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Tailless.

hich their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. -- Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee…

A receiver. [R.] Bailey

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

es possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

An encroachment; usurpation. [Obs.] Bailey.

To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser.

To recline, as at table. [Obs.] Bailey.

ity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

Sourness and harshness. [Obs.] Bailey.

Full of heaps. [R.] Bailey.

A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.

c point of a starch solution acted upon by an amylolytic enzyme is the point at which it fails to give any color with iodine.

A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. [Spelled also hacqueton.] [Obs.] Halliwell. Sir W. Scott.

"Original sin;" human frailty. And whipped the offending Adam out of him. Shak. Adam's ale, water. [Coll.] -- Adam's apple.

icer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier g…

To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

tor has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.

for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.