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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quail \Quail\, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of Dutch or German origin; cf. D. kwakkel, kwartel, OHG. wahtala, G. wachtel.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any gallinaceous bird belonging to {Coturnix} and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail ({C. communis}), the rain quail ({C. Coromandelica}) of India, the stubble quail ({C. pectoralis}), and the Australian swamp quail ({Synoicus australis}). 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several American partridges belonging to {Colinus}, {Callipepla}, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called {Virginia quail}, and {Maryland quail}), and the California quail ({Calipepla Californica}). 3. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail ({Turnix varius}). See {Turnix}. 4. A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.[Obs.] --Shak. {Bustard quail} (Zo[94]l.), a small Asiatic quail-like bird of the genus Turnix, as {T. taigoor}, a black-breasted species, and the hill bustard quail ({T. ocellatus}). See {Turnix}. {Button quail} (Zo[94]l.), one of several small Asiatic species of Turnix, as {T. Sykesii}, which is said to be the smallest game bird of India. {Mountain quail}. See under {Mountain}. {Quail call}, a call or pipe for alluring quails into a net or within range. {Quail dove} {(Zo[94]l.)}, any one of several American ground pigeons belonging to {Geotrygon} and allied genera. {Quail hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the New Zealand sparrow hawk ({Hieracidea Nov[91]-Hollandi[91]}). {Quail pipe}. See {Quail call}, above. {Quail snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the dowitcher, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also {robin snipe}, and {brown snipe}. {Sea quail} (Zo[94]l.), the turnstone. [Local, U. S.] | |
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d8Pulu \[d8]Pu"lu\, n. A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus {Cibotium}, chiefly {C. Menziesii}; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent. | |
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Herring \Her"ring\, n. [OE. hering, AS. h[91]ring; akin to D. haring, G. h[84]ring, hering, OHG. haring, hering, and prob. to AS. here army, and so called because they commonly move in large numbers. Cf. {Harry}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of various species of fishes of the genus {Clupea}, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring ({C. harengus}) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities. {Herring gull} (Zo[94]l.), a large gull which feeds in part upon herrings; esp., {Larus argentatus} in America, and {L. cachinnans} in England. See {Gull}. {Herring hog} (Zo[94]l.), the common porpoise. {King of the herrings}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The chim[91]ra ({C. monstrosa}) which follows the schools of herring. See {Chim[91]ra}. (b) The opah. | |
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Cane \Cane\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caning}.] 1. To beat with a cane. --Macaulay. 2. To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs. | |
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Canniness \Can"ni*ness\, n. Caution; crafty management. [N. of Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Can \Can\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Canned}; p. pr. &vb. n. {Canning}.] To preserve by putting in sealed cans [U. S.] [bd]Canned meats[b8] --W. D. Howells. {Canned goods}, a general name for fruit, vegetables, meat, or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans. | |
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Cannon \Can"non\, n.; pl. {Cannons}, collectively {Cannon}. [F. cannon, fr. L. canna reed, pipe, tube. See {Cane}.] 1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. Note: Cannons are made of various materials, as iron, brass, bronze, and steel, and of various sizes and shapes with respect to the special service for which they are intended, as intended, as siege, seacoast, naval, field, or mountain, guns. They always aproach more or less nearly to a cylindrical from, being usually thicker toward the breech than at the muzzle. Formerly they were cast hollow, afterwards they were cast, solid, and bored out. The cannon now most in use for the armament of war vessels and for seacoast defense consists of a forged steel tube reinforced with massive steel rings shrunk upon it. Howitzers and mortars are sometimes called cannon. See {Gun}. 2. (Mech.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. 3. (Printing.) A kind of type. See {Canon}. {Cannon ball}, strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells. {Cannon bullet}, a cannon ball. [Obs.] {Cannon cracker}, a fire cracker of large size. {Cannon lock}, a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer. {Cannon metal}. See {Gun Metal}. {Cannon pinion}, the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting. {Cannon proof}, impenetrable by cannon balls. {Cannon shot}. (a) A cannon ball. (b) The range of a cannon. | |
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Cannon \Can"non\, n.; pl. {Cannons}, collectively {Cannon}. [F. cannon, fr. L. canna reed, pipe, tube. See {Cane}.] 1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. Note: Cannons are made of various materials, as iron, brass, bronze, and steel, and of various sizes and shapes with respect to the special service for which they are intended, as intended, as siege, seacoast, naval, field, or mountain, guns. They always aproach more or less nearly to a cylindrical from, being usually thicker toward the breech than at the muzzle. Formerly they were cast hollow, afterwards they were cast, solid, and bored out. The cannon now most in use for the armament of war vessels and for seacoast defense consists of a forged steel tube reinforced with massive steel rings shrunk upon it. Howitzers and mortars are sometimes called cannon. See {Gun}. 2. (Mech.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. 3. (Printing.) A kind of type. See {Canon}. {Cannon ball}, strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells. {Cannon bullet}, a cannon ball. [Obs.] {Cannon cracker}, a fire cracker of large size. {Cannon lock}, a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer. {Cannon metal}. See {Gun Metal}. {Cannon pinion}, the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting. {Cannon proof}, impenetrable by cannon balls. {Cannon shot}. (a) A cannon ball. (b) The range of a cannon. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Cannon \Can"non\, n.; pl. {Cannons}, collectively {Cannon}. [F. cannon, fr. L. canna reed, pipe, tube. See {Cane}.] 1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. Note: Cannons are made of various materials, as iron, brass, bronze, and steel, and of various sizes and shapes with respect to the special service for which they are intended, as intended, as siege, seacoast, naval, field, or mountain, guns. They always aproach more or less nearly to a cylindrical from, being usually thicker toward the breech than at the muzzle. Formerly they were cast hollow, afterwards they were cast, solid, and bored out. The cannon now most in use for the armament of war vessels and for seacoast defense consists of a forged steel tube reinforced with massive steel rings shrunk upon it. Howitzers and mortars are sometimes called cannon. See {Gun}. 2. (Mech.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. 3. (Printing.) A kind of type. See {Canon}. {Cannon ball}, strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells. {Cannon bullet}, a cannon ball. [Obs.] {Cannon cracker}, a fire cracker of large size. {Cannon lock}, a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer. {Cannon metal}. See {Gun Metal}. {Cannon pinion}, the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting. {Cannon proof}, impenetrable by cannon balls. {Cannon shot}. (a) A cannon ball. (b) The range of a cannon. | |
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Canoeing \Ca*noe"ing\ n. The act or art of using a canoe. | |
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Canoe \Ca*noe"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Canoed}p. pr. & vb. n. {Canoeing}.] To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe. | |
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Canon \Can"on\, n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F. canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr. Gr. [?] rule, rod, fr. [?], [?], red. See {Cane}, and cf. {Canonical}.] 1. A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. --Shak. 2. (Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. --Hock. 3. The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the {sacred canon}, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See {Canonical books}, under {Canonical}, a. 4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. 5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. 6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. 7. (Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See {Imitation}. 8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. 9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also {ear} and {shank}. Note: [See Illust. of {Bell}.] --Knight. 10. (Billiards) See {Carom}. {Apostolical canons}. See under {Apostolical}. {Augustinian canons}, {Black canons}. See under {Augustinian}. {Canon capitular}, {Canon residentiary}, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year). {Canon law}. See under {Law}. {Canon of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes. {Honorary canon}, a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours. {Minor canon} (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend. {Regular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon. {Secular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours. | |
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Canoness \Can"on*ess\, n. [Cf. LL. canonissa.] A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. {Regular canoness}, one bound by the poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. {Secular canoness}, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Book \Book\ (b[oocr]k), n. [OE. book, bok, AS. b[omac]c; akin to Goth. b[omac]ka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. b[omac]k, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b[omac]k, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. b[omac]c, b[emac]ce, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. {Beech}.] 1. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing. Note: When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed, the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a volume of some size, from a pamphlet. Note: It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music or a diagram of patterns. --Abbott. 2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. --Milton. 3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of [bd]Paradise Lost.[b8] 4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc. 5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set. Note: Book is used adjectively or as a part of many compounds; as, book buyer, bookrack, book club, book lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cashbook. {Book account}, an account or register of debt or credit in a book. {Book debt}, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the creditor in his book of accounts. {Book learning}, learning acquired from books, as distinguished from practical knowledge. [bd]Neither does it so much require book learning and scholarship, as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false.[b8] --Burnet. {Book louse} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the {Pseudoneuroptera}. {Book moth} (Zo[94]l.), the name of several species of moths, the larv[91] of which eat books. {Book oath}, an oath made on {The Book}, or Bible. {The Book of Books}, the Bible. {Book post}, a system under which books, bulky manuscripts, etc., may be transmitted by mail. {Book scorpion} (Zo[94]l.), one of the false scorpions ({Chelifer cancroides}) found among books and papers. It can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects. {Book stall}, a stand or stall, often in the open air, for retailing books. {Canonical books}. See {Canonical}. {In one's books}, in one's favor. [bd]I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.[b8] --Addison. {To bring to book}. (a) To compel to give an account. (b) To compare with an admitted authority. [bd]To bring it manifestly to book is impossible.[b8] --M. Arnold. {To curse by bell, book, and candle}. See under {Bell}. {To make a book} (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses. {To speak by the book}, to speak with minute exactness. {Without book}. (a) By memory. (b) Without authority. