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. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

ivision of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

al entozoön in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of diff…

Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.

Sour or severe.

Sourness and harshness. [Obs.] Bailey.

Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

Without antennæ, as some insects.

The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. Johnson.

Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday.

A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.

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

r derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.

The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.

Sour like vinegar; acetous.

The quality of being acetous; sourness.