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taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

om 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, with precision and accuracy. Reid. The ac…

racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. Quain.

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

The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. "Rules for the acquirement of a taste." Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.

oration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

o specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.

ffixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

(Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.

hield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

A colorless liquid, C4H8O2, obtained by condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde: CH3CHO + CH3CHO = H3CH(OH)CH2CO; also, any of various derivatives of this. The same reaction has been applied, under the name of aldol condensation, to the production of many compounds.

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.

A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

um and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.