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A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared. Crabb.
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- CRABBER
One who catches crabs. - COMPARATIVELY
According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely. With but comparatively few exceptions. Prescott. - COMPARE
To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those - SPEECHLESS
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n. - SPEECHIFYING
The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold. - CRABBISH
Somewhat sour or cross. The wips of the most crabbish Satyristes. Decker. - SPEECHFUL
Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious. - COMPARTMENT
One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or - CRABBING
The foghting of hawks with each other. (more info) 1. The act or art of catching crabs. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - SPEECHIFY
To make a speech; to harangue. - COMPARER
One who compares. - COMPARISON
The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison. (more info) 1. The act of comparing; an examination of two or more - COMPARTNER
See COPARTNER - COMPARATION
A making ready; provision. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - COMPARABLE
Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison. There is no blessing of life comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend. Addison. -- Com"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Com"pa*ra*bly, adv. - SPEECHIFICATION
The act of speechifying. - CRABBED
1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak. 2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; - COMPARATIVE
Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -er, more, or less; as, brighter, more bright, or less bright. - CONFIGURE
To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley. - WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite. - INTERCOMPARISON
Mutual comparison of corresponding parts. - INCOMPARED
Peerless; incomparable. Spenser. - VISIBLE SPEECH
A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.