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aper, negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

A doing, or preperation, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.

ts; -- used with within. In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed. Sir J. Davies.

To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort. [R.] Commissions, which compel from each The sixth part of his substance. Shak.

The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. What compliances will remove dissension Swift. Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay.

Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.

A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal. This is therefore a concession , that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. Sharp. When a lover becomes satisfied by small com…

Conceding; permissive.

he state of being conciliated. The house has gone further; it has declared conciliation admissible previous to any submission on the part of America. Burke.

condition, to be whipped at the high cross every morning. Shak. Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance. Jer. Taylor.

nother in sorrow or grief. Their congratulations and their condolences. Steele. A special mission of condolence. Macaulay.

Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity. [The] communication [of heat] from one body to another when they are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes conduction. Amer. Cyc.

A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.

Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime. With a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. Shak.

See Confirmation, 3. Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament. Hammond.

Disposed to compliance or obedience; ready to follow directions; submissive; compliant.

The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.

Permissible; done lawfully; as, entry congeable.

t of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.

A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest. The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna. Alison.…