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Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.

The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.

on; causing a feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air, weather, etc. If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, . . . and the other maketh it exceeding unequal. Bacon.

One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted. No better nor more cogent reason. Dr. H. More. Proofs of the most cogent description. Tyndall. The tongue whose strains were cogent as commands, Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands. Cowper.

of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.

A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.

I. Newton. Composition cloth, a kind of clotch covered with a preparation making it waterproof. -- Composition deed, an agreement for composition between a debtor and several creditors. -- Composition plane (Crystallog.), the plane by which the two individuals of a twin crystal are united in their reserved positions.…

Joint attestation; proof. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

nion, or associate. And turned my flying comrades to the charge. J. Baillie. I abjure all roofs, and choose . . . To be a comrade with the wolf and owl. Shak.

the law makes so peremptorily that it will not allow it to be overthrown by any contrary proof, however strong.

nsure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley.

which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak.

To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.

The shotproof pilot house of a war vessel.

Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. [Obs.] A solemn contestation ratified on the part of God. Barrow.

contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. Locke.

To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove. Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find. Hooker.