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By-blow :: By-blow (n.) A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.

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

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..

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

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.

Contingently :: Contingently (adv.) In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident..

Incindental :: Incindental (a.) Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses..

Intentional :: Intentional (a.) Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental..

Intercident :: Intercident (a.) Falling or coming between; happening accidentally.

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

Victim :: Victim (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident..

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

Appalling :: Appalling (a.) Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident..

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

Haphazard :: Haphazard (n.) Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.

Find :: Find (v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person..

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

Intrinsic :: Intrinsic (a.) Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person..

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

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