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To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] We commence judges ourselves. Coleridge.

To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will. [Archaic] Commend me to my brother. Shak.

To comment on. [Archaic.] Fuller.

Comparison. [Archaic] His mighty champion, strong beyond compare. Milton. Their small galleys may not hold compare With our tall ships. Waller.

needless. -- In comparison of, In comparison with, as compared with; in proportion to. [Archaic] "So miserably unpeopled in comparison of what it once was." Addison. -- Comparison of hands (Law), a mode of proving or disproving the genuineness of a signature or writing by comparing it with another proved or admitted…

A combination; a complex. [Archaic] This paragraph is . . . a complexion of sophisms. Coleridge.

To conceive; to imagine. [Archaic] The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so. South. One of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer. Shak.

Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes. [Archaic.] Bacon. That undisturbed song of pure concent. Milton.

Important. [Archaic] So great and so concerning truth. South.

To unite in one mass or body; to incorporate. [Archaic.] Jer. Taylor.

Convoy; escort; guard; guide. [Archaic] I will be your conduct. B. Jonson. In my conduct shall your ladies come. Shak.

United; conjoined; concurrent. [Archaic]

Considerate; careful; thoughtful. [Archaic] I love to be considerative. B. Jonson.

An associate; an accomplice. [Archaic] "Wicked consociates." Bp. Hall.

Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse. [Archaic] Milton. She flew contrarious in the face of God. Mrs. Browning.

Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate. [Archaic] Feed me with food convenient for me. Prov. xxx. 8. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient. Eph. v. 4.

General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27.

Ready to converse; social. [Archaic] Feltham.

A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]