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To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear his coming in" Massinger. (e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come in till late." 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 cro…

tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend. Bacon.

ecif., a device for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles.

act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound. In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy. Bacon.

The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses 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…

this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the "commune", the general mass of the inhabitants, against the "prudhommes" or "wiser" few. J. R. Green.

y to the use of the town, and the other moiety to the use of the complainant. Statutes of Mass.

A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition. A omposition that looks . . . like marble. Addison.

To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.

ng to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention. (He) concentrated whole force at his own camp. Motley.

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

Union of things in one mass or body. [R.] Dr. H. More.

A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [Obs.] The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale

United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. Bp. Burnet.

f concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.

A mass formed by concretion. [Obs.] Johnson.

To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest. He . . . heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed. Ld. Berners.

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

A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.