1) accept,"to receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.-to receive with favor; to approve.-to receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, i accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.-to take by the mind; to understand; as, how are these words to be accepted?-to receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.-in a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [this makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]-accepted."

2) acceptance,"the act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.-state of being accepted; acceptableness.-an assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.-the bill itself when accepted.-an agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.-an agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.-meaning; acceptation."

3) acceptor,one who accepts-one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

4) accipitres,"of accipiter-the order that includes rapacious birds. they have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. there are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls."

5) accommodation,"the act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.-willingness to accommodate; obligingness.-whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.-an adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.-the application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.-a loan of money.-an accommodation bill or note."

6) acockbill,"hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.-topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other."

7) adrian,"pertaining to the adriatic sea; as, adrian billows."

8) adunque,"hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill."

9) agio,the premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. the premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

10) allonge,"a thrust or pass; a lunge.-a slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider.-to thrust with a sword; to lunge."

11) amadavat,"the strawberry finch, a small indian song bird (estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. the female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill."

12) amendment,"an alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.-in public bodies; any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.-correction of an error in a writ or process."

13) amount,"to go up; to ascend.-to rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.-to rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.-to signify; to amount to.-the sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.-the effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this."

14) answer,"to speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.-to speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.-to respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.-to be or act in return or response to.-to be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.-to render account to or for.-to atone; to be punished for.-to be opposite to; to face.-to be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.-to be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.-to speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.-to make a satisfactory response or return.-to render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.-to be or act in return.-to be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.-to be opposite, or to act in opposition.-to be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.-to be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.-a reply to a change; a defense.-something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.-something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.-a solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.-a counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. in equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill."

15) antibillous,counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.