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   Caiman sclerops
         n 1: caiman with bony ridges about the eyes; found from southern
               Mexico to Argentina [syn: {spectacled caiman}, {Caiman
               sclerops}]

English Dictionary: common measure by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cananga
n
  1. a genus of Malayan tree [syn: Cananga, genus Cananga, Canangium, genus Canangium]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cananga odorata
n
  1. evergreen Asian tree with aromatic greenish-yellow flowers yielding a volatile oil; widely grown in the tropics as an ornamental
    Synonym(s): ilang-ilang, ylang-ylang, Cananga odorata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Canangium
n
  1. a genus of Malayan tree [syn: Cananga, genus Cananga, Canangium, genus Canangium]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canine chorea
n
  1. chorea in dogs
    Synonym(s): canine chorea, chorea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
caning
n
  1. work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)
    Synonym(s): wicker, wickerwork, caning
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cannon cracker
n
  1. a large firecracker
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonic
adj
  1. appearing in a biblical canon; "a canonical book of the Christian New Testament"
    Synonym(s): canonic, canonical
  2. of or relating to or required by canon law
    Synonym(s): canonic, canonical
  3. reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
    Synonym(s): basic, canonic, canonical
  4. conforming to orthodox or recognized rules; "the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"- Sinclair Lewis
    Synonym(s): canonic, canonical, sanctioned
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonical
adj
  1. appearing in a biblical canon; "a canonical book of the Christian New Testament"
    Synonym(s): canonic, canonical
  2. of or relating to or required by canon law
    Synonym(s): canonic, canonical
  3. reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
    Synonym(s): basic, canonic, canonical
  4. conforming to orthodox or recognized rules; "the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"- Sinclair Lewis
    Synonym(s): canonic, canonical, sanctioned
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonical hour
n
  1. (Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonically
adv
  1. in a canonical manner; "the deacon was canonically inducted"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonisation
n
  1. (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints
    Synonym(s): canonization, canonisation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonise
v
  1. treat as a sacred person; "He canonizes women" [syn: canonize, canonise]
  2. declare (a dead person) to be a saint; "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized"
    Synonym(s): canonize, canonise, saint
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonised
adj
  1. accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing [syn: canonized, canonised, glorified]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonist
adj
  1. pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism"
n
  1. a specialist in canon law
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonization
n
  1. (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints
    Synonym(s): canonization, canonisation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonize
v
  1. declare (a dead person) to be a saint; "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized"
    Synonym(s): canonize, canonise, saint
  2. treat as a sacred person; "He canonizes women"
    Synonym(s): canonize, canonise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canonized
adj
  1. accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing [syn: canonized, canonised, glorified]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canyon oak
n
  1. medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves
    Synonym(s): canyon oak, canyon live oak, maul oak, iron oak, Quercus chrysolepis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canyonside
n
  1. the steeply sloping side of a canyon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cayman Islands
n
  1. a British colony in the Caribbean to the northwest of Jamaica; an international banking center
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cayman Islands dollar
n
  1. the basic unit of money in the Cayman Islands
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Chen N. Yang
n
  1. United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Tsung Dao Lee in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1922)
    Synonym(s): Yang Chen Ning, Chen N. Yang
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chinning bar
n
  1. a horizontal bar on which you can chin yourself
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chumminess
n
  1. the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
    Synonym(s): chumminess, camaraderie, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coaming
n
  1. a raised framework around a hatchway on a ship to keep water out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Comanche
n
  1. a member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma
  2. the Shoshonean language spoken by the Comanche
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Comenius
n
  1. Czech educational reformer (1592-1670) [syn: Comenius, John Amos Comenius, Jan Amos Komensky]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coming
adj
  1. of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions"
    Synonym(s): approaching, coming(a), forthcoming, upcoming
n
  1. the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"
    Synonym(s): approach, approaching, coming
  2. arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer"
    Synonym(s): advent, coming
  3. the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the approach of winter"
    Synonym(s): approach, approaching, coming
  4. the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
    Synonym(s): orgasm, climax, sexual climax, coming
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coming attraction
n
  1. a movie that is advertised to draw customers
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coming back
n
  1. the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
    Synonym(s): return, coming back
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coming into court
n
  1. formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action
    Synonym(s): appearance, appearing, coming into court
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coming together
n
  1. the social act of assembling for some common purpose; "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day"
    Synonym(s): meeting, coming together
  2. the act of joining together as one; "the merging of the two groups occurred quickly"; "there was no meeting of minds"
    Synonym(s): merging, meeting, coming together
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coming upon
n
  1. a casual meeting with a person or thing [syn: encounter, coming upon]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commence
v
  1. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
    Synonym(s): get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence
    Antonym(s): end, terminate
  2. set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"
    Synonym(s): begin, lead off, start, commence
    Antonym(s): end, terminate
  3. get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"
    Synonym(s): start, start up, embark on, commence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commencement
n
  1. the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
