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The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin.

, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.

originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

ffect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise. This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. Luke xxii. 37.

ntire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.

To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. "According his desire." Spenser.

Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak.

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…

The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

to 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.

The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. Jer. Taylor.

The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the ru…

; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. Reid. The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides. Lardner.

Producing accusations; accusatory. "This hath been a very accusative age." Sir E. Dering.

to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; - - with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

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

Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.

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