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galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.

A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.]

fication from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. Trench.

A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheve.

A trench dug in the botton of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

Blood, n., 8. -- Cold chill, an ague fit. Wright. -- Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. Weale. -- Cold cream. See under Cream. -- Cold slaw. See Cole slaw. -- In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately. He was slain in cold blood after thefight was over…

meliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.

To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer, Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men. Bacon. That we may be adle to comfort them that are in any affliction. 2 Cor. i. 4. (Rev. Ver. ). A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command. Wordsworth.…

mpanions in the world. Shak. A companion is one with whom we share our bread; a messmate. Trench.

regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.

of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison. Trench.

terrors and with clamors compassed round. Milton. Now all the blessings Of a glad cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round.uke xix. 43.

of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. D. Webster. The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues. Melmoth.

To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to Ant: dilute. Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength. Arbuthnot.…

ard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate. I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king. Shak. And O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse Cowley. The new condit…

bs.] The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union. Glanvill.

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise. Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs. Shak. Annd confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law. Ps. cv. 10.

The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim. Cowper.

The act of strengthening. [Obs.] Bacon.