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In an accountable manner.

The art or employment of an accountant.

One who renders account; one accountable.

The office or employment of an accountant.

The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.

An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. [Obs.] Holland.

Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

urnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.

Used in salads; as, acetarious plants.

An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear. Grew.

A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

Combined with acetic acid.

A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria.