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Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant. [R.] The most concinnous and most rotund of proffessors, M. Heyne. De Quiency.

trive; to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward.

lution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father. Addison.

ratulate one's self, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self happy or fortunate.

Fortune; fate; destiny. [Obs.] It is constellation, which causeth all that a man doeth. Gower.

An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarassing; a hitch. In this unhappy contretemps. De Quincey.

A convenient or fit time; opportunity; as, to do something at one's convenience.

Seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion; a convenient season. Acts xxiv. 25.

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

A tune which regulates the dance.

burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts. By misfortune it cracked in the coling. Boyle. The mirror cracked from side to side. Tennyson.

To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrustung one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.

That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance. A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. L'Estrange. Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear. Cowper.

To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore. I crave your honor's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv. 43.

A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool. A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen. Shak. Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud. Macualay.

iction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune. Heaven prepares a good man with crosses. B. Jonson.

question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. "The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses." Kent.

Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

Importunate supplication. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls. Shak.

A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs.] Hudibras.