v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accredited; p. pr. & vb. n. Accrediting. ] [ F. accréditer; à (L. ad) + crédit credit. See Credit. ] 1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. [ 1913 Webster ]

His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To believe; to credit; to put trust in. [ 1913 Webster ]

The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one. [ 1913 Webster ]

To accredit (one)
with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to accremention. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See accresce, Increment. ] (Physiol.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respects like the individual from which it proceeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. accrescere. See Accrue. ] 1. To accrue. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To increase; to grow. [ Obs. ] Gillespie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. accrescentia. ] Continuous growth; an accretion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accrescens, -entis, p. pr. of accrescere; ad + crescere to grow. See Crescent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Growing; increasing. Shuckford. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Growing larger after flowering. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Grown together. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From L. accretus, p. p. of accrescere to increase. ] 1. To grow together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make adhere; to add. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accretio, fr. accrescere to increase. Cf. Crescent, Increase, Accrue. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mineral . . . augments not by growth, but by accretion. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

To strip off all the subordinate parts of his narrative as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) (a) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or soil from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark. (b) Gain to an heir or legatee, by failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. Wharton. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Marked or produced by accretion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. aker, AS. æcer; akin to OS. accar, OHG. achar, Ger. acker, Icel. akr, Sw. åker, Dan. ager, Goth. akrs, L. ager, Gr. &unr_;, Skr. ajra. √2, 206. ] 1. Any field of arable or pasture land. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4, 840 square yards, or 43, 560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The acre was limited to its present definite quantity by statutes of Edward I., Edward III., and Henry VIII. [ 1913 Webster ]

Broad acres, many acres, much landed estate. [ Rhetorical ] --
God's acre, God's field; the churchyard. [ 1913 Webster ]

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls
The burial ground, God's acre. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of an acre; per acre; as, the acreable produce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the crew of an aircraft. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a member of an aircrew. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an airplane propeller.
Syn. -- airplane propeller, prop [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ OF. alecret, halecret, hallecret. ] A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Anacreonticus. ] Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Naut.) A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + crenate. ] (Bot.) Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + crescent. ] Having the form of a double crescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except in the Antarctic.
Syn. -- bitter cress. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. A corkscrew. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chancere. See Cancer. ] (Med.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. [ 1913 Webster ]

Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a plant of Europe and Asia (Epilobium hirsutum) having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; it was introduced into North America.
Syn. -- hairy willowherb, Epilobium hirsutum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to put coldcream on (one's face). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop. [ Ireland ] Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To underlet a portion of, for a single crop; -- said of a farm. [ Ireland ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To create at the same time. [ 1913 Webster ]

If God did concreate grace with Adam. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concrematio, fr. concremare. See Cremate. ] The act of burning different things together. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concrementum, fr. concrescere. See Concrete. ] A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concrescentia. ] Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles. [ R. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ] Capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They formed a . . . fixed concrescible oil. Fourcroy (Trans. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Growing together, or into union; uniting. [ R. ] Eclec. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. concretus, p. p. of concrescere to grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See Crescent. ] 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) (a) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract. Hence: (b) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Concrete is opposed to abstract. The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Concrete number, a number associated with, or applied to, a particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without reference to a particular object. --
Concrete quantity, a physical object or a collection of such objects. Davies & Peck. --
Concrete science, a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws. --
Concrete sound or movement of the voice, one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a discrete movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another. Rush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body. [ 1913 Webster ]

To divide all concretes, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term. [ 1913 Webster ]

The concretes “father” and “son” have, or might have, the abstracts “paternity” and “filiety”. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Sugar Making) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Concreted; p. pr & vb. n. Concreting. ] To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard body; applied to others, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate, coagulate, as in the concretion of blood. “The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete.” Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are in our inferior world divers bodies that are concreted out of others. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a concrete manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being concrete. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concretio. ] 1. The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geol.) A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Concretionary. [ 1913 Webster ]