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See Chiaroscuro.

See Chiaroscuro.

To run together; to meet. [Obs.] Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates. J. Hughes.

The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke.

Concurrence.

ect; coöperating. I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton.

With concurrence; unitedly.

The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.

Agreeing. Concurring figure (Geom.), one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which correspondends with another in all its parts.

A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.

To give additional security to or for. Burke.

A vessel of flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.

Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms.

A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.

The office of a decurion.

The act of running down; a lapse. [R.] Gauden.

rd; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem. -- De*cur"rent*ly, adv.

A flowing; also, a hostile incursion. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Running down; decurrent.