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Cleansing; purging. Bacon.

g speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling. The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows. Macaulay.

Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable. Abyssal zone (Phys. Geog.), one of the belts or zones into which Sir E. Forbes divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants,…

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

oelenterata, including the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes.

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n.

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…

Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

d, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one. To accredit (one) with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.

A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.

The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak.

Belonging to the Acephala.

The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude.

but whose coördinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.