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One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.

Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.),

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. Shak.

Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by fl…

o 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 from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right…

Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

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

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

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

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

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

evelopment of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

he same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

to execrate; to anathematize. And the city shall be accursed. Josh. vi. 17. Thro' you, my life will be accurst. Tennyson.

Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak.

Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. Grote.