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To migrate together. [R.]

Migration together. [R.] Woodward.

pity. Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. Denham. We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. Locke.

The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak.

Feeling or expressing commiseration. Todd.

One who pities.

The act of staying or residing in a place. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

One of two things compared together.

A making ready; provision. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to comparison. "The comparative faculty." Granvill.

g to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely. With but comparatively few exceptions. Prescott.

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

To arch over; to vault. Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone. Grew.

An arch or vault.

To celebrate together. [Obs.] Holland.

er; 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.

The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration. Concentration of the lunar beams. Boyle. Intense concetration of thought. Sir J. Herschel.

Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration. A discrimination is only possible by a concentrative act, or act of attention. Sir W. Hamilton.

The quality of concentrating.

An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. Knight.