    Synonym(s): beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset
    Antonym(s): end, ending, middle
  2. an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred
    Synonym(s): commencement, commencement exercise, commencement ceremony, graduation, graduation exercise
  3. the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
    Synonym(s): beginning, start, commencement
    Antonym(s): finish, finishing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commencement ceremony
n
  1. an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred [syn: commencement, commencement exercise, commencement ceremony, graduation, graduation exercise]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commencement day
n
  1. the day on which university degrees are conferred [syn: commencement day, degree day]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commencement exercise
n
  1. an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred [syn: commencement, commencement exercise, commencement ceremony, graduation, graduation exercise]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commensal
adj
  1. living in a state of commensalism
n
  1. either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commensalism
n
  1. the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commensally
adv
  1. in a commensal manner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commensurable
adj
  1. capable of being measured by a common standard; "hours and minutes are commensurable"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commensurate
adj
  1. corresponding in size or degree or extent; "pay should be commensurate with the time worked"
    Antonym(s): incommensurate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commensurateness
n
  1. the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount
    Synonym(s): commensurateness, correspondence, proportionateness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commingle
v
  1. mix or blend; "His book commingles sarcasm and sadness"
  2. mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"
    Synonym(s): blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common ageratum
n
  1. small tender herb grown for its fluffy brushlike blue to lavender blooms
    Synonym(s): common ageratum, Ageratum houstonianum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common ax
n
  1. an ax with a long handle and a head that has one cutting edge and one blunt side
    Synonym(s): common ax, common axe, Dayton ax, Dayton axe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common axe
n
  1. an ax with a long handle and a head that has one cutting edge and one blunt side
    Synonym(s): common ax, common axe, Dayton ax, Dayton axe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common calamint
n
  1. mint-scented perennial of central and southern Europe [syn: common calamint, Calamintha sylvatica, Satureja calamintha officinalis]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common camas
n
  1. plant having a large edible bulb and linear basal leaves and racemes of light to deep violet-blue star-shaped flowers on tall green scapes; western North America
    Synonym(s): common camas, Camassia quamash
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common canary
n
  1. native to the Canary Islands and Azores; popular usually yellow cage bird noted for its song
    Synonym(s): common canary, Serinus canaria
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common caper
n
  1. prostrate spiny shrub of the Mediterranean region cultivated for its greenish flower buds which are pickled
    Synonym(s): common caper, Capparis spinosa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common cardinal vein
n
  1. the major return channels to the heart; formed by anastomosis of the anterior and posterior cardinal veins
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common carline thistle
n
  1. Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils
    Synonym(s): common carline thistle, Carlina vulgaris
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common carotid
n
  1. runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries
    Synonym(s): common carotid artery, common carotid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common carotid artery
n
  1. runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries
    Synonym(s): common carotid artery, common carotid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common carrier
n
  1. a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
    Synonym(s): carrier, common carrier
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common chickweed
n
  1. a common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens
    Synonym(s): common chickweed, Stellaria media
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common chord
n
  1. a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones
    Synonym(s): common chord, triad
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common cockscomb
n
  1. garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
    Synonym(s): cockscomb, common cockscomb, Celosia cristata, Celosia argentea cristata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common cold
n
  1. a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"
    Synonym(s): cold, common cold
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common comfrey
n
  1. European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America
    Synonym(s): common comfrey, boneset, Symphytum officinale
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common coral tree
n
  1. small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered
    Synonym(s): ceibo, crybaby tree, cry-baby tree, common coral tree, Erythrina crista-galli
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common corn salad
n
  1. widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb; often a weed
    Synonym(s): common corn salad, lamb's lettuce, Valerianella olitoria, Valerianella locusta
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common cotton grass
n
  1. having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes
    Synonym(s): common cotton grass, Eriophorum angustifolium
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common garden cress
n
  1. annual herb used as salad green and garnish [syn: {common garden cress}, garden pepper cress, pepper grass, pepperwort, Lepidium sativum]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common garter snake
n
  1. a garter snake that is widespread in North America [syn: common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common ginger
n
  1. tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger
    Synonym(s): common ginger, Canton ginger, stem ginger, Zingiber officinale
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common good
n
  1. the good of a community
    Synonym(s): common good, commonweal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common grape hyacinth
n
  1. prolific species having particularly beautiful dark blue flowers
    Synonym(s): common grape hyacinth, Muscari neglectum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common grape vine
n
  1. common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes
    Synonym(s): vinifera, vinifera grape, common grape vine, Vitis vinifera
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common ground
n
  1. a basis agreed to by all parties for reaching a mutual understanding
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common gum cistus
n
  1. shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative
    Synonym(s): common gum cistus, Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common hyacinth
n
  1. widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers
    Synonym(s): common hyacinth, Hyacinthus orientalis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common iguana
