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e used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak.

Participation of the same nature. Sir T. Browne. A like temper and cognation. Sir K. Digby.

One bearing the same name; a namesake. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis.

cing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [Obs.] "Critical and collective reason." Sir T. Browne.

[Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.

A binding together. Sir T. Browne.

d by the violence of the fire. Boyle. [Ice] will colliquate in water or warm oil. Sir T. Browne.

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

s or bunches of flesh, like collops. With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

cts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, and Colt-Browning, pistol.

A dovecote; a pigeon house. Sir T. Browne.

e act or practice of eating at the same table. [Obs.] "Promiscuous commensality." Sir T. Browne.

Commensality. [Obs.] Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.

To reduce to a common measure. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A parcel or quantity of goods. [Obs.] A commodity of brown paper and old ginger. Shak.

the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. Bacon. A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competititon. Dryden. There is no competition but for the second place. Dryden. Where competition does not act at all there is complet…