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To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power. Stubbs.

An encroachment; usurpation. [Obs.] Bailey.

th or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

To recline, as at table. [Obs.] Bailey.

a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. [They] set up over his head his accusation. Matt. xxvii. 37.

lic process; - - with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

Usual; customary. [Archaic] Featley.

are . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

sca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

Sourness and harshness. [Obs.] Bailey.

Full of heaps. [R.] Bailey.

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. [Obs.] Holland.

Purveyor; acater. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. Lindley.

heir sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue 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…

or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter. They his gifts acknowledged none. Milton.

ficer. 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 lords. Cowell.

e who attends; an assistant. "With such chiefs, and with James and John as acolytes." Motley.