Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AC-CORD'ING-LY, adv.

Agreeably; suitably; in a manner conformable to. Those who live in faith and good works, will be rewarded accordingly.

AC-CORD'I-ON, n. [from accord.]

A small keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by the play of wind upon metallic reeds. It is a small wind-chest, the sides of which are made to fold and expand like a bellows. On the top are apertures in which the reeds are inserted, and upon which the reeds play. Each key playing on two apertures, the reeds of which are furnished with reversed valves, is made to command two successive notes in the scale, according as the wind is drawn in by expanding the chest, or forced out by closing it. In addition to the keys, there is slide which opens upon reeds attuned to the harmonics for the tonic and dominant, by opening which the air has an harmonic accompaniment. The bottom of the chest is furnished with a large key, by which the chest may be opened, and suddenly exhausted or filled, as need requires. This is a melodious portable instrument, commanding two or three octaves in the diatonic scale. Prof. Fitch.

AC-CORP'O-RATE, v.t.

To unite; [Not in use.] [See Incorporate.] Milton.

AC-COST', v.i.

To adjoin. [Not in use.] Spenser.

AC-COST', v.t. [Fr. accoster; ad and côte, side, border, coast; G. küste; D. kust; Dan. kyst.]

1. To approach; to draw near; to come side by side, or face face. [Not in use.]
2. To speak first to; to address. Milton. Dryden.

AC-COST'A-BLE, a.

Easy of access; familiar. Howell.

AC-COST'ED, pp.

Addressed; first spoken to. In heraldry, being side by side.

AC-COST'ING, ppr.

Addressing by first speaking to.

AC-COUCHE'MENT, n. accoosh'mong. [Fr.]

Delivery in childbed.

AC-COUCH'-EUR, n.

accoosháre. [Fr.] A man who assist women in childbirth.

AC-COUNT', n. [Fr. conte; It. conto; Sp. cuenta; Arm. count; an account, reckoning, computation. Formerly writers used accompt from the Fr. compte. See Count.]

1. A sum stated on paper; a registry of a debt or credit; of debts and credits, or charges; an entry in a book or on paper of things bought or sold, of payments, services, &c., including the names of the parties to the transaction, date, and price or value of the thing. Account signifies a single entry, or charge, or a statement of a number of particular debts and credits, in a book or on a separate paper; and in the plural, is used for the books containing such entries.
2. A computation of debts and credits, or a general statement of particular sums; as, the account stands thus; let him exhibit his account.
3. A computation or mode of reckoning; applied to other things, than money or trade; as the Julian account of time.
4. Narrative; relation; statement of facts; recital of particular transactions and events, verbal or written; as an account of the revolution in France. Hence,
5. An assignment of reasons; explanation by a recital of particular transactions, given by a person in an employment, or to a superior, often implying responsibility. Give an account of thy stewardship. Luke xvi. Without responsibility or obligation. He giveth not account of his matters. Job xxxiii.
6. Reason or consideration, as a motive; as, on all accounts, on every account.
7. Value; importance; estimation; that is, such a state of persons or things, as renders them worthy of more or less estimation; as, men of account. What is the son of man that thou makest account of him. Psal. cxliv.
8. Profit; advantage; that is, a result or production worthy of estimation. To find our account in a pursuit; to turn to account. Philip. iv.
9. Regard; behalf; sake; a sense deduced from charges on book; as, on account of public affairs. Put that to my account. Philem. 18. To make account, that is, to have a previous opinion or expectation, is a sense now obsolete. A writ of account, in law, is a writ which the plaintif brings demanding that the defendant should render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; called also an action of account. Cowel.

AC-COUNT', v.i.

1. To render an account or relation of particulars. An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
2. To give reasons; to assign the causes; to explain; with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
3. To render reasons; to answer for in a responsible character; as, we must account for all the talents intrusted to us.

AC-COUNT', v.t.

1. To deem, judge, consider, think, or hold in opinion. I and my son Solomon shall be accounted offenders. 1 Kings i.
2. To account of, to hold in esteem; to value. Let a man so account of us as of ministers of Christ. 1 Cor. iv. Silver was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. 1 Kings, x.
3. To reckon, or compute; as, the motion of the sun whereby years are accounted – also to assign as a debt; as, a project accounted to his service: but these uses are antiquated.

AC-COUNT-A-BIL'I-TY, n.

1. The state of being liable to answer for one's conduct; liability to give account, and to receive reward or punishment for actions. The awful idea of accountability. R. Hall.
2. Liability to the payment of money or of damages; responsibility for a trust.

AC-COUNT'A-BLE, a.

1. Liable to be called to account; answerable to a superior; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
2. Subject to pay, or make good, in case of loss. A sherif is accountable, as bailif and receiver of goods. Accountable for, that may be explained. [Not elegant.]

AC-COUNT'A-BLE-NESS, n.

Liableness to answer or to give account; the state of being answerable, or liable to the payment of money or damages.

AC-COUNT'A-BLY, adv.

In an accountable manner.

AC-COUNT'ANT, n.

One skilled in mercantile accounts; more generally, a person who keeps accounts; an officer in a public office who has charge of the accounts. In Great Britain, an officer in the court of Chancery, who receives money and pays it to the Bank, is called accountant-general.

AC-COUNT'-BOOK, n.

A book in which accounts are kept. Swift.

AC-COUNT'ED, pp.

Esteemed; deemed; considered; regarded; valued. Accounted for, explained.

AC-COUNT'ING, n.

The act of reckoning or adjusting accounts.

AC-COUNT'ING, ppr.

Deeming; esteeming; reckoning; rendering an account. Accounting for, rendering an account; assigning the reasons; unfolding the causes.

AC-COUP'LE, v.t.

accup'ple, To couple; to join or link together. [See Couple.]

AC-COUP'LE-MENT, n. accup'plement.

A coupling; a connecting in pairs; junction. [Little used.]

AC-COUR'AGE, v.t. accur'age. [See Courage.]

To encourage. [Not used,] Spenser.