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Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.

To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear. Then butter does refuse to come. Hudibras.

Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.

The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability. Complacency, and truth, and manly sweetness, Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts. Addison. With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust. Pope.

de; anxiety. While they are so eager to destory the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden.

To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matt. xii. 42.

To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate. Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered. Acts xxv. 12. You shall hear us confer of this. Shak.

Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess stood. Sir W. Scott.

An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.

Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.

nce to authority. The bishop commanded him . . . to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy. Strype.

pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial. [Obs.] "A convival dish." Sir T. Browne.

Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham.

The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.

Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

hemispheries. See Brain. -- Corpus Christi (kr Etym: [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. -- Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. -- Corpus delicti (d Etym: [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamen…

A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians.

A piratical vessel. Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean. Prescott.

A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.

One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.