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, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.

The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. "All access was thronged." Milton.

Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by fl…

Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

l. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.

y which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.

To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to. [R.] Clarendon.

as one part of a leaf against another leaf. Gray. Accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against the caulicle. Eaton.

One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

s, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

Lacking bile.

Lacking, or deficient in, color; as, achromatous blood.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

th of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

Lack or defect of pulsation.

To end in, or come to, a sharp point. "Acuminating in a cone of prelacy." Milton.

; to fit. [Obs.] The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. Evelyn.

Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.