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1,784 words match “SOUT”

COLEMANITE n.
ous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.
COLLARDS n.
ng cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort. [Colloq. Souther U. S.]
COLLECT v.
clude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South.
COLOCOLO n.
A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.
COMB; COMBE n.
es into it. [Written also coombe.] Buckland. A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed. Southey.
COMBUSTIBLE a.
ning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South.
COMELY a.
me. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.
COMMANDO n.
In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.
COMMENSURATION n.
. All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or proportion of one thing to another. South.
COMMISSION n.
petrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South.
COMMITTER n.
One who commits; one who does or perpetrates. South.
COMMUNION n.
arkness 2 Cor. vi. 14. Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. South.
COMMUTATION n.
] So great is the commutation that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves. South.
COMPASS n. 2 definitions
of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pinting in a northerly and southerly direction. He that firat discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses. Locke.
COMPASSIONATE a.
never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South.
COMPLETION n.
lfillment; accomplishment; realization. Predictions receiving their completion in Christ. South.
COMPLEX n.
ends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel. South. Complex of lines (Geom.), all the possible straight lines in space being considered, the entire system of lines which satisfy a single relation constitute a complex; as, all the lines which meet a given curve make up a comp…
CONCATENATION n.
l, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.
CONCEIT v.
iting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so. South. One of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer. Shak.
CONCERNING a.
Important. [Archaic] So great and so concerning truth. South.
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