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to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.

e, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. "All access was thronged." Milton.

acon. Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together. Holland.

lished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished bees. Holland. Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve. Milton.

ide to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

hancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Goldsmith.

A canal or trench for irrigating land. [Sp. Amer.]

An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. [Obs.] Holland.

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. [Obs.] Holland.

A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.

Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. Kirwan.

One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. Quain.

cate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.

A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.

is' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak.

Any field of arable or pasture land. [Obs.]

Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men.