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To grow together.

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. Arbuthnot.

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.

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.

Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain. Barrow.

Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

Capable of being achieved. Barrow.

the ancient saints . . . do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. Barrow. The highest achievements of the human intellect. Macaulay.

convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed. -- Achromatic prism. See Prism. -- Achromatic…

Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidæ), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniæ when irritated.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

an can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3.

dge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

Acquirement. [Obs.] Barrow.

Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant.

s.] The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.

of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.

Aculeate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. Lindley.