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 , in muic, is a certain modulation of ounds to expres a paion, whether by the voice or intruments. See.  ACCENTER, in muic, one of the three fingers in a trio, viz. the peron who ings the highet part. See.  , in Scots law, denotes either a peron's adhibiting his ubcription to a bill or draught, by which he ubjects himelf to the payment of it; or accepting or agreeing to offers made in bargaining, by which the bargain is cloncluded.

, in the church of Rome, is put for receiving the Pope's contitutions.

, in commerce, in the ubcribing, igning, and making one's elf debtor for the um contained in a bill of exchanged in a bill of exchange, or other obligation. See.  ACCEPTATION, in grammar, the ene or meaning wherein any word is taken.  ACCEPTER, or, the peron who accepts a bill of exchange, &c.  ACCEPTION, the ame with acceptation.  ACCEPTILATION, among civilians, an acquittance or dicharge given by the creditor to the debtor without the payment of any value.  ACCESS, the approach of one peron or thing to another. It is alo ued by phyicians for the beginning of a paroxim. <section end="Access" /> <section begin="Accessary" />ACCESSARY, or, in law. See. <section end="Accessary" /> <section begin="Accessible" />ACCESSIBLE, omething that may be approached, or that acces may be had to. Thus we ay, Such a place is acceible on one ide, &c. <section end="Accessible" /> <section begin="Accession" />ACCESSION, in Scots law, is a method of acquiring property, by which, in things that have a cloe connexion or dependence upon one another, the property of the principal thing draws after it the property of the acceory. Thus, the owner of a cow becomes likewie the owner of the calf. See, title, Diviion of rights. It ometimes likewie ignifies conent or acquiecence.

, among phyicians, is ued for a paroxym of a dieae; among politicians, it ignifies a prince's ucceeding to the government upon the death of his predeceor. <section end="Accession" /> <section begin="Accessory" />ACCESSORY, in Scots law, is the ubject acquired by acceion; or, in crimes, it ignifies the peron by whoe aitance, advice, or command, the crime was committed: In this latter ene, it is the ame with accomplice, art and part, &c. See, title, Crimes.

nerve. See, Part V. <section end="Accessory" /> <section begin="Accib" />ACCIB, a name given by ome authors to lead. <section end="Accib" /> <section begin="Accident" />ACCIDENT, in a general ene, denotes any caual event.

, in logic, ignifies econdary qualities, or uch as do not eentially belong to any ubject.

, in grammar. See.

, in heraldry, an additional point or mark in a coat of arms, which may be either omitted or retained without altering the eence of the armour; uch as, abatements, differences, and tincture.

, among phyicians, an obolete term for a ymptom. <section end="Accident" /> <section begin="Accidents" />ACCIDENTS, in atrology, the mot remarkable occurrences in a man's life.

Abolute, in the Romih church, an accident which may poibly ubit, at leat miraculouly, without a ubject; which is unintellible jargon.

, omething that happens by accident, or a mode that is not eential to its ubject.

point, in perpective. See.

dignities and debilities, in atrology, certain caual dipoitions of the planets, whereby they are uppoed to be either trengthened or weakened. <section end="Accidents" /> <section begin="Accipenser" />ACCIPENSER, in ichthyology, a genus of fihes belonging to the Amphibia Nantes of Linnæus. The accipener has a ingle linear notril: the mouth is in the under part of the head, and contains no teeth; the cirri are below the nout, and before the mouth. There are four pecies of this genus, viz. I. The turio, or turgeon, with 4 cirri, and 11 quamious protuberances on the back. It inhabits the European eas. This fih was o greatly eteemed in the time of Severus, that he ordered it to be carried to his feats by ervants crowned with garlands, and trumpet playing before. See plate 1. fig. 5. 2. The ruthenus has 4 cirri, and 15 quamons protuberances. It is a native of Ruia. 3. The huo has 4 cirri; the body is naked, i. e. has no prickles or protuberances. The kin of the huo is o tough and trong, that it is employed for ropes in carts and other wheel-carriages. Iinglas is alo made of the kin of this fih, and its eggs are ometimes made into pickles. It inhabits the Danube, and the rivers of Ruia. plate 1. fig. 6. 4. The plecotomus, which is ditinguihed from the other three by having only a cirri. It is a native of Surinam. The whole four pecies are viviparous. <section end="Accipenser" /> <section begin="Accipensius" />ACCIPENSIUS. See. <section end="Accipensius" /> <section begin="Accipiter" />ACCIPITER, the name of Linnæus's firt order of birds. The birds belonging to this order have crooked beaks. This order comprehends only four genera, viz. The vultur, falco, trix, and lanius. See, &c. <section end="Accipiter" /> <section begin="Accipitrina" />ACCIPITRINA, an obolete name of the hierachium of hawkweed. See. <section end="Accipitrina" /> <section begin="Accismus" />ACCISMUS, in antiquity, ignifies a feigned refual of what one earnetly deires.

, in rhetoric, is accounted a pecies of irony. See. <section end="Accismus" /> <section begin="ACCLAMATION" />ACCLAMATION, any expreion of joy, or applaue, whereby the public tetifies its approbation.

is alo ued, in a bad ene, for expreions of detetation.

, in rhetoric, a figure, the ame with, which ee.

medals, among antiquaries, uch as repreent the people expreing their joy in the poture of acclamation. <section end="ACCLAMATION" /> <section begin="ACCLIVUS" />ACCLIVUS, in anatomy, a ynonime of the obliquuus acendens mucle. See, Part II. <section end="ACCLIVUS" /> <section begin="Acclivity" />ACCLIVITY, the rie or acent of a hill, in oppoition to the declivity or decent of it. Some wri-<section end="Acclivity" /> ters