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Hour \Hour\, n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. [?], orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See {Year}, and cf. {Horologe}, {Horoscope}.] 1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. 2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? 3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. --John ii. 4. This is your hour, and the power of darkness. --Luke xxii. 53. 4. pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. 5. A measure of distance traveled. Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels. --J. P. Peters. {After hours}, after the time appointed for one's regular labor. {Canonical hours}. See under {Canonical}. {Hour angle} (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place. {Hour circle}. (Astron.) (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15[deg], or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension. (c) A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in working problems on the globe. {Hour hand}, the hand or index which shows the hour on a timepiece. {Hour line}. (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial. {Hour plate}, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. --Locke. {Sidereal hour}, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day. {Solar hour}, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day. {The small hours}, the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Obedience \O*be"di*ence\, n. [F. ob[82]dience, L. obedientia, oboedientia. See {Obedient}, and cf.{Obeisance}.] 1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. --Ames. 2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness. --Shak. 3. (Eccl.) (a) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope. (b) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior. (c) One of the three monastic vows. --Shipley. (d) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject. {Canonical obedience}. See under {Canonical}. {Passive obedience}. See under {Passive}. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Sin \Sin\, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG. sunta, G. s[81]nde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Cf. {Authentic}, {Sooth}.] 1. Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. --John viii. 34. Sin is the transgression of the law. --1 John iii. 4. I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win. --Shak. Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires. --Milton. 2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners. I grant that poetry's a crying sin. --Pope. 3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. --2 Cor. v. 21. 4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.] Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham. --Shak. Note: Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of obvious signification; as, sin-born; sin-bred, sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like. {Actual sin}, {Canonical sins}, {Original sin}, {Venial sin}. See under {Actual}, {Canonical}, etc. {Deadly}, [or] {Mortal}, {sins} (R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; -- in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. {Sin eater}, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself. {Sin offering}, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin. Syn: Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See {Crime}. | |
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Canonic \Ca*non"ic\, Cannonical \Can*non"ic*al\, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. [bd]The oath of canonical obedience.[b8] --Hallam. {Canonical books}, or {Canonical Scriptures}, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. {Canonical epistles}, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See {Catholic epistles}, under {Canholic}. {Canonical form} (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. {Canonical hours}, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. {Canonical letters}, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. {Canonical life}, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. {Canonical obedience}, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. {Canonical punishments}, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. {Canonical sins} (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. | |
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Canonically \Ca*non"ic*al*ly\, adv. In a canonical manner; according to the canons. | |
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Canonicalness \Ca*non"ic*al*ness\, n. The quality of being canonical; canonicity. --Bp. Burnet. | |
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Canonicals \Ca*non"ic*als\, n. pl. The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress. {Full canonicals}, the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic. i | |
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Canonicate \Ca*non"i*cate\, n. [LL. canonucatus canonical: cf. F. canonicat.] The office of a canon; a canonry. | |
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Canonicity \Can`on*ic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. canonicit[82].] The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon. | |
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Canonist \Can"on*ist\, n. [Cf. F. canoniste.] A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. --South. | |
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Canonistic \Can`on*is"tic\, a. Of or pertaining to a canonist. [bd]This canonistic exposition.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Canonization \Can`on*i*za"tion\, n. [F. canonisation.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. --Hoock. 2. The state of being canonized or sainted. | |
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Canonize \Can"on*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Canonized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Canonizing}.] [F. canoniser or LL. canonizare, fr. L. canon.. See {Canon}.] 1. (Eccl.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized. 2. To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor. Fame in time to come canonize us. --Shak. 2. To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.[R.] | |
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Canonize \Can"on*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Canonized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Canonizing}.] [F. canoniser or LL. canonizare, fr. L. canon.. See {Canon}.] 1. (Eccl.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized. 2. To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor. Fame in time to come canonize us. --Shak. 2. To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.[R.] | |
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Canonize \Can"on*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Canonized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Canonizing}.] [F. canoniser or LL. canonizare, fr. L. canon.. See {Canon}.] 1. (Eccl.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized. 2. To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor. Fame in time to come canonize us. --Shak. 2. To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.[R.] | |
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Canonship \Can"on*ship\, a. Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming. | |
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Chain \Chain\, v. t. [imp. p. p. {Chained} (ch[be]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Chaining}.] 1. To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog. Chained behind the hostile car. --Prior. 2. To keep in slavery; to enslave. And which more blest? who chained his country, say Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day? --Pope. 3. To unite closely and strongly. And in this vow do chain my soul to thine. --Shak. 4. (Surveying) To measure with the chain. 5. To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor. | |
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Chaomancy \Cha"o*man`cy\, n. [Gr. [?] the atmosphere + -mancy.] Divination by means of appearances in the air. | |
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Chemung period \Che*mung" pe"ri*od\, (Geol.) A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under {Geology}. | |
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Chimango \Chi*man"go\ [Native name] (Zo[94]l.) A south American carrion buzzard ({Milvago chimango}). See {Caracara}. | |
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Chiminage \Chim"i*nage\, n. [OF. cheminage, fr. chemin way, road.] (Old Law) A toll for passage through a forest. [Obs.] --Cowell. | |
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Chime \Chime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chimed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chiming}.] [See {Chime}, n.] 1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells. 2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. Everything chimed in with such a humor. --W. irving. 3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.] 4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. --Cowley | |
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India \In"di*a\, n. [See {Indian}.] A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan. {India ink}, a nearly black pigment brought chiefly from China, used for water colors. It is in rolls, or in square, and consists of lampblack or ivory black and animal glue. Called also {China ink}. The true India ink is sepia. See {Sepia}. {India matting}, floor matting made in China, India, etc., from grass and reeds; -- also called {Canton, [or] China, matting}. {India paper}, a variety of Chinese paper, of smooth but not glossy surface, used for printing from engravings, woodcuts, etc. {India proof} (Engraving), a proof impression from an engraved plate, taken on India paper. {India rubber}. See {Caoutchouc}. {India-rubber tree} (Bot.), any tree yielding caoutchouc, but especially the East Indian {Ficus elastica}, often cultivated for its large, shining, elliptical leaves. | |
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China \Chi"na\, n. 1. A country in Eastern Asia. 2. China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See {Porcelain}. {China aster} (Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant. See {Aster}. {China bean}. See under {Bean}, 1. {China clay} See {Kaolin}. {China grass}, Same as {Ramie}. {China ink}. See {India ink}. {China pink} (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of {Dianthus} ({D. Chiensis}) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink. {China root} (Med.), the rootstock of a species of {Smilax} ({S. China}, from the East Indies; -- formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Also the galanga root (from {Alpinia Gallanga} and {Alpinia officinarum}). {China rose}. (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the {Rosa Indica}, and perhaps other species. (b) A flowering hothouse plant ({Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis}) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies. {China shop}, a shop or store for the sale of China ware or of crockery. {China ware}, porcelain; -- so called in the 17th century because brought from the far East, and differing from the pottery made in Europe at that time; also, loosely, crockery in general. {Pride of China}, {China tree}. (Bot.) See {Azedarach}. | |
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Chum \Chum\, v. i. [imp. p. p. {Chummed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chumming}.] To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college. [U. S.] | |
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Cinemograph \Ci*ne"mo*graph\, n. [Gr. [?] motion + -graph.] An integrating anemometer. | |
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Cinnamic \Cin*nam"ic\, a. [From {Cinnamon}.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon. {Cinnamic acid} (Chem.), a white, crystalline, odorless substance. {C6H5.C2H2C2H2.CO2H}, formerly obtained from storax and oil of cinnamon, now made from certain benzene derivatives in large quantities, and used for the artificial production of indigo. | |
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Cinnamic \Cin*nam"ic\, a. [From {Cinnamon}.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon. {Cinnamic acid} (Chem.), a white, crystalline, odorless substance. {C6H5.C2H2C2H2.CO2H}, formerly obtained from storax and oil of cinnamon, now made from certain benzene derivatives in large quantities, and used for the artificial production of indigo. | |
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Styrone \Sty"rone\, n. (Chem.) A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called {cinnamic, [or] styryl, alcohol}. | |
