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Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. Addison.

l. Daniel. -- Supplementary chords (Math.), in an ellipse or hyperbola, any two chords drawn through the extremities of a diameter, and intersecting on the curve.

Supraorbital point (Anat.), the middle point of the supraorbital line, which is a line drawn across the narrowest part of the forehead, separating the face from the cranium; the ophryon.

ceptible of color or of alteration. It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious dawn of our eternal day. Young.

the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. The sward was trim as any garden lawn. Tennyson. Sward pork, bacon in large fitches. [Prov. Eng.]

A lawn mower.

Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne. A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser.

In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.

The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.

Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces. "A swarthy Ethiope." Shak. Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains. Addison.

Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.

Swarthy; tawny. [Obs.] Burton.

To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline. The balance sways on our part. Bacon.

n the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.

ce, is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow compass. I. Watts.

ng-tagged thread laces. Macaulay. His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word. Dryden.

lance, which fails of its intended effect. [Obs.] This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. Chapman.

A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.

ing as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.

The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.