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A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

a play. Accidental chords (Mus.), 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 a…

To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. "According his desire." Spenser.

The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally w…

l of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lor…

Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men.

The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

ction as distinct from mere existence or state. Active capital, Active wealth, money, or property that may readily be converted into money.

Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

rom something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.