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One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.

As black as coal; jet black; very black. Dryden.

Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.

Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves. Addison.

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. Burke.

Marked by, or causing, complacence. [Obs.] "Complacential love." Baxter.

In a complacent manner.

Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. Kirwan.

To turn to ice; to freeze. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. Bacon.

A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.

Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla.

A tearing in pieces. [Obs.] Bailey.

An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of weaning. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.