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That may be complained of. [R.] Feltham.

One who makes complaint. Eager complainants of the dispute. Collier.

One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. Beattie. Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak.

ure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding. I poured out my complaint before him. Ps. cxlii. 2. Grievous complaints of you. Shak.

Full of complaint. [Obs.]

atten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn.

Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. Sir. T. Browne.

One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

Incapable of being explained; inexplicable.

A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain, but not wholly devoid of hills; a base-level plain.

Explaining itself; capable of being understood without explanation.

To remove from a chaplaincy.

Not deplored or bewailed; unlamented. [Obs.] Spenser.

To resolve or explain. [Obs.] "We shall not absolve the doubt." Sir T. Browne.

eason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great.…

of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

eir doings, God takes no account." Milton . -- A writ of account (Law), a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account. Cowell.

One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

d whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.