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In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

To set on fire; to kindle. [Obs.] Fotherby.

One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. [Obs.]

m without; as, an accession of wealth or territory. The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. Gibbon.

To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

plies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accomodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott.

To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish. The armorers accomplishing the knights. Shak. It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke.…

Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished bees. Holland. Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve. Milton.

The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.

table or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. "According his desire." Spenser.

To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

he fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier.

Capable of being acquired.

Acquirement. [Obs.] Barrow.

Acquired. [Obs.] Burton.

The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.

Acquired. [Obs.] He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.