ACCOMMODATION-ACCORD.

ACCOMMODATION, ak-kom'mo-da-shun, s. Provision of conveniences; things requisite to ease and refreshment; conveniences; reconciliation of differences between parties; adaptation; fitness. In Commerce, a lending of money. Accommodation note, in America, a note drawn and offered for discount, in opposition to one which the owner has received for goods. In England, an accommodadation bill is a bill given instead of a loan of money. Accommodation is also used as a note lent merely to accommodate the borrower. In Theology, the verb means the application of one thing to another by analogy, as the words of a prophecy to a future event. Accommodation ladder, a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway.

ACCOMMODATOR, ak-kom'mo-day-tur, s. He who manages or adjusts a thing.

ACCOMPANABLE, ak-kum'pa-na-bl, a. Social.Not used.

ACCOMPANIER, ak-kum'pa-ne-ur, s. One who makes part of the company; a companion. ACCOMPANIMENT, ak-kum'pa-ne-ment, s. That which attends a person or thing by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry; the instrumental or the subordinate part of a concert. Accompaniments, in Painting, are objects und der ornament to the chief figures. In Heraldry, things added by way of ornament to the shield. It is also used for several bearings about a principal one, as a saltier, bead, &c. ACCOMPANEST, ak-kum'pa-nist, s. One who takes the accompanying or instrumental part in performing a piece of music. ACCOMPANY, ak-kum'pa-ne, v. a. (accompagner, Fr.) To go with or attend another person as a companion;-v. n. to associate with; to cohabit. In Music, to perform the accompanying parts.

ACCOMPLICE, ak-kom'plis, 8. (complice, Fr.) An associate; a partner in crime. By the law of Scotland, accomplices cannot be prosecuted till the principal offenders are convicted.

ACCOMPLISH, ak-kom'plish, v. a. (accomplir, Fr. from compleo, Lat.) To complete; to execute fully; to fulfil as a prophecy; to gain; to obtain; to adorn or furnish either mind or body. ACCOMPLISHABLE, ak-kom ́plish-a-bl, a. Capable of accomplishment.

ACCOMPLISHED, ak-kom'plish-ed, a. Complete in some qualification; elegant; finished in respect of embellishments: used commonly with respect to acquired qualifications, without including moral excellence.

ACCOMPLISHER, ak-kom'plish-ur, s. One who accomplishes.

ACCOMPLISHMENT, ak-kom'plish-ment, s. Completion; full performance; perfection; embellishment; elegance; ornament of mind or body; the act of obtaining or perfecting anything; attainment. ACCOMPт, ak-kownt', s. (compter, Fr.) An account; a reckoning. See Account. ACCOMPTANT, ak-kown'tant, s. (French.) A computer; a reckoner.-See Accountant. ACCORD, ak-kawrd', s. (French.) Agreement; harmony of minds; concurrence of opinion; agreement in pitch and tone; harmony of sounds; concord, the word more generally used; just correspondence or harmony of things, as of light and shade in painting; will; spontaneous or voluntary

ACCORDABLE-ACCOUCHMENT.

motion, applied to the motion of either persons or things;

That which groweth of its own accord thou shalt not reap.--Lev, xxv.

adjustment of a difference; reconciliation.

If both are satisfied with this accord,

Swear by the laws of knighthood on my sword.— Dryden. In Law, an agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated;-v. a. to make to agree or correspond; to adjust one thing to another;

Her hands accorded the Inte's nusick to her voice; her panting heart danced to the music.-Sidney. to settle; to adjust or compose;

Which may better accord all difficulties.-South. to give, grant, or concede, as, he accorded his request; to agree; to be in correspondence; to harmonize in pitch and tone.

The lusty throstle, early nightingale,

Accord in ture, though vary in their tale.-Ben Jonson. ACCORDABLE, ak-kawr'da-bl, a. Agreeable; consonant.-Obsolete.

ACCORDATURA, ak-kawr-da-tй'ra, s. (Italian.) In Music, a particular mode of tuning a stringed inHarmonious in

strument.

