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A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]

Wrested away. [Obs.] Bailey.

ulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. Locke. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by L…

A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. Nicholson.

To unbind. [Obs.] Bailey.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

l; as, beauty is an accident. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy.

A receiver. [R.] Bailey

To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett.

To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies. When they were accorded from the fray. Spenser. All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning…

Agreement; reconcilement. [Obs.] Gower.

.] True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. B. Whichcote.

Continuous growth; an accretion. [R.] The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

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.

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

To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure. Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. Rom. ii. 15.