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The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

f increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. Arbuthnot.

The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

cumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

sing 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.

A heaping up; accumulation. [R.] Johnson.

Used in salads; as, acetarious plants.

The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.

Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.

The act or process of achromatizing.

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

The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay.

Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. [Archaic] Harvey.

In an acrimonious manner.

The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.

The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.…

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

In an actionable manner.

A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]