ACCORDED, ak-kawrd'ed, part. a.
pitch and tone; adjusted.

The lights and shades, whose well accorded strife
Gives all the strength and colour of our life. --Pope.

ACCORDER, ak-kawr'dur, s. One who accords; an assistant; a helper; a favourer.-Not used. ACCORDING, ak-kawrd'ing, part. a. Agreeing; harmonizing;

The according music of a mixt state.-Pope. suitable; agreeable; in accordance with. Our zeal should be according to our knowledge.-Sprat. Agreeably; ACCORDINGLY, ak-kawr'ding-le, 8. opposite; suitably; conformably. A musical instruACCORDION, ak-kawr'de-un, s. ment with keys, inflated on the principle of a pair of bellows, and the tones of which are generated by the play of wind on small metallic reeds. ACCORPORATE, ak-kawr'po-rate, v. a. (ad, and corpus, a body, Lat.) To unite.-Obsolete. ACCOST, ak-kost', v. a. (accoster, Fr.) To speak first to; to address;-v. n. to adjoin.-Obsolete.

All the shores which to the sea accoste,

The day and night doth ward both far and wide.Spenser. ACCOSTABLE, ak-kos'ta-bl, a. Easy of access;

familiar.

ACCOSTED, ak-kos'ted, part. Addressed first;-a. In Heraldry, side by side.

ACCOUCHEUR, ak-koo-sheur, s. (French.) A manmidwife.

ACCOUCHEUSE, ak-koo-sheuz, s. (French.) A midwife.

NOTE.-eu in these words has the sound of the French u, as heard in the Scotch pronunciation of the word soot. AссоUсHMENT, ak-kootsh'ment, or, in French, akoosh-mong, s. (French.) Lying in; in childbed; the delivery of a woman in childbed.

ACCOUNT-ACCREDIT.

kusest, uk-kownt', s. (accompt, old Fr.) A computation of debts or expenses; a register of facts miting to money; the state or result of a comptation; value, importance, or estimation; profit; advantage; distinction; rank; dignity; a narrafire; a relation, an examination of an affair taken by authority; the relations and reasons of a transaction given to a person in authority; assignment d cases;- a. (acconter, old Fr. accontare, hal) to esteem; to hold in opinion; to reckon; asiga to as a debt; to make account, that is, to have a previous opinion.-Obsolete. In Law, a art of account is one which the plaintiff brings, bing that the defendant should render his first account, or show cause to the contrary. In Commerce, accounts, arithmetical computations in pral, whether of time, weight, measure, money,

Books of accounts, or merchants' accounts, the books in which the transactions of a merchant are entered in proper order To account of, to hold in esteem.

He was not accounted of in the days of Solomon.

To open an account, is to enter it for the first time ledger. To keep open account, is when merthats agree to honour each other's bills of exchange

cally;-.a. to reckon; to compute; to pre an account; to assign the cause; to make the reckoning; to answer; to appear, as the dam by which anything may be explained. ACCOUNTABLE, ak-kown'ta-bl, a. Of whom an ant may be required; answerable. ACCOUNTABLENESS, ak-kownt'a-bl-ies, s. The date of being accountable.

ACCOUNTABILITY, ak-kown-ta-bil'e-te, s. Liability ta reader an account; responsibility. ACCOUNTABLY, ak-kowut'a-ble, ad. In an account

able manner.

ACCOUNTANT, ak-kown'tant, s. A computer; a

skilled or employed in keeping accounts. Accountant-general, an officer in the court of Chanry who receives all monies lodged in court, and pays the same to the bank; also, the principal or responsible accountant in the offices of Excise and Customs, in the India House, Bank of England, &c. ACCOUNTANTSHIP, ak-kown'tant-ship, s. The office or duties of an accountant. ACCOUNTING, ak-kown'ting, s. The act of reckoning making up accounts. ACCOCFLE, ak-kup ́pl, v. a. (accoupler, Fr.) ple; to join; to link together. ACCOUPLEMENT, ak-kup'pl-ment, s. (old French.) The act of coupling or joining together. ACCOURAGE, ak-kurʼaje, v. a. To encourage. But the same forward twain would accourage.-Spenser. ACCOUNT, ak-korte', v. a. To entertain courteously. Who all the while were at wanton rest, Amorting each his friend with lavish feast.Spenser.

