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The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

oss the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.

That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.

The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.

; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult. Nor can his complicated sinews fail. Young. Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison. When the disease is complicated with other diseases. Arbuthnot.

Consistency; accord; congruity. [Obs.] There is no composition in these news That gives them credit. Shak.

olidated. [R.] A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. Elyot.

Adapted to console or comfort; cheering; as, this is consoling news.

One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine.

One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

t court. -- Court card. Same as Coat card. -- Court circular, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] Edwards. -- Court day, a day…

The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.

e to fall in pieces. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Milton.

, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly. Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news Shak.

religion declines; business declines. That empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. Waller. And presume to know . . . Who thrives, and who declines. Shak.

atively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question. I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. Shak.

the senior member of a body or group; as, the doyen of French physicians. "This doyen of newspapers." A. R. Colquhoun.

ication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper. Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. Enfield.

ts; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.