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To meet; to clash. [Obs.] The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley.

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. I. Watts.

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

Same as Occursion. [Obs.] Bentley.

A meeting; a clash; a collision. [Obs.] Boyle.

self about. To bring about, to cause to take place; to accomplish. -- To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come. -- To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall we set about some revels Shak. -- Round about, in every direction around.

To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity. -- Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol.

d, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by flood and field. Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee…

A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. "A laudable account of the city of London." Howell.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life. Bacon.

One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.

A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.

ch phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether. But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all (as it…

forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.

allotropism. -- Al`lo*trop"ic*al*ly, adv. Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism.

; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.