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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.
  • CURVISERIAL
    Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
  • CURVE
    Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
  • 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.

 

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