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The act or process of curling the hair. [Obs.] burton.

A sensualist. Burton.

A work divided into a hundred parts. [R.] Burton.

The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.

ompel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive. Any coactive power or the civil kind. Bp. Warburton.

-- Co*er"cive*ness, n. Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice. Bp. Warburton. Coercive or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural stat…

much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so many infirmities. Warburton.

A member of a college. Burton.

opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton. Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. W. Irving.

The black grime or soot of coal. [Obs.] Burton.

Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. [Obs.] Warburton.

To compress; to shut up. [Obs.] Burton.

t cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton.

Preserved; pickled. [Obs.] Burton.

ade (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. Bp. Warburton.

us conversation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.

Adapted or designed to confute. Bp. Warburton

federation; association; intimacy. A friendly consociation with your kindred elements. Warburton.

To ravish; to debauch. Burton.

To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold. [Obs.] Burton.