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To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

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.

To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [Obs.] Then is your careless courage accoyed. Spenser.

To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser.

ch as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

To sour; to imbitter. His thin existence all acidified into rage. Carlyle.

One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus).

A dragon fly.

uality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley.

Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

nt, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.

s. [Obs.] What you would work me to, I have some aim. Shak. To cry aim (Archery), to encourage. [Obs.] Shak.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

of twelve syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside. "When the rage allays." Shak.

bstance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.

lace or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. J. Philips. Different species alternating with each other. Kirwan.