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Coamings \Coam"ings\, n. pl. [Cf. {Comb} a crest.] (Naut.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges. [Written also {combings}.] | |
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Coin \Coin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coined} (koind); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coining}.] 1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal. 2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word. Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. --Dryden. 3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day. --Locke. | |
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Comanches \Co*man"ches\ (? [or] ?), n. pl.; sing. {Comanche} (? [or] ?). (Ethnol.) A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also {Paducahs}. They are noted for plundering and cruelty. | |
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Comanches \Co*man"ches\ (? [or] ?), n. pl.; sing. {Comanche} (? [or] ?). (Ethnol.) A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also {Paducahs}. They are noted for plundering and cruelty. | |
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Komenic \Ko*me"nic\, a. [Prob. G. mekonin (by transposition of letters) + -ic.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from meconic acid. [Written also {comenic}.] | |
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Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. {Came}; p. p. {Come}; p. pr & vb. n. {Coming}.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS. kuman, D. komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan. komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. [?] to go, Skr. gam. [fb]23. Cf. {Base}, n., {Convene}, {Adventure}.] 1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go. Look, who comes yonder? --Shak. I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson. 2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive. When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii. 16. Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii. 2. 3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance. [bd]Thy kingdom come.[b8] --Matt. vi. 10. The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25. So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak. 4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another. From whence come wars? --James iv. 1. Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron. xxix. 12. 5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear. Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras. 6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come untied. How come you thus estranged? --Shak. How come her eyes so bright? --Shak. Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the participle as expressing a state or condition of the subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the completion of the action signified by the verb. Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v. 17. We are come off like Romans. --Shak. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year. --Bryant. Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall come home next week; he will come to your house to-day. It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary, indicative of approach to the action or state expressed by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used colloquially, with reference to a definite future time approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall come. They were cried In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell. Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention, or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us go. [bd]This is the heir; come, let us kill him.[b8] --Matt. xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste, or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. [bd]Come, come, no time for lamentation now.[b8] --Milton. {To come}, yet to arrive, future. [bd]In times to come.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]There's pippins and cheese to come.[b8] --Shak. {To come about}. (a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as, how did these things come about? (b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about. [bd]The wind is come about.[b8] --Shak. On better thoughts, and my urged reasons, They are come about, and won to the true side. --B. Jonson. {To come abroad}. (a) To move or be away from one's home or country. [bd]Am come abroad to see the world.[b8] --Shak. (b) To become public or known. [Obs.] [bd]Neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.[b8] --Mark. iv. 22. {To come across}, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or suddenly. [bd]We come across more than one incidental mention of those wars.[b8] --E. A. Freeman. [bd]Wagner's was certainly one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever came across.[b8] --H. R. Haweis. {To come after}. (a) To follow. (b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a book. {To come again}, to return. [bd]His spirit came again and he revived.[b8] --Judges. xv. 19. - {To come and go}. (a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. [bd]The color of the king doth come and go.[b8] --Shak. (b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward. {To come at}. (a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to come at a true knowledge of ourselves. (b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with fury. {To come away}, to part or depart. {To come between}, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause estrangement. {To come by}. (a) To obtain, gain, acquire. [bd]Examine how you came by all your state.[b8] --Dryden. (b) To pass near or by way of. {To come down}. (a) To descend. (b) To be humbled. {To come down upon}, to call to account, to reprimand. [Colloq.] --Dickens. {To come home}. (a) To return to one's house or family. (b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the feelings, interest, or reason. (c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an anchor. {To come in}. (a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. [bd]The thief cometh in.[b8] --Hos. vii. 1. (b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in. (c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln came in. (d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. [bd]We need not fear his coming in[b8] --Massinger. (e) To be brought into use. [bd]Silken garments did not come in till late.[b8] --Arbuthnot. (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment. (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in well. (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen. xxxviii. 16. (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come in next May. [U. S.] {To come in for}, to claim or receive. [bd]The rest came in for subsidies.[b8] --Swift. {To come into}, to join with; to take part in; to agree to; to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme. {To come it over}, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of. [Colloq.] {To come} {near [or] nigh}, to approach in place or quality; to be equal to. [bd]Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it.[b8] --Sir W. Temple. {To come of}. (a) To descend or spring from. [bd]Of Priam's royal race my mother came.[b8] --Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. [bd]This comes of judging by the eye.[b8] --L'Estrange. {To come off}. (a) To depart or pass off from. (b) To get free; to get away; to escape. (c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off well. (d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.); as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.] (e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.] (f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come off? (g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came off very fine. (h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to separate. (i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer. {To come off by}, to suffer. [Obs.] [bd]To come off by the worst.[b8] --Calamy. {To come off from}, to leave. [bd]To come off from these grave disquisitions.[b8] --Felton. {To come on}. (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive. (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene. {To come out}. (a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room, company, etc. [bd]They shall come out with great substance.[b8] --Gen. xv. 14. (b) To become public; to appear; to be published. [bd]It is indeed come out at last.[b8] --Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this affair come out? he has come out well at last. (d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two seasons ago. (e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out. (f) To take sides; to take a stand; as, he came out against the tariff. | |
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Coming \Com"ing\, a. 1. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition. Welcome the coming, speed the parting, guest. --Pope. Your coming days and years. --Byron. 2. Ready to come; complaisant; fond. [Obs.] --Pope. | |
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Coming \Com"ing\, n. 1. Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train. 2. Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ. {Coming in}. (a) Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning. [bd]The goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof.[b8] --Ezek. xliii. 11 (b) Income or revenue. [bd]What are thy comings in?[b8] --Shak. | |
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Coming \Com"ing\, n. 1. Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train. 2. Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ. {Coming in}. (a) Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning. [bd]The goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof.[b8] --Ezek. xliii. 11 (b) Income or revenue. [bd]What are thy comings in?[b8] --Shak. | |
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Commence \Com*mence"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Commenced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commencing}.] [F. commencer, OF. comencier, fr. L. com- + initiare to begin. See {Initiate}.] 1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. Here the anthem doth commence. --Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. --Goldsmith. 2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] We commence judges ourselves. --Coleridge. 3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.] I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age. --Fuller. | |
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Commence \Com*mence"\, v. t. To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of. Many a wooer doth commence his suit. --Shak. Note: It is the practice of good writers to use the verbal noun (instead of the infinitive with to) after commence; as, he commenced studying, not he commenced to study. | |
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Commence \Com*mence"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Commenced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commencing}.] [F. commencer, OF. comencier, fr. L. com- + initiare to begin. See {Initiate}.] 1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. Here the anthem doth commence. --Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. --Goldsmith. 2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] We commence judges ourselves. --Coleridge. 3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.] I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age. --Fuller. | |
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Commencement \Com*mence"ment\, n. [F. commencement.] 1. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start. The time of Henry VII. . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed [bd]modern history.[b8] --Hallam. 2. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others. | |
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Commence \Com*mence"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Commenced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commencing}.] [F. commencer, OF. comencier, fr. L. com- + initiare to begin. See {Initiate}.] 1. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin. Here the anthem doth commence. --Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. --Goldsmith. 2. To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] We commence judges ourselves. --Coleridge. 3. To take a degree at a university. [Eng.] I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age. --Fuller. | |
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Commensal \Com*men"sal\, n. [LL. commensalis; L. com- + mensa table: cf. F. commensal. Cf. Mensal.] 1. One who eats at the same table. [Obs.] 2. (Zo[94]l.) An animal, not truly parasitic, which lives in, with, or on, another, partaking usually of the same food. Both species may be benefited by the association. | |
