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The office or employment of an accountant.

An acquaintance. [R.] Swift.

A helper; an assistant.

Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray.

One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity. Lamb.

A flying buttress. Gwilt.

Facing each other.

ending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

In a manner to give aid. [R.]

; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

In a blatant manner.

Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases.

Composed in a melodious and singing style.

Standing or placed around; surrounding. [R.] "Circumstant bodies." Sir K. Digby.

Capable of being circumstantiated. [Obs.] Jer Taylor.

to, circumstances or particular incidents. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. Paley.

The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.

es; not essentially; accidentally. Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different. Glanvill.

s; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts. [R.] If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly. Bramhall.

An assistant. R. North.