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Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. Elmes.

Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

il along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.

To gather together; to collect. [Obs.] Spenser.

as things; as, to accord suits or controversies. When they were accorded from the fray. Spenser. All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.

To treat courteously; to court. [Obs.] Spenser.

To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [Obs.] Then is your careless courage accoyed. Spenser.

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

a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. Reid. The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides. Lardner.

To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

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

That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

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

passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. Abbott. -- Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the country), and not a matter of record.

The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.

To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken. [Obs.] "[To] acuate the blood." Harvey.

Act of sharpening. [R.]

The act of sharpening. [Obs.]