Helen Fenton

Accubation: Definition and part of speech

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Accubation

  1. n. The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

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.

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.

Accumulate: Definition and part of speech

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Accumulate

  1. a. Collected; accumulated.
  2. v. t. To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
  3. v. i. To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

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.

Accumulation: Definition and part of speech

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Accumulation

  1. n. The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
  2. n. The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

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.