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er vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of. [Archaic.] Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. Shak.

White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.

of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverable dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! milton. In the dark and silent grave. Sir W. Raleigh.

Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.

To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon. To discolor all your ideas. Wat

Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin. The northern people large and fair-complexioned. Sir M. Hale.

nness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.

rovided; in case that; on condition that. [Obs.] One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot.

A dark-complexioned person. Shak.

Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.

temples hollow, the ears cold and retracted, the skin of the forehead tense and dry, the complexion livid, the lips pendent, relaxed, and cold; -- so called, as having been described by Hippocrates. Dunglison. -- Hippocratic oath, an oath said to have been dictated by Hippocrates to his disciples. Such an oath is sti…

One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice; yellow; as, an icteroid tint or complexion.

s of India of Aryan speech and blood, characterized by tall stature, dolichocephaly, fair complexion with dark hair and eyes, plentiful beard, and narrow and prominent nose.

complexion; aspect; appearance. [Obs.] A Rosalind of a better leer than you. Shak.

arked; not of a deep shade; moderately colored; as, a light color; a light brown; a light complexion.

Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.

with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are like each other in features, complexion, and many traits of character. 'The as like you As cherry is to cherry. Shak. Like master, like man. Old Prov. He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.