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ve church of Egypt or church of Alexandria, which in general organization and doctrines resembles the Roman Catholic Church, except that it holds to the Monophysitic doctrine which was condemned (a. d. 451) by the council of Chalcedon, and allows its priests to marry. The "pope and patriarch" has jurisdiction over the…

To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life. We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation. Stewart.

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

The face; the features. In countenance somewhat doth resemble you. Shak.

That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart. Thou drawest a counterfeit Best in all Athens. Shak. Even Nature's self envied the same, And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame The thing itself. Spenser.

A person who closely resembles another.

The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior.

A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.

swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs.

; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity. Two such silver currents, when they join, Do glorify the banks that bound them in. Shak. The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigat…

A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from

To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.

An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles

A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.

A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks.

That dissembles; hypocritical; false. -- Dis*sem"bling*ly, adv.

To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.