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To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser.

Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak.

To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law)

Charged with offense; as, an accused person.

Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

d. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

Provisions. Same as Cates. [Obs.] Spenser.

An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. Cussans.

Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. Achromatic lens (Opt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced…

The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. Nichol.

An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite.

Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidæ), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniæ when irritated.

An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. Itard.

Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. Acoustic duct, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient the…

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

A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier.

manners. John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. South.

highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

n, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. Watts.