To

ACCOUTEE, ak-koo'tur, v. a. (accoutre, Fr.) To dress; to equip.

ACCOUTREMENTS, ak-koo'tur-ments, s. (French.) Dress; equipage; furniture; trappings; ornaments; equipment of a soldier.

Accor, ak-koy, v. a. (accoisir, old Fr.) To render quiet or diffident; to soothe; to caress.-Obsolete. Then is your careless tongue accoyed.-Spenser. ACCREDIT, ak-kredīt, v, a. (accredo, Lat. accrediter, Fr.) To countenance; to procure honour or credit to any person or thing.

ACCREDITATION-ACCURACY.

ACCREDITATION, ak-kred-e-ta'shun, s. That which gives a title to credit. ACCREDITED, ak-kredit-ed, a. Of allowed reputation; confidential. ACCRESCENT, ak-kres'sent, a. (accresco, Lat.) Increasing; growing up. ACCRESCIMENTO, ak-kres-se-men'to, s. (Italian, from accrescere, to increase.) In Music, the increase by one half of its original duration which a note gains by having a dot appended to the right of it.

ACCRETION, ak-kre ́shun, s. (accretio, Lat.) An increase or growth by the addition of new parts, not by alimentary supply; an addition of matter to any body externally; the growing together of parts naturally separate, as the fingers and toes. In Civil Law, the adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another, as when a legacy is left to two persons, and one of them dies before the testator, the legacy devolves by right of accretion.

ACCRETIVE, ak-kre'tiv, a. Increasing in size by external augmentation. ACCROACH, ak-kro'tsh, v. a. (accrocher, Fr.) To draw to one as with a hook; to draw away that which is another's by degrees; to encroach.-Obsolete.

Fire, when to towe it approcheth,

To him anon the strength accrocheth.-Gower. ACCROACHMENT, ak-kro'tsh-ment, s. The act of accroaching. ACCRUE, ak-kroo', v. n. (accroitre, accru, Fr.) To be added to; to append to, or arise from; to be produced or arise, as profits in business. ACCRUMENT, ak-kroo'ment, s. Addition; increase. ACCUBATION, ak-ku-ba'shun, s. (accubo, to lie down, Lat.) The ancient posture of leaning at meals. ACCUMB, ak-kumb', v. n. (accumbo, Lat.) To lie at the table according to the ancient manner. ACCUMBENCY, ak-kum'ben-se, s. The act of leaning. ACCUMBENT, ak-kum'bent, a. (uccumbo, Lat.) Leaning or reclining as the ancients at table. In Botany, when one part of an organ is applied to another by its edge, it is said to be accumbent in contradistinction to incumbent ;-s. one who is placed at a dinner table, but without reference to the ancient mode of reclining at meals.-Not used

as a noun.

What a penance must be done by every accumbant in sitting out the passage through all these dishes.-Bp. Hall,

ACCUMULATE, ak-kuʼmu-late, v. a. (accumulo, Lat.) To heap up one thing upon another; to pile up; to heap together; to amass; to collect or bring together, as, to accumulate wealth;-v. n. to increase in size, number, or quantity; to increase greatly;-a, collected into a mass or heap. ACCUMULATION, ak-ku-mu-la'shun, s. The act of accumulating; the state of being accumulated. ACCUMULATIVE, ak-ku'mu-lay-tiv, a. That accumulates; that is accumulated; heaping up. ACCUMULATIVELY, ak-ku'mu-lay-tiv-le, ad, In an accumulating manner; in heaps. ACCUMULATOR, ak-ku'mu-lay-tur, s. One who accumulates; a gatherer or heaper together, ACCURACY, ak'ku-ra-se, s. (accuratio, ad and curare, to take care, Lat.) Exactness; nicety; exact conformity to truth or to rule; correctness; closeness; tightness,

ACCURATE-ACELDAMA.

