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fit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done. Abbott.

The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt. Abbott.

a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

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

e attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott.

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. Abbott. Brande & C.

bandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider. [A French usage] Abbott.

Approval; approbation. [Obs.] Crabbe.

the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

An abbes or spiritual mother.

Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication. -- An`a*gog"ic*al*ly, adv.

Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. Crabb.

forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.