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Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost

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Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. Addison. The nature of man is intricate. Burke. Syn. -- Intricate, Complex, Complicated. A thing is complex when it is made up of parts; it is complicated when those parts are so many, or so arranged, as to make it difficult to grasp them; it is intricate when it has numerous windings and confused involutions which it is hard to follow out. What is complex must be resolved into its parts; what is complicated must be drawn out and developed; what is intricate must be unraveled.

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  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • TRYGON
    Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.
  • MULTIFARIOUS
    Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows. (more info) 1. Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold. There is a multifarious artifice
  • OBSCURENESS
    Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • OBSCURER
    One who, or that which, obscures.
  • INVOLVEDNESS
    The state of being involved.
  • TRYSAIL
    A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.
  • CONFUSIVE
    Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
  • CONFUS
    Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • CLOSEHANDED
    Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
  • MULTIFOLD
    Many times doubled; manifold; numerous.
  • ABSTRUSELY
    In an abstruse manner.
  • COMPOUNDER
    A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
  • COMPOUNDABLE
    That may be compounded.
  • PROTRACTIVE
    Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
  • OPPOSITIVE
    Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • MULTIFARIOUSLY
    With great multiplicity and diversity; with variety of modes and relations.
  • IATROCHEMISTRY
    Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
  • MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
    Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
  • CENTRY
    See GRAY
  • ANCESTRY
    1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
  • GANTRY
    See GAUNTREE
  • STRATARITHMETRY
    The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
  • SAFE-CONDUCT
    That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
  • CHLOROMETRY
    The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
  • GENTRY
    gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
  • SERPENTRY
    1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
  • BAYEUX TAPESTRY
    A piece of linen about 1 ft. 8 in. wide by 213 ft. long, covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century,
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • UNPERPLEX
    To free from perplexity. Donne.
  • DYNAMOMETRY
    The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
  • ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
    Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
  • UNCLOSE
    1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
  • ENCLOSE
    To inclose. See Inclose.

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