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en or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

uest. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.

cter; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by flood and field. Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. Trench.

An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. Cussans.

into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

Containing or yielding an acid.

Any field of arable or pasture land. [Obs.]

s of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden.

bodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

By day, or every day; in the daytime. [Obs.] Fielding.

One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

rmerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.

Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

utation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed. Crabb.

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.