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A spine or prickly fin.

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.

Spiny-winged.

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

f 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.

An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.

Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.

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.

A cooperator. [R.] Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices! Shak.

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

On one's own account, for one's own interest or behalf. -- To make account, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. [Obs.] s other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. Milton. -- To make account of, to hold in…

Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

. . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton.

Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.