v. t. [ L. abnodatus, p. p. of abnodare; ab + nodus knot. ] To clear (tress) from knots. [ R. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [ R. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bode. ] An omen; a portending. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. accommodable. ] That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. [ R. ] I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being accommodable. [ R. ] Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accommodated p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating ] [ L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See Mode. ] 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. “They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare. ] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [ Archaic ] Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Suitably; fitly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fitness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. “The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.” Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. “To come to terms of accommodation.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accommodation bill, or
note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. --
Accommodation coach, or
train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. --
Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. He who, or that which, accommodates. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to acnodes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; topmost + &unr_; finger. ] (Zool.) The upper surface of the toes, individually. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 heliozoans; radiolarians.
Syn. -- subclass Actinopoda [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; blunt + &unr_;, &unr_;, foot. ] (Paleon.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_;, &unr_; foot. ] (Zool.) A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; without joints + -poda. See Anarthrous. ] (Zool.) One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. pl. [ NL. anisodactyla, fr. Gr. 'a`nisos unequal ('an priv. + 'i`sos equal) + da`ktylos finger. ] (Zool.) (a) A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc. (b) A group of perching birds which are anisodactylous. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; unequal + -poda. ] (Zool.) A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ad to + nodus a knot. ] (Her.) Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S. Cussans. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or at or relating to an anode. Contrastive to cathodic.
Syn. -- anodic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Med.) Good against gout. -- n. A medicine for gout. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Diametrically opposite. “His antipodal shadow.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. See Apod, n. ] (Zool.) (a) A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs. (b) An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha. (c) A group of worms without appendages, as the leech. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Apod, n. ] 1. Without feet; footless. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Apodal. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'a`rqron joint + -poda. ] (Zool.) A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- Ar*throp"o*dal a. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot; a member of the artiodactyla.
Syn. -- artiodactyle, even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl mammal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of, pertaining to, or belonging to the order Artiodactyla.
Syn. -- artiodactylous, even-toed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; even + &unr_; finger or toe. ] (Zool.) One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; -- opposed to Perissodactyla. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Artiodactyla.
Syn. -- artiodactyl, even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl mammal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Even-toed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family of small motile sulphur bacteria.
Syn. -- family Athiorhodaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Babylonian) the chief Babylonian god; his consort was Sarpanitu.
Syn. -- Marduk, Merodach, Baal Merodach. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Statistics) having or occurring with two modes{ 9 }; having two maxima; -- of a curve or distribution. unimodal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; arm + -poda. ] (Zool.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Within the shell is a pair of “arms, ” often long and spirally coiled, bearing rows of ciliated tentacles by which a current of water is made to flow into the mantle cavity, bringing the microscopic food to the mouth between the bases of the arms. The shell is both opened and closed by special muscles. They form two orders; Lyopoma, in which the shell is thin, and without a distinct hinge, as in Lingula; and Arthropoma, in which the firm calcareous shell has a regular hinge, as in Rhynchonella. See Arthropomata. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; gill + E. gastropoda. ] (Zool.) Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Gr. &unr_; gill + -poda: cf. F. branchiopode. ] (Zool.) An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of birds including the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) and purple finch (Carpodacus purpurea).
Syn. -- genus Carpodacus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., gr. Gr. kefalh` head + -poda: cf. F. céphalopode. ] (Zool.) The highest class of Mollusca. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have, around the front of the head, a group of elongated muscular arms, which are usually furnished with prehensile suckers or hooks. The head is highly developed, with large, well organized eyes and ears, and usually with a cartilaginous brain case. The higher forms, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopi, swim rapidly by ejecting a jet of water from the tubular siphon beneath the head. They have a pair of powerful horny jaws shaped like a parrot's beak, and a bag of inklike fluid which they can eject from the siphon, thus clouding the water in order to escape from their enemies. They are divided into two orders, the Dibranchiata, having two gills and eight or ten sucker-bearing arms, and the Tetrabranchiata, with four gills and numerous arms without suckers. The latter are all extinct except the Nautilus. See Octopus, Squid, Nautilus. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ NL., gr. Gr. kesto`s girdle + -oid. ] (Zool.) A subclass of parasitic worms of the class Cestoidea. In some classifications, it is not differentiated from the parent class. [ PJC ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; hair + -poda. ] (Zool.) A very extensive order of Annelida (segmented worms), characterized by the presence of lateral setæ, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochæta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychæta, including most of the marine species. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Zool.) See Chilopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; lip + -poda. ] (Zool.) One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipedes. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., tail, fr. L. cauda. ] (Mus.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition. [ 1913 Webster ]