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running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.

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. Specifically: (Mus.)

To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.

To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.

The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. Glanvill.

To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ly, adv. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ness, n.

acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. "Rules for the acquirement of a taste." Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.

with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.

` phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

Takes away. [Obs.] Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimn.

To add or annex; to join. Leland.

The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [R.] B. Jonson.

Added; additional. Parkhurst.

Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence.

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. Learning is but an adjunct to our self. Shak.

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.