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Somewhat clever. [R.]

A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.

One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.

ing is of prime importance. Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists. Dryden.

; relative estimate. As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them. Macaulay. The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison. Trench.

The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.

To comprehend; to include. Comprise much matter in few words. Hocker. Friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon.

To make sad. [Obs.] To deject and contrist myself. Sterne.

To make sorrowful. [Obs.] Bacon.

Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

Marked with closely set transverse furrows.

r be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. Dryden. The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. Brougham.

Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

s, external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O. W. Holmes.

The state of being crispate.

One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.

A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft.

In a crisp manner.

The state or quality of being crisp.