Part 74

<h1>Accendibility</h1> <Xpage=10>

<hw>Ac*cend`i*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.</def>

<h1>Accendible</h1> <Xpage=10>

<hw>Ac*cend"i*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable.</def>

<i>Ure.</i>

<h1>Accension</h1> <Xpage=10>

<hw>Ac*cen"sion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<h1>Accensor</h1> <Xpage=10>

<hw>Ac*cen"sor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL., from p. p. <ets>accensus</ets>. See <er>Accend</er>.]</ety> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld> <def>One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.</def>

<h1>Accent</h1> <Xpage=10>

<hw>Ac"cent`</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>accent</ets>, L. <ets>accentus</ets>; <ets>ad + cantus</ets> a singing, <ets>canere</ets> to sing. See <er>Cant</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.</def>

<note>&hand; Many English words have two accents, the <i>primary</i> and the <i>secondary</i>; the primary being uttered with a greater stress of voice than the secondary; as in <i>as</i>\'b7<i>pira</i>\'b6<i>tion</i>, where the chief stress is on the third syllable, and a slighter stress on the first. Some words, as <i>an\'b7tiap\'b7o-plec\'b6tic</i>, <i>in-com\'b7pre-hen\'b7si-bil\'b6i-ty</i>, have two secondary accents. See Guide to Pron., \'c5\'c5 30-46.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: <sd>(a)</sd> a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; <sd>(b)</sd> a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; <as>as, the French <ex>accents</ex></as>.</def>

<note>&hand; In the ancient Greek the <i>acute accent</i> (\'b7) meant a raised tone or pitch, the <i>grave</i> (<i>`</i>), the level tone or simply the negation of accent, the <i>circumflex</i> ( ~ or ^) a tone raised and then depressed. In works on elocution, the first is often used to denote the rising inflection of the voice; the second, the falling inflection; and the third (^), the compound or waving inflection. In dictionaries, spelling books, and the like, the acute accent is used to designate the syllable which receives the chief stress of voice.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; <as>as, a foreign <ex>accent</ex>; a French or a German <ex>accent</ex>.</as></def> "Beguiled you in a plain <i>accent</i>." <i>Shak</i>. "A perfect <i>accent</i>." <i>Thackeray</i>.

<blockquote>The tender <b>accent</b> of a woman's cry. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A word; a significant tone; <plu>(pl.)</plu> expressions in general; speech.</def>

<blockquote>Winds! on your wings to Heaven her <b>accents</b> bear, Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Pros.)</fld> <def>Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>The <i>rythmical accent</i>, which marks phrases and sections of a period.</def> <sd>(d)</sd> <def>The <i>expressive</i> emphasis and shading of a passage.</def>

<i>J. S. Dwight.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y\'b7, y\'b7\'b7.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Trigon.)</fld> <def>A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; <as>as, 12\'b727\'b7\'b7, <it>i. e.</it>, twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def><fld>(Engin.)</fld> A mark used to denote feet and inches; <as>as, 6\'b7 10\'b7\'b7 is six feet ten inches</as>.</def>

<h1>Accent</h1> <Xpage=10>

<hw>Ac*cent"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Accented</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Accenting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>accenter</ets>, F. <ets>accentuer</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To mark emphatically; to emphasize.</def>

<h1>Accentless</h1> <Xpage=10>