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The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration. I. Taylor.…

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. Reid.

One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.

Accelerative.

A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder- smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. Shelley.

To convert adipocere.

The act or process of changing into adipocere.

That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

pt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

lize. Aërated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

Treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases.

Same as Ethiops mineral. [Obs.]

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.