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or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.

A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit. Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person. Swift.

Befitting associates or attendants. [Obs.] With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. Shak.

A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. (b) A privy. (Law) -- Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. -- To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. S…

Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. [Obs.] Drawn by the commodity of a footpath. B. Jonson. Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker.

ng (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the p…

Freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation. Thus necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow chairs. Cowper. We are rather intent upon the end of God's glory than our own conveniency. Jer. Taylor.

Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.

To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.] Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. Gauden.

A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passenges or freight. [U. S.]

Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment. [Obs.] They him besought Of harbor and or ease as for hire penny. Chaucer.

That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation. In need of every kind of relief and easement. Burke.

Mutial accommodation; mutual giving. [Scot.]

s ground. Hakewill. He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations. Evelyn.

represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill. [Cant]

or on an equality with, something; hence, to accord; to agree; to suit. [Obs.] With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. Shak.

h receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. [U.S.]

An instrument for studying the mechanism of accommodation.