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Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

istricts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world. Locke.

To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. South.

ate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or the doctrines themselves.

in to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. Dryden.

. . . But where there is true friendship there needs none. Shak. Al ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. Chesterfield.

That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

rcular numbers (Arith.), those whose powers terminate in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the theory of curves, imagined to p…

cous matter. A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. L'Estrange.

among them are throught worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. Sharp.

he shall make thee afraid. Ecclesiasticus xxx. 9. Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up. J. Ingelow.

character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.

nite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.

utiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.

To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] We commence judges ourselves. Coleridge.

notice or favorable attention. Among the objects of knowlwdge, two especially commend themselves to our contemplation. Sir M. Hale. I commend unto you Phebe our sister. Rom. xvi. 1.

ame country, and having like interests and feeling. The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America. Palfrey.

f a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves. Addison.

tion; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon.