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To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word. Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. Dryden.

Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort." Shak.

The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

r the joint pastorate of several ministers; as, the Reformed (Dutch) Collegiate Church of New York.

isdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America. The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials. Ames.

than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton.

ate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.

oss the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.

The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making new compounds by new combinations. Boyle. A solemn combination shall be made Of our dear souls. Shak.

emical action and reaction of the combustible and the oxygen of the atmosphere, whereby a new compound is formed. Ure. Supporter of combustion (Chem.), a gas as oxygen, the combination of which with a combustible, as coal, constitutes combustion.

egular course. (b) To recover. [Colloq.] (c) To change, as the wind. (d) To relent. J. H. Newman.

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate. A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another. John xiii. 34.

commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white. Sir I. Newton. To commix With winds that sailors rail at. Shak.

That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.

bodies; firm; close; solid; dense. Glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies. Sir I. Newton.

To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents. He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. Macaulay.

Complexioned. [Low, New Eng.]

The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.

; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult. Nor can his complicated sinews fail. Young. Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison. When the disease is complicated with other diseases. Arbuthnot.

on of diseases. Macaulay. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.