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General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27.

To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

To become less hot; to lose heat. I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. Shak.

birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

To become incorporated. [Obs.]

To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. Bacon.

h while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left.

To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.

To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle. There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. Shak.

To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

To become crimson; to blush. Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. De Quincey.

Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.

ical. This belief in rightness is a kind of conscientiousness, and when it degenerates it becomes crotchetiness. J. Grote.

or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions. The cross, too, by degrees, become the crucifix. Milman. And kissing oft her crucifix, Unto the block she drew. Warner.

small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish. If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel. Arbuthnot. The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces. Prescott.

To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted. The place that was burnt . . . crusted and healed. Temple.

rocess by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey Shak.

To become healed. One desperate grief cures with another's languish. Shak.