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or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.

cumstances; to entr into details concerning. Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. State Trials (1661).

A flatterer or sycophant. [Obs.] "Take heed of these clawbacks." Latimer.

To act together; to work in concert; to unite. [Obs.] But if I tell you how these two did coact. Shak.

m.), an extensive series of complex red compounds of cobalt and ammonia. Modifications of these are the purpureo-cobaltic compounds.

uft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.

is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.

greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations Bentley.

Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins.

A money changer. [Obs.] In the face of these guilty collybists. Bp. Hall.

inst; to resist. When he the ambitious Norway combated. Shak. And combated in silence all these reasons. Milton. Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled. Goldsmith.

s.] "To come off by the worst." Calamy. -- To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave disquisitions." Felton. -- To come on. (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive. (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene. -- To come out. (a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room, company, etc. "T…

Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable. This is a happier and more comely time Than when these fellows ran about the streets, Crying confusion. Shak. It is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. Ps. cxlvii. 1.

ists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.

To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. These two were commited. Clarendon.

To contain or comprise. [Obs.] Which these six books compile. Spenser.

the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility. These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.…

The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. The complexedness of these moral ideas. Locke.

parts; entaglement; complexity. A complication of diseases. Macaulay. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.

Consistency; accord; congruity. [Obs.] There is no composition in these news That gives them credit. Shak.