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adj. 1. 1 (physiol) drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part; -- especially of muscles adducent
Syn. -- abducting [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. a- not + caulescent. ] (Bot.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. accent, L. accentus; ad + cantus a singing, canere to sing. See Cant. ] 1. A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Many English words have two accents, the primary and the secondary; the primary being uttered with a greater stress of voice than the secondary; as in as′pira&bprime_;tion, where the chief stress is on the third syllable, and a slighter stress on the first. Some words, as an′tiap′o-plec&bprime_;tic, in-com′pre-hen′si-bil&bprime_;i-ty, have two secondary accents. See Guide to Pron., §§ 30-46. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the ancient Greek the acute accent (′) meant a raised tone or pitch, the grave (`), the level tone or simply the negation of accent, the circumflex ( ~ or ^) a tone raised and then depressed. In works on elocution, the first is often used to denote the rising inflection of the voice; the second, the falling inflection; and the third (^), the compound or waving inflection. In dictionaries, spelling books, and the like, the acute accent is used to designate the syllable which receives the chief stress of voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. “Beguiled you in a plain accent.” Shak. “A perfect accent.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A word; a significant tone; (pl.) expressions in general; speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear,
Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Pros.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mus.) (a) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure. (b) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure. (c) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period. (d) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage. J. S. Dwight. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Math.) (a) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y′, y″. (b) (Trigon.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12′27″, i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds. (c) (Engin.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6′ 10″ is six feet ten inches. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accented; p. pr. & vb. n. Accenting. ] [ OF. accenter, F. accentuer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Phonology) having the main stress of a word; -- used of syllables
Syn. -- tonic (vs. atonic) [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 being pronounced with sterss; -- used of syllables
Syn. -- heavy, strong [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the act of giving special importance or significance to something.
Syn. -- emphasizing [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Without accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ad. + cantor singer, canere to sing. ] 1. (Mus.) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being accented. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being accentual. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accentuated p. pr. & vb. n. Accentuating. ] [ LL. accentuatus, p. p. of accentuare, fr. L. accentus: cf. F. accentuer. ] 1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. [ 1913 Webster ]

In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To mark with the written accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. accentuatio: cf. F. accentuation. ] Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.), pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accrescens, -entis, p. pr. of accrescere; ad + crescere to grow. See Crescent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Growing; increasing. Shuckford. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Growing larger after flowering. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; a point, a center. ] Not centered; without a center. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acescens, -entis, p. pr. of acescere to turn sour; inchoative of acere to be sour: cf. F. acescent. See Acid. ] Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance liable to become sour. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acquiescens, -centis; p. pr. ] Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an acquiescent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having a subterminal centromere an acrocentric chromosome [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. addunces, p. pr. of adducere. ] (Physiol.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adeps, adipis, fat + -escent. ] Becoming fatty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is adjacent. [ R. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adjacens, -centis, p. pr. of adjacere to lie near; ad + jacēre to lie: cf. F. adjacent. ] Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. “The adjacent forest.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adjacent or
contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Adjoining; contiguous; near. -- Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc. I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ] Things are adjoining when they meet at some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms, an adjoining highway. What is spoken of as contiguous should touch with some extent of one side or the whole of it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood contiguous to a plain. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to be adjacent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adnascens, p. pr. of adnasci to be born, grow. ] Growing to or on something else. “An adnascent plant.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult. ] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,
Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. albescens, p. pr. of albescere to grow white, fr. albus white. ] Becoming white or whitish; moderately white. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. alcalescent. ] Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a`nqrwpos man + &unr_; center. ] Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system. Draper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values.
Syn. -- anthropocentrism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values.
Syn. -- anthropocentricity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- + placental. ] Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. pl. [ Pref. a- not + placenta. ] (Zool.) Mammals which have no placenta. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arborescens, p. pr. of arborescere to become a tree, fr. arbor tree. ] Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. “Arborescent hollyhocks.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Formed like descent, as if from a F. ascente, fr. a verb ascendre, fr. L. ascendere. See Ascend, Descent. ] 1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The way or means by which one ascends. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An eminence, hill, or high place. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the point representing the mean position of the matter in a body.
Syn. -- centroid, center of mass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. bary`s heavy + ke`ntron center. ] Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Benevolent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to beneficence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a beneficent manner; with beneficence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + centenary. ] Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. -- n. The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + centennial. ] 1. Consisting of two hundred years. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occurring every two hundred years. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + crescent. ] Having the form of a double crescent. [ 1913 Webster ]