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Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy.

Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to 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 subj…

Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones. Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. Sir J. Davies.

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

inued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Shak.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

ance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.

esemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].

(Anat.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.

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

The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.

li or little cells, sacs, or sockets. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

Done out of love. [Obs.] Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.

A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.

Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.

asing or mirthful emotions; to divert. A group children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

omponent parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.