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One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. -- Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being prese…

One who acclaims.

He who, or that which, accommodates. Warburton.

He who, or that which, accompanies. Lamb.

The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. Busby.

One who accomplishes.

One who accords, assents, or concedes. [R.]

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

One who renders account; one accountable.

One who reclines at table.

One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.

One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

iar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

One who acknowledges no head or superior. Dr. Gauden.

One who achieves; a winner.

A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.

One who acknowledges.

An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coördinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.

One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.