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acataleptic | incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible. |
acater | see caterer. |
acates | see cates. |
acaudate | tailless. |
acaulescent | having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. |
acauline | same as acaulescent. |
acaulose | alt. of acaulous |
acaulous | same as acaulescent. |
accadian | pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in babylonia before the assyrian conquest. |
accede | to approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.-to enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.-to become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request. |
acceded | of accede |
accedence | the act of acceding. |
acceder | one who accedes. |
acceding | of accede |
accelerando | gradually accelerating the movement. |
accelerate | to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.-to quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.-to hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. |
accelerated | of accelerate |
accelerating | of accelerate |
acceleration | the act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. |
accelerative | relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. |
accelerator | one who, or that which, accelerates. also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves. |
acceleratory | accelerative. |
accelerograph | an apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc. |
accelerometer | an apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder. |
accend | to set on fire; to kindle. |
accendibility | capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability. |
accendible | capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. |
accension | the act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
accensor | one of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers. |
accent | a superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.-a mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the french accents.-modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a french or a german accent.-a word; a significant tone-expressions in general; speech.-stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.-a regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.-a special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.-the rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.-the expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.-a mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.-a mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.-a mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.-to express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.-to mark emphatically; to emphasize. |
accented | of accent |
accenting | of accent |
accentless | without accent. |
accentor | one who sings the leading part; the director or leader.-a genus of european birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. in america sometimes applied to the water thrushes. |
accentuable | capable of being accented. |
accentual | of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. |
accentuality | the quality of being accentual. |
accentually | in an accentual manner; in accordance with accent. |
accentuate | to pronounce with an accent or with accents.-to bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.-to mark with the written accent. |
accentuated | of accentuate |
accentuating | of accentuate |
accentuation | act of accentuating; applications of accent.-pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. |
accept | to receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.-to receive with favor; to approve.-to receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, i accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.-to take by the mind; to understand; as, how are these words to be accepted?-to receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.-in a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [this makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]-accepted. |
acceptability | the quality of being acceptable; acceptableness. |
acceptable | capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. |
acceptableness | the quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability. |
acceptably | in an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction. |
acceptance | the act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.-state of being accepted; acceptableness.-an assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.-the bill itself when accepted.-an agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.-an agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.-meaning; acceptation. |
acceptancy | acceptance. |
acceptant | accepting; receiving.-an accepter. |
acceptation | acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.-the meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. |
accepted | of accept |
acceptedly | in a accepted manner; admittedly. |
accepter | a person who accepts; a taker.-a respecter; a viewer with partiality.-an acceptor. |
acceptilation | gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. |
accepting | of accept |
acception | acceptation; the received meaning. |
acceptive | fit for acceptance.-ready to accept. |
acceptor | one who accepts-one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted. |
access | a coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.-the means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land.-admission to sexual intercourse.-increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [in this sense accession is more generally used.]-an onset, attack, or fit of disease.-a paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury. |
accessaries | of accessary |
accessarily | in the manner of an accessary. |
accessariness | the state of being accessary. |
accessary | accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. see accessory.-one who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. |
accessibility | the quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. |
accessible | easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.-open to the influence of; -- with to.-obtainable; to be got at. |
accessibly | in an accessible manner. |
accession | a coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.-increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.-a mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.-the act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.-the act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.-the invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. |
accessional | pertaining to accession; additional. |
accessive | additional. |
accessorial | of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt. |
accessories | of accessory |
accessorily | in the manner of an accessory; auxiliary. |
accessoriness | the state of being accessory, or connected subordinately. |
accessory | accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.-that which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.-same as accessary, n.-anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. |
acciaccatura | a short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. |
accidence | the accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.-the rudiments of any subject. |
accident | literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.-a property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.-a point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.-a property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.-a quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.-any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.-unusual appearance or effect. |
accidental | happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.-nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.-a property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.-those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.-a sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note. |
accidentalism | accidental character or effect. |
accidentality | the quality of being accidental; accidentalness. |
accidentally | in an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially. |
accidentalness | the quality of being accidental; casualness. |
accidie | sloth; torpor. |
accipenser | see acipenser. |
accipient | a receiver. |
accipiter | a genus of rapacious birds; one of the accipitres or raptores.-a bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk. |
accipiters | of accipiter |
accipitral | pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. |
accipitres | of accipiter-the order that includes rapacious birds. they have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. there are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls. |
accipitrine | like or belonging to the accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. |
accismus | affected refusal; coyness. |
accite | to cite; to summon. |
acclaim | to applaud.-to declare by acclamations.-to shout; as, to acclaim my joy.-to shout applause.-acclamation. |
acclaimer | one who acclaims. |
acclamation | a shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.-a representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy. |
acclamatory | pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. |
acclimatable | capable of being acclimated. |
acclimatation | acclimatization. |
acclimate | to habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. |