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plement of a parallelogram. (Math.) See Gnomon. -- In her complement (Her.), said of the moon when represented as full.

i. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.

His [Mozart's] most brilliant and solid glory is founded upon his talents as a composer. Moore (Encyc. of Mus. ).

To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.

two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.

Closely united. [Obs.] Shak. Conjunctive mood (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood. -- Conjunctive tissue (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded prot…

. Newton. Month of consecution (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another.

ssian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore.

A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.

The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.

, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.

Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.

thought or action; as, the course of an argument. The course of true love never did run smooth. Shak.

cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation. In vain she tries her paste and creams, To smooth her skin or hide its seams. Goldsmith.

Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] And toward the moon's attractive crescence bend. H. Brooke.

The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.

ty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (C. moschata) and is smooth and often striped. [U. S.]

the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.