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.