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Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.

Being or dwelling around the earth. "Circumterraneous demouns." H. Hallywell.

A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.

A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange (Citrus trifoliata). It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.

The act of clearing; as, to make a through clearance.

Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance…

One of the order of Coleoptera.

See Commorancy.

A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation. Commorancy consists in usually lying there. Blackstone.

rily residing; inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone.

See Cundurango.

Burning together in a common flame. [R.] "The conflagrant mass." Milton.

Act of considering; consideration. [Obs.] Shak.

Engaging in a plot to commit a crime; conspiring. [Obs.] Shak.

The state of being contemporaneous. The lines of contemporaneity in the oölitic system. J. Philips.

eat age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. Milman - Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.

At the same time with some other event.

Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.

Opposed to or against nature; unnatural. [R.] Bp. Rust.

to a remonstraint. [R.] They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants. Hales.