‖a. [ It. ] (Mus.) Gradually accelerating the movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accelerated p. pr. & vb. n. Accelerating. ] [ L. acceleratus, p. p. of accelerare; ad + celerare to hasten; celer quick. See Celerity. ] 1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity. --
Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward; advance; further. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 caused to move faster
Syn. -- speeded up [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. 1 caused to be completed in a shorter than normal time period; speeded up, as of an academic course; He took an accelerated curriculum, and graduated in three years. Opposite of delayed.
Syn. -- expedited [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ L. acceleratio: cf. F. accélération. ] The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. [ 1913 Webster ]

A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Astr. & Physics.)
Acceleration of the moon, the increase of the moon's mean motion in its orbit, in consequence of which its period of revolution is now shorter than in ancient times. --
Acceleration and
retardation of the tides. See Priming of the tides, under Priming. --
Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars, the amount by which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. --
Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of their orbits. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Accelerative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Accelerate + -graph. ] (Mil.) An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Accelerate + -meter. ] An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. Syr. ōkēl damō the field of blood. ] The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 not containing cells cellular
Syn. -- cell-free [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. not made up of or divided into cells cellular
Syn. -- noncellular [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. occurring outside of cells or without the participation of cells. Opposite of cellular. [ PJC ]

1. (Bot.) A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An amoebalike protozoan with a chitinous shell resembling an umbrella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of soil and freshwater protozoa; cosmopolitan.
Syn. -- family Arcellidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Ger. erzkanzler. See Arch-, pref. ] A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. barbicella, dim. of L. barba. See 1st Barb. ] (Zool.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no benefice. “Beneficeless precisians.” Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bis twice + ocellatus. See Ocellated. ] (Zool.) Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bracelet, dim. of OF. bracel armlet, prop. little arm, dim. of bras arm, fr. L. bracchium. See Brace, n. ] 1. An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of defensive armor for the arm. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; windpipe + &unr_; tumor. ] (Med.) See Goiter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. boubw`n groin + &unr_; tumor: cf. F. bubonocèle. ] (Med.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Elec.) A zinc-carbon cell in which the zinc (amalgamated) is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid, and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture, the two plates being separated by a porous cup. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Canceled or Cancelled p. pr. & vb. n. Canceling or Cancelling. ] [ L. cancellare to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr. canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars, dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. &unr_; latticed gate. Cf. Chancel. ] 1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [ Obs. ] “Canceled from heaven.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall. [ 1913 Webster ]

The indentures were canceled. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canceled figures (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.

Syn. -- To blot out; obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away; set aside. See Abolish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print) (a) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (b) The part thus suppressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Falconry) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies,
Make sundry canceliers ere they the fowl can reach. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. chanceler, OF. canseler, to waver, orig. to cross the legs so as not to fall; from the same word as E. cancel. ] (Falconry) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced
To cancelier. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cancellarean. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cancellatus, p. p. of cancellare, See Cancel, v. t. ] 1. (Bot.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Crossbarred; marked with cross lines. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cancellatio: cf. F. cancellation. ] 1. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., a lattice. See Cancel, v. t. ] 1. An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. L. cancellosus covered with bars. ] (Anat.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Photom.) A light standard much used in France, being the light from a Carcel lamp of stated size and construction consuming 42 grams of colza oil per hour with a flame 40 millimeters in height. Its illuminating power is variously stated at from 8.9 to 9.6 British standard candles. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ LL. carcelladium, carceragium, fr. L. carcer prison. ] Prison fees. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Named after Carcel, the inventor. ] A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. celidoine, OF. celidoine, F. chélidoine, fr. L. chelidonia (sc. herba), fr. chelidonius pertaining to the swallow, Gr. chelido`nios, fr. chelidw`n the swallow, akin to L. hirundo a swallow. ] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the type genus of the Celastraceae, comprising the plants called climbing bittersweet; bittersweet and shrubby bittersweet; they are woody vines and shrubs native chiefly to Asia and Australia, bearing yellow to orange capsules which open to expose red-coated seeds. See also bittersweet{ 3b }.
Syn. -- genus Celastrus. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ L. caelatura, fr. caelare to engrave in relief. ] 1. The act or art of engraving or embossing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is engraved. [ Obs. ] Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. celebrans, p. pr. of celebrare. See Celebrate. ] One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Celebrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Celebrating. ] [ L. celebratus, p. p. of celebrare to frequent, to celebrate, fr. celeber famous. ] 1. To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday. [ 1913 Webster ]

From even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath. Lev. xxiii. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage.

Syn. -- To commemorate; distinguish; honor. -- To Celebrate, Commemorate. We commemorate events which we desire to keep in remembrance, when we recall them by some special observace; as, to commemorate the death of our Savior. We celebrate by demonstrations of joy or solemnity or by appropriate ceremonies; as, to celebrate the birthday of our Independence. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are called upon to commemorate a revolution as surprising in its manner as happy in its consequences. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Earth, water, air, and fire, with feeling glee,
Exult to celebrate thy festival. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned. [ 1913 Webster ]

Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Distinguished; famous; noted; famed; renowned; illustrious. See Distinguished. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. celebratio. ] The act, process, or time of celebrating. [ 1913 Webster ]

His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. [ 1913 Webster ]

Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Famous. [ Obs. ] Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Celebrities [ L. celebritas: cf. F. célébrité. ] 1. Celebration; solemnization. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The celebrity of the marriage. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. celeritas, from celer swiftm speedy: sf. F. célérité. ] Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. céleri, cf. Prov. It. seleno, seler; fr. Gr. &unr_; parsley, in Lgr. & NGr. celery. Cf. Parsley. ] (Bot.) A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad. [ 1913 Webster ]