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situated. The proposition is, that two bodies so circumstanced will balance each other. Whewell.

The act of freeing from obscurities. The clarification of men's ideas. Whewell.

The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.

A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

That which coexists with another. The law of coexistent vibrations. Whewell.

An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." Whewell. "A purulent collection." Dunglison.

. The first twenty-five [years] must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.

table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant. How full the collet with his jewel is! Cowley.

ved positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.

flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.

The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Brewer.

t or process of commenting or criticising; exposition. [R.] The spirit of commentation. Whewell.

's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.

Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.

o consign; -- used with to, unto. Commit thy way unto the Lord. Ps. xxxvii. 5. Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. Shak.

. Shak. Evil company doth corrupt good manners. 1 Cor. xv. 33. (Rev. Ver. ). Brethren, farewell: your company along I will not wish. Milton.

as compared with another thing or state. The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold. Whewell. The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that incloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top. Bentley.

o some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.

heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex. Whewell. Complex fraction. See Fraction. -- Complex number (Math.), in the theory of numbers, an expression of the form a + bsq. root-1, when a and b are ordinary integers.

them in composition with other things. I. Watts. The elementary composition of bodies. Whewell.