n
  1. large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America
    Synonym(s): common iguana, iguana, Iguana iguana
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common jasmine
n
  1. a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea
    Synonym(s): common jasmine, true jasmine, jessamine, Jasminum officinale
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common juniper
n
  1. densely branching shrub or small tree having pungent blue berries used to flavor gin; widespread in northern hemisphere; only conifer on coasts of Iceland and Greenland
    Synonym(s): common juniper, Juniperus communis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common kingsnake
n
  1. widespread in United States except northern regions; black or brown with yellow bands
    Synonym(s): common kingsnake, Lampropeltis getulus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common knowledge
n
  1. anything generally known to everyone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common mackerel
n
  1. important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
    Synonym(s): common mackerel, shiner, Scomber scombrus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common measure
n
  1. a time signature indicating four beats to the bar [syn: common time, four-four time, quadruple time, common measure]
  2. an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly
    Synonym(s): common divisor, common factor, common measure
  3. the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad
    Synonym(s): common measure, common meter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common mosquito
n
  1. common house mosquito [syn: common mosquito, {Culex pipiens}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common mugwort
n
  1. European tufted aromatic perennial herb having hairy red or purple stems and dark green leaves downy white below and red-brown florets
    Synonym(s): common mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common nightshade
n
  1. Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
    Synonym(s): black nightshade, common nightshade, poisonberry, poison- berry, Solanum nigrum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common nuisance
n
  1. a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public; "a public nuisance offends the public at large"
    Synonym(s): public nuisance, common nuisance
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common oak
n
  1. medium to large deciduous European oak having smooth leaves with rounded lobes; yields hard strong light-colored wood
    Synonym(s): common oak, English oak, pedunculate oak, Quercus robur
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common osier
n
  1. willow with long flexible twigs used in basketry [syn: common osier, hemp willow, velvet osier, Salix viminalis]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common sage
n
  1. shrubby plant with aromatic greyish-green leaves used as a cooking herb
    Synonym(s): common sage, ramona, Salvia officinalis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common salt
n
  1. a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl)
    Synonym(s): sodium chloride, common salt
  2. white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
    Synonym(s): salt, table salt, common salt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common scold
n
  1. someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
    Synonym(s): scold, scolder, nag, nagger, common scold
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common scoter
n
  1. a variety of scoter [syn: common scoter, {Melanitta nigra}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common scurvy grass
n
  1. a widely distributed Arctic cress reputed to have value in treatment or prevention of scurvy; a concentrated source of vitamin C
    Synonym(s): scurvy grass, common scurvy grass, Cochlearia officinalis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common seal
n
  1. small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere
    Synonym(s): harbor seal, common seal, Phoca vitulina
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common sense
n
  1. sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"
    Synonym(s): common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common shares
n
  1. stock other than preferred stock; entitles the owner to a share of the corporation's profits and a share of the voting power in shareholder elections; "over 40 million Americans invest in common stocks"
    Synonym(s): common stock, common shares, ordinary shares
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common shiner
n
  1. the common North American shiner [syn: common shiner, silversides, Notropis cornutus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common shrew
n
  1. common American shrew [syn: common shrew, {Sorex araneus}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common sickle pine
n
  1. small tropical rain forest tree of Indonesia and Malaysia
    Synonym(s): common sickle pine, Falcatifolium falciforme
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common snapping turtle
n
  1. large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
    Synonym(s): common snapping turtle, snapper, Chelydra serpentina
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common snowberry
n
  1. deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries
    Synonym(s): snowberry, common snowberry, waxberry, Symphoricarpos alba
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common soldier
n
  1. an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines; "our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"
    Synonym(s): private, buck private, common soldier
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common sorrel
n
  1. large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
    Synonym(s): sorrel, common sorrel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common speedwell
n
  1. common hairy European perennial with pale blue or lilac flowers in axillary racemes
    Synonym(s): common speedwell, gypsyweed, Veronica officinalis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common spindle tree
n
  1. small erect deciduous shrub having tough white wood and cathartic bark and fruit
    Synonym(s): common spindle tree, Euonymus europaeus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common spoonbill
n
  1. pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa
    Synonym(s): common spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common spotted orchid
n
  1. European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple
    Synonym(s): common spotted orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii, Dactylorhiza maculata fuchsii
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common St John's wort
n
  1. deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain
    Synonym(s): common St John's wort, tutsan, Hypericum androsaemum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common staghorn fern
n
  1. commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia
    Synonym(s): common staghorn fern, elkhorn fern, Platycerium bifurcatum, Platycerium alcicorne
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common starling
n
  1. gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss; builds nests around dwellings and other structures; naturalized worldwide
    Synonym(s): common starling, Sturnus vulgaris
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common stinkhorn
n
  1. a common fungus formerly used in preparing a salve for rheumatism
    Synonym(s): common stinkhorn, Phallus impudicus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common stock
n
