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A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.

To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

s transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.

Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak.

estes sibilons), of St. Vincent Islands. -- Invisible green, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.

urn. Shak. Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good. Locke.

. Lead angle (Steam Engine), the angle which the crank maker with the line of centers, in approaching it, at the instant when the valve opens to admit steam. -- Lead screw (Mach.), the main longitudinal screw of a lathe, which gives the feed motion to the carriage.

rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

In time approaching our own. In that part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds. Locke.

A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.

Approaching maturity.

Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.

Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.

Approaching toward night.

Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness. Johnson.

s our present north star, being distant from the pole about 1º 25', and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.

ion of that nuptial, which We two have sworn shall come. Shak. Preparations . . . for the approaching nuptials. Prescott.

Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.

A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.

A brownish red approaching maroon, supposed to be imitated from the color of the wall panels of houses in Pompeii, which were decorated during the last age of the Republic.