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The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. Jer. Taylor.

to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; - - with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. Johnson.

The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.

Savage fierceness; ferocity.

The act or process of achromatizing.

The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

A small species of agouti (Dasyprocta acouchy).

The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay.

Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). "In act to shoot." Dryden. This woman was taken . . . in the very act. John viii. 4. Act of attainder. (Law) See Attainder. -- Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith.…

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.…

In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.

An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs.

ow a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.

l zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

urface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.