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Joint help; coöperation. Sir T. Browne.

A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

st line of. Nearchus, . . . not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore. Sir T. Browne.

Participation of the same nature. Sir T. Browne. A like temper and cognation. Sir K. Digby.

One bearing the same name; a namesake. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis.

ucing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [Obs.] "Critical and collective reason." Sir T. Browne.

[Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.

A binding together. Sir T. Browne.

ed by the violence of the fire. Boyle. [Ice] will colliquate in water or warm oil. Sir T. Browne.

es or bunches of flesh, like collops. With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

acts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, and Colt-Browning, pistol.

A dovecote; a pigeon house. Sir T. Browne.

he act or practice of eating at the same table. [Obs.] "Promiscuous commensality." Sir T. Browne.

Commensality. [Obs.] Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.

To reduce to a common measure. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A parcel or quantity of goods. [Obs.] A commodity of brown paper and old ginger. Shak.