Part 85

<h1>Accloy</h1> <Xpage=12>

<hw>Ac*cloy"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>encloyer</ets>, <ets>encloer</ets>, F. <ets>enclouer</ets>, to drive in a nail, fr. L. <ets>in + clavus</ets> nail.]</ety> <def>To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See <er>Cloy</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Accoast</h1> <Xpage=12>

<hw>Ac*coast"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Accost</er>, <er>Coast</er>.]</ety> <def>To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Whether high towering or <b>accosting</b> low. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Accoil</h1> <Xpage=12>

<hw>Ac*coil"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>acoillir</ets> to receive, F. <ets>accueillir</ets>; L. <ets>ad + colligere</ets> to collect. See <er>Coil</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To gather together; to collect.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To coil together.</def>

<i>Ham. Nav. Encyc.</i>

<h1>Accolade</h1> <Xpage=12>

<hw>Ac`co*lade"</hw> <tt>(#; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>accolade</ets>, It. <ets>accolata</ets>, fr. <ets>accollare</ets> to embrace; L. <ets>ad + collum</ets> neck.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A brace used to join two or more staves.</def>

<h1>Accombination</h1> <Xpage=12>

<hw>Ac*com*bi*na"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ad</ets> + E. <ets>combination</ets>.]</ety> <def>A combining together.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Accommodable</h1> <Xpage=12>

<hw>Ac*com"mo*da*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>accommodable</ets>.]</ety> <def>That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>I. Watts.</i>

<h1>Accommodableness</h1> <Xpage=12>

<hw>Ac*com"mo*dable*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or condition of being accommodable.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Todd.</i>

<h1>Accommodate</h1> <Xpage=12>

<hw>Ac*com"mo*date</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Accommodated</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Accommodating</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>accommodatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>accommodare</ets>; <ets>ad + commodare</ets> to make fit, help; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>modus</ets> measure, proportion. See <er>Mode</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; <as>as, to <ex>accommodate</ex> ourselves to circumstances</as>.</def> "They <i>accomodate</i> their counsels to his inclination."

<i>Addison.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; <as>as, to <ex>accommodate</ex> differences, a dispute, etc.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; <as>as, to <ex>accommodate</ex> a friend with a loan or with lodgings</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; <as>as, to <ex>accommodate</ex> prophecy to events</as>.</def>