ACCURATE, ak'ku-rate, a. Exact; not careless; without failure or defect; determinate; precisely fixed; close; perfectly tight.

ACCURATELY, ak ku-rate-le, ad. Exactly; without error; nicely; closely.

ACCURATENESS, ak'ku-rate-nes, 8. Exactness; nicety; accuracy; precision.

ACCURSE, ak-kurs', v. a. (see Curse.) To doom to misery or destruction; to evoke misery upon any

one.

ACCURSED, ak-kur'sed, part. a. Cursed or doomed to misery-(seldom used);

When Hildebrand accursed and cast down from his throne Henry IV., there were none so hardy as defend their lord.-Sir W. Raleigh.

that deserves the curse; execrable; hateful; de

testable; wicked; malicious. With divines, lying

under the sentence of excommunication. ACCUSABLE, ak-ku'za-bl, a. That may be censured; blamable; culpable.

ACCUSANT, ak-ku'zant, s. One who accuses. ACCUSATION, ak-ku-za'shun, s. (accusatio, Lat.) The act of accusing; the charge brought against any one by the accuser; the declaration containing the charge.

They set over his head his accusation.-Matt. xxvii, In Law, a declaration of some crime preferred before a competent judge, in order to have punishment inflicted on the guilty person. ACCUSATIVE, ak-kuʼza-tiv, a. (accusativus, Lat.) Censuring; accusing. 8. In Grammar, the case of the noun, on which the action implied in the verb terminates. In English Grammar it is called the objective case.

ACCUSATIVELY, ak-ku'za- tiv-le, ad. In an accusative manner. In Grammar, relating to the accusative case.

ACCUSATORY, ak-kuʼza-tur-e, a. (accusatorius, Lat.) Accusing; containing or producing an accusation. ACCUSE, ak-kuze', v. a. (accuso, Lat.) To charge with a crime; to impeach; to blame or censure; followed by of.

ACCUSER, ak-ku'zur, s. One who brings a charge against another.

ACCUSTOM, ak-kus'tum, v. a. (accoutumer, Fr.) To habituate; to form a habit by practice; to inure; -v. n. to be wont to do anything; to cohabit.Obsolete.

We with the best men accustom openly.-Milton. -8. custom.-Obsolete.

Justinian or Trebonian defines matrimony, a conjunction of man and woman containing individual accustom of life.'-Milton.

ACCUSTOMABLE, ak-kus'tum-ma-bl, a. Of long custom or habit; habitual; customary. ACCUSTOMABLY, ak-kus'tum-ma-ble, ad. According to custom; habitually.

ACCUSTOMANCE, ak-kus-tum'ans, s. Custom; use; habit. Obsolete.

ACCUSTOMARILY, ak-kus'tum-ma-re-le, ad. In a customary manner.-Seldom used.

ACEPHALA-ACERINEE.

bribe which Judas took for betraying his master and therefore called the field of blood.

No mystery but that of love divine,
Which lifts ns on the seraph's flaming wing,
From earth's acldome, this field of blood,

Of inward anguish, and of outward woe.-Young. ACEPHALA, a-sef a-la, s. (a, privative, and kephale the head, Gr.) Headless animals. An order of Mollusca, comprehending all the inhabitants of bivalve shells, and some of the multi-valves, as well as others which have no shells. They form two sections-the A. Testacea, those which have shells, and the A. Nuda, or naked, which have no shells. Also an order of insects. ACEPHALISM, a-sef a-lizm, s. foetus without a head.

ACEPHALI, a-şef'a-li, s.

The condition of a

a

In English History, name given in the reign of Henry I. to a sect of levellers, because they were not believed to possess even a teuement to entitle them to have the right of acknowledging a superior lord. In our ancient law books, the term is used for persons who held nothing in fee. In Ecclesiastical History, the name appears to have been first applied to the persons who refused to follow either John of Antioch or St. Cyril, in a dispute which happened in the council of Ephesus, in 431. The name was also given to those bishops who were exempted from the jurisdiction and discipline of their patriarch. They were generally Eutychians, or persons who believed that Christ had only one nature.

