Search the Dictionary

formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

ing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted. Bentley.

ts comparative levity to the fluid that incloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top. Bentley.

Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.

In a compendious manner. Compendiously exressed by the word chaos. Bentley.

prising many things; having a wide scope or a full view. A very comprehensive definition. Bentley. Large and comprehensive idea. Channing.

Or to passion quickly heated. Swift. Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness. Bentley.

Condensed; compact; dense. [R.] The huge condense bodies of planets. Bentley.

his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley.

To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.

ct of uniting or combining; union; assemblage. [Obs.] Mixtures and conjugations of atoms. Bentley.

Agreement; accord. Bentley.

To be allied, confederated, or associated; to coalescence. [R.] Bentley.

as, the current flows continually. Why do not all animals continually increase in bigness Bentley.

urface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.

A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy. Bentley.

; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material for fragil…

A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made. Chambers.

er side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. -- Crab spider (Zoöl.), one of a group of spiders (Laterigradæ); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. -- Crab tree, the tree that bears crab applies. -- C…