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An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Shak.

y sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. E. Burke. Acidulous mineral waters, such as contain carbonic anhydride.

edgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.

One who attends; an assistant. "With such chiefs, and with James and John as acolytes." Motley.

scharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special officers. Shak.

- Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-Fé. -- Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which ordinary prudence could not guard. -- Act of grace, an expression often used to designate an act declaring par…

t an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.

To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.

class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

To try the chance; to take the risk. I would adventure for such merchandise. Shak.

The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

Trust; reliance; faith; confidence. Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

imes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

itive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted.

Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak.

(Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

The price paid for such feeding.

A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.

magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.