Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 12

Acclamation (n.) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.

Acclamatory (a.) Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

Acclimatable (a.) Capable of being acclimated.

Acclimatation (n.) Acclimatization.

Acclimated (imp. & p. p.) of Acclimate

Acclimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acclimate

Acclimate (v. t.) To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Acclimatement (n.) Acclimation.

Acclimation (n.) The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

Acclimatizable (a.) Capable of being acclimatized.

Acclimatization (n.) The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.

Acclimatized (imp. & p. p.) of Acclimatize

Acclimatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acclimatize

Acclimatize (v. t.) 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.

Acclimature (n.) The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.

Acclive (a.) Acclivous.

Acclivitous (a.) Acclivous.

Acclivities (pl. ) of Acclivity

Acclivity (n.) 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.

Acclivous (a.) Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.

Accloy (v. t.) To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy.

Accoast (v. t. & i.) To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.

Accoil (v. t.) To gather together; to collect.

Accoil (v. t.) To coil together.

Accolade (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

Accolade (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.

Accombination (n.) A combining together.

Accommodable (a.) That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree.

Accommodableness (n.) The quality or condition of being accommodable.

Accommodated (imp. & p. p.) of Accommodate

Accommodating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accommodate

Accommodate (v. t.) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

Accommodate (v. t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

Accommodate (v. t.) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

Accommodate (v. t.) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.

Accommodate (v. i.) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.

Accommodate (a.) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Accommodately (adv.) Suitably; fitly.

Accommodateness (n.) Fitness.

Accommodating (a.) Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Accommodation (n.) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.

Accommodation (n.) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Accommodation (n.) Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.

Accommodation (n.) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.

Accommodation (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

Accommodation (n.) A loan of money.

Accommodation (n.) An accommodation bill or note.

Accommodator (n.) He who, or that which, accommodates.

Accompanable (a.) Sociable.

Accompanier (n.) He who, or that which, accompanies.

Accompaniment (n.) 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.

Accompaniment (n.) 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.

Accompanist (n.) The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.

Accompanied (imp. & p. p.) of Accompany

Accompanying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accompany

Accompany (v. t.) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow.

Accompany (v. t.) To cohabit with.

Accompany (v. i.) To associate in a company; to keep company.

Accompany (v. i.) To cohabit (with).

Accompany (v. i.) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.

Accompletive (a.) Tending to accomplish.

Accomplice (n.) A cooperator.

Accomplice (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.

Accompliceship (n.) The state of being an accomplice.

Accomplicity (n.) The act or state of being an accomplice.

Accomplished (imp. & p. p.) of Accomplish

Accomplishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accomplish

Accomplish (v. t.) To complete, as time or distance.

Accomplish (v. t.) To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.

Accomplish (v. t.) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.

Accomplish (v. t.) To gain; to obtain.

Accomplishable (a.) Capable of being accomplished; practicable.

Accomplished (a.) Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.

Accomplished (a.) Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain.

Accomplisher (n.) One who accomplishes.

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

Accomplishment (n.) That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.

Accompt (n.) See Account.

Accomptable (a.) See Accountable.

Accomptant (n.) See Accountant.

Accord (v. t.) Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

Accord (v. t.) Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.

Accord (v. t.) Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.

Accord (v. t.) Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.

Accord (v. t.) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.

Accorded (imp. & p. p.) of Accord

According (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accord

Accord (v. t.) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.

Accord (v. t.) To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.

Accord (v. t.) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.

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

Accord (v. i.) To agree in pitch and tone.

Accordable (a.) Agreeing.

Accordable (a.) Reconcilable; in accordance.

Accordance (n.) Agreement; harmony; conformity.

Accordancy (n.) Accordance.

Accordant (a.) Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to.

Accordantly (adv.) In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.

Accorder (n.) One who accords, assents, or concedes.

According (p. a.) Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.

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