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One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

g else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." Carlyle.

with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

it. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

ng the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

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.

t, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3.

ght or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.

bleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

eals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist. J. Grote.

Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.

One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

ce; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.

e nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

To sentence; to condemn. Without reprieve, adjudged to death For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. Milton.

n before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho. Josh. vi. 26. The high priest . . . said . . . I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ. Matt. xxvi. 63. The commissioners adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties. Marshall…

The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.