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One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

the right of fishing in waters belonging to another. -- Common of turbary, the right of digging turf upon the ground of another.

uck out at every line. Pope. Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature. Dryden.

Conclusively. [R.] Digby.

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne.

A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. [Obs.]

Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive. Hence the concoctive powers, with various art, Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle. J. Armstrong.

To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. "Condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal servitude, that my mind ever Will condescend to such absurd commands Milton.…

The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors. It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. Addison.…

To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time. Burke.

Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount.

r pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.

The act of coördinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coördination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coördination of fun…

was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft.

ting to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art. [Obs.] "Art of numbers cossical." Digges (1579).

; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby.

sh peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.

The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. Shak.

The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.

A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.