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To exceed in buffoonery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Around; all round; on every side of. "Look about you." Shak. "Bind them about thy neck." Prov. iii. 3.

The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.

ss, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

pment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

An adulterer. [Obs.]

An adulteress. [Obs.] Bacon.

Adultery. [Obs.] Bacon.

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

The angler.

A flying buttress. Gwilt.

An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

See Advoutrer. [Obs.]

Adultery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyræna, sometimes used as food.

The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools. Swift.

Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun. Byron.

Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.

An interior acrow's-foot in the United States.