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Sociable. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

mpanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.

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

nd tone; concord; as, the accord of tones. Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. Sir J. Davies.

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

t trust in. The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

t by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

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

To betray; to show. Etym: [L.] Sir P. Sidney.

Achievement. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

To recognize. [Obs.] "You will not be acknown, sir." B. Jonson.

laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

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

To quiet. [Obs.] Acquiet his mind from stirring you against your own peace. Sir A. Sherley.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic] That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of cri…

e mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. [Spelled also hacqueton.] [Obs.] Halliwell. Sir W. Scott.

Tendency or impulse to act. [R.] Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.

Aculeate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close. Sir W. Scott.