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Commensal \Com*men"sal\, a. Having the character of a commensal. | |
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Commensalism \Com*men"sal*ism\, n. The act of eating together; table fellowship. | |
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Commensality \Com`men*sal"i*ty\, n. Fellowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table. [Obs.] [bd]Promiscuous commensality.[b8] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Commensation \Com`men*sa"tion\, n. Commensality. [Obs.] Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation. --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Commensurability \Com*men`su*ra*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. commensurabilit[82].] The quality of being commensurable. --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Commensurable \Com*men"su*ra*ble\, a. [L. commensurabilis; pref. com- + mensurable. See {Commensurate}, and cf. {Commeasurable}.] Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- {Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness}, n. {Commensurable numbers} [or] {quantities} (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inches, the other 36 inches. {Numbers}, [or] {Quantities}, {commensurable in power}, those whose squares are commensurable. | |
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Commensurable \Com*men"su*ra*ble\, a. [L. commensurabilis; pref. com- + mensurable. See {Commensurate}, and cf. {Commeasurable}.] Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- {Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness}, n. {Commensurable numbers} [or] {quantities} (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inches, the other 36 inches. {Numbers}, [or] {Quantities}, {commensurable in power}, those whose squares are commensurable. | |
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Commensurable \Com*men"su*ra*ble\, a. [L. commensurabilis; pref. com- + mensurable. See {Commensurate}, and cf. {Commeasurable}.] Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- {Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness}, n. {Commensurable numbers} [or] {quantities} (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inches, the other 36 inches. {Numbers}, [or] {Quantities}, {commensurable in power}, those whose squares are commensurable. | |
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Commensurable \Com*men"su*ra*ble\, a. [L. commensurabilis; pref. com- + mensurable. See {Commensurate}, and cf. {Commeasurable}.] Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- {Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness}, n. {Commensurable numbers} [or] {quantities} (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inches, the other 36 inches. {Numbers}, [or] {Quantities}, {commensurable in power}, those whose squares are commensurable. | |
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Commensurably \Com*men"su*ra*bly\, adv. In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable. | |
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Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, a. 1. Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities. 2. Equal in measure or extent; proportionate. Those who are persuaded that they shall continue forever, can not choose but aspire after a happiness commensurate to their duration. --Tillotson. | |
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Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commensurated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commensurating}.] [Pref. com- + mensurate.] 1. To reduce to a common measure. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. --T. Puller | |
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Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commensurated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commensurating}.] [Pref. com- + mensurate.] 1. To reduce to a common measure. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. --T. Puller | |
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Commensurately \Com*men"su*rate*ly\, adv. 1. In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately. 2. With equal measure or extent. --Goodwin. | |
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Commensurateness \Com*men"su*rate*ness\, n. The state or quality of being commensurate. --Foster. | |
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Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commensurated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commensurating}.] [Pref. com- + mensurate.] 1. To reduce to a common measure. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. --T. Puller | |
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Commensuration \Com*men`su*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. commensuration.] The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate. All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or proportion of one thing to another. --South. | |
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Commingle \Com*min"gle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Commingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commingling}.] To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend. --Bacon. | |
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Commingle \Com*min"gle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Commingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commingling}.] To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend. --Bacon. | |
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Commingler \Com*min"gler\, n. One that commingles; specif., a device for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles. | |
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Commingle \Com*min"gle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Commingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commingling}.] To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend. --Bacon. | |
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Carrier \Car"ri*er\, n. [From {Carry}.] 1. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds. --Bacon. 2. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster. The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures. --Swift. 3. (Mach.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. {Carrier pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home. {Carrier shell} (Zo[94]l.), a univalve shell of the genus {Phorus}; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it. {Common carrier} (Law.) See under {Common}, a. | |
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Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
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Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
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Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
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Council \Coun"cil\ (koun"s[icr]l), n. [F. concile, fr. L. concilium; con- + calare to call, akin to Gr. [?][?][?] to call, and E. hale, v., haul. Cf. {Conciliate}. This word is often confounded with counsel, with which it has no connection.] 1. An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case. 2. A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council. An old lord of the council rated me the other day. --Shak. 3. Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation. Satan . . . void of rest, His potentates to council called by night. --Milton. O great in action and in council wise. --Pope. {Aulic council}. See under {Aulic}. {Cabinet council}. See under {Cabinet}. {City council}, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common council, but sometimes otherwise constituted. {Common council}. See under {Common}. {Council board}, {Council table}, the table round which a council holds consultation; also, the council itself in deliberation. {Council chamber}, the room or apartment in which a council meets. {Council fire}, the ceremonial fire kept burning while the Indians hold their councils. [U.S.] --Bartlett. {Council of war}, an assembly of officers of high rank, called to consult with the commander in chief in regard to measures or importance or nesessity. {Ecumenical council} (Eccl.), an assembly of prelates or divines convened from the whole body of the church to regulate matters of doctrine or discipline. {Executive council}, a body of men elected as advisers of the chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. [U.S.] {Legislative council}, the upper house of a legislature, usually called the senate. {Privy council}. See under {Privy}. [Eng.] Syn: Assembly; meeting; congress; diet; parliament; convention; convocation; synod. | |
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Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
School \School\, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc[?]lu, L. schola, Gr. [?] leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as [?], the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See {Scheme}.] 1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. --Acts xix. 9. 2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. As he sat in the school at his primer. --Chaucer. 3. A session of an institution of instruction. How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? --Shak. 4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. --Macaulay. 5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. 6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences? --Buckminster. 7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. --Jer. Taylor. 8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school. His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. --A. S. Hardy. 9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. {Boarding school}, {Common school}, {District school}, {Normal school}, etc. See under {Boarding}, {Common}, {District}, etc. {High school}, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U. S.] {School board}, a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accommodation for all children in their district. {School committee}, {School board}, an elected committee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible for control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U. S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
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Sense \Sense\, n. [L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. {See}, v. t. See {Send}, and cf. {Assent}, {Consent}, {Scent}, v. t., {Sentence}, {Sentient}.] 1. (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See {Muscular sense}, under {Muscular}, and {Temperature sense}, under {Temperature}. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. --Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. --Keble. 2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. --Bacon. 3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. --Sir P. Sidney. High disdain from sense of injured merit. --Milton. 4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. [bd]He speaks sense.[b8] --Shak. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. --Dryden. 5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. --Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. --Macaulay. 6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii. 8. I think 't was in another sense. --Shak. 7. Moral perception or appreciation. Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. --L' Estrange. 8. (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. {Common sense}, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) [bd]The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.[b8] (b) [bd]The faculty of first principles.[b8] These two are the philosophical significations. (c) [bd]Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish.[b8] (d) When the substantive is emphasized: [bd]Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation.[b8] {Moral sense}. See under {Moral}, (a) . {The inner}, [or] {internal}, {sense}, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. [bd]This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.[b8] --Locke. {Sense capsule} (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. {Sense organ} (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc. {Sense organule} (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate. Syn: Understanding; reason. Usage: {Sense}, {Understanding}, {Reason}. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense. Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given, not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day. | |
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Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
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Common sense \Com"mon sense"\ See {Common sense}, under {Sense}. | |
