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A salt of citric acid.

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.

Belonging to the Coelentra. -- n.

See Collaborator.

The act ofworking together; united labor.

An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.

The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

Colored. [Obs.] Ray.

being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.

Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.

To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect of affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Su…

The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event. This sacrament was designed to be a standing commemoration of the death and passion of our Lord. Abp. Tillotson. The commonwealth which . . . chooses the most flagrant act of murderous regicide treason for a fea…

Tending or intended to commemorate. "A sacrifice commemorative of Christ's offering up his body for us." Hammond. An inscription commemorative of his victory. Sir G. C. Lewis.

One who commemorates.

Serving to commemorate; commomerative. Bp. Hooper.

Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.

In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.

The state or quality of being commensurate. Foster.

The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate. All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or proportion of one thing to another. South.