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diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. -- Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of t…

The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. [R.] Coleridge.

nce of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

an acidulous tincture. E. Burke. Acidulous mineral waters, such as contain carbonic anhydride.

Acquitted; set free; rid of. [Archaic] Shak.

Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. [Archaic] Harvey.

Acridity; pungency joined with heat. [Obs.]

One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge. -- a. Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.

to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

To make actual; to realize in action. [R.] Coleridge.

, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.

y persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

To write in the margin. [R.] Coleridge.

An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.

ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

nowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

of it, though not essential. [R.] Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient. Coleridge.