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Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse. Shak.

Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. [R.] Shak.

h a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption.

gure. Burill. Incipient species (Zoöl.), a subspecies, or variety, which is in process of becoming permanent, and thus changing to a true species, usually by isolation in localities from which other varieties are excluded.

The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.

Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines. Gray.

The act of becoming surety for another.

Becoming a squire; like a squire.

Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.

Becoming a statesman.

and imago. In this stage, the insect is able to fly, but subsequently sheds a skin before becoming mature. Called also pseudimago.

Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv.

Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.

Becoming gradually smaller toward one end. -- Ta"per*ing*ly, adv.

it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C# becoming identical with D, and so on.

fied term providing for no payment to the insured except upon losses during the term, and becoming void upon its expiration.

lly, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree. I told them of the grave, becoming, and sublime deportment they should assume upon this mystical occasion, and read them two homilies and a thesis of my own composing, to prepare them. Goldsmith.

Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious. -- Thra*son"ic*al*ly, adv. Cæsar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame.' Shak.