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One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.

To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian. The pagans began to Christianize. Latham.

and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.

A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.

Varicose. Cirsoid aneurism, a disease of an artery in which it becomes dilated and elongated, like a varicose vein.

The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color. Thynne.

Milk curdled so as to become thick.

To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.

To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often fallowed by up, off, or away. So foul a sky clears without a strom. Shak. Advise him to stay till the weather clears up. Swift.

To acclimate or become acclimated.

To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter. In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog. S. Sharp.

Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse. [Written also cloisteral.] Best become a cloistral exercise. Daniel.

To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.

To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak.

To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up. Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud. Shak.

ighly inflammable powder. -- Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.

To become cold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n.

Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.

inary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.