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mole. -- Coast waiter, a customhouse officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade. [Eng.]

A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shopper as a warrant that his goods have been duly enstered and have paid duty.

ght, revolving in our minds, did cogitate nothing more than how to satisfy the parts of a good pastor. Foxe.

A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another. [Eng.] Cowell. Mozley & W.

The state of being cohesible. Good.

d exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide. The rules of right jugdment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other. Watts.

scourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness. South.

of counterfeit money. Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. Macaulay.

A part or piece of anything; a portion. Cut two good collops out of the crown land. Fuller.

The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. Shak.

hom coloring is of prime importance. Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists. Dryden.

Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.

llenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price. 'Tis not in mortals to command success. Addison.

To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will. [Archaic] Commend me to my brother. Shak.

That which is the ground of approbation or praise. Good nature is the most godlike commendation of a man. Dryden.

With equal measure or extent. Goodwin.

uiry whether a person is a lunatic or not. -- Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per cent as his compensation. -- Commission, or Commissioned, officer (Mil.), one who has a commission, in distingtion from a noncommossioned or warrant officer. -- C…

ly in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.

to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requereth. Hocker. The common enemy of man. Shak.

One who has a joint right in common ground. Much good land might be gained from forests . . . and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury. Bacon.