Definition of incident

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

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Incident :: Incident (n.) Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal..
Rule :: Rule (v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
Glance :: Glance (n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
Net :: Net (a.) Not including superfluous, incidental, or foreign matter, as boxes, coverings, wraps, etc.; free from charges, deductions, etc; as, net profit; net income; net weight, etc..
Parergy :: Parergy (n.) Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous..
Canker :: Canker (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off..
Story :: Story (n.) The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance..
Circumstantial :: Circumstantial (n.) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion..
Appurtenance :: Appurtenance (n.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land..
Journal :: "Journal (a.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc..
Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
Incident :: Incident (n.) That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.
By-speech :: By-speech (n.) An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point..
Present :: Present (a.) Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.
Competent :: Competent (a.) Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.
Episode :: Episode (n.) A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it..
Biochemistry :: Biochemistry (n.) The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life..
Unison :: Unison (n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound..
Occasion :: Occasion (n.) An occurrence or condition of affairs which brings with it some unlooked-for event; that which incidentally brings to pass an event, without being its efficient cause or sufficient reason; accidental or incidental cause..
Squint-eyed :: Squint-eyed (a.) Having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed.
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