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 ]

n. 1. a printer that automatically prints addresses on letters for mailing.
Syn. -- addressing machine [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. agresseur. ] The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ L., one who sits beside, the assistant of a judge, fr. assid&unr_;re. See Assession. LL., one who arranges of determines the taxes, fr. assid&unr_;re. See Assess, v., and cf. Cessor. ] 1. One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whence to his Son,
The assessor of his throne, he thus began. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. assessorial, fr. L. assessor. ] Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or function of an assessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. caveçon, augm. fr. LL. capitium a head covering hood, fr. L. caput head. Cf. Caberzon. ] (Man.) A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [ Written also caveson, causson. ] White. [ 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. [ Cf. Chisley. ] Mellow earth; mold. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A joint assessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A partner in giving a lease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] Anything which serves to compress; as: (a) (Anat.) A muscle that compresses certain parts. (b) (Surg.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part. (c) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressorium. (d) (Mach.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an air compressor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Conceding; permissive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. confessor, F. confesseur, fr. L. & LL. confessor. ] 1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers for it is a confessor. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n. Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part. [ 1913 Webster ]

Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dispossesses. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who subjects another to duress Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who goes out. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ it>or }, n. [ OF. essoine, essoigne, F. exoine, L. essonia, exonia; pref. ex- (L. ex from) + sunnis, sunnia, sonia, hindrance, excuse. Cf. Icel. syn refusal, synja to deny, refuse, Goth. sunja truth, sunjōn to justify, OS. sunnea impediment, OHG. sunna. ] 1. (Eng. Law) An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excuse; exemption. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From every work he challenged essoin. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Essoin day (Eng. Law), the first general return day of the term, on which the court sits to receive essoins. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. essoinier, essoignier, essonier, LL. essoniare, exoniare. See Essoin, n. ] (Eng. Law) To excuse for nonappearance in court. “I 'll not essoin thee.” Quarles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named from Gr. &unr_; inferior, because not so hard as some minerals it resembles, e. g., hyacinth. ] (Min.) Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ] (Her.) Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., chalk, plaster. ] 1. Plaster of Paris, or gypsum, esp. as prepared for use in painting, or in making bas-reliefs and the like; by extension, a plasterlike or pasty material spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding, or a surface so prepared. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A work of art done in gesso. [ Obs. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ [ It., hard plaster. ] A variety of gesso which when dried becomes hard and durable, often used in making bas-relief casts, which are colored and mounted in elaborate frames. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } a. [ L. gressus, p. p. of gradi to step, go. ] (Zool.) Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.

n. [ LL., a printer. ] One who, or that which, impresses. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Insessores [ See Insessores. ] (Zool.) One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the common singing birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. insessor, lit., one who sits down, fr. incidere. See Insession. ] (Zool.) An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) 1. Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging or pertaining to the Insessores. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a surety: cf. F. intercesseur. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator. (a) One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them. (b) One who pleads in behalf of another. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Intercessory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. intercessorius. ] Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession; interceding; as, intercessory prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. lessoun, F. leçon lesson, reading, fr. L. lectio a reading, fr. legere to read, collect. See Legend, and cf. Lection. ] 1. Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.“ A smooth and pleasing lesson.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Emprinteth well this lesson in your mind. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning. [ 1913 Webster ]

She would give her a lesson for walking so late. Sir. P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mus.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lessoned p. pr. & vb. n. Lessoning. ] To teach; to instruct. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad,
Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Lessee, Lease, v. t. ] (Law) One who leases; the person who lets to farm, or gives a lease. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Pedagogy) A system of training and instruction, primarily for use with normal children aged from three to six years, devised by Dr. Maria Montessori while teaching in the “Houses of Childhood” (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. The fundamental aim is to create self-motivation for education, and the leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of reading and writing skills, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of “didactic apparatus, ” which is declared to be “auto-regulative.” Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812-80). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. ] One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. possesseur. ] One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. “Possessors of eternal glory.” Law. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if he had been possessor of the whole world. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Owner; proprietor; master; holder; occupant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. possessorius: cf. F. possessoire. ] Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. [ 1913 Webster ]

Possessory action or
Possessory suit (Law), an action to regain or obtain possession of something. See under Petitory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praecessor. ] A predecessor. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praedecessor; prae before + decessor one who withdraws from the province he has governed, a retiring officer (with reference to his successor), a predecessor, fr. decedere: cf. F. prédécesseur. See Decease. ] One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. [ 1913 Webster ]

A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had been over the interests of the state. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]