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of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

Abashed; confounded; discomfited. [Obs.] Chaucer.

consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

Fit; adapted; suitable. [Obs.] A many man, to ben an abbot able. Chaucer.

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

l; speech. Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear. Dryden.

Fit for acceptance.

An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet.

The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. [R.] I. Watts.

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.

Suitably; fitly. [R.]

Fitness. [R.]

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.

education or training. "My new accomplishment of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.

Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. "Men of account." Pope. "To turn to account." Shak. Account current, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account. -- In account with, in a relation requiring an account to be kept. -- On account of, for t…

by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

dge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. Reid. The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides. Lardner.

To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter. They his gifts acknowledged none. Milton.