Search the Dictionary

- To close with. (a) To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. (b) To make an agreement with. -- To close with the land (Naut.), to approach the land.

Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

forest falls the clustered snow. Thomson. Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.

Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.

A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.

The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebræ more or less consolidated.

tions which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship. That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted. Lord Stowell.

Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

he same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.

Self-possessed; calm; composed.

Composedly; coolly.

lf through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid.

h prints. According to one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate…

A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.

A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.

Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson.