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Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe.

THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.

A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton.

e court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macualay.

ed vault, a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.

Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

l-known freestone peach, wich yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. Locke.

Marked with closely set transverse furrows.

iform compress. Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.

One versed in criminal law. [R.]

of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint. The criminations and recriminations of the adverse parties. Macaulay.

t skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.

Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. They are a perverse and crooked generation. Deut. xxxii. 5.

In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

f being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

A gibbet, cosisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals. Nailed to the cross By his own nation. Milton.

A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges. Crabb.

Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.

A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down. Russell. Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -…