the first and third notes of a word are accented, and, in treble time, the first and last note. In Mathematics, accents are used to denote difference of quantities or magnitudes. ACCENT, ak-sent', v. a. To pronounce with the proper accent; to alter a syllable with the proper ACCENTED, ak-sent ́ed, part. a. force. Uttered with accents; marked with accents. ACCENTION, ak-sen'shun, s. (accensio, Lat.) The act of kindling; state of being kindled; ignition. ACCENTOR, ak-sen'tur, s. In Music, one who takes the leading part. In Ornithology, the hedgesparrow, a genus of birds belonging to the Parinæ, ACCENTUAL, ak-sent'u-al, a. Pertaining to accent; or Titmice: Family, Sylviada. ACCENTUATE, ak-sen'tu-ate, v. a. rhythmical. To mark words with the proper accents. ACCENTUATION, ak-sen-tu-a'shun, s. The act of placing the accents in writing, or of pronouncing them in speaking. ACCEPT, ak-sept', v. a. (accepto, from accipio; ad and capio, I take, Lat. accepter, Fr. acceptar, Span.) To take or receive what is offered with an agreeable feeling; to receive with approbation or favour, as, he accepted the office made to him; to regard with partiality; to value or esteem; It is not good to accept the person of the wicked.Prov. xviii. to consent or agree to, as, to accept a treaty; often followed by of, as, to accept of the terms proposed; to understand or receive in a particular sense. terpretations.-Fuller's Worthies. The same epithet in several places accepts sundry in In Commerce, to agree or promise by signature, to pay when due, as in a bill of exchange. Accepting service of process, the agreement by the attorney or solicitor of a defendant, to accept or receive, on his client's behalf, such writ or process from the opposite party, as should have been served personally upon the defendant at the commencement of legal proceedings. ACCEPTABLE, ak-sep'ta-bl, a. That may be received with agreeable feelings; grateful; pleasing; seasonable. This word is sometimes accented on the first syllable, as in the following passage: This woman whom thou mad'st to be my help, And gave me as thy perfect gift, so good, So just, so acceptable, so divine, That from her hand I could expect no ill.-Milton. ACCEPTABILITY-ACCESS. ACCEPTABILITY, ak-sept-a-bil ́e-te, s. used. He hath given us his natural blood to be shed for the remission of our sins, and for obtaining the grace and the acceptability of repentance.-Bp. Taylor. ACCEPTABLY, ak-sep ́ta-ble, ad. Ia an acceptable manner; in a way which can be received. Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably.-Heb. xii. ACCEPTANCE, ak-sep'tans, s. Reception with satisfaction or approbation; Thus I embolden'd spake; and freedom used Permissive, and acceptance found.-Milton. Some men cannot be fools with so good acceptance as others. South. acceptation or reception of the meaning in which a word is understood-(not used in this sense.) Acceptance in law, the acceptance or taking anything which a person is not bound to accept or take, but which, when accepted or taken, becomes binding in its operation and effects. Acceptance for honour, in Scottish law, the acceptance of a bill after it has been protested against the drawee for non-acceptance. Acceptance of a bill, an engagement to pay a bill according to the tenor of the acceptance, which may be either absolute or qualified. An absolute acceptance is an engagement to pay a bill according to its request, which is done by the drawee writing Accepted on the bill, and subscribing his name, or writing Accepted only; or merely subscribing at the bottom or across the bill. A qualified acceptance is when a bill is accepted conditionally; as, when goods conveyed to the drawee are sold, or when a navy bill is paid or other future bill, which does not bind the acceptor till the contingency has happened.-Macculloch. Acceptance also signifies an agreeing to terms or proposals in commerce, by which a bargain is concluded, and the parties bound; likewise, an agreeing to the act or contract of another, by some act which binds the person in law, as a bishop taking rent reserved on a lease by his predecessor is an acceptance in terms of the lease. In Common Law, it denotes the accepting or taking of one thing as a compensation for the payment or performance of another. In Mer chandise, a bill of exchange accepted. ACCEPTATION, ak-sep-ta'shun, s. Favourable reception; state of being acceptable; favourable regard or acceptableness-(the word more generally used in this sense); the meaning or sense in which a word or expression is understood or generally received; reception in general, whether good or bad.