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ish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

Growing larger after flowering. Gray.

Grown together. Gray.

Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf. Gray. Accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against the caulicle. Eaton.

To betray; to show. Etym: [L.] Sir P. Sidney.

d, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays.

instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light. Nichol.

Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.

The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays.

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays.

rtaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.

formances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor.

Having small prickles or sharp points. Gray.

The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.

To clothe or array; to dress. [Archaic] Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel. Jewel.

ts; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.