Helen Fenton

Accumbent: Definition and part of speech

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Accumbent

  1. n. One who reclines at table.
  2. a. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
  3. a. Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accrue: Definition and part of speech

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Accrue

  1. n. Something that accrues; advantage accruing.
  2. n. To increase; to augment.
  3. n. To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.