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Commonage \Com"mon*age\, n. [Cf. OF. communage.] The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of commonage . . . in most of the forests. --Burke. | |
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Common \Com"mon\, a. [Compar. {Commoner}; superl. {Commonest}.] [OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}, {Commune}, n. & v.] 1. Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requireth. --Hooker. The common enemy of man. --Shak. 3. Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. --Shak. 4. Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. --W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. --Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. --A. Murphy. 5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. --Acts x. 15. 6. Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. --L'Estrange. {Common bar} (Law) Same as {Blank bar}, under {Blank}. {Common barrator} (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. {Common Bench}, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. {Common brawler} (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See {Brawler}. {Common carrier} (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. {Common chord} (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. {Common council}, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation. {Common crier}, the crier of a town or city. {Common divisor} (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. {Common gender} (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender. {Common law}, a system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. --Wharton. Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from {statute law}. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See {Law}. {Common lawyer}, one versed in common law. {Common lewdness} (Law), the habitual performance of lewd acts in public. {Common multiple} (Arith.) See under {Multiple}. {Common noun} (Gram.), the name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing). {Common nuisance} (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large. {Common pleas}, one of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a {county court}. Its powers are generally defined by statute. {Common prayer}, the liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. {Common school}, a school maintained at the public expense, and open to all. {Common scold} (Law), a woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public. {Common seal}, a seal adopted and used by a corporation. {Common sense}. (a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench. (b) Sound judgment. See under {Sense}. {Common time} (Mus.), that variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions. {In common}, equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally. {Out of the common}, uncommon; extraordinary. {Tenant in common}, one holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See {Joint tenant}, under {Joint}. {To make common cause with}, to join or ally one's self with. Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See {Mutual}, {Ordinary}, {General}. | |
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Commonish \Com"mon*ish\, a. Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. | |
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Commonness \Com"mon*ness\, n. 1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight. 2. Triteness; meanness. | |
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Commons \Com"mons\, n. pl., 1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. [Eng.] 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. --Shak. The word commons in its present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank of peers. --Blackstone. 2. The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities. It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the great council till some ages after the Conquest. --Hume. 3. Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities. Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant. --Dryden. 4. A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons. 5. A common; public pasture ground. To shake his ears, and graze in commons. --Shak. {Doctors' Commons}, a place near St. Paul's Churchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. {To be on short commons}, to have a small allowance of food. [Colloq.] | |
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Communicability \Com*mu`ni*ca*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. communicabilit[82].] The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted. | |
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Communicable \Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\, a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis.] 1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. 2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adv. | |
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Communicable \Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\, a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis.] 1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. 2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adv. | |
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Communicable \Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\, a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis.] 1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. 2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adv. | |
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Communicant \Com*mu"ni*cant\, n. [L. communicans, p. pr.] 1. One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. A never-failing monthly communicant. --Atterbury. 2. One who communicates. --Foxe. | |
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Communicant \Com*mu"ni*cant\, a. Communicating. [R.] --Coleridge. | |
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Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Communicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Communicating}.] [L. communicatus, p. p. of communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See {Commune}, v. i.] 1. To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.] To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson 2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor. 3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one. 4. To administer the communion to. [R.] She [the church] . . . may communicate him. --Jer. Taylor. Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it. He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. --Clarendon. Syn: To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known. Usage: To {Communicate}, {Impart}, {Reveal}. Communicate is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves. Impart is more specific. It is giving to others a part of what we had held as our own, or making them our partners; as, to impart our feelings; to impart of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in imparting intelligence than in communicating it. To reveal is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to reveal a secret. | |
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Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. i. 1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy. Ye did communicate with my affliction. --Philip. iv. 4. 2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid. To do good and to communicate forget not. --Heb. xiii. 16. 3. To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery. Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. --Hakluyt. The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. --Arbuthnot. 4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune. The primitive Christians communicated every day. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Communicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Communicating}.] [L. communicatus, p. p. of communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See {Commune}, v. i.] 1. To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.] To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson 2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor. 3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one. 4. To administer the communion to. [R.] She [the church] . . . may communicate him. --Jer. Taylor. Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it. He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. --Clarendon. Syn: To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known. Usage: To {Communicate}, {Impart}, {Reveal}. Communicate is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves. Impart is more specific. It is giving to others a part of what we had held as our own, or making them our partners; as, to impart our feelings; to impart of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in imparting intelligence than in communicating it. To reveal is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to reveal a secret. | |
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Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Communicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Communicating}.] [L. communicatus, p. p. of communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See {Commune}, v. i.] 1. To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.] To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson 2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor. 3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one. 4. To administer the communion to. [R.] She [the church] . . . may communicate him. --Jer. Taylor. Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it. He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. --Clarendon. Syn: To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known. Usage: To {Communicate}, {Impart}, {Reveal}. Communicate is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves. Impart is more specific. It is giving to others a part of what we had held as our own, or making them our partners; as, to impart our feelings; to impart of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in imparting intelligence than in communicating it. To reveal is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to reveal a secret. | |
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Communication \Com*mu`ni*ca"tion\, n. [L. communicatio.] 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret. 2. Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence. Argument . . . and friendly communication. --Shak. 3. Association; company. Evil communications corrupt good manners. --1 Cor. xv. 33. 4. Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection. The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe. --Arbuthnot. 5. That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message. 6. Participation in the Lord's supper. --Bp. Pearson. 7. (Rhet.) A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. --Beattie. Syn: Correspondence; conference; intercourse. | |
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Communicative \Com*mu"ni*ca*tive\, a. [Cf. F. Communicatif, LL. communicativus.] Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. --Swift. | |
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Communicativeness \Com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ness\, n. The quality of being communicative. --Norris. | |
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Communicator \Com*mu"ni*ca`tor\, n. [L.] One who communicates. --Boyle. | |
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Communicatory \Com*mu"ni*ca"to*ry\, a. [LL. communicatorius.] Imparting knowledge or information. Canonical and communicatory letters. --Barrow. | |
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Communism \Com"mu*nism\, n. [F. communisme, fr. commun common.] A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all. Note: At different times, and in different countries, various schemes pertaining to socialism in government and the conditions of domestic life, as well as in the distribution of wealth, have been called communism. | |
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Communist \Com"mu*nist\, n. [F. communiste.] 1. An advocate for the theory or practice of communism. 2. A supporter of the commune of Paris. | |
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Communistic \Com`mu*nis"tic\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Living or having their nests in common, as certain birds. | |
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Cone-in-cone \Cone"-in-cone"\, a. (Geol.) Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks. | |
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Cone-nose \Cone"-nose`\, n. A large hemipterous insect of the family {Reduviid[91]}, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called {kissing bugs}. It is also called {big bedbug}. | |
