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Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. Jer. Taylor.

Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.

The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement. The objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity. Burke.

In a complex manner; not simply.

The state of being complex; complexity. A. Smith.

A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time.

A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and mosquito.

Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.

Bent abruptly downward.

See Deflection.

A bending or turning aside; deflection. Bailey.

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in the same direction at the same time. Diplex and contraplex are the two varieties of duplex.

To change the complexion or hue of. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Double; twofold. Duplex escapement, a peculiar kind of watch escapement, in which the scape-wheel has two sets of teeth. See Escapement. -- Duplex lathe, one for turning off, screwing, and surfacing, by means of two cutting tools, on opposite sides of the piece operated upon. -- Duplex pumping engine, a steam pump in…

A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.

An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig.

To bend; as, to flex the arm.

Having power to change the mind. [Obs.] Howell.

The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.