  1. stock other than preferred stock; entitles the owner to a share of the corporation's profits and a share of the voting power in shareholder elections; "over 40 million Americans invest in common stocks"
    Synonym(s): common stock, common shares, ordinary shares
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common stock equivalent
n
  1. preferred stock or convertible bonds or warrants that can be converted into common stock
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common sunflower
n
  1. annual sunflower grown for silage and for its seeds which are a source of oil; common throughout United States and much of North America
    Synonym(s): common sunflower, mirasol, Helianthus annuus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common wasp
n
  1. a variety of vespid wasp [syn: common wasp, {Vespula vulgaris}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
common zebra
n
  1. of the plains of central and eastern Africa [syn: {common zebra}, Burchell's zebra, Equus Burchelli]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commonage
n
  1. property held in common
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commonness
n
  1. the state of being that is commonly observed [syn: commonness, expectedness]
  2. the quality of lacking taste and refinement
    Synonym(s): coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch
  3. ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
    Synonym(s): commonness, commonplaceness, everydayness
    Antonym(s): uncommonness
  4. sharing of common attributes
    Synonym(s): commonality, commonness
    Antonym(s): individualism, individuality, individuation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commons
n
  1. a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"
    Synonym(s): park, commons, common, green
  2. a pasture subject to common use
    Synonym(s): commons, common land
  3. a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank
    Synonym(s): commonalty, commonality, commons
  4. the common people
    Synonym(s): third estate, Commons
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commonsense
adj
  1. exhibiting native good judgment; "arrive home at a reasonable hour"; "commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius"; "unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated"
    Synonym(s): commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commonsensible
adj
  1. exhibiting native good judgment; "arrive home at a reasonable hour"; "commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius"; "unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated"
    Synonym(s): commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commonsensical
adj
  1. exhibiting native good judgment; "arrive home at a reasonable hour"; "commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius"; "unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated"
    Synonym(s): commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicable
adj
  1. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
    Synonym(s): catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable
  2. readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicable disease
n
  1. a disease that can be communicated from one person to another
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicant
n
  1. a person entitled to receive Communion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicate
v
  1. transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"
    Synonym(s): communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across
  2. transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"
    Synonym(s): communicate, intercommunicate
  3. transfer to another; "communicate a disease"
    Synonym(s): convey, transmit, communicate
  4. join or connect; "The rooms communicated"
  5. be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"
  6. administer Communion; in church
    Antonym(s): curse, excommunicate, unchurch
  7. receive Communion, in the Catholic church
    Synonym(s): commune, communicate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicating
n
  1. the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow"
    Synonym(s): communication, communicating
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicating artery
n
  1. any of three arteries in the brain that make up the circle of Willis
    Synonym(s): communicating artery, arteria communicans
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communication
n
  1. the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow"
    Synonym(s): communication, communicating
  2. something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups
  3. a connection allowing access between persons or places; "how many lines of communication can there be among four people?"; "a secret passageway provided communication between the two rooms"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communication channel
n
  1. (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
    Synonym(s): channel, communication channel, line
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communication equipment
n
  1. facility consisting of the physical plants and equipment for disseminating information
    Synonym(s): communication system, communication equipment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communication system
n
  1. a system for communicating
  2. facility consisting of the physical plants and equipment for disseminating information
    Synonym(s): communication system, communication equipment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communication theory
n
  1. the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); "communications is his major field of study"
    Synonym(s): communications, communication theory
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communication trench
n
  1. a trench that provides protected passage between the rear and front lines of a defensive position
    Synonym(s): approach trench, communication trench
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicational
adj
  1. used in communication; "he had few communicational grooves available for use"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communications
n
  1. the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); "communications is his major field of study"
    Synonym(s): communications, communication theory
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communications intelligence
n
  1. technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients
    Synonym(s): communications intelligence, COMINT
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communications protocol
n
  1. (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data
    Synonym(s): protocol, communications protocol
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communications satellite
n
  1. an artificial satellite that relays signals back to earth; moves in a geostationary orbit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Communications Security Establishment
n
  1. Canadian agency that gathers communications intelligence and assist law enforcement and security agencies
    Synonym(s): Communications Security Establishment, CSE
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communications technology
n
  1. the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicative
adj
  1. of or relating to communication; "communicative arts"
  2. able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray
    Synonym(s): communicative, communicatory
    Antonym(s): incommunicative, uncommunicative
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicativeness
n
  1. the trait of being communicative [ant: uncommunicativeness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicator
n
  1. a person who communicates with others
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicatory
adj
