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and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton. They [the exorcists] are to try the devil by holy water, incense, sulphur, rue, which from thence, as we suppose, came to be called herb of grace. Jer. Taylor.…

Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

A private circle or assembly at a private house; a circle. [Obs.] Dryden.

To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser.

The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.

To agree; to be suitable. [Obs.] Shak.

Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. Holland.

Congruence. Congruency of lines. (Geom.) See Complex of lines, under Complex, n.

Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding. The congruent and harmonious fitting of parts in a sentence. B. Jonson. Congruent figures (Geom.), concurring figures.

o explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand. Thus we are put to construe and paraphrase our own words to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our enemies. Bp. Stilingfleet. And to be dull was construed to be good. Pope.

; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. Jer. vi. 22,23.

In a cruel manner.

Cruelty. [Obs.] Spenser.

Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak.

Smeared with blood. [Obs.] Glanwill.

Bloody; cruentate. [Obs.]

A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar. Cruet stand, a frame for holding cruets; a caster.

Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient. -- n.