Aborticide :: Aborticide (n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

Accidence :: Accidence (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar..

Accidence :: Accidence (n.) The rudiments of any subject.

Accident :: Accident (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, 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..

Accident :: Accident (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case..

Accident :: Accident (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Accident :: Accident (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute..

Accident :: Accident (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness..

Accident :: Accident (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident..

Accident :: Accident (n.) Unusual appearance or effect.

Accidental :: Accidental (a.) Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit..

Accidental :: Accidental (a.) Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play..

Accidental :: Accidental (n.) A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.

Accidental :: Accidental (n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

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

Accidentalism :: Accidentalism (n.) Accidental character or effect.

Accidentality :: Accidentality (n.) The quality of being accidental; accidentalness.

Accidentally :: Accidentally (adv.) In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

Accidentalness :: Accidentalness (n.) The quality of being accidental; casualness.

Accidie :: Accidie (n.) Sloth; torpor.

Acid :: Acid (a.) Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered..

Acid :: Acid (a.) Of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction..

Acid :: Acid (n.) A sour substance.

Acid :: Acid (n.) One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their n

Acidic :: Acidic (a.) Containing a high percentage of silica; -- opposed to basic.

Acidiferous :: Acidiferous (a.) Containing or yielding an acid.

Acidifiable :: Acidifiable (a.) Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid..

Acidific :: Acidific (a.) Producing acidity; converting into an acid.

Acidification :: Acidification (n.) The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid..

Acidified :: Acidified (imp. & p. p.) of Acidif.

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