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Poison \Poi"son\, n. [F. poison, in Old French also, a potion, fr. L. potio a drink, draught, potion, a poisonous draught, fr. potare to drink. See {Potable}, and cf. {Potion}.] 1. Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases. 2. That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin. {Poison ash}. (Bot.) (a) A tree of the genus {Amyris} ({A. balsamifera}) found in the West Indies, from the trunk of which a black liquor distills, supposed to have poisonous qualities. (b) The poison sumac ({Rhus venenata}). [U. S.] {Poison dogwood} (Bot.), poison sumac. {Poison fang} (Zo[94]l.), one of the superior maxillary teeth of some species of serpents, which, besides having the cavity for the pulp, is either perforated or grooved by a longitudinal canal, at the lower end of which the duct of the poison gland terminates. See Illust. under {Fang}. {Poison gland} (Biol.), a gland, in animals or plants, which secretes an acrid or venomous matter, that is conveyed along an organ capable of inflicting a wound. {Poison hemlock} (Bot.), a poisonous umbelliferous plant ({Conium maculatum}). See {Hemlock}. {Poison ivy} (Bot.), a poisonous climbing plant ({Rhus Toxicodendron}) of North America. It is common on stone walls and on the trunks of trees, and has trifoliate, rhombic-ovate, variously notched leaves. Many people are poisoned by it, if they touch the leaves. See {Poison sumac}. Called also {poison oak}, and {mercury}. {Poison nut}. (Bot.) (a) Nux vomica. (b) The tree which yields this seed ({Strychnos Nuxvomica}). It is found on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. {Poison oak} (Bot.), the poison ivy; also, the more shrubby {Rhus diversiloba} of California and Oregon. {Poison sac}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Poison gland}, above. See Illust. under {Fang}. {Poison sumac} (Bot.), a poisonous shrub of the genus {Rhus} ({R. venenata}); -- also called {poison ash}, {poison dogwood}, and {poison elder}. It has pinnate leaves on graceful and slender common petioles, and usually grows in swampy places. Both this plant and the poison ivy ({Rhus Toxicodendron}) have clusters of smooth greenish white berries, while the red-fruited species of this genus are harmless. The tree ({Rhus vernicifera}) which yields the celebrated Japan lacquer is almost identical with the poison sumac, and is also very poisonous. The juice of the poison sumac also forms a lacquer similar to that of Japan. Syn: Venom; virus; bane; pest; malignity. Usage: {Poison}, {Venom}. Poison usually denotes something received into the system by the mouth, breath, etc. Venom is something discharged from animals and received by means of a wound, as by the bite or sting of serpents, scorpions, etc. Hence, venom specifically implies some malignity of nature or purpose. | |
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Conhydrine \Con*hy"drine\ (? [or] [?]), n. [Conium + hydrate.] (Chem.) A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock ({Conium maculatum}). It is a white crystalline substance, {C8H17NO}, easily convertible into conine. | |
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2. (Med.) The common hemlock ({Conium maculatum}, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine. | |
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Conine \Co"nine\ (? [or] [?]), n. [From {Conium}.] (Chem.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock ({Conium maculatum}) and extracted as a colorless oil, {C8H17N}, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also {coniine}, {coneine}, {conia}, etc. See {Conium}, 2. | |
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Hemlock \Hem"lock\, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.] 1. (Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the {Cicuta maculata}, {bulbifera}, and {virosa}, and the {Conium maculatum}. See {Conium}. Note: The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by some thought to have been a decoction of {Cicuta virosa}, or water hemlock, by others, of {Conium maculatum}. 2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America ({Abies, [or] Tsuga, Canadensis}); hemlock spruce. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. --Longfellow. 3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. {Ground hemlock}, [or] {Dwarf hemlock}. See under {Ground}. | |
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Con \Con\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conning}.] [AS. cunnan to know, be able, and (derived from this) cunnian to try, test. See {Can}, v. t. & i.] 1. To know; to understand; to acknowledge. [Obs.] Of muses, Hobbinol, I con no skill. --Spenser. They say they con to heaven the highway. --Spenser. 2. To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously. Fixedly did look Upon the muddy waters which he conned As if he had been reading in a book. --Wordsworth. I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson. --Burke. {To con answer}, to be able to answer. [Obs.] {To con thanks}, to thank; to acknowledge obligation. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Conning tower \Con"ning tow"er\, n. The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. | |
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Cuminic \Cu*min"ic\ (k?-m?n"?k), a. Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid. {Cuminic acid} (Chem.), white crystalline substance, {C3H7.C6H4.CO2H}, obtained from oil of caraway. | |
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Cuminic \Cu*min"ic\ (k?-m?n"?k), a. Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid. {Cuminic acid} (Chem.), white crystalline substance, {C3H7.C6H4.CO2H}, obtained from oil of caraway. | |
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Cuminol \Cu"mi*nol\ (-n?l), n. [Cuminic + L. oleum.] A liquid, {C3H7.C6H4.CHO}, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also {cuminic aldehyde}. | |
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Cunning \Cun"ning\, n. [AS. cunnung trial, or Icel. kunnandi knowledge. See {Cunning}, a.] 1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. [Archaic] Let my right hand forget her cunning. --Ps. cxxxvii. 5. A carpenter's desert Stands more in cunning than in power. --Chapman. 2. The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft. Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom. --Locke. We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. --Bacon. | |
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Cunning \Cun"ning\ (k[ucr]n"n[icr]ng), a. [AS. cunnan to know, to be able. See 1st {Con}, {Can}.] 1. Knowing; skillful; dexterous. [bd]A cunning workman.[b8] -- Ex. xxxviii. 23. [bd]Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. --Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. --Gen xxv. 27. 2. Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work. Over them Arachne high did lift Her cunning web. --Spenser. 3. Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful. They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. --South. 4. Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy. [Colloq. U.S.] --Barlett. Syn: {Cunning}, {Artful}, {Sly}, {Wily}, {Crafty}. Usage: These epithets agree in expressing an aptitude for attaining some end by peculiar and secret means. Cunning is usually low; as, a cunning trick. Artful is more ingenious and inventive; as, an artful device. Sly implies a turn for what is double or concealed; as, sly humor; a sly evasion. Crafty denotes a talent for dexterously deceiving; as, a crafty manager. Wily describes a talent for the use of stratagems; as, a wily politician. [bd]Acunning man often shows his dexterity in simply concealing. An artful man goes further, and exerts his ingenuity in misleading. A crafty man mingles cunning with art, and so shapes his actions as to lull suspicions. The young may be cunning, but the experienced only can be crafty. Slyness is a vulgar kind of cunning; the sly man goes cautiously and silently to work. Wiliness is a species of cunning or craft applicable only to cases of attack and defense.[b8] --Crabb. | |
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Cunningly \Cun"ning*ly\ (k?n"n?ng-l?), adv. In a cunning manner; with cunning. | |
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Cunningman \Cun"ning*man`\ (-m?n`), n. A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs.] --Hudibras. | |
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Cunningness \Cun"ning*ness\, n. Quality of being cunning; craft. | |
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Vincetoxin \Vin`ce*tox"in\, n. (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort ({Vincetoxicum officinale}, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also {asclepiadin}, and {cynanchin}. | |
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Prairie \Prai"rie\, n. [F., an extensive meadow, OF. praerie, LL. prataria, fr. L. pratum a meadow.] 1. An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains. From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the northland. --Longfellow. 2. A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow. {Prairie chicken} (Zo[94]l.), any American grouse of the genus {Tympanuchus}, especially {T. Americanus} (formerly {T. cupido}), which inhabits the prairies of the central United States. Applied also to the sharp-tailed grouse. {Prairie clover} (Bot.), any plant of the leguminous genus {Petalostemon}, having small rosy or white flowers in dense terminal heads or spikes. Several species occur in the prairies of the United States. {Prairie dock} (Bot.), a coarse composite plant ({Silphium terebinthaceum}) with large rough leaves and yellow flowers, found in the Western prairies. {Prairie dog} (Zo[94]l.), a small American rodent ({Cynomys Ludovicianus}) allied to the marmots. It inhabits the plains west of the Mississippi. The prairie dogs burrow in the ground in large warrens, and have a sharp bark like that of a dog. Called also {prairie marmot}. {Prairie grouse}. Same as {Prairie chicken}, above. {Prairie hare} (Zo[94]l.), a large long-eared Western hare ({Lepus campestris}). See {Jack rabbit}, under 2d {Jack}. {Prairie hawk}, {Prairie falcon} (Zo[94]l.), a falcon of Western North America ({Falco Mexicanus}). The upper parts are brown. The tail has transverse bands of white; the under parts, longitudinal streaks and spots of brown. {Prairie hen}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Prairie chicken}, above. {Prairie itch} (Med.), an affection of the skin attended with intense itching, which is observed in the Northern and Western United States; -- also called {swamp itch}, {winter itch}. {Prairie marmot}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Prairie dog}, above. {Prairie mole} (Zo[94]l.), a large American mole ({Scalops argentatus}), native of the Western prairies. {Prairie pigeon}, {plover}, [or] {snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the upland plover. See {Plover}, n., 2. {Prairie rattlesnake} (Zo[94]l.), the massasauga. {Prairie snake} (Zo[94]l.), a large harmless American snake ({Masticophis flavigularis}). It is pale yellow, tinged with brown above. {Prairie squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), any American ground squirrel of the genus {Spermophilus}, inhabiting prairies; -- called also {gopher}. {Prairie turnip} (Bot.), the edible turnip-shaped farinaceous root of a leguminous plant ({Psoralea esculenta}) of the Upper Missouri region; also, the plant itself. Called also {pomme blanche}, and {pomme de prairie}. {Prairie warbler} (Zo[94]l.), a bright-colored American warbler ({Dendroica discolor}). The back is olive yellow, with a group of reddish spots in the middle; the under parts and the parts around the eyes are bright yellow; the sides of the throat and spots along the sides, black; three outer tail feathers partly white. {Prairie wolf}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Coyote}. | |
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Camanche, IA (city, FIPS 10135) Location: 41.79391 N, 90.27501 W Population (1990): 4436 (1769 housing units) Area: 22.3 sq km (land), 1.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52730 | |
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Cannon County, TN (county, FIPS 15) Location: 35.81009 N, 86.06284 W Population (1990): 10467 (4368 housing units) Area: 688.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) | |
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Canon City, CO (city, FIPS 11810) Location: 38.44137 N, 105.23438 W Population (1990): 12687 (5609 housing units) Area: 20.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 81212 | |
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Canoncito, NM Zip code(s): 87026 | |
