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onding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. Strictly accordant with true morality. Darwin. And now his voice accordant to the string. Coldsmith.

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

Growing; increasing. Shuckford.

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. Dana.

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

Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Shak.

To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. Some are born great, some achieve greatness. Shak. Thou hast achieved our liberty. Milton.

One who achieves; a winner.

the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally. Winter aconite, a plant (Eranthis hyemalis) allied to the aconites.

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

eman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

o action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.…

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

A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.