Accelerando :: Accelerando (a.) Gradually accelerating the movement.

Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc..

Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure..

Accelerated :: Accelerated (imp. & p. p.) of Accelerat.

Accelerating :: Accelerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accelerat.

Acceleration :: Acceleration (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation..

Accelerative :: Accelerative (a.) Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

Accelerator :: Accelerator (n.) One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves..

Acceleratory :: Acceleratory (a.) Accelerative.

Accelerograph :: Accelerograph (n.) An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc..

Accelerometer :: Accelerometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.

Aceldama :: Aceldama (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed..

Air Cell :: Air cell () A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only..

Air Cell :: Air cell () A receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects..

Archchancellor :: Archchancellor (n.) A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court..

Auncel :: Auncel (n.) A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England..

Barbicel :: Barbicel (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

Beneficeless :: Beneficeless (a.) Having no benefice.

Biocellate :: Biocellate (a.) Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc..

Bracelet :: Bracelet (n.) An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls..

Bracelet :: Bracelet (n.) A piece of defensive armor for the arm.

Bronchocele :: Bronchocele (n.) See Goiter.

Bubonocele :: Bubonocele (n.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo..

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework..

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude..

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate..

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type..

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

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