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A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut. Homans.

m, and set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure (Geol.), a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characterist…

Capable of combinding; consistent with. [R.] M. Arnold. -- Com*bin"a*ble*ness, n.

A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. Byron.

A gripping device, as for stretching wire, etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring.

rihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.

Consisting of the same material. [Obs.] Bacon.

of the country, or of the owner of the property himself. -- Common chord (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. -- Common council, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other munisipal corporation. -- Common crier, t…

The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities. It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the great council till some ages after the Conquest. Hume.

A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton.

A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation. Commorancy consists in usually lying there. Blackstone.

An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.

Compatibility; consistency; fitness; agreement.

Compatible; suitable; consistent. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Suitable; consistent. [Obs.] "Some comportable method." Wotton.

Consistency; accord; congruity. [Obs.] There is no composition in these news That gives them credit. Shak.

Able to exist with another thing; consistent. [R.] Chillingworth.

Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion. Religion is . . . inconsistent with all compulsive motives. Sharp.

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

Consistency; accordance. [Obs.] In concent to his own principles. Atterbury.