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Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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

Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

ompute; to count. [Obs.] The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted. Sir T. Browne.

Grown together. Gray.

ally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

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. -- Achromatic prism. See Prism. -- Achromatic…

Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidæ), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniæ when irritated.

Aculeate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Dangling. Browning.

A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.…

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

That which is adjacent.[R.] Sir T. Browne.

Admissible. Sir T. Browne.

Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To move or conduct to or toward. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Grown to congenitally.

The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.