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To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. Dunglison.

A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

Not producing fruit; unfruitful.

ncient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede. [Obs.] T. Gale.

To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

e earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration. I. Taylor. (Astr. & Physics.) Acceleration of the moon, the increase of the moon's mean motion in its orbit, in consequence of which it…

A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a 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.

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

To receive with favor; to approve. The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice. Ps. xx. 3. Peradventure he will accept of me. Gen. xxxii. 20.

The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar. Isa. lx. 7.

Acceptance. [R.] Here's a proof of gift, But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy. Mrs. Browning.

ccording to its usual acceptation. My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation. Gay.

ession of wealth or territory. The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. Gibbon.

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

a play. Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to 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…