ACEPHALOBRACHI, a-sef'a-lo-brak, 8. (a, kephale, and brachion, an arm, Gr.) A fœtus without head and arms. ACEPHALOCHIRUS, a-sef-a-lo-ki'rus, s. (a, kephale, and cheir, the hand, Gr.) A foetus without head and hands. ACEPHALOCYSTIS,) a-sef'a-lo-sist, 8. (a, privative, ACEPHALOCYSTS, S kephale, a head, and kystis, a bladder, Gr.) A genus of Entozoa, or intestinal animal, consisting of a simple bladder, without heads, or other visible organs; formerly included, with certain others, under the name Hyatides, in the genus Tania of Linnæus. The condition of animal life in the Acephalocysts are so obscure that many naturalists have regarded it only as a particular mode of organic alteration, and, consesequently, destitute of animal vitality. ACEPHALOUS, a sefa-lus, a. Without a head. ACER, a'ser, s. (Latin, sharp, from the wood having been formerly manufactured into heads of pikes and other weapons) The Maple, a genus of plants. The A. Pseudo-platanus, the Plane-tree of Scotland, and called Sycamore in England, is the only British species. A. saccharinum, a native of North America, yields sugar from its sap, of which an ordinary tree, in a good season, gives from 20 to 30 gallons, affording 5 or 6 lbs. of granulated sugar: Type of the order Acera. ACERACEA, as-er-a'se-e, s. (acer, one of the genera.) A natural order of monopetalous Exogens, allied to the Tiliaceæ or Lindens; the flowers are unsymmetrical, stamens hypogynous, and inserted upon a disk; fruit winged; pistils two-lobed and winged behind; style one; stigmas two; the species are all trees or shrubs, with opposite stalked exstipulate leaves. The sap of most of the species yields a saccharine substance, of which sugar is manufactured in North America.

ACERANS-ACETIC ACID.

ACHHANS, a ́ser-495s,) & (a, privative, and keras, a 6.771, 197-2 horn, Gr.) A family of inwith which have neither wings nor antennæ. ATRAS, s ́se-ras, a. (a, privative, and keras, a horn r.) A genus of plants: Order, Orchidacea. AZRATE, 'er-ate, &. A salt, with the basis of

found in the sap of the Acer campestre, or move maple.

ACKEL, 2-serb', & (acerbus, sour, Lat.) Having a hand taste like that of the sloe or unripe

AIZBATE, s-serbate, r. a. To make sour.
ACTRETT, a-serbe-te, s. (acerbitas, Lat.) A rough
www taste; sharpness of temper; severity.
Accur, a-serik, a. Pertaining to the maple.
Are acid, an acid which exists in the juice of
the maple tree, Acer campestre, in the shape of an
merate of Eme

ACTRINA, a-se-ri'na, s. (acer, sharp, Lat.) A genus
of Sabes: Family, Percida.
ACEROSE, as'e-rose, a. (acerosus, Lat.) Mixed
ACEROCE, as ́e-rus, with chaff; chaffy; resem-
Live chaff. In Botany, applied to leaves which

ar and permanent in the form of a needle, in the pine and juniper, or yew;—from acer,

ACERVAL, 2-ST'val, a. Occuring in heaps. ACTIVATE, 2-servate, v. a. (acervo, Lat.) To heap wyrther.

Full of heaps.

AERVATION, 2-ser-va'shun, s. The act of heap-
ing together.
ACERVOSE, 2-ser'vose, a.
ACESCENCE, 3-ses'sens,
ACESCENCT, 2-ses'sen-se,
ACESCENT, a-ses'sent, a.

