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Accidentalness :: Accidentalness (n.) The quality of being accidental; casualness.

Chance :: Chance (n.) The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty..

Precaution :: Precaution (n.) A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident..

Accident :: Accident (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident..

Casually :: Casually (adv.) Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.

Intentional :: Intentional (a.) Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental..

Liability :: Liability (n.) The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law..

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke..

Mood :: Mood (n.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode..

Forgather :: Forgather (v. i.) To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

Accident :: Accident (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident..

Overhear :: Overhear (v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.

Hinder :: Hinder (a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going..

Find :: Find (v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person..

Haply :: Haply (adv.) By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be..

Accidental :: Accidental (a.) Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play..

Case :: Case (n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.

Indicatrix :: Indicatrix (n.) A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic..

Aggravation :: Aggravation (n.) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

Predicable :: Predicable (n.) One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident..

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