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Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes.

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n.

A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony. -- Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subj…

Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

d, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one. To accredit (one) with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.

A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.

The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak.

Belonging to the Acephala.

e the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude.

but whose coördinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.

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