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Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like. [Colloq. or Lowx] I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything. Richardson.

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

Expressing applause; approbative. -- Ap*plau"sive*ly, adv.

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. Sheldon.

Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile. -- Ap*prov"ing*ly, adv.

icial classification (Science), an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, "the artificial system" in botany, which is the same as the Linnæan system. -- Artificial horizon. See under Horizon. Artificial light, any light other than that which proceeds fro…

Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning). We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited. Macaulay.

rence (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity, great atrocity. Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. De Quincey.

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.

Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. -- Aug*ment"a*tive*ly, adv.

Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. "The hour of Nature's awful throes." Hemans.

Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc.

Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. Thackeray.

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. If things should go so between them. Bacon.

Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.

S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton cloth and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with coloring matter. -- Block system on railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric signa…

thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting. The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs. Tomlinson.