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unite in one luster or radiane, as stars. [R.] Whe know how to constellate these lights. Boyle.

sation. [Obs.] Fullness of matter, or a pretty close constipation . . . of its particles. Boyle.

Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.

Proportionate mixture or combination. "Contemperation of light and shade." Boyle.

To context. [Obs.] Boyle.

Controversal. [Obs.] Boyle.

s or associations of several particles of matter into bodies of any certain denomination. Boyle.

r; converging. As many rays of light, as conveniently can be let in, and made convergent. Boyle. The vast dome of its cathedral . . . directing its convergent curves to heaven. Hallam.

One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle.

To embody; to form into a body. [Obs.] Boyle.

lkali. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green- blue solution. Boyle.

Corrodibility. "Corrosibility . . . answers corrosiveness." Boyle.

play of light. A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call coruscation. Boyle.

ate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature. Sir W. Hamilton.

ening that to our exact balance, we put a metalline counterpoise into the opposite scale. Boyle.

A boy or man of any age or station. [Slang] There's a gentry cove here. Wit's Recreations (1654). Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be not filched from us. Mrs. Browning.

eak, with or without quite separating into parts. By misfortune it cracked in the coling. Boyle. The mirror cracked from side to side. Tennyson.

The quality or state of being credible; worthness of belief; credibility. [R.] Boyle.

lowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. Shak. Like guilty thing, Icreep. Tennyson.

degrading manner; to fawn. When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. Bunyan. Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch Milton. Flatterers . . . are…