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One who breeds gamecocks. L'Estrange.

exceeding 16º in twenty-four hours or 20º in thirty-six hours, independent of the diurnal range.

A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. Nichol.

he act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. Gwilt.

The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.

Hair arranged to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor.

sult of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come united. How come you thus estranged Shak. How come her eyes so bright Shak.

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…

To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

bright. Comparative sciences, those which are based on a comprehensive comparison of the range of objects or facts in any branch or department, and which aim to study out and treat of the fundamental laws or systems of relation pervading them; as, comparative anatomy, comparative physiology, comparative philology.…

The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instument. You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. Shak.

The rim is usually made of two different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. -- Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.

To compose; to settle; to arrange. [Obs.] A good pretense for componing peace. Strype.

To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).

. -- Composing rule (Print.), a thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing stick, or by the aid of which stickfuls or handfuls or type are lifted; -- called also setting rule. -- Composing stick (Print.), an instrument usually of metal, which the compositor holds in his left hand,…

A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.