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Canonsburg, PA (borough, FIPS 11152) Location: 40.26383 N, 80.18681 W Population (1990): 9200 (4086 housing units) Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Canyon City, OR (town, FIPS 10950) Location: 44.39220 N, 118.94840 W Population (1990): 648 (277 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97820 | |
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Canyon Country, CA Zip code(s): 91351 | |
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Canyon County, ID (county, FIPS 27) Location: 43.62575 N, 116.70704 W Population (1990): 90076 (33137 housing units) Area: 1527.5 sq km (land), 35.6 sq km (water) | |
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Canyon Creek, MT Zip code(s): 59633 | |
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Channing, MI Zip code(s): 49815 Channing, TX (city, FIPS 14260) Location: 35.68212 N, 102.33174 W Population (1990): 277 (138 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79018 | |
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Chemung, NY Zip code(s): 14825 | |
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Chemung County, NY (county, FIPS 15) Location: 42.14093 N, 76.75999 W Population (1990): 95195 (37290 housing units) Area: 1057.2 sq km (land), 6.8 sq km (water) | |
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Chenango County, NY (county, FIPS 17) Location: 42.49544 N, 75.61504 W Population (1990): 51768 (22164 housing units) Area: 2316.5 sq km (land), 11.2 sq km (water) | |
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Chenango Forks, NY Zip code(s): 13746 | |
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Coeymans Hollow, NY Zip code(s): 12046 | |
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Comanche, OK (city, FIPS 16450) Location: 34.36870 N, 97.96738 W Population (1990): 1695 (910 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73529 Comanche, TX (city, FIPS 16192) Location: 31.89974 N, 98.60416 W Population (1990): 4087 (1885 housing units) Area: 11.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76442 | |
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Comanche County, KS (county, FIPS 33) Location: 37.18619 N, 99.28159 W Population (1990): 2313 (1256 housing units) Area: 2041.9 sq km (land), 3.6 sq km (water) Comanche County, OK (county, FIPS 31) Location: 34.65586 N, 98.46357 W Population (1990): 111486 (43589 housing units) Area: 2769.8 sq km (land), 37.5 sq km (water) Comanche County, TX (county, FIPS 93) Location: 31.95081 N, 98.55753 W Population (1990): 13381 (6724 housing units) Area: 2428.8 sq km (land), 25.8 sq km (water) | |
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Comins, MI Zip code(s): 48619 | |
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Comunas, PR (comunidad, FIPS 19837) Location: 18.08951 N, 65.84040 W Population (1990): 1808 (526 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Conewango Valley, NY Zip code(s): 14726 | |
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Conning Towers-Nautilus Park, CT (CDP, FIPS 16960) Location: 41.37445 N, 72.07510 W Population (1990): 10013 (2769 housing units) Area: 4.7 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water) | |
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Conowingo, MD Zip code(s): 21918 | |
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Conyngham, PA (borough, FIPS 15888) Location: 40.99150 N, 76.06023 W Population (1990): 2060 (846 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Cuming County, NE (county, FIPS 39) Location: 41.91635 N, 96.78837 W Population (1990): 10117 (4132 housing units) Area: 1481.6 sq km (land), 6.6 sq km (water) | |
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Cumming, GA (city, FIPS 20932) Location: 34.20876 N, 84.13513 W Population (1990): 2828 (1031 housing units) Area: 12.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30130 Cumming, IA (city, FIPS 17850) Location: 41.48469 N, 93.76176 W Population (1990): 132 (49 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50061 | |
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Cummings, KS Zip code(s): 66016 Cummings, ND Zip code(s): 58223 | |
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Cummington, MA Zip code(s): 01026 | |
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Cunningham, KS (city, FIPS 16775) Location: 37.64495 N, 98.43201 W Population (1990): 535 (223 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Cunningham, KY Zip code(s): 42035 Cunningham, TN Zip code(s): 37052 Cunningham, WA Zip code(s): 99327 | |
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Cuyamungue, NM (CDP, FIPS 19640) Location: 35.86980 N, 106.00854 W Population (1990): 329 (126 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something. This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics. Two formulas such as 9 + x and x + 9 are said to be equivalent because they mean the same thing, but the second one is in `canonical form' because it is written in the usual way, with the highest power of x first. Usually there are fixed rules you can use to decide whether something is in canonical form. The jargon meaning, a relaxation of the technical meaning, acquired its present loading in computer-science culture largely through its prominence in Alonzo Church's work in computation theory and mathematical logic (see {Knights of the Lambda Calculus}). Compare {vanilla}. Non-technical academics do not use the adjective `canonical' in any of the senses defined above with any regularity; they do however use the nouns `canon' and `canonicity' (not **canonicalness or **canonicality). The `canon' of a given author is the complete body of authentic works by that author (this usage is familiar to Sherlock Holmes fans as well as to literary scholars). `_The_ canon' is the body of works in a given field (e.g., works of literature, or of art, or of music) deemed worthwhile for students to study and for scholars to investigate. The word `canon' has an interesting history. It derives ultimately from the Greek `kanon' (akin to the English `cane') referring to a reed. Reeds were used for measurement, and in Latin and later Greek the word `canon' meant a rule or a standard. The establishment of a canon of scriptures within Christianity was meant to define a standard or a rule for the religion. The above non-techspeak academic usages stem from this instance of a defined and accepted body of work. Alongside this usage was the promulgation of `canons' (`rules') for the government of the Catholic Church. The techspeak usages ("according to religious law") derive from this use of the Latin `canon'. Hackers invest this term with a playfulness that makes an ironic contrast with its historical meaning. A true story: One Bob Sjoberg, new at the MIT AI Lab, expressed some annoyance at the incessant use of jargon. Over his loud objections, GLS and RMS made a point of using as much of it as possible in his presence, and eventually it began to sink in. Finally, in one conversation, he used the word `canonical' in jargon-like fashion without thinking. Steele: "Aha! We've finally got you talking jargon too!" Stallman: "What did he say?" Steele: "Bob just used `canonical' in the canonical way." Of course, canonicality depends on context, but it is implicitly defined as the way _hackers_ normally expect things to be. Thus, a hacker may claim with a straight face that `according to religious law' is _not_ the canonical meaning of `canonical'. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
Communication Style See the discussions of speech and writing styles near the beginning of this File. Though hackers often have poor person-to-person communication skills, they are as a rule quite sensitive to nuances of language and very precise in their use of it. They are often better at writing than at speaking. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
canonical (Historically, "according to religious law") 1. formulas such as 9 + x and x + 9 are said to be equivalent because they mean the same thing, but the second one is in "canonical form" because it is written in the usual way, with the highest power of x first. Usually there are fixed rules you can use to decide whether something is in canonical form. Things in canonical form are easier to compare. 2. something. The term acquired this meaning in computer-science culture largely through its prominence in {Alonzo Church}'s work in computation theory and {mathematical logic} (see {Knights of the Lambda-Calculus}). Compare {vanilla}. This word has an interesting history. Non-technical academics do not use the adjective "canonical" in any of the senses defined above with any regularity; they do however use the nouns "canon" and "canonicity" (not "canonicalness"* or "canonicality"*). The "canon" of a given author is the complete body of authentic works by that author (this usage is familiar to Sherlock Holmes fans as well as to literary scholars). "The canon" is the body of works in a given field (e.g. works of literature, or of art, or of music) deemed worthwhile for students to study and for scholars to investigate. The word "canon" derives ultimately from the Greek "kanon" (akin to the English "cane") referring to a reed. Reeds were used for measurement, and in Latin and later Greek the word "canon" meant a rule or a standard. The establishment of a canon of scriptures within Christianity was meant to define a standard or a rule for the religion. The above non-technical academic usages stem from this instance of a defined and accepted body of work. Alongside this usage was the promulgation of "canons" ("rules") for the government of the Catholic Church. The usages relating to religious law derive from this use of the Latin "canon". It may also be related to arabic "qanun" (law). Hackers invest this term with a playfulness that makes an ironic contrast with its historical meaning. A true story: One Bob Sjoberg, new at the {MIT AI Lab}, expressed some annoyance at the incessant use of jargon. Over his loud objections, {GLS} and {RMS} made a point of using as much of it as possible in his presence, and eventually it began to sink in. Finally, in one conversation, he used the word "canonical" in jargon-like fashion without thinking. Steele: "Aha! We've finally got you talking jargon too!" Stallman: "What did he say?" Steele: "Bob just used "canonical" in the canonical way." Of course, canonicality depends on context, but it is implicitly defined as the way *hackers* normally expect things to be. Thus, a hacker may claim with a straight face that "according to religious law" is *not* the canonical meaning of "canonical". (2002-02-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Canonical Encoding Rules producing unequivocal {transfer syntax} for data structures described by {ASN.1}. Whereas {BER} gives choices as to how data values may be encoded, CER and {DER} select just one encoding from those allowed by the basic encoding rules, eliminating all of the options. They are useful when the encodings must be preserved, e.g. in security exchanges. CER and {DER} differ in the set of restrictions that they place on the encoder. The basic difference between CER and {DER} is that {DER} uses definitive length form and CER uses indefinite length form. Documents: {ITU-T} X.690, {ISO} 8825-1. See also {PER}. (1998-05-19) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
canonical name (CNAME) A host's official name as opposed to an alias. The official name is the first hostname listed for its {Internet address} in the hostname database, {/etc/hosts} or the {Network Information Service} (NIS) map hosts.byaddr ("hosts" for short). A host with multiple network interfaces may have more than one Internet address, each with its own canonical name (and zero or more aliases). You can find a host's canonical name using {nslookup} if you say set querytype=CNAME and then type a hostname. (1994-11-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
canonicity (1995-03-03) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
