Accubation (n.) The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
Accumb (v. i.) To recline, as at table.
Accumbency (n.) The state of being accumbent or reclining.
Accumbent (a.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
Accumbent (a.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.
Accumbent (n.) One who reclines at table.
Accumber (v. t.) To encumber.
Accumulated (imp. & p. p.) of Accumulate
Accumulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accumulate
Accumulate (v. t.) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
Accumulate (v. i.) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
Accumulate (a.) Collected; accumulated.
Accumulation (n.) 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.
Accumulation (n.) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
Accumulative (a.) Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.
Accumulator (n.) One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.
Accumulator (n.) An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.
Accumulator (n.) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
Accuracy (n.) 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 (a.) 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.
Accurate (a.) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
Accurately (adv.) In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
Accurateness (n.) The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
Accurse (v. t.) To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
Accursed (p. p. & a.) Alt. of Accurst
Accurst (p. p. & a.) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed.
Accusable (a.) Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.
Accusal (n.) Accusation.
Accusant (n.) An accuser.
Accusation (n.) The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
Accusation (n.) That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
Accusatival (a.) Pertaining to the accusative case.
Accusative (a.) Producing accusations; accusatory.
Accusative (a.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.
Accusative (n.) The accusative case.
Accusatively (adv.) In an accusative manner.
Accusatively (adv.) In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
Accusatorial (a.) Accusatory.
Accusatorially (adv.) By way accusation.
Accusatory (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.
Accuse (n.) Accusation.
Accused (imp. & p. p.) of Accuse
Accusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accuse
Accuse (v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
Accuse (v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
Accuse (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
Accuse (v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]
Accused (a.) Charged with offense; as, an accused person.
Accusement (n.) Accusation.
Accuser (n.) One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
Accusingly (adv.) In an accusing manner.
Accustomed (imp. & p. p.) of Accustom
Accustoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accustom
Accustom (v. t.) To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
Accustom (v. i.) To be wont.
Accustom (v. i.) To cohabit.
Accustom (n.) Custom.
Accustomable (a.) Habitual; customary; wonted.
Accustomably (adv.) According to custom; ordinarily; customarily.
Accustomance (n.) Custom; habitual use.
Accustomarily (adv.) Customarily.
Accustomary (a.) Usual; customary.
Accustomed (a.) Familiar through use; usual; customary.
Accustomed (a.) Frequented by customers.
Accustomedness (n.) Habituation.
Aces (pl. ) of Ace
Ace (n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.
Ace (n.) Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
Aceldama (n.) 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.
Acentric (a.) Not centered; without a center.
Acephal (n.) One of the Acephala.
Acephala (n. pl.) 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.
Acephalan (n.) Same as Acephal.
Acephalan (a.) Belonging to the Acephala.
Acephali (n. pl.) A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.
Acephali (n. pl.) A Christian sect without a leader.
Acephali (n. pl.) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
Acephali (n. pl.) A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.
Acephalist (n.) One who acknowledges no head or superior.
Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon 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.
Acephalocystic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.
Acephalous (a.) Headless.
Acephalous (a.) Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.
Acephalous (a.) Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.
Acephalous (a.) Without a leader or chief.
Acephalous (a.) Wanting the beginning.
Acephalous (a.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry.
Acerate (n.) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
Acerate (a.) Acerose; needle-shaped.
Acerb (a.) Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
Acerbate (v. t.) To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
Acerbic (a.) Sour or severe.
Acerbitude (n.) Sourness and harshness.
Acerbity (n.) Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
Acerbity (n.) Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
Aceric (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.
Acerose (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
Acerose (a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.
Acerous (a.) Same as Acerose.
Acerous (a.) Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.