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A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon. Give an account of thy stewardship. Luke xvi. 2.

e cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

ns composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed. --…

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

Religious indifference.

he German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. Shipley.

Indifferent or neutral. Jer. Taylor.

Indifference. [Obs.]

isfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

A mingling of different things; admixture. Glanvill.

The compound formed by mixing different substances together.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

lly considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

crease the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]

ainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. [He] made the like advances to the dissenters. Swift.

ng, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.

An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin.

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.