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Having a plump, short face.

Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.

Like ashes; ash-colored; cinerous.

A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.

Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering ou every side.

Lying round; borderong on every side. T. Fuller.

Cluniac.

Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped. [R.] Bacon.

A heaping together. [R.] Bacon.

Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves. Addison.

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. Burke.

Marked by, or causing, complacence. [Obs.] "Complacential love." Baxter.

In a complacent manner.

Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. Kirwan.

Belonging to the confervae.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.