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ting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling. The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows. Macaulay.

To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier.

An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.

one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

r, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

An accommodation bill or note. Accommodation bill, or note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and st…

The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

ve, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will. He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest. Pope.

property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to Ant: passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.

imilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

The act or process of changing into adipocere.

To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. [R.] Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.

A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

The act of becoming aërified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aëriform state; the state of being aëriform.

To change into an aëriform state.

Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.