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Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. [R.] Carlyle.

A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.

A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. Coxe.

An outer wall. [Obs.] Chambers.

An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.

The state of being embodied; bodily existence. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

One who is surety with another.

A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.

ll raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure. Knolles.

To give additional security to or for. Burke.

A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged. Wilhelm.

Covering; shelter; defence; hiding. Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

istent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. Fuller. God's first creature was light. Bacon. On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Milton. And mo…

Without created beings; alone. God was alone And creatureless at first. Donne.

Creatural; characteristic of a creature. [R.] "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.

The condition of being a creature.

A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.

The state of being crispate.

The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.