Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.
The formation of planets and other bodies by collection of material through gravity.
The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
Something added externally to promote the external growth of an item.
The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition.
A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
Concretion; coherence of separate particles.
The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
A lessening, decrease or reduction.
a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
The act or process of making diminutive.