Crossword clues for resembling
resembling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resemble \Re*sem"ble\ (r?-z?m"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resembled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Resembling (-bl?ng).] [F. ressembler; pref. re- re- + sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. similis like, similar. See Similar.]
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To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.
We will resemble you in that.
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To liken; to compare; to represent as like. [Obs.]
The other . . . He did resemble to his lady bright.
--Spenser. To counterfeit; to imitate. [Obs.] ``They can so well resemble man's speech.''
--Holland.To cause to imitate or be like. [R.]
--H. Bushnell.
Wiktionary
n. The action of the verb '''to resemble'''. vb. (present participle of resemble English)
Usage examples of "resembling".
The sutures were made by means of seven thin, hot iron spikes, resembling acupressure-needles, closing the peritoneum and skin.
This is why nothing is more alien to psychoanalysis than anything resembling a general theory of man or an anthropology.
In 1780, Abbe Spallanzani, following up the success of Jacobi, artificially impregnated a bitch, who brought forth in sixty-two days 3 puppies, all resembling the male.
Pliny speaks of a slave who bore two infants, one resembling the master, the other a man with whom she had intercourse, and cites the case as one of superfetation.
The space between this and the mouth was occupied by a body resembling an adult eye.
According to Pare there was born in 1493, as the result of illicit intercourse between a woman and a dog, a creature resembling in its upper extremities its mother, while its lower extremities were the exact counterpart of its canine father.
Rhodiginus mentions a shepherd of Cybare by the name of Cratain, who had connection with a female goat and impregnated her, so that she brought forth a beast with a head resembling that of the father, but with the lower extremities of a goat.
I know not, that in the year 1112 joined twins resembling the Biddenden phenomenon in all points save in sex were born in England.
In its abdomen was found a fetus weighing almost two pounds and connected to the child by a cord resembling an umbilical cord.
One was very rudimentary and only 21 inches long, and the other had an enormous head resembling a case of hydrocephalus.
There was some tissue resembling true skin attached to the inner wall of the sac.
Blake, and he stated that he was born with a large naevus spreading over the upper parts of the thighs and lower parts of the trunk, like bathing-tights, and resembling the pelt of an animal.
Some savage tribes have long and thick nails resembling the claws of beasts, and use them in the same way as the lower animals.
They were male and female and very short, with heads resembling closely the bas-reliefs on the ancient Aztec temples of Mexico.
There were two pupils in the left eye, both to the outer side of the iris, one being slit-like and the other resembling the fourth pupil in the right eye.