\Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr.
accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]
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.
2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
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.
4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement;
   reconciliation; settlement. ``To come to terms of
   accommodation.'' --Macaulay.
5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of
   analogy, to something not originally referred to or
   intended.
         Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were
         probably intended as nothing more than
         accommodations.                       --Paley.
6. (Com.)
   (a) A loan of money.
   (b) An accommodation bill or note.
{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.