n.; pl. Abscesses [ L. abscessus a going away, gathering of humors, abscess, fr. abscessus, p. p. of absedere to go away; ab, abs + cedere to go off, retire. See Cede. ] (Med.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body caused by infection. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

Cold abscess, (a) an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess. AS (b) an abscess produced by tubercle bacilli, called also tuberculous abscess. AS [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. [ L. abscessio a separation; fr. absedere. See Abscess. ] A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [ Obs. ] Gauden. Barrough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. accès, L. accessus, fr. accedere. See Accede. ] 1. A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. [ 1913 Webster ]

I did repel his letters, and denied
His access to me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. “All access was thronged.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Admission to sexual intercourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [ In this sense accession is more generally used. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I, from the influence of thy looks, receive
Access in every virtue. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An onset, attack, or fit of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury. [ A Gallicism ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of an accessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being accessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. [ 1913 Webster ]

To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Accessaries [ Cf. Accessory and LL. accessarius. ] (Law) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. --
Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being present at the commission of the offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word, as used in law, is spelt accessory by Blackstone and many others; but in this sense is spelt accessary by Bouvier, Burrill, Burns, Whishaw, Dane, and the Penny Cyclopedia; while in other senses it is spelt accessory. In recent text-books on criminal law the distinction is not preserved, the spelling being either accessary or accessory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accessibilitas: cf. F. accessibilité. ] The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accessibilis, fr. accedere: cf. F. accessible. See Accede. ] 1. Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Open to the influence of; -- with to. “Minds accessible to reason.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Obtainable; to be got at. [ 1913 Webster ]

The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an accessible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accessio, fr. accedere: cf. F. accession. See Accede. ] 1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory. [ 1913 Webster ]

The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf. (b) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Med.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Increase; addition; augmentation; enlargement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to accession; additional. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Additional. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accessorius. See Access, and cf. Accessary. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Ash accents the antepenult; and this is not only more regular, but preferable, on account of easiness of pronunciation. Most orhoëpists place the accent on the first syllable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Accompanying; contributory; auxiliary; subsidiary; subservient; additional; acceding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Accessories 1. That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. “The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Same as Accessary, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Fine Arts) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. Elmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Abettor; accomplice; ally; coadjutor. See Abettor. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Iron Metal.) That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L., fr. antecedere, antecessum. See Antecede, Ancestor. ] 1. One who goes before; a predecessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An ancestor; a progenitor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a. See Acescency, Acescent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Metal.) A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Iron Metal.) A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Iron Metal.) The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide, proposed by I. Lowthian Bell of England about 1875. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Photog.) Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Metal.) A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600° F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric oxide (Fe2O3) and the subsequent change of this in a reduced atmosphere to the magnetic oxide (Fe2O4). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Photog.) A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called
carbon paper or
carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double transfer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ For sess, conts. from Assess. ] 1. A rate or tax. [ Obs. or Prof. Eng. & Scot. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bound; measure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cessed p. pr. & vb. n. Cessing. ] To rate; to tax; to assess. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. cesser. See Cease. ] To cease; to neglect. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ L. cessans, p. pr. of cessare. See Cease. ] Inactive; dormant [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cessation, L. cessatio, fr. cessare. See Cease. ] A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. [ 1913 Webster ]

The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.

Syn. -- Stop; rest; stay; pause; discontinuance; intermission; interval; respite; interruption; recess; remission. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., he has ceased. ] [ O. Eng. Law ] A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cess, v. i. ] (Law) a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. cessible. See Cession. ] Giving way; yielding. [ Obs. ] -- Ces`si*bil"i*ty n. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. cessio, fr. cedere to give way: cf. F. Cession. See Cede. ] 1. A yielding to physical force. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Concession; compliance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cession of the island of New Orleans. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eccl. Law) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Civil Law) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. cessionarius, from cessionare to cede, fr. L. cessio: cf. F. cessionnaire. See Cession. ] Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt. Martin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cess, v. t. ] An assessment or tax. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cess, v. i. Cf. Cesser. ] (Law) One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cess, v. t. ] An assessor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sesspol. ] A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth. [ Written also sesspool. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. circum- + L. incedere, incessum, to walk. ] (Theol.) The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concessio, fr. concedere: cf. F. concession. See Concede. ] 1. The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. [ 1913 Webster ]

By mutual concession the business was adjusted. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is therefore a concession, that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular assemblies content with small concessions. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a concession. -- n.; pl. -ries /plu>. A concessionaire. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. someone who holds or operates a concession.
Syn. -- concessionaire. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who favors concession. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ F. concessionnaire. ] The beneficiary of a concession or grant. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. concessivus. ] Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction. Lowth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of concession. [ 1913 Webster ]