&. (acesco, Lat.) Sourness; acidity. Having a tendency to ress; turning sour or tart;-8. an article of or medicine which readily becomes acid. ACESTIS, a-ses'tis, &. (akestes, a healer, Gr.) A fcations sort of chrysacollo made of Cyprian verépris, urine, and nitre.

ACETABULUM, a-se-tab ́u-lum, s. (Latin word for a vegar cruet.) A measure containing two ounces and a half; a hemispherical hollow body or cup. In Anatomy, the cup-like cavity which receives the bead of the femur or thigh-bone. In Botany, Haavel-wort, a species of Tubularia, a powerful diuretic

ACETABULIFORM, a-set-tab'u-le-fawrm, a. Cup

ACETARIOUS, a-se-ta're-us, a. Pertaining to an wid, as, aceturious plants, those used in making mads, such as lettuce, mustard, cress, &c. ACETARY, as ́e-ta-re, s. An acid pulpy substance in certain fruits, as the pear, inclosed in a congeries of small calculous bodies towards the base of the fruit.

ACETAS, a-se'tas, s. In Pharmacy, an acetate, a salt formed by the union of acetic acid with an alkaline or metallic base. The following are used in medicine:—A. Ammonia, acetate of ammonia; A. Cupri, acetate of copper; A. Morphii, acetate of morphia; A. Baryte, acetate of barytes; A. Soda, acetate of soda; A. Ferri, acetate of in; A. Hydrargyri, acetate of mercury; A. Farabi, acetate of lead; A. Potassæ, acetate of potash.

ACETATE, as'se-tate, s.-See Acetas. ACETATED, as'e-tay-ted, a. Combined with acetic acid.

ALLIC ACID, a-set'ik as'sid, s. Concentrated vine

ACETIFICATION—ACHERUSIAN.

gar, obtained from wood by distillation, or from the acetates, by decomposition with sulphuric acid. ACETIFICATION, a-set-e-fe-ka'shun, s. The act of making acid or sour; the operation of making vinegar.

ACETIFY, a-set'e-fi, v. a. To convert into acid or vinegar.

ACETITE, as'e-tite, s. A salt supposed to be formed with an acid, containing the same proportions of carbon and hydrogen as the acetic acid, but with less oxygen. As, however, there is no such acid, the term acetite is not now used. ACETOMETER, a-se-tom ́e-tur, s. (acetum, vinegar, Lat. and metron, a measure, Gr.) An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. ACETOSE, a-se-tose', a. (aceteux, Fr.) Having a sharp sour taste.

ACETOSELLA, a-se-to-sella, s. The Wood-sorrel, a species of Oxalis: Order, Oxalidæ. ACETOSITY, a-se-tos'e-te, s. Sourness; acidity. ACETOUS, a-se'tus, a. (acetum, Lat.) Having the quality of vinegar; sour.

ACETUM, a-se'tum, s. (Latin.) Vinegar. ACHEAN, a-ke'an, a. Pertaining to Achaia, a province in Greece. ACHENIUM, or ACHENIUM, a-ke'ne-am, s. (a, priv. and chaino, I gape, Gr.) A small bony fruit, consisting of a single seed, which neither adheres to the pericarp, nor opens when ripe. ACHEUS, a-ke'us, s. A genus of Decapod crustaceans: Family, Brachyura.

ACHANIA, a-ka'ne-a, s. (from akanes, closed, Gr. because the corolla does not open out as in most malvaceous plants, but remains always rolled up.) A genus of plants: Order, Malvaceæ. ACHATINA, a-ka-ti'na, s. (achates, the agate, Gr. and Lat.) A genus of terrestrial snails, the inhabitants of oval, oblong, ventricose shells, striated longitudinally; outer lip always thin; base of the pillar truncated or sinuated before it joins the outer lip: Family, Helicidæ.

ACHATINE, a-ka-ti'ne, s. A subfamily of the Helicidæ, in which the shell is spiral; aperture oblong or oval, always equal, and generally shorter than the spire.

ACHATINELLA, a-ka-te-nel'la, s. A small subgenus of the Agate shells; sub-trochiform; spire obtuse; outer lip with a thickened internal margin: Family, Helicidæ.

