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I shall be more obliged to you than I can
express.

Ob"li*gee" (?), n. [F.
obligé, p. p. of obliger. See Oblige.]
The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a
bond is given. Blackstone.

O*blige"ment (?), n.
Obligation. [R.]

I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either
of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon
me.

O*bli"ger (?), n. One who, or that
which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.

O*bli"ging, a. Putting under
obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil;
kind.

Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very
obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of
them.

Syn. -- Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, --
Obliging, Kind, Complaisant. One is kind
who desires to see others happy; one is complaisant who
endeavors to make them so in social intercourse by attentions
calculated to please; one who is obliging performs some actual
service, or has the disposition to do so.


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