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A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.…

orbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in…

d to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.

In a buzz; buzzing. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A member of an academy, university, or college.

A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

A collegian. [R.] Chesterfield.

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. Dunglison.

.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony. -- Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. -- Ac…

The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. [R.] Coleridge.

To gather together; to collect. [Obs.] Spenser.

Strictly accordant with true morality. Darwin. And now his voice accordant to the string. Coldsmith.

escence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ly, adv. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ness, n.

One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.