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A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. [R.] Caxton.

An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata.

Babble. Hawthorne.

The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.

Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.

The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.

A brabble. [R.] Holland.

Wrangle; brangle. [Obs.]

The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. Coleridge.

Clemency. [Obs.] Spenser.

orgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy. Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects. Stowe. They had applied for the royal clemency. Macaulay.

Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate. Shak. -- Clem"ent*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St.Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

Compilation. [R.]

s required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole. History is the complement of poetry. Sir J. Stephen.

Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing. "Complemental ceremony." Prynne.

Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Complementary colors. See under Color. -- Complementary angles (Math.), two angles whose sum is 90°.

Condolence. "A pitiful condolement." Milton.