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enders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy. Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects. Stowe. They had applied for the royal clemency. Macaulay.

mployed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill. Strype.

Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.

The coarse tow of flax and hemp. McElrath.

palm off. [R.] Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.

duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted. Lord Stowell.

To bestow or confer. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. "Collateral light." Shak.

The act of conferring or bestowing. [Obs.] Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon.

To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive. When we came to Rome. Acts xxviii. 16. Lately come from Italy. Acts vviii. 2.

to guard; to overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

the act of commiting to prison. They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon.

entative body, of a city or other munisipal corporation. -- Common crier, the crier of a town or city. -- Common divisor (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. -- Common gender (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the…

ense. The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. Burke.

, answering to the plaintiff at common law. He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town, and the other moiety to the use of the complainant. Statutes of Mass.

They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.

him by the year. Shak. They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower. Clarendon. Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. R. Carew. Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Hudibras.

A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess. Up to the fiery concave towering hight. Milton.