v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Abode formerly Abid p. pr. & vb. n. Abiding ] [ AS. ābīdan; pref. ā- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + bīdan to bide. See Bide. ] 1. To wait; to pause; to delay. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let every man abide in the same calling. 1 Cor. vii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

Followed by by:
To abide by. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. [ 1913 Webster ] The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ] (b) To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a decision or an award. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time. “I will abide the coming of my lord.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ [ Obs. ], with a personal object. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bonds and afflictions abide me. Acts xx. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To endure; to sustain; to submit to. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Thou ] shalt abide her judgment on it. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. [ 1913 Webster ]

She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Confused with aby to pay for. See Aby. ] To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dearly I abide that boast so vain. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who abides, or continues. [ Obs. ] “Speedy goers and strong abiders.” Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who dwells; a resident. Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abortus + caedere to kill. See Abort. ] (Med.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. [ archaic ] AS [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as abortionist. [ PJC ]

n. [ A corruption of Eng. accidents, pl. of accident. See Accident, 2. ] 1. The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The rudiments of any subject. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. accident, fr. L. accidens, -dentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See Cadence, Case. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of moving accidents by flood and field. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident:
It is the very place God meant for thee. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Her.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Log.) (a) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute. (b) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. [ 1913 Webster ]

This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Unusual appearance or effect. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally. [ 1913 Webster ]

He conceived it just that accidentals . . . should sink with the substance of the accusation. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Paint.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. accidentel, earlier accidental. ] 1. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony. --
Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. --
Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. --
Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Casual; fortuitous; contingent; occasional; adventitious. -- Accidental, Incidental, Casual, Fortuitous, Contingent. We speak of a thing as accidental when it falls out as by chance, and not in the regular course of things; as, an accidental meeting, an accidental advantage, etc. We call a thing incidental when it falls, as it were, into some regular course of things, but is secondary, and forms no essential part thereof; as, an incremental remark, an incidental evil, an incidental benefit. We speak of a thing as casual, when it falls out or happens, as it were, by mere chance, without being prearranged or premeditated; as, a casual remark or encounter; a casual observer. An idea of the unimportant is attached to what is casual. Fortuitous is applied to what occurs without any known cause, and in opposition to what has been foreseen; as, a fortuitous concourse of atoms. We call a thing contingent when it is such that, considered in itself, it may or may not happen, but is dependent for its existence on something else; as, the time of my coming will be contingent on intelligence yet to be received. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Accidental character or effect. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being accidental; casualness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Acetyl + amide. ] (Chem.) A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Acetyl + anilide. ] (Med., Chem.) An amide formed from aniline and an acetyl group (C6H5.NH.CO.CH3); it is a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic. It has molecular weight 135.16. [ Written also acetanilid ] AS
Syn. -- phenylacetamide, N-phenylacetamide, antifebrin, antifebrine, acetylaminobenzene, acetylaniline [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 + AS ]

n. 1. any orchid of the genus Aerides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Aëro- + siderite. ] (Meteor.) A mass of meteoric iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, aids. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; cat + -oid. ] (Zool.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a cock. ] (Zool.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metal.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Alkali + amide. ] (Chem.) One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. tīd time. ] The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the petals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL., fr. L. ambo both + dexter right, dextra (sc. manus) the right hand. ] Using both hands with equal ease. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person who uses both hands with equal facility. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility. Hence: Versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Double-dealing. (Law) A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Practicing or siding with both parties. [ 1913 Webster ]

All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ammonia + -ide. ] (Chem.) A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acid amide, a neutral compound formed by the substitution of the amido group for hydroxyl in an acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Amia + -oid. ] (Zool.) An order of ganoid fishes of which Amia is the type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Ammonite + -oid. ] (Zool.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Gr. 'an priv. + E. allantoidea. ] (Zool.) The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Gr. 'androeidh`s of man's form; 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + e'i^dos form. ] A machine or automaton in the form of a human being. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of climbing salamanders.
Syn. -- genus Aneides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Aëronautics) The angle between the chord of an aërocurve and the relative direction of the undisturbed air current. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See Anhydrous. ] (Chem.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Anthropoid. ] (Zool.) The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Zool.) See Aphis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Apsis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Arachnida. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) See Araneina. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; bear + -oid. ] (Zool.) A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, a. [ Arum + -oid. ] (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants (Araceae).
Syn. -- araceous [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. arridere; ad + ridere to laugh. ] To please; to gratify. [ Archaic ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]