v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accustomed p. pr. & vb. n. Accustoming. ] [ OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; à (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See Custom. ] To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To habituate; inure; exercise; train. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be wont. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cohabit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Custom. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Habitual; customary; wonted. “Accustomable goodness.” Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. accoustumance, F. accoutumance. ] Custom; habitual use. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Customarily. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Usual; customary. [ Archaic ] Featley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Familiar through use; usual; customary. “An accustomed action.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Frequented by customers. [ Obs. ] “A well accustomed shop.” Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Habituation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a ray + &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) The mouth or anterior opening of a cœlenterate animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Anastomozed p. pr. & vb. n. Anastomosing. ] [ Cf. F. anastomoser, fr. anastomose. See Anastomosis. ] 1. (Anat. & Bot.) To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of any channels or lines, to meet and unite or run into each other, as rivers; to coalesce; to interjoin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. Anastomoses [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; opening, fr. &unr_; to furnish with a mouth or opening, to open; &unr_; + &unr_; mouth: cf. F. anastomose. ] (Anat. & Bot.) The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to anastomosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 openbills.
Syn. -- genus Anastomus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Angio- + Gr. &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Ankylostoma, var. of Agchylostoma, generic name of one genus of the parasitic nematodes. ] (Med.) A disease caused by the hookworm parasites of the genus Ancylostoma (especially Ancylostoma duodenale), and Necator americanus. Typically, infection in humans occurs in the small intestine. In the small intestine they suck the blood from the wall and, when present in large numbers, produce a severe anaemia. Called also miner's anaemia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anaemia, Egyptian chlorosis. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

n. A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'archai^os ancient + sto`ma mouth. ] (Biol.) Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth. ] Not possessing a mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. blasto`s sprout + -mere. ] (Biol.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; -- they may cause disease in humans and other animals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any of several fungal infections caused by blastomycetes; they are characterized by inflammatory lesions of skin and mucous membranes or internal organs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to blastomycosis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr., Gr. &unr_; gill + &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) The lancelet. See Amphioxus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. kako`s bad + &unr_; mouth. ] (Med.) Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖ } n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; + &unr_;, &unr_;, outh. ] (Zool.) An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [ Also written Chillostomata. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Teaching what is useful. “A chrestomathic school.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; useful + &unr_;, &unr_;, to learn. ] A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Chrisom. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. E. cirrus + Gr. &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, comb + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, -&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To have a custom. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

On a bridge he custometh to fight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. custume, costume, Anglo-Norman coustome, F. coutume, fr. (assumed) LL. consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr. consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prob. originally, to make one's own, fr. the root of suus one's own; akin to E. so, adv. Cf. Consuetude, Costume. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. [ 1913 Webster ]

And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moved beyond his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

A custom
More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let him have your custom, but not your votes. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Age can not wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Custom of merchants, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated. --
General customs, those which extend over a state or kingdom. --
Particular customs, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.

Syn. -- Practice; fashion. See Habit, and Usage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. Accustom. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To make familiar; to accustom. [ Obs. ] Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To supply with customers. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st Custom. ] 1. The customary toll, tax, or tribute. [ 1913 Webster ]

Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. Rom. xiii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pay the customs of. [ Obs. ] Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. coustumable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Customary. [ Obs. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Usually. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a customary manner; habitually. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being customary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even now I met him
With customary compliment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A formal customary attendance upon the offices. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. ] A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A doublet of customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See Custom. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A lewd woman. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. [ 1913 Webster ]

Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to make to specifications.
Syn. -- custom-make, taylor-make. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to make according to requirements.
Syn. -- customise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. made specially for a specific purpose; -- of articles of manufacture. Contrasted with mass-produced, standardized.
Syn. -- made-to-order. [ PJC WordNet 1.5 ]

2. made or tailored to fit a specific person; -- of clothing. Contrasted with off-the-rack, ready-to-wear. a custom-made suit
Syn. -- made-to-order. [ PJC ]