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of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction. [Obs.] Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. Shak.

ifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.

holarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

or dignity; to attain. Edward IV., who had acceded to the throne in the year 1461. T. Warton. If Frederick had acceded to the supreme power. Morley.

manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

. If you accept them, then their worth is great. Shak. To accept of ransom for my son. Milton. She accepted of a treat. Addison.

proached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. "All access was thronged." Milton.

econdary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.

; as, are accidental to a play. Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony. -- Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result fro…

Acclamation. [Poetic] Milton.

He who, or that which, accommodates. Warburton.

To cohabit (with). [Obs.] Milton.

show themselves accomplished bees. Holland. Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve. Milton.

Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones. Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. Sir J. Davies.

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

To unite; to attach; to incorporate. [Obs.] Milton.