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. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.

to complusion. This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.

A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal. This is therefore a concession , that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. Sharp. When a lover becomes satisfied by small com…

nd appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.

wo or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.

Newton. Month of consecution (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another.

Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy. [R.] As soon as it was day, certain Jews made a conspiration. Udall. In our natural body every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton.

The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.

England's] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon. Swift.

road belt of water; atolls, when they constitute separate islands, usually inclosing a lagoon. See Atoll. -- Coral root (Bot.), a genus (Corallorhiza) of orchideous plants, of a yellowish or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of cor…

which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.

s, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. -- Court fool, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. -- Court guide, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. -- Court hand, the hand or manner of writing used in records and…

ess; civility; urbanity; courtliness. And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended. Milton. Pardon me, Messer Claudio, if once more I use the ancient courtesies of spe…

A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon. A fool is nauseous, but a coward worse. Dryden.

of crime; the cradle of liberty. The cradle that received thee at thy birth. Cowper. No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old. Shak.

tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof. Wilson. Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.

To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan. He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out. Malone.

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

The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.

Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] And toward the moon's attractive crescence bend. H. Brooke.