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To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law)

To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.

Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. I 'll not wag an ace further. Dryden. To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. [Obs.] -- Within an ace of, very near; on the point of. W. Irving.

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.…

Belonging to the Acephala.

A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.

A larval 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 o…

Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.

Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.

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

To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid. Ure.

Pertaining to a heap. [Obs.]

To heap up. [Obs.]

Heaped up; tending to heap up.

A substance liable to become sour.

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

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