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dinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.

A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

In concern with; engaged in; intent on. I must be about my Father's business. Luke ii. 49.

es the time pass quickly. [Obs.] What abridgment have you for this evening What mask What music Shak.

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.),

of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

ce note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

al; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony. -- Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sen…

o the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. Busby.

fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise. This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. Luke xxii. 37.

it one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to. [R.] Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice. Sidney.

To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

a friend with the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak.

going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.

A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.

Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.…