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The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.

The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth. Men of his coat should be minding their prayers. Swift. She was sought by spirits of richest coat. Shak.

The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.

A morbid condition produced by the habitual and excessive use of cocaine. -- Co*ca"in*ist, n.

A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

A member or inhabitant of a colony.

ists; to migrate to and settle in. Bacon. They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell.

ith ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.

Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa.

A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.

Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. L'Estrange. Common bar (Law) Same as Blank bar, under Blank. -- Common barrator (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. -- Common Bench, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. -- Common brawler (Law), one…

Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life.

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

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

-- 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.

tive"ly, adv. Rich traders, from their success, are presumed . . . to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice. Burke.

The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.] If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton. It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak.

e, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music. "The constant habit of elaborate composition." Macaulay.

The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.