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Any hue distinguished from white or black.

A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.

Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.

Of some other color than black or white.

A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.

n pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

y be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole. Blackstone. -- Common of estovers, the right of taking wood from another's estate. -- Common of pasture, the right of feeding beasts on the land of another. Burill. -- Common of piscary, the right of fishing in waters belonging…

c commons. Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground. Blackstone.

bility; the commons. The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. Blackstone. The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only. Landon.

present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank of peers. Blackstone.

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

inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone.

The act of sharing; community; participation. "This communion of goods." Blackstone.

owable in the spiritual courts for money agreed to be given as a commutation for penance. Blackstone.

se; -- as the parts which compose a body. Now the bright sun compacts the precious stone. Blackstone.

tives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.

gn of the mind or will, and not, as in common speech, the carrying such design to effect. Blackstone.

Capable of being compelled or constrained. Blackstone.

not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam. Cleared by composition with their creditors. Blackstone.

or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shak. With what complusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low. Milton.