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Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. "Acadian farmers." Longfellow. -- n.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. -- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad, n. Sayce.

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

A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

Meaning; acceptation. [Obs.] Acceptance of persons, partiality, favoritism. See under Accept.

cceptance. [R.] Here's a proof of gift, But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy. Mrs. Browning.

The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation. Gay.

Acceptation; the received meaning. [Obs.] Here the word "baron" is not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it. Fuller. Acception of persons or faces (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. [Obs.] Wyclif.

st many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell.

Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

A combining together. [R.]

but for the purpose of raising money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.…