  1. able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray
    Synonym(s): communicative, communicatory
    Antonym(s): incommunicative, uncommunicative
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communique
n
  1. an official report (usually sent in haste) [syn: dispatch, despatch, communique]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communisation
n
  1. a change from private property to public property owned by the community
    Synonym(s): communization, communisation
  2. the organization of a nation of the basis of communism
    Synonym(s): communization, communisation
  3. changing something from private to state ownership or control
    Synonym(s): nationalization, nationalisation, communization, communisation
    Antonym(s): denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation, privatization
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communise
v
  1. make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles; "communize the government"
    Synonym(s): communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
  2. make into property owned by the state; "The new government communized all banks"
    Synonym(s): communize, communise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communism
n
  1. a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
  2. a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Communism Peak
n
  1. the highest mountain peak in the Pamir Mountains; near the Chinese border in northeastern Tajikistan (24,590 feet high)
    Synonym(s): Communism Peak, Mount Communism, Stalin Peak, Mount Garmo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communist
adj
  1. relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda"
    Synonym(s): communist, communistic
n
  1. a member of the communist party
  2. a socialist who advocates communism
    Synonym(s): communist, commie
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Communist China
n
  1. a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
    Synonym(s): China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC, Cathay
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communist economy
n
  1. the managed economy of a communist state
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Communist Manifesto
n
  1. a socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1842) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Communist Party
n
  1. a political party that actively advocates a communist form of government; in Communist countries it is the sole political party of the state
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Communist Party of Kampuchea
n
  1. a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999
    Synonym(s): Khmer Rouge, KR, Party of Democratic Kampuchea, Communist Party of Kampuchea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communistic
adj
  1. relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda"
    Synonym(s): communist, communistic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communization
n
  1. a change from private property to public property owned by the community
    Synonym(s): communization, communisation
  2. the organization of a nation of the basis of communism
    Synonym(s): communization, communisation
  3. changing something from private to state ownership or control
    Synonym(s): nationalization, nationalisation, communization, communisation
    Antonym(s): denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation, privatization
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communize
v
  1. make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles; "communize the government"
    Synonym(s): communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
  2. make into property owned by the state; "The new government communized all banks"
    Synonym(s): communize, communise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cone-nosed bug
n
  1. large bloodsucking bug [syn: conenose, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, big bedbug, kissing bug]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
conenose
n
  1. large bloodsucking bug [syn: conenose, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, big bedbug, kissing bug]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
conenose bug
n
  1. large bloodsucking bug [syn: conenose, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, big bedbug, kissing bug]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Conium maculatum
n
  1. large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous
    Synonym(s): hemlock, poison hemlock, poison parsley, California fern, Nebraska fern, winter fern, Conium maculatum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
conning tower
n
  1. an armored pilothouse on a warship
  2. a raised bridge on a submarine; often used for entering and exiting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cumin seed
n
  1. aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family [syn: cumin, cumin seed]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cummings
n
  1. United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962)
    Synonym(s): cummings, e. e. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cunning
adj
  1. attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby"
    Synonym(s): cunning, cute
  2. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
    Synonym(s): crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
  3. showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem"
    Synonym(s): clever, cunning, ingenious
n
  1. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
    Synonym(s): craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
  2. crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cunningham
n
  1. United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1922) [syn: Cunningham, Merce Cunningham]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cunningly
adv
  1. in an attractive manner; "how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure"
    Synonym(s): cunningly, cutely
  2. in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?"
    Synonym(s): craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cunoniaceae
n
  1. trees or shrubs or climbers; mostly southern hemisphere
    Synonym(s): Cunoniaceae, family Cunoniaceae, cunonia family
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cynancum
n
  1. any of various mostly giant tropical lianas of Africa and Madagascar having greenish or purple flowers and long smooth pods; roots formerly used as an emetic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cynomys
n
  1. prairie dogs
    Synonym(s): Cynomys, genus Cynomys
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cynomys gunnisoni
n
  1. tail is white tipped [syn: whitetail prairie dog, Cynomys gunnisoni]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cynomys ludovicianus
n
  1. tail is black tipped [syn: blacktail prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus]
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.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Canniness \Can"ni*ness\, n.
      Caution; crafty management. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Canoeing \Ca*noe"ing\ n.
      The act or art of using a canoe.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Canoe \Ca*noe"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Canoed}p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Canoeing}.]
      To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Canonically \Ca*non"ic*al*ly\, adv.
      In a canonical manner; according to the canons.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Commensurateness \Com*men"su*rate*ness\, n.
      The state or quality of being commensurate. --Foster.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

