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Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. -- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad, n. Sayce.

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

ittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as reg…

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.…

Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally. He conceived it just that accidentals . . . should sink with the substance of the accusation. Fuller.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell.

Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

Pertaining to accremention.

The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

Pertaining to the accusative case.

Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. Grote.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid. Ure.

Pertaining to a heap. [Obs.]

Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.

Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies.

Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. -- n.