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One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [Obs.] Champan.

One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises. That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot.

Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs. Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.

Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.

of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, in the City of New York.

o. Shak. In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Swift.

like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city. Shak.

s, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary. I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated. Ure.

A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuosly. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.

tariff.(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual. -- To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose. -- To come over. (a) To pass from one side or place to another. "Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them." Addison.

minates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy. With all the vivacity if comedy. Macaulay. Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Shak.

The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.

e representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative 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…

ghboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb. 4, 1887 (24 Stat. 379), and in 145 U. S. 263 it was held that party tickets…

ety, in general; people assembled for social intercourse. Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company. Swift.

Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination. The compass of his argument. Wodsworth.

Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.

Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.