-Not used in this sense. ACCEPTER, ak-sep'tur, s. One who accepts. An ACCEPTOR, accepter of a bill, the drawee or person who, by his signing it, becomes bound to pay it when due. ACCEPTILATION, ak-sep-te-la'shun, s. (acceptilatio, Lat.) The remission of a debt without payment of any consideration. ACCEPTION, ak-scp'shun, s. The received sense of a word; acceptance; state of being accepted.Obsolete. ACCEPTIVE, ak-sep'tiv, a. Ready to accept. The people are very acceptive, and apt to applaud any meritable work.-Ben Jonson. ACCESS, ak-ses', s. (accessus, Lat.) Approach or ACCESSARILY-ACCESSARY. a way by which any thing may be approached; th means or liberty of approaching either to men C things; admission; addition; increase; accessior In Medicine, the assemblage of phenomena which signalize the recurrence of periodical disease, intermittent fever, comprehending their cold, hot and sweating stages. ACCESSARILY.-See Accessorily. ACCESSARINESS.-See Accessoriness. ACCESSARY.-See Accessory. ACCESSIBLE, ak-ses'se-bl, a. That may be ap proached or reached; approachable. ACCESSIBLY, ak-ses'e-ble, ad. So as to be accessible. ACCESSION, ak-sesh'un, s. (French; accessio; ad, and cedo, I go to, Lat.) A coming to; an acceding to or joining; a going to; Besides, what wise objections he prepares, Against my late accessions to the wars.-Dryden. increase by something added; augmentation, as, an accession of wealth. In Law, a mode of acquiring property, either natural or artificial. Natural accession is the young of cattle belonging to the mother, and the produce of the earth to the owner of the soil. Artificial accession is that addition which is the result of human industry, called likewise industrial accession, as trees planted, or a house built on the property of another, which belongs to the proprietor of the ground, and not to the planter or builder. Deed of accession, in Scottish Law, a deed by the creditors of a bankrupt or insolvent debtor, by which they approve of a trust executed by their debtor for the general behoof, and bind themselves to concur in the fiduciary arrangement proposed for extricating his affairs.Bell. The act of arriving at a throne, office, or dignity; the invasion of a fit of periodical disease or fever. ACCESSIONAL, ak-sesh'un-al, a. accessory. ACCESSORILY, ak'ses-sor-e-le, ad. Additional. Pertaining to an In the manner of an accessory; by subordinate means, or in a secondary character; not as a principal, but a subordinate agent. ACCESSORINESS, ak'ses-sor-e-nes, s. The state of being accessory; or of being or acting in a secondary character. ACCESSORY, Į ak'ses-sor-e, a. (accessorius, from ACCESSARY, accedo, accessus, Lat.) Acceding; contributing; aiding in producing some effect or acting in subordination to the principal agent; usually in a bad sense, as, accessory to felony; aiding in certain acts, or in a secondary manner, as, accessory to music. In Law, a person guilty of a felony, not by committing the crime in person or as a principal, but by advising, commending, or otherwise inciting another to its commission. In Treason, there are no accessories. An accessory before the fact, is one who counsels or commands another to commit a felony; after the fact, the one who receives and conceals the offender. In common language, that which accedes to something else, as its principal. In Scottish Law, an accessory action is one in some degree subservient to others, as those of wakening or transference. Accessory obligations, in the same law, obligations adjected to antecedent or primary obligations, as cautionary obligations and bonds of corroboration, and the regular payment of interest. Among Painters, accessories are the ornamental parts ACCESSUS-ACCIPITER. a picture, as vases, armour, &c. In the Fae Arts, anything introduced into a work that a not essential to the main design. Accessory sere, in Anatomy, a pair of nerves, which, risazine the medulla in the vertebræ, ascend and the skall; then passing out with the par are distributed into the muscles of the terk and shoulders. ACCECs, ak-ses'sus, 8. (Latin.) In Antiquity, a ambing machine for ascending the walls of beseged pisces. MITLOCATURA, ak-se-a-ka-tura, s. (Italian.) In Fc & term denoting the patting down, along with any interval, the half note below it, and inactly taking off the finger which has struck the ist of the two notes, continuing the sound of hether note till the harmony is changed. ACCIDENCE, ak'se-dens, s. (See Accident.) A mal book enstaining the rudiments of grammar, plaining the properties of the parts of BOGDANT, ak'se-dent, s. (accidens, falling, from ad me endo, I fall, Lat.) Literally, a falling or an event which takes place without being