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lexibility. [Obs.] Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad. Shak.

One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.

A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.

To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n.

nd, as information. Syn. -- circulate, circularize, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse. [WordNet 1.5]

A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton.

Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.

ing against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.

other person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. This horse load of citations and fathers. Milton.

nging sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together. The broadsword's deadly clang, As if a thousand anvils rang. Sir W. Scott.

To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow. Dryden.

kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

A joint or coadjutant bishop. Ayliffe.

An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

h can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, or Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus. Cock"a*trice, n. Etym: [OF. cocatrice crocodile, F. cocatrix, coc…

A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.

certed applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation. Bp. Hoadley.

iking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.