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Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

o principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

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. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, wi…

To turn acid. Encyc. Dom. Econ.

Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

t; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

To assign; to appoint. [R.] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray.

To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [Amer.] Bartlett.

ection and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. [Archaic] He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day afte…

Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use. "After- wit comes too late when the mischief is done." L'Estrange.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

se of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room. It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired. Bacon. Were you but riding forth to air yourself. Shak.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.

Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.

or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure.

A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. G. H. Williams.

issible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.