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Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.

money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.

Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

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

Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. Prof. August.

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

Serving to help or assist; helping. [Obs.]

Helping; helpful; assisting. [R.] "Adjuvant causes." Howell.

In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip. D. G. Mitchell.

xercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaula…

l, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention. Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. Milton.

In a state of gasping. Coleridge.

H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

In the act of groping. Mrs. Browning.

Helping; helpful; supplying aid. Shak.