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reement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation." Macaulay.

A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon. Give an account of thy stewardship. Luke xvi. 2.

e cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. Johnson.

Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.

Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation. Acetous acid, a name formerly given to vinegar.

Savage fierceness; ferocity.

To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed. "My old bones ache." Shak. The sins that in your conscience ache. Keble.

A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.

ns 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 by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed. --…

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. Macaulay.

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

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. De Quincey.

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

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.