ACHATMA, a-kat'ma, s. (achates, the agate, Gr.) A name applied by some naturalists to the Agate snails, inhabitants of the shells so called.-See Achatina.

ACHE, ake, s. (ace, Sax. aches, Gr.) A continued pain;-v. n. to be in pain; to suffer grief; to be distressed.

ACHERNER, a-ker'nur, s. A star of the first magnitude, in the southern extremity of the constellation Eridanus.

ACHERON, ak ́er-un, 8. (achos, grief, Gr.) A river in Greece, fabled by the poets as that of hell. ACHERONTIA, ak-er-on'she-a, s. (from Acheron.) A genus of Lepidopterous insects: Family, Crepuscularia.

ACHERSET, ak ́er-set, s. An ancient measure of corn, supposed to have been about 8 bushels. ACHERUSIA, a-ker-oo'zhe-a, s. A river, fabled as the entrance to the infernal regions. ACHERUSIAN, a-ker-oo'shan, a. Pertaining to Acherusia, a lake in Campania in Italy.

ACHIAS-ACHYRANTHES.

ACHIAS, a'ke-as, s. A genus of Dipterous insects: Family, Muscidæ.

ACHIEVABLE, a-tsheve'a-bl, a. Possible to be done. ACHIEVABLENESS, u-tsheve'a-bl-nes, s. The state of being able to be performed. ACHIEVANCE, a-tshe'vans, s. Performance. ACHIEVE, a-tsheve', v. a. (acherer, Fr.) To perform; to finish; to accomplish. ACHIEVEMENT, a-tsheve'ment, s. (achevement, Fr.) The performance of an action; a great or heroic action. In Heraldry, the escutcheon, or ensigns armorial, granted to a person for the performance of great actions: the term is now generally applied to the armorial ensigns of deceased persons.Sometimes pronounced hatsh'ment. ACHIEVER, a-tshe'vur, s. One who performs what he endeavours or purposes. ACHILLEA, a-kil-le'a, s. A genus of Composite plants, so named from one of its species, millfoil, having been used by Achilles in curing Telephus; also, a genus of flat cartilaginous fishes. ACHILLES TENDON, a-killes ten'dun, s. The strong tendon of the gastro-enemius and soleus muscles, inserted into the heel.

ACHING, ake'ing, s. Pain; uneasiness; distress. 1 ACHIOTE.-See Anotta.

ACHIRITE, ak'e-rite, s. Green Malachite, a species of copper ore.

ACHIRUS, a-ki'rus, s. A genus of flat fishes: Family, Pleuronectidæ. ACHLAMYDEE, ak-la-mid ́e-e, s. (a, without, and chlamys, a tunic, Gr.) A term applied to those plants which have neither calyx nor corolla. ACHLAMYDEOUS, ak-la-mid ́e-us, a. Pertaining to the Achlamyder, or plants having naked flowers, that is, inflorescence without calyx or corolla. ACHLYS, ak ́lis, 8. (Greek; gloom, mist.) In My thology, personified as the goddess of obscurity. In Botany, a genus of plants: Order, Podophyllaceæ. ACHMITE, ak mite, s. A mineral of a brownishblack, or reddish-brown colour, supposed to be a bisilicate of soda combined with a bisilicate of iron. ACHNANTHES, ak-nan' this, s. (achne, froth, and anthos, a flower, Gr. from the fine down on the plants.) A genus of the Algae, or Sea-weeds. ACHNODONTON, ak-no-don ́ton, s. (uchne, chaff, and odous, odontos, tooth, Gr.) A genus of plants: Order, Graminacex.

ACHYRONIA-ACINACIFORM.

undershrubs, with chaff-like envelopes: Order, Amarantacer.

ACHYRONIA, ak-e-ro ́ne-a, s. (achyron, chaff, Gr.) An Australian genus of Leguminous plants: Suborder, Papilionaceæ.

