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, to be said after sunset. The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night. Hammond.

The space between the strands on the outside of a rope. Knight.

Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone.

Of or pertaining to a corolla.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.

obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.

The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.

The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.

A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.

Cowardice.

Crepuscular. [Obs.] Sprat.

A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.

Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.

Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak.

State of being curly.

An instrument for drawing curved lines.

Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.

The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.

In a curvilinear manner.