formen or expected; a casualty; a contingency; Is Grammar, something belonging to a but not essential to it, as gender, number, in In Heraldry, a point or mark, not metal to a coat of arins. In Logic, a property qay of a thing which is not essential to it, eness, sweetness, softness, clothes. In Babysics, accidents are distinguished into prisary and secondary. Primary accidents are such are absolute, as quantity and quality. DESTAL, ak-se-dental, a. (French.) Casual; tous; happening by chance; having the qay of an accident; non-essential. In Morbid Anatomy, the term is applied to all structures developed, as the consequences of a morbid process; property which is non-essential. Accidental ers, colours depending on the light of the eye, and sot belonging to light itself, or to any quality of the laminous object. Accidental point, in Perretive, that point in which a right line, drawn m the eye parallel to another right line, cuts the picture or plane. ATIDESTALS, ak-se-den'tals, s. pl. In Painting, furcatous or chance effects produced from rays of et falling on certain objects, by which they are zaght into stronger light than they otherwise wall be. Accidentals, in Music, are those flats and sharps which are prefixed to the notes in a Bovement, and which would not be considered so by the sharps and flats in the signature. ACCIDENTALLY, ak-se-dental-le, ad. Casually; tuitously. ACCIDENTALNESS, ak-se-den'tal-nes, s. The quay of being accidental. ACCIDENTIARY, ak-se-den'sha-re, a. Pertaining to the accidence or the accidents of grammar. AMOUS, ak-sid yus, a. (akidia, Gr.) Slothful. ACCIDITY, ak-sid'e-te, s. Slothfulness. MCT, ak-sinkt, a. (accinctus, Lat.) Girded; prepared; ready. ACCIPENSER-See ACIPIENSER. ACCIPIENT, ak-sip'e-ent, s. (accipiens, Lat.) A ACCIPITER, ak-sip'e-tur, s. (Latin, a hawk.) The Sparrow-hawk, a genus of rapacious birds: Subfamily, Accipitrine. ACCIPITRARY-ACCOMODATING. ACCIPITRARY, ak-sip'e-tra-re, s. One who catches birds of prey. ACCIPITRINE, ak-sip-e-tri'ne, s. A subfamily of the rapacious birds, embracing the hawks. AcCISMUS, ak-sis'mus, s. (Latin.) A feigned denial. In Rhetoric, ironical dissimulation. ACCITE, ak-site', v. a. (accitus, Lat.) To cite; to call; to summons.-Obsolete. We will accite all our state.-Shaks ACCLAIM, ak-klame', v. n. (acclamo, Lat.) To applaud;-s. a shout of praise. ACCLAMATION, ak-kla-ma'shun, s. (acclamatio, Lat.) Shouts of applause by a multitude; unanimous and immediate election. In Archaiology, a representation in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy. With ap ACCLAMATORY, ak-klam'a-tur-e, a. plause. To habituate the body to a foreign climate, so as not to be peculiarly liable to its endemic diseases.-Webster. ACCLIMATED, ak-kli'ma-ted, a. Inured to a change ACCLIMATION, ak-kli-ma'shun, s. (ad, to, clima, of climate. climate, Lat.) Naturalization to climate. To accustom ACCLIMATISE, ak-kli'ma-tize, v. a. plants and animals to a climate new to them. ACCLIMATURE, ak-kli'ma-ture, s. Act of acclimating; state of being acclimated. ACCLIVE, ak-klive', a. (acclivis, Lat.) Rising with a rapid slope. ACCLIMATE, ak-kli'mate, v. a. Nearly as acclive as a desk.--Aubrey. ACCLIVIS, ak-kli'vis, s. A muscle of the belly, so named from the oblique ascent of its fibres. ACCLIVITY, ak-kliv'e-te, s. (acclivus, Lat.) A steep rising ground; the ascent of a hill. ACCLIVOUS, ak-kli ́vus, ɑ. Rising with a slope. ACCLOY, ak-kloy', v. a. (from enclouer, Fr. or, according to Junius, from the verb to clog.) To fill up; to satiate; to clog.-Nearly obsolete. At the well-head the purest streams arise, But mucky filth his branching arms annoys, And with untimely weeds the gentle wave accloys.Spenser ACCOIL, ak-koyl', v. n. (see Coil.) To crowd about. -Obsolete. ACCOLENT, ak-ko'lent, s. (accolens, Lat.) He that inhabits near a place; a borderer. About the cauldron many cooks accoil'd.-Spenser. ACCOLADE, ak-ko-lade', s. (ad, to, and collum, the neck, Lat.) A ceremony formerly used in the conferring of knighthood, by the king embracing the knight, or laying his sword upon his shoulder. ACCOMMODABLE, ak-komʼmo-da-bl, a. That may be fitted. ACCOMMODABLENESS, ak-kom'mo-da-bl-nes, The capability of accommodating. ACCOMMODATE, ak-kom'mo-date, v. a. (accommodo, ad, and commodo, I help or profit, Lat.) To supply with conveniences of any kind; to adapt; to fit; to make consistent with; to reconcile; to adjust. In Commerce, to lend ;-v. n. to be conformable to ;-a. suitable. 8. ACCOMMODATELY, ak-kom'mo-date-le, ad. Suitably; fitly. ACCOMMODATENESS, ak-kom'mo-date-nes, s. ness. ACCOMMODATING, ak-kom'mo-date-ing, a. posed to agree with; obliging; suitable. Fit Dis |