common carrier company that offers telecommunications services to the public. (1995-03-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Common Command Set for direct-access {SCSI} devices. In 1985 when the first {SCSI} standard was being finalised as an {American National Standard}, the {X3T9.2} Task Group was approached by some manufacturers who wanted changes. Rather than delay the SCSI standard, X3T9.2 formed an ad hoc group to define CCS. [Spec? Status? "direct-access"?] (1997-03-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Common Communication Services (CCS) The standard program interface to networks in {SAA}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Common ESP Self-containing Prolog}) from {Mitsubishi}'s {AI Language Institute}. (2000-07-11) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Common Gateway Interface {programs} from a {World-Wide Web} {HTTP} {server}. CGI specifies how to pass {arguments} to the executing program as part of the HTTP request. It also defines a set of {environment variables}. Commonly, the program will generate some {HTML} which will be passed back to the {browser} but it can also request {URL redirection}. CGI allows the returned HTML (or other document type) to depend in any arbitrary way on the request. The CGI program can, for example, access information in a {database} and format the results as HTML. A CGI program can be any program which can accept command line arguments. {Perl} is a common choice for writing CGI scripts. Some {HTTP servers} require CGI programs to reside in a special directory, often "/cgi-bin" but better servers provide ways to distinguish CGI programs so they can be kept in the same directories as the HTML files to which they are related. Whenever the server receives a CGI execution request it creates a new process to run the external program. If the process fails to terminate for some reason, or if requests are received faster than the server can respond to them, the server may become swamped with processes. In order to improve performance, {Netscape} devised {NSAPI} and {Microsoft} developed the {ISAPI} standard which allow CGI-like tasks to run as part of the main server process, thus avoiding the overhead of creating a new process to handle each CGI invocation. Current version: 1.1. {NCSA (http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi)}. (2002-06-03) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Common ISDN Application Programming Interface standard for an application program to communicate with an {ISDN} card. Work on CAPI began in 1989, focussing on the German ISDN protocol, and was finished in 1990 by a CAPI working group consisting of application providers, ISDN equipment manufacturers, large customers, user groups and DBP Telekom, resulting in COMMON-ISDN-API Version 1.1. Following completion of the international protocol specification, almost every telecommunication provider offers {BRI} and {PRI} with {protocols} based on {Q.931} / ETS 3009 102. Common-ISDN-API Version 2.0 was developed to support all Q.931 protocols. Latest version: 2.0, as of 1998-09-07. {Home (http://www.capi.org/)}. [Why not CIAPI?] (1998-09-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Common User Access (1997-12-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Common-ISDN-API {Common ISDN Application Programming Interface} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Communicating Functional Processes (CFP) ["Communicating Functional Processes", M.C. van Eekelen et al, TR 89-3, U Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1989]. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Communicating Sequential Processes on {synchronous message passing} and selective communications designed by {Anthony Hoare} in 1978. It features {cobegin} and coend and was a precursor to {occam}. See also {Contextually Communicating Sequential Processes}. ["Communicating Sequential Processes", A.R. Hoare, P-H 1985]. (1994-11-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
communication system {information} transfer between persons and equipment. The system usually consists of a collection of individual communication {networks}, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and {terminal} equipment capable of interconnection and interoperation so as to form an integrated whole. These individual components must serve a common purpose, be technically compatible, employ common procedures, respond to some form of control, and generally operate in unison. ["Communications Standard Dictionary", 2nd Edition, Martin H. Weik]. (1995-02-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Communications Decency Act Bill that went into effect on 08 February 1996, outraging thousands of {Internet} users who turned their {web pages} black in protest. The law, originally proposed by Senator James Exon to protect children from obscenity on the Internet, ended up making it punishable by fines of up to $250,000 to post indecent language on the Internet anywhere that a minor could read it. The {Electronic Frontier Foundation} created {public domain} blue ribbon {icons} that many web authors downloaded and displayed on their web pages. On 12 June 1996, a three-judge panel in Philadelphia ruled the CDA unconstitutional and issued an injunction against the United States Justice Department forbidding them to enforce the "indecency" provisions of the law. Internet users celebrated by displaying an animated "Free Speech" fireworks icon to their web pages, courtesy of the {Voters Telecommunications Watch}. The Justice Department has appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. (1996-11-03) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Communications of the ACM for Computing Machinery} sent to all members. CACM is an influential publication that keeps computer science professionals up to date on developments. Each issue includes articles, case studies, practitioner oriented pieces, regular columns, commentary, departments, the ACM Forum, and technical correspondence, and advertisements. {Home (http://www.acm.org/cacm/)}. (1995-01-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
communications port interface, usually, a {serial port}. (1996-08-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Communications Server (1999-01-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
communications software system} components, and probably {firmware}, forming part of a {communication system}. These different software components might be classified according to the functions within the {Open Systems Interconnect} model which they provide. (2001-03-18) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Coming of Christ (1) with reference to his first advent "in the fulness of the time" (1 John 5:20; 2 John 1:7), or (2) with reference to his coming again the second time at the last day (Acts 1:11; 3:20, 21; 1 Thess. 4:15; 2 Tim. 4:1; Heb. 9:28). The expression is used metaphorically of the introduction of the gospel into any place (John 15:22; Eph. 2:17), the visible establishment of his kingdom in the world (Matt. 16:28), the conferring on his people of the peculiar tokens of his love (John 14:18, 23, 28), and his executing judgment on the wicked (2 Thess. 2:8). | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
Cayman Islands (dependent territory of the UK) Cayman Islands:Geography Location: Caribbean, island group in Caribbean Sea, nearly one-half of the way from Cuba to Honduras Map references: Central America and the Caribbean Area: total area: 260 sq km land area: 260 sq km comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 160 km Maritime claims: exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: none Climate: tropical marine; warm, rainy summers (May to October) and cool, relatively dry winters (November to April) Terrain: low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs Natural resources: fish, climate and beaches that foster tourism Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 8% forest and woodland: 23% other: 69% Irrigated land: NA sq km Environment: current issues: no natural fresh water resources, drinking water supplies must be met by rainwater catchment natural hazards: hurricanes (July to November) international agreements: NA Note: important location between Cuba and Central America Cayman Islands:People Population: 33,192 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: NA 15-64 years: NA 65 years and over: NA Population growth rate: 4.3% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 14.79 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 4.98 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: 33.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 8.4 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 77.1 years male: 75.37 years female: 78.81 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 1.43 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Caymanian(s) adjective: Caymanian Ethnic divisions: mixed 40%, white 20%, black 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups 20% Religions: United Church (Presbyterian and Congregational), Anglican, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Church of God, other Protestant denominations Languages: English Literacy: age 15 and over has ever attended school (1970) total population: 98% male: 98% female: 98% Labor force: 8,061 by occupation: service workers 18.7%, clerical 18.6%, construction 12.5%, finance and investment 6.7%, directors and business managers 5.9% (1979) Cayman Islands:Government Names: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Cayman Islands Digraph: CJ Type: dependent territory of the UK Capital: George Town Administrative divisions: 8 districts; Creek, Eastern, Midland, South Town, Spot Bay, Stake Bay, West End, Western Independence: none (dependent territory of the UK) National holiday: Constitution Day (first Monday in July) Constitution: 1959, revised 1972 and 1992 Legal system: British common law and local statutes Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952) head of government: Governor and President of the Executive Council Michael GORE (since 15 September 1992) cabinet: Executive Council; 3 members are appointed by the governor, 4 members elected by the Legislative Assembly Legislative branch: unicameral Legislative Assembly: election last held November 1992 (next to be held November 1996); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (15 total, 12 elected) Judicial branch: Grand Court, Cayman Islands Court of Appeal Political parties and leaders: no formal political parties Member of: CARICOM (observer), CDB, INTERPOL (subbureau), IOC Diplomatic representation in US: none (dependent territory of the UK) US diplomatic representation: none (dependent territory of the UK) Flag: blue, with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and the Caymanian coat of arms on a white disk centered on the outer half of the flag; the coat of arms includes a pineapple and turtle above a shield with three stars (representing the three islands) and a scroll at the bottom bearing the motto HE HATH FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS Economy Overview: The economy depends heavily on tourism (70% of GDP and 75% of foreign currency earnings) and offshore financial services, with the tourist industry aimed at the luxury market and catering mainly to visitors from North America. About 90% of the islands' food and consumer goods must be imported. The Caymanians enjoy one of the highest outputs per capita and one of the highest standards of living in the world. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $700 million (1993 est.) National product real growth rate: 1.4% (1991) National product per capita: $23,000 (1993 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5% (1993 est.) Unemployment rate: 7% (1992) Budget: revenues: $141.5 million expenditures: $160.7 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1991) Exports: $10 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.) commodities: turtle products, manufactured consumer goods partners: mostly US Imports: $312 million (c.i.f., 1993 est.) commodities: foodstuffs, manufactured goods partners: US, Trinidad and Tobago, UK, Netherlands Antilles, Japan External debt: $15 million (1986) Industrial production: growth rate NA% Electricity: capacity: 80,000 kW production: 230 million kWh consumption per capita: 6,899 kWh (1993) Industries: tourism, banking, insurance and finance, construction, building materials, furniture making Agriculture: minor production of vegetables, fruit, livestock; turtle farming Illicit drugs: a major money-laundering center for illicit drug profits; transshipment point for narcotics bound for the US and Europe Economic aid: recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $26.7 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $35 million Currency: 1 Caymanian dollar (CI$) = 100 cents Exchange rates: Caymanian dollars (CI$) per US$1 - 0.83 (18 November 1993), 0.85 (22 November 1993) Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March Cayman Islands:Transportation Railroads: 0 km Highways: total: 160 km (main roads) paved: NA unpaved: NA Ports: Cayman Brac, George Town Merchant marine: total: 26 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 321,434 GRT/583,348 DWT ships by type: bulk 7, cargo 6, chemical tanker 2, container 1, oil tanker 3, roll-on/roll-off cargo 7 note: a flag of convenience registry; UK owns 6 ships, India 5, Norway 3, US 3, Greece 1, Sweden 1, UAE 1 Airports: total: 3 with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1 Cayman Islands:Communications Telephone system: 35,000 telephones local: NA intercity: NA international: 1 submarine coaxial cable; 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) earth station Radio: broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 1, shortwave 0 radios: NA Television: broadcast stations: 0 televisions: NA Cayman Islands:Defense Forces Branches: Royal Cayman Islands Police Force (RCIPF) Note: defense is the responsibility of the UK |