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One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.

To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.] Gray.

Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden.

To render unaccustomed.

To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar. We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge. Milton.

ermination or disruption of the union of the States forming the United States. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion. D. Webster.

To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. "Disuse me from . . . pain." Donne.

To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. [R.] Bp. Hall.

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

An earring. [Obs.] The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24 (Douay version).

s or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. Political economy. See under Political.

To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock.

To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.

To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom. "Fleshed in triumphs." Glanvill. Old soldiers Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France. Beau. & Fl.

f the parties flinched from the combat. A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining. Locke.

Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- For*bear"ing*ly, adv.

Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon. -- Free"-spo`ken-ness, n.

Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.

A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak.