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Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.

The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. What compliances will remove dissension Swift. Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay.

Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.

The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. By mutual concession the business was adjusted. Hallam.

only as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. He had lost a cool hundred. Fielding. Leaving a cool thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket. Dickens.

Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding. [Obs.] Clay in dry seasons is costive, hardening with the sun and wind. Mortimer.

One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.

A common work horse; a gelding. [Obs.] He'll buy me a cut, forth for to ride. Beau. & Fl.

ar pine. Dammar pine, (Bot.), a tree of the Moluccas (Agathis, or Dammara, orientalis), yielding dammar.

The act of yielding; surrender. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance. Deference to the authority of thoughtful and sagacious men. Whewell. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. Shenstone.…

Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture; as, delicate lace or silk.

ure of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.

Yielding diamonds.

added to a principal, will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The principal yielding this interest is the present value of the note.

Not yielding. Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. E. Darwin.

A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded. [Political cant, U. S.]

To transfer by draft. All her rents been drafted to London. Fielding.

is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. "But sermons are mere drugs." Fielding. And virtue shall a drug become. Dryden.

ch belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.