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Precaution :: Precaution (n.) A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident..

Incident :: Incident (n.) That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.

Lot :: Lot (n.) That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

By-stroke :: By-stroke (n.) An accidental or a slyly given stroke.

Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

Hinder :: Hinder (a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going..

Insure :: Insure (v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured..

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..

Circumstantially :: Circumstantially (adv.) In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.

Haply :: Haply (adv.) By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be..

Fortuity :: Fortuity (n.) Accident; chance; casualty.

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

Misadventure :: Misadventure (n.) Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

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

Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.

Occurrent :: Occurrent (a.) Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental..

Incident :: Incident (a.) Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

Mishap :: Mishap (n.) Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.

Predicable :: Predicable (n.) One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident..

Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder..

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