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act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ly, adv. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ness, n.

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

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

owing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.

To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.

Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt. Augean stable (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.

An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.

e waves. -- Beach wagon, a light open wagon with two or more seats. -- Raised beach, an accumulation of water-worn stones, gravel, sand, and other shore deposits, above the present level of wave action, whether actually raised by elevation of the coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in many lake an…

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." Whewell. "A purulent collection." Dunglison.

Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperæmic; -- said of any part of the body.

The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [Obs.] The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. Evelyn.

ther in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation. A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together. Trench.

e act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass. Bacon.

eet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.

The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.

Carbonic. -- Damp sheet, a curtain in a mine gallery to direct air currents and prevent accumulation of gas. -- Fire damp, a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; -- so called from its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame.

A heap; accumulation. [R.]