ACC 



ACC 



black beclJc. (See plate I. Entomology, 

 %. Land 2.) 



These insects, which are often very 

 troublesome on plants, and in hot-houses, 

 may be effectually destroyed by the fol- 

 lowing mixture. Take t\vo ounces of soft 

 screen soap, one ounce of common turpen- 

 tine, and one ounce of flour of sulphur; 

 pour upon these ingredients a gallon of 

 boiling water, work the whole together 

 with a whisk, and let the mixture be used 

 warm. This mixture may also be of use 

 for preventing the mildew on the peach 

 and apricot ; but it should never be used 

 on fruit-trees near the time when their 

 fruits are ripening. A strong ley made of 

 wood-ashes will likewise destroy the aca- 

 ri ; but plants are greatly injured by this, 

 and by briny and spirituous compositions. 



ACAULOSE, or ACAULOUS, among bo- 

 tanists, a term used for such plants as have 

 no caulia or stem. See CAULTS. 



ACCEDAS ad cunam, in law, a writ ly- 

 ing where a man hath received, or fears 

 false judgment, in a hundred-court, or 

 court baron. It is issued out of the Chan- 

 cery, and directed to the sheriff', but re- 

 turnable in the King's-bench or Common- 

 pleas. It lies also for justice delayed, and 

 is said to be a species of the writ Recar- 

 dare. 



ACCELERATION, in mechanics, de- 

 notes the augmentation or increase of mo- 

 tion in accelerated bodies. 



The term acceleration is chiefly used in 

 speaking of falling bodies, or the tenden- 

 cy of heavy bodies towards the centre of 

 the earth produced by the power of gravi- 

 ty ; which, acting constantly and uniform- 

 ly upon them, they must necessarily ac- 

 quire every instant a new increase of mo- 

 tion. See GRAVITATION. 



ACCELERATOR. See ANATOMY. 



ACCENT, among grammarians, is the 

 raising or lowering of the voice in pro- 

 nouncing certain syllables of words. 



We have three kinds of accents, viz. 

 the acute, the grave, and circumflex. The 

 acute accent, marked thus ('), shews that 

 the voice is to be raised in pronouncing 

 the syllables over which it is placed. The 

 grave accent is marked thus ("), and 

 points out when the voice ought to be 

 lowered. The circumflex accent is com- 

 pounded of the other two, and marked 

 thus (~ or ") ; it denotes a quavering of 

 the voice between high and low. Some 

 call the long and short quantities of sylla- 

 bles accents ; but erroneously. 



ACCENT, in music, a term applicable to 

 every modulation of the voice, both in 

 speaking 1 and in singing. Jt is to the stu- 



dy of this that the composer and perform- 

 er should unceasingly apply ; since, with- 

 out accent, there can be no music, because 

 there can be no expression. 



ACCEPTANCE, in common law, the 

 tacitly agreeing to some act before done 

 by another, which might have been de- 

 feated without such acceptance. Thus, if 

 a husband and wife, seized of land in right 

 of the wife, make a joint lease or feofT- 

 ment, reserving rent, and the husband 

 dies ; after which the widow receives, or 

 accepts the rent ; such receipt is deemed 

 an acceptance, confirms the lease ofieofT- 

 ment, and bars her from bringing the 

 writ citi in vita. 



ACCEPTANCE, among merchants, is the 

 signing or subscribing a bill of exchange, 

 by which the acceptor obliges himself to 

 pay the contents of the bill. 



Bills payable at sight are not accepted, 

 because they must either be paid on being 

 presented, or else protested for want of 

 payment. 



The acceptance of bills payable at a 

 fixed day, at usance, or double usance, 

 &c. need not be dated : because the time 

 is reckoned from the date of the bill ; but 

 it is necessary to date the acceptance of 

 bills payable at a certain number of days 

 after sight, because the time does not be- 

 gin to run till the next day after that ac- 

 ceptance : this kind of acceptance is made 

 thus, Accepted such a day and year, and 

 signed. See EXCHANGE. 



ACCESSARY, or ACCESSORY, in com- 

 mon law, is chiefly used for a person 

 guilty of a felonious offence, not princi- 

 pally, but by participation ; as, by advice, 

 command, or concealment. There are two 

 kinds of accessaries; before the fact, and 

 after it. The first is he who commands, or 

 procures, another to commit felony, and 

 is not present himself; for if he be pre- 

 sent, he is a principal. 



The second is he who receives, assists, 

 or comforts any man that has done mur- 

 der, or felony, whereof he has knowledge. 

 A man may also be accessary to an acces- 

 sary, by aiding, receiving, &c. an accessa- 

 ry in felony. An accessary in felony shall 

 have judgment of life and member, as 

 well as the principal, who did the felony : 

 but not till the principal be first attainted, 

 and convicted, or outlawed thereon. 

 Where the principal is pardoned without 

 attainder, the accessary cannot be arraign- 

 ed; it being a maxim in law, Ubi non est 

 principalis, non potest esse accessorius. 

 But if the principal be pardoned, or have: 

 his clergy after attainder, the accessary 

 shall be arraigned. 4 and 5 W. and M 



