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Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

He who, or that which, accommodates. Warburton.

quaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak.

A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.

To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism. T. Warton.

To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

eed, a creed of unknown origin, which was formerly ascribed to the apostles. It certainly dates back to the beginning of the sixth century, and some assert that it can be found in the writings of Ambrose in the fourth century. -- Apostle spoon (Antiq.), a spoon of silver, with the handle terminating in the figure of a…

led from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

pprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant. William . . . ordered him to be put under arrest. Macaulay. [Our brother Norway] sends out arrests On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys. Shak.

To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt. Arts . . . attempered to the lyre. Pope.

e; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares. H. Spenser.

un; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.

To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

econd ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates.

ssory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2. [Obs.]

the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. To do his master's high behest. Sir W. Scott.

Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden.