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n. The quality or condition of being accommodable. [ R. ] Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accommodated p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating ] [ L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See Mode. ] 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. “They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare. ] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [ Archaic ] Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Suitably; fitly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fitness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. “The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.” Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. “To come to terms of accommodation.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accommodation bill, or
note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. --
Accommodation coach, or
train, one 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. He who, or that which, accommodates. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ F. à la mode after the fashion. ] According to the fashion or prevailing mode. “Alamode beef shops.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode. Buchanan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ammodytes, Gr. &unr_; sand burrower, a kind of serpent; 'a`mmos sand + &unr_; diver, &unr_; to dive. ] (Zool.) (a) One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel. (b) A kind of viper in southern Europe. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 type genus of the Ammodytidae.
Syn. -- genus Ammodytes [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a family comprising the sand lances.
Syn. -- family Ammodytidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Med.) Good against spasms. -- n. A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Statistics) having or occurring with two modes{ 9 }; having two maxima; -- of a curve or distribution. unimodal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Mus.) The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A gull in the plumage of its first year. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. commodatum thing lent, loan. ] (Scots Law) A gratuitous loan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. commode, fr. commode convenient, L. commodus; com- + modus measure, mode. See Mode. ] 1. A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or under high commodes, with looks erect. Granville. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion; as: (a) A chest of drawers or a bureau. (b) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel. (c) A kind of close stool. (d) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. commodiosus, fr. L. commodum convenience, fr. commodus. See Commode. ] Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. “A commodious drab.” Shak. “Commodious gold.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts xxvii. 12.

Syn. -- Convenient; suitable; fit; proper; advantageous; serviceable; useful; spacious; comfortable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a commodious manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pass commodiously this life. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convenience; roominess. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Commodities [ F. commodité, fr. L. commoditas. See Commode. ] 1. Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Drawn by the commodity of a footpath. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A parcel or quantity of goods. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A commodity of brown paper and old ginger. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. a corruption of commander, or Sp. comendador a knight of a military order who holds a commandery; also a superior of a monastery, fr. LL. commendare to command. Cf. Commend, Command, Commander. ] 1. (U. S. Navy) An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (British Navy) A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Grammar) relating to different sense modalities. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Grammar) ability to integrate information from different sense modalities. [ PJC ]

n. (Electronics) An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.
Syn. -- detector. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. desmo`s bond + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, tooth. ] (Zool.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family comprisng the true vampire bats.
Syn. -- family Desmodontidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type genus of the Desmodontidae, consisting of vampire bats.
Syn. -- genus Desmodus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + accommodate. ] To put to inconvenience; to incommode. [ R. ] Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dis- + commodatus, p. p. of commodare to make fit or suitable, fr. commodus fit, commodious. See Commodious, and cf. Discommode. ] To discommode. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discommoded; p. pr. & vb. n. Discommoding. ] [ See Discommodate. ] To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble. [ R. ]

Syn. -- To incommode; annoy; inconvenience. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious. [ R. ] Spenser.

-- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disadvantage; inconvenience. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL.; cf. Gr. &unr_; ginglymoid. See Ginglymoid. ] (Zool.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebræ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.

n. Same as Haemadromograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n.Same as Hemadrometer.

n. Same as Hemadynamics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of trees consisting of one species, the salt tree.
Syn. -- genus Halimodendron.
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n. [ NL. hermodactylus, lit., Hermes' finger; fr. Gr. &unr_; Hermes + &unr_; finger. ] (med.) A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Homo- + 1st deme, 2. ] (Biol.) A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Homo- + -derm. ] (Biol.) Homology of the germinal layers. [ 1913 Webster ]