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In an accessible manner.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Additional.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.

The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

y; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

One who goes before; a predecessor. The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys.

See Acescency, Acescent. [Obs.]

A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.

A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.

The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide, proposed by I. Lowthian Bell of England about 1875.

Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric ox…

A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portio…

The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.

uest, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. By mutual concession the business was adjusted. Hallam.

The beneficiary of a concession or grant.