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Having the fruit covered with spines.

A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

Spine-bearing. Gray.

Having spinous petioles.

A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

Acanthopterygious.

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n.

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

Accepting; receiving.

See Accountant.

Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. Strictly accordant with true morality. Darwin. And now his voice accordant to the string. Coldsmith.

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.

ce, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

The office or employment of an accountant.

An accuser. Bp. Hall.

An acquaintance. [R.] Swift.

al name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.