ACHYROPHORUS, a-ke-rof'o-rus, s. (achyron, chaff, and phorco, I bear, Gr.) A genus of Composite herbaceous plants, with chaffy receptacles: Suborder, Tubuliflora.

ACIANTHUS, as-se-an'thus, s. (akis, a point, and anthos, a flower, Gr.) A genus of tuberous-rooted plants, with bristly-pointed flowers: Order, Caly

ceraceæ.

ACICARPHA, as-se-kăr'fa, s. (akis, a point, and karphos, a palea, Gr. because that appendage is spiny.) A genus of plants: Order, Calyceraceæ. ACICULE, a-siku-le, s. (acicula, Lat.) The spikes or prickles on certain plants and animals, as in the Cacta and Echini.

ACICULAR, a-sik ́u-lar, a. (acicularis, from acicula, a little needle, Lat.) Needle-shaped. ACICULARLY, a-sik'u-lar-le, ad. In an acicular

manner.

ACICULATE, a-sik'u- late, a. (aciculatus, from acicula, Lat.) In the form of a needle. ACICULIFORM, a-sik'u-le-fawrm, a. (aciculiformis, from acicula, and forma, a shape, Lat.) Having the appearance or form of needles. ACICULINE, a-sik ́u-line, a. (aciculinus, from acicula, Lat.) Shaped like a needle.

ACID, as'sid, a. (acidus, Lat.) Sour;-s. a compound substance, possessing, in general, a sour taste, and having the property of converting vegetable blues to red. An acid is generally a compound of oxygen and another substance, simple or compound.

Capable of being

ACIDIFEROUS, a-se-dif'er-us, a. (acidum, an acid, and fero, I bear or contain, Lat.) Containing an acid or acids. ACIDIFIABLE, a-sid'e-fe-a-bl, a. converted into an acid. ACIDIFICATION, a-sid-e-fe-ka'shun, s. The state or act of being converted into an acid. ACIDIFIER, a-sid'e-fi-ur, s. That which converts into an acid.

ACIDIFY, a-sid ́e-fi, r. a. To convert into an acid. ACIDIMETER, as-e-dim ́e-tur, s. (acidum, an acid, Lat. metron, a measure, Gr.) An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

of the strength of acids.

ACIDITY, as-sid'e-te, s. The quality of being acid;

ACHIRAS, akras, s. (Greek name of the wild pear.) A genus of plants: Order, Sapotaceæ. ACHROMATIC, ak-ro-mat ́ik, a. (a, priv. and chroma, colour, Gr.) Applied to glasses, which are contrived so as to correct the aberrations of light and colour in telescopes. ACHROMATISM, a-krom'a-tizm, s. The deACHROMATICITY, a-kro-ma-tis'e-te,struction of the primary colours which invest an object when viewed through a prism.

ACHYLA, a-kila, 8. A genus of Alga: Order,

Confervaceæ.

ACHYRANTHES, ak-e-ran'this, s. (achyron, chaff, and anthos, a flower, Gr.) A genus of evergreen

sourness.

ACIDNESS, asʼsid-nes, 8. Sourness; acidity. ACIDOTON, as-e-do'ton, s. (akidotos, pointed, Gr.) A genus of stinging plants: Order, Euphorbiaceæ. ACIDULE, a-sid'u-le, s. pl. Medicinal springs charged with acids. ACIDULE, a-sid ́u-le, 28. In Chemistry, a salt ACIDULUM, a-sid'u-lum, ) in which the acid is in excess, as Tartaric ascidulum, Oxalic acidulum. ACIDULATE, a-sid ́u-late, v. a. (aciduler, Fr.) To convert into an acid; to make sour to a moderate degree. ACIDULOUS, a-sid'u-lus, a. Slightly sour; subacid. ACIFORM, a ́se-fawrm, a. (aciformis, from acus, a needle, and forma, a shape, Lat.) Needle-shaped. ACINACEOUS, ay-se-na'shus, a. (acinaceous, Lat.) Full of kernels.

ACINACIFORM, as-e-nas'e-fawrm, a. Sabre-shaped.