Accessories

1. pl. of Accessory

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Acciaccatura

1. n. A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; — used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

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Accidence

1. n. The rudiments of any subject.
2. n. The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.

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Accident

1. n. Unusual appearance or effect.
2. n. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one’s foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
3. n. A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
4. n. A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
5. n. A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
6. n. A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
7. n. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.

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Accidental

1. n. A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
2. a. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
3. a. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.
4. n. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
5. n. Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

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Accidentalism

1. n. Accidental character or effect.

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Accidentality

1. n. The quality of being accidental; accidentalness.

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Accidentally

1. adv. In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

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Accidentalness

1. n. The quality of being accidental; casualness.

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Accession

1. n. The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
2. n. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king’s accession to a confederacy.
3. n. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.
4. n. A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.
5. n. The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
6. n. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; — applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

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