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ment, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.

Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. Accounting that God was able to raise him up. Heb. xi. 19.

The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.

Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. Glanvill.

ning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. The Roman.. accumbent posture in eating. Arbuthnot.

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

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

A canal or trench for irrigating land. [Sp. Amer.]

One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.

An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.

A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.

Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Shak.

ers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it. I. Taylor.

Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered. He was stern and his face as acid as ever. A. Trollope.