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The beginning and the ending. [Obs.] Quarles.

Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

Habitually attending church.

Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.

A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself. Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain. Dryden.

repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.

The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of.

Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.

Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. Clashes between popes and kings. Denham.

Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.

Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

Conclusion; cessation; ending; end. His long and troubled life was drawing to a close. Macaulay.

der Hitch. -- Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.

The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.