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The science of ideas. Stewart.

nth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. The ides of March remember. Shak.

-- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

One who abides, or continues. [Obs.] "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney.

The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.

ence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by flood and field. Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. Trench.

; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

Accidental character or effect. Ruskin.

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

In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

The quality of being accidental; casualness.

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

A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.

A mass of meteoric iron.

One who, or that which, aids.

A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas.

A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.

An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.