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dinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

Without a leader or chief.

unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.

One who attends; an assistant. "With such chiefs, and with James and John as acolytes." Motley.

The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.

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

An obtaining; attainment. [Obs.] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton.

Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.

are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain. A mild and popular administration. Macaulay. The administration has been opposed in parliament. Johnson.

the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

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

An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

or perception that comes after it can be of use. "After- wit comes too late when the mischief is done." L'Estrange.

In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice…

A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

g- continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

Although; albeit. [Obs.] Albe Clarissa were their chiefest founderess. Spenser.

A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.