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One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.

me." Tennyson. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South.

or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship. A people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind. Burke.

rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

To adorn; to make fine or showy. [Obs.] Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved. Shak.

spect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. Hume.

The general air of the countenance. To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow. Milton. He told them with a masterly brow. Milton.

f law, a failure in the performance of which duty calls for judgment against the party on whom the duty is imposed.

A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company. I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart. Addison.

A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Cæsar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government.

To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. [Obs.] Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.

ith; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another. Look upon those thousands with whom thou wouldst not, for any interest, change thy fortune and condition. Jer. Taylor.

nd in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize. Fortunately Lady Bell Finley, whom I had promised to chaperon, sent to excuse herself. Hannah More.

d car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc. First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. Cowper.

pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.

straint, or rebuff. Useful check upon the administration of government. Washington. A man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

er by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around. I circumvented whom I could not gain. Dryden.