a. [ Pref. a- not + caulescent. ] (Bot.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. accrescere. See Accrue. ] 1. To accrue. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To increase; to grow. [ Obs. ] Gillespie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. accrescentia. ] Continuous growth; an accretion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accrescens, -entis, p. pr. of accrescere; ad + crescere to grow. See Crescent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Growing; increasing. Shuckford. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Growing larger after flowering. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. acescence. See Acescent. ] The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acescens, -entis, p. pr. of acescere to turn sour; inchoative of acere to be sour: cf. F. acescent. See Acid. ] Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance liable to become sour. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Acquiesced p. pr. & vb. n. Acquiescing [ L. acquiescere; ad + quiescere to be quiet, fr. quies rest: cf. F. acquiescer. See Quiet. ] 1. To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To submit; comply; yield; assent; agree; consent; accede; concur; conform; accept tacitly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. acquiescence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Crim. Law) (a) Submission to an injury by the party injured. (b) Tacit concurrence in the action of another. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acquiescens, -centis; p. pr. ] Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an acquiescent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adeps, adipis, fat + -escent. ] Becoming fatty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fr., fr. L. adolescentia. ] The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult. ] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,
Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of becoming white; whitishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. albescens, p. pr. of albescere to grow white, fr. albus white. ] Becoming white or whitish; moderately white. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. alcalescent. ] Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arborescens, p. pr. of arborescere to become a tree, fr. arbor tree. ] Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. “Arborescent hollyhocks.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. self induced fluorescence. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + crescent. ] Having the form of a double crescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. bi`os life + luminescence. ] a type of luminescence produced by biological or biochemical processes, such as a glowworm glow or the action of luciferase on luciferin. A well-known example is that of firefly luminescence. See also luciferin. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. calescens, p. pr. of calescere, incho. of calere to be warm. ] Growing warmth; increasing heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat. ] (Physics) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Incandescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. candescens, -entis, p. pr. of candescere, v. incho. fr. candere to shine. ] Glowing; luminous; incandescent. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. canescens, p. pr. of canescere, v. inchoative of canere to be white. ] Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. caulis stalk, stem: cf. F. caulescent. ] (Bot.) Having a leafy stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. caeruleus sky-blue + -escent. ] Tending to cerulean; light bluish. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Coalesced p. pr. & vb. n. Coalescing. ] [ L. coalescere, coalitium; co- + alescere to grow up, incho. fr. alere to nourish. See Aliment, n. ] 1. To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.

Syn. -- See Add. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. joined together into a whole.
Syn. -- amalgamate, amalgamated, consolidated, fused. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. coalescens, p. pr. ] Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. compescere. ] To hold in check; to restrain. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concrescentia. ] Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles. [ R. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Condescended; p. pr. & vb. n. Condescending. ] [ F. condescendre, LL. condescendere, fr. L. con- + descendere. See Descend. ] 1. To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. “Condescend to men of low estate.” Rom. xii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can they think me so broken, so debased
With corporal servitude, that my mind ever
Will condescend to such absurd commands? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spain's mighty monarch,
In gracious clemency, does condescend,
On these conditions, to become your friend. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Often used ironically, implying an assumption of superiority. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who thought they were honoring me by condescending to address a few words to me. F. W. Robinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To consent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All parties willingly condescended heruento. R. Carew.

Syn. -- To yield; stoop; descend; deign; vouchsafe. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. condescendance. ] Condescension. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. exhibiting an attitude of superiority; patronizing; -- used of behavior or attitude.
Syn. -- arch, patronizing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a condescending manner. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. condescensio. ] The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors. [ 1913 Webster ]

It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. Addison.

Syn. -- Complaisance; courtesy; affability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Condescend, Descent. ] An act of condescension. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. contabescenc, p. pr. of contabescere. ] Wasting away gradually. Darwin.

-- Con*ta*bes"cence n. [1913 Webster]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Convalesced p. pr. & vb. n. Convalescing. ] [ L. convalscere; con- + valescere to grow strong, v. incho. of valere to be strong. See Valiant. ] To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Convalescent. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He found the queen somewhat convalesced. J. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]