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To to White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars. Pope.

The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation. Passions too violent . . . afford us nothing but vexation and pain. Sir W. Temple. Those who saw him after a defeat looked in vain for any trace of vexation. Macaulay.

Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor. "Continual vexatious wars." South.

Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.

One who vexes or troubles.

A vexillum.

Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation (Bot.), a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants.

A standard bearer. Tennyson.

A company of troops under one vexillum.

A flag or standard.

In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate. Tatler.

Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.

in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface. Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-convex.

Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.

In a convex form; convexly. Sir T. Browne.

Convexity.

The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.

In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.

The state of being convex; convexity.