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 ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL, a new officer in the court of Chancery appointed by act of parliament to receive all moneys lodged in court intead of the maters, and convey the ame to the bank of England for ecurity.  ACCOUNTING HOUSE, counting-houe, or compting-houe, is a houe, or office, et apart by a merchant, or trading-company, for tranacting their buines, as well as keeping their books, accounts, vouchers, &c.  ACCOUTREMENT, an old term, applied to the furniture of a oldier, knight, or gentleman.  ACCRETION, in phyics, the increae, or growth, of an organical body, by the acceion of new parts.

, among civilians, the property acquired in a vague or unoccuplied thing, by its adhering to or following another already occupied; thus, if a legacy be left to two perons, one of whom dies before the tetator, the legacy devolves to the urvivor by right of accretion.  ACCROCHE, in heraldry, denotes a thing's being hooked with another.  ACCROCHING, in old law-books, is incroaching upon, or uurping another man's right.  ACCRUE, in law, any thing that is connected to another as an appendage.  ACCUBATION, in antiquity, the poture ued by the Greeks and Romans at table. The body was extended, and the head reting on a pillow, or on the elbow.

The Romans at their meals made ue of a low round table, around which two or three couches were placed in proportion to the number of guets; and hence it was called, or. Thee were covered with a ort of bed-cloaths, and furnihed with quilts and pillows for leaning on. The guets reclined on the left ide, the firt at the head of the bed, with his feet behind the back of the econd, &c. Before they came to table, they changed their cloaths, for what they called the, the dining garment, and pulled off their hoes to keep the couch clean. <section end="Accubation" /> <section begin="Accubitor" />ACCUBITOR, an ancient officer of the emperors of Contantinople, whoe buines was to lie near the emperor. He was the head of the youths of the bedchamber, and had the and  under him. <section end="Accubitor" /> <section begin="Accumulation" />ACCUMULATION, in a general ene, the act of heaping or amaing things together. Among lawyers it is ued in peaking of the concurrence of everal titles to the ame thing, or of everal circumtances to the ame proof.

of degrees, in an univerity, is the taking everal of them together, or at maller intervals than uual, or than is allowed by the rules of the univerity. <section end="Accumulation" /> <section begin="Accurate" />ACCURATE. See. <section end="Accurate" /> <section begin="Accursed" />ACCURSED, denotes omething that lies under a cure, or is detetable. It is likewie ued for an excommunicated peron. <section end="Accursed" /> <section begin="Accusation" />ACCUSATION, in law, the charging any peron with a criminal action, either in one's own name, or that of the public. It differs, little from impeachment or indictment. <section end="Accusation" /> <section begin="Accusative" />ACCUSATIVE. See. <section end="Accusative" /> <section begin="Ac-Denghis" />AC-DENGHIS, a name given to the Archipelago by the Turks. <section end="Ac-Denghis" /> <section begin="Ace" />ACE, a term among gameters, ignifying a card or die marked with a ingle point. <section end="Ace" /> <section begin="Acentetum" />ACENTETUM, or, names ued by the ancients for the puret rock crytal. See. <section end="Acentetum" /> <section begin="Acephali" />ACEPHALI, or, a name given, in eccleiatical hitory, to everal ects that were detitute of any head or leader; as alo, to uch bihops as were exempted from the juridiction of a patriarch. <section end="Acephali" /> <section begin="Acephalous" />ACEPHALOUS, in our ancient law-books, an appelation given to uch perons as held nothing of any uperior. <section end="Acephalous" /> <section begin="Acephalus" />ACEPHALUS, without a head.

, an obolete term for the tenia, or tapeworm. See.

, is alo ued to expres a vere defective in the beginning. <section end="Acephalus" /> <section begin="Acer" />ACER, in botany, the maple or ycamore tree, a genus of the polygamia diœcia clas. There are ten pecies of this genus. The calix of the female is quinquiide, the corolla pentapetalous, the tamina eight, one pitil, and two eed-capules. The calix of the male is alo quinquiide, the corolla pentapetalous, and the tamina eight. There are only two pecies of the acer which are reckoned natives of England, viz. the peudo-platanus, and the campetre. <section end="Acer" /> <section begin="Acerb" />ACERB, a our rough atringency of tate, uch as that of unripe fruit. See. <section end="Acerb" /> <section begin="Acerenza" />ACERENZA. See. <section end="Acerenza" /> <section begin="Acerides" />ACERIDES, ignifies a plater without any was in its compoition. <section end="Acerides" /> <section begin="Acerina" />ACERINA, an abolete name of a pecies of the perch, a fih of the thoracic order. See. <section end="Acerina" /> <section begin="Acerno" />ACERNO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, with a bihop's ee. It is 17 miles S. W. of Conza, and 12 N. E. of Salerno, long. 14. 23. lat 40. 55. <section end="Acerno" /> <section begin="Acerra" />ACERRA, in antiquity, an alter erected, among the Romans, near the gate of a peron deceaed, on which his friends daily offered incene, till his burial. — The Chinee have till a cutom like this; they erect an altar to the deceaed in a room hung with mourning, and place an image of the dead peron on the altar, to which every one approaches it bows four times, and offers oblations and perfumes. <section end="Acerra" /> <section begin="Acerræ" />ACERRÆ, the pots wherein incene was burnt. <section end="Acerræ" /> <section begin="Acersecomes" />ACERSECOMES, long-haired, a name of Apollo, becaue he was uually painted o. <section end="Acersecomes" /> <section begin="Acestides" />ACESTIDES, in foundery, a name given by the ancients to the chimneys of their furnaces wherein bras was made. <section end="Acestides" /> <section begin="Acetabulum" />ACETABULUM, in antiquity, a little vae or cup ued at table to erve up auces or eaoning. It alo de-<section end="Acetabulum" /> notes