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Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.

more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision. Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended. Milton.

attained. I. Watts. Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them. Mark xv. 15.

r may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance. The remarkable position of the queen rendering her death a most important contingency. Hallam.

opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me. Lev. xxvi. 21. We have lost our labor; they are gone a contrary way. Shak.

To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon.

An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange.…

dge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

Romans. This is the lightest and most ornamental of the three orders used by the Greeks. Parker.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.

headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown. Without a star, a coronet, or garter. Goldsmith.

h the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke.

A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.

Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.