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To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson.

e 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.

Used in salads; as, acetarious plants.

The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady. Addison.

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, 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.

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison.

To please. [Obs.] Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.

Alike; similarly. [Obs.] Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser.

Joy; gladsomeness.

t of. [Obs.] Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

red to choose among. My decided preference is for the fourth and last of thalternatives. Gladstone.

A genus of the same family, including the Belladonna lily.

Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. Ampullaceous sac (Zoöl.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells.

shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day.

Human nature. [R.] Gladstone.

An antimask. [Obs. or R.] Performed by knights and ladies of his court In nature of an antic. Ford.

ysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella).

ently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.