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Illustration by comprison; simile. [Obs.] Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare. Shak. Beyond compare. See Beyond comparison, under Comparison.

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. Burke.

all growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.

A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles. Whitworth.

compute; to reckon. Who can count the dust of Jacob Num. xxiii. 10. In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins. Macaulay.

her part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile. In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another. Sir M. Hale.

brace. "A couple of shepherds." Sir P. Sidney. "A couple of drops" Adduson. "A couple of miles." Dickens. "A couple of weeks." Carlyle. Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple. Locke. [Ziba] met him with a couple of asses saddled. 2 Sam. xvi. 1.

A werd rhyming with another word. His similes in order set And every crambo he could get. Swift. Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.

To restore health; to effect a cure. Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. Shak.

om village tops are seen. Pope. Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. . 358

atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.

A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.

To place at a distance or remotely. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller.

strict, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. The Constitution of the United States.

Sudden display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.

A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze. But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. Mrs. Browning.

A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.

Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.

strain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands. Inward joy enforced my heart to smile. Shak.

Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced smiles." Shak. -- En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak.