Word Meanings - COMPASSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.

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• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• CURVISERIAL
  Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
• CURVATURE
  The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
• CURVATE; CURVATED
  Bent in a regular form; curved.
• COMPASSABLE
  Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke.
• COMPASSING
  Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.
• COMPASSLESS
  Having no compass. Knowles.
• CURVILINEARITY
  The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
• CURVATIVE
  Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow.
• CURVIDENTATE
  Having curved teeth.
• CURVAL; CURVANT
  Bowed; bent; curved.
• CURVIROSTRAL
  Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.
• COMPASSIONATE
  1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South. 2. Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. Shak. Syn. -- Sympathizing; tender;
• COMPASSION
  Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay. Syn. -- Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling;
• CURVILINEAD
  An instrument for drawing curved lines.
• CURVINERVED
  Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.
• CURVITY
  The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness. Holder.
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• ENCOMPASSMENT
  The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak.
• RECURVATE
  Recurved.
• SCURVILY
  In a scurvy manner.
• RECURVITY
  Recurvation.
• OUTCOMPASS
  To exceed the compass or limits of. Bacon.
• SCURVY
  1. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. "Whatsoever man . . . be scurvy or scabbed." lev. xxi. 18, 20. 2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy
• ENCOMPASS
  To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world. Shak. A question may be encompassed with difficulty. C. J.
• INCURVATION
  1. The act of bending, or curving. 2. The state of being bent or curved; curvature. An incurvation of the rays. Derham. 3. The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence. "The incurvations of the knee." Bp. Hall.