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d to give greater completeness to 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.

cing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.

To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to. [R.] Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice. Sidney.

To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.

account with, in a relation requiring an account to be kept. -- On account of, for the sake of; by reason of; because of. -- On one's own account, for one's own interest or behalf. -- To make account, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. [Obs.] s other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments…

To make adhere; to add. Earle.

gatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. Wharton. Kent.

The state of being accurate; freedom from 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, wi…

To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

ee; a particle; an atom; a jot. I 'll not wag an ace further. Dryden. To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. [Obs.] -- Within an ace of, very near; on the point of. W. Irving.

mall, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

nfernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

ith a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids.

To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar.

To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat. Arbuthnot.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.