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Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger. "Choleric speech." Sir W. Raleigh. Choleric temperament, the bilious temperament.

, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.

Circular; illogical. [Obs. & .] "Cross and circulary speeches." Hooker.

A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.

Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick. Byron.

A little cloud. R. Browning. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge.

.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed.

uture; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition. Welcome the coming, speed the parting, guest. Pope. Your coming days and years. Byron.

One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them [the peers] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam.

in its present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank of peers. Blackstone.

An equal; a rival; a compeer. [Obs.] Gerard ever was His full comparative. Beau. & Fl.

; compassing signifying the purpose or design of the mind or will, and not, as in common speech, the carrying such design to effect. Blackstone.

One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. Beattie. Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak.

y word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend. Tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies. Milton. Many a compliment politely penned. Cowper. To make one a co…

rrender; as, a compromise of character or right. I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them. Lamb.

t assembly. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.

To bring to an end; to close; to finish. I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state. Bacon.

taying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council. To council summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. Milton.

That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation. [R.] Milton.

thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding. A constriction of the parts inservient to speech. Grew.