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Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

A dependent; an accessory. Fuller.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

An accessory process in many lumbar vertebræ.

To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter. A further purpose appended to the primary one. I. Taylor.

A access, or opportunity of drawing near. The approach to kings and principal persons. Bacon.

Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.

The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common t…

Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. Common appurtenatn. (Law) See under Common, n.

The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

An access of disease; a fit of sickness.

Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.

or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

Open for; free of access to; in the power of. The world was all before them where to choose. Milton. Before the mast (Naut.), as a common sailor, -- because the sailors live in the forecastle, forward of the foremast. -- Before the wind (Naut.), in the direction of the wind and by its impulse; having the wind aft.…

To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to. There is nothing will bring you more honor . . . than to do what right in justice you may. Bacon.

endage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.

sel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

taining the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points. Central force (Math.), a force acting upon a body towards or away from a fixed or movable center. -- Center sun (Astron.), a name given to a hypothetical body about which Mädler supposed the solar…