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}.

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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

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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   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Conning tower \Con"ning tow"er\, n.
      The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cuminol \Cu"mi*nol\ (-n?l), n. [Cuminic + L. oleum.]
      A liquid, {C3H7.C6H4.CHO}, obtained from oil of caraway; --
      called also {cuminic aldehyde}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cunningly \Cun"ning*ly\ (k?n"n?ng-l?), adv.
      In a cunning manner; with cunning.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cunningman \Cun"ning*man`\ (-m?n`), n.
      A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
      [Obs.] --Hudibras.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cunningness \Cun"ning*ness\, n.
      Quality of being cunning; craft.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Canoncito, NM
      Zip code(s): 87026

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Canyon Country, CA
      Zip code(s): 91351

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Canyon Creek, MT
      Zip code(s): 59633

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Chemung, NY
      Zip code(s): 14825

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Chenango Forks, NY
      Zip code(s): 13746

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Coeymans Hollow, NY
      Zip code(s): 12046

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Comins, MI
      Zip code(s): 48619

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Conewango Valley, NY
      Zip code(s): 14726

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Conowingo, MD
      Zip code(s): 21918

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Cummings, KS
      Zip code(s): 66016
   Cummings, ND
      Zip code(s): 58223

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Cummington, MA
      Zip code(s): 01026

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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. A standard way of writing a formula.   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.
      Things in canonical form are easier to compare.
  
      2. The usual or standard state or manner of
      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
  
      (CER) A restricted variant of {BER} for
      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
  
      The extent to which something is {canonical}.
  
      (1995-03-03)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   common carrier
  
      (Or "phone company") A private
      company that offers telecommunications services to the public.
  
      (1995-03-20)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Common Command Set
  
      (CCS) Additional requirements and features
      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
  
      (CESP) A {Unix}-based version of ESP ({Extended
      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
  
      (CGI) A {standard} for running external
      {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
  
      (CAPI, Common-ISDN-API) A 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
  
      (CUA) the {user interface} standard of {SAA}.
  
      (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
  
      (CSP) A notation for {concurrency} based
      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
  
      A system or facility capable of providing
      {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
  
      (CDA) An amendment to the U.S. 1996 Telecommunications
      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
  
      (CACM) A monthly publication by the {Association
      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
  
      A connector for a communications
      interface, usually, a {serial port}.
  
      (1996-08-04)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Communications Server
  
      {IBM}'s rebranding of {ACF}.
  
      (1999-01-20)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   communications software
  
      {Application programs}, {operating
      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
  
  
  
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