Index of English words, starting with "ac"

(1) - Accessory (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
(2) - Accessory (n.) Same as Accessary, n.
(3) - Accessory (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
(4) - Accessory (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

(1) - Acciaccatura (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.

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

(1) - Accident (n.) Unusual appearance or effect.
(2) - Accident (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
(3) - Accident (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
(4) - Accident (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
(5) - Accident (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
(6) - Accident (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
(7) - Accident (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.