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The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [R.] Caldwell.

The quality or condition of being accommodable. [R.] Todd.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.

The state of being an accomplice. [R.] Sir H. Taylor.

The act or state of being an accomplice. [R.]

Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.

or controversies. When they were accorded from the fray. Spenser. All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.

Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.] True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. B. Whichcote.

The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.

The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. [R.] Caxton.

The state of being accumbent or reclining. [R.]

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; 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, wi…

The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

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

The quality of being acetous; sourness.

Capable of being achieved. Barrow.

nserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. Nichol.