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or chillness. When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart. Dryden.

Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.

The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Brewer.

Compliments; greetings. [Obs.] Hearty commends and much endeared love to you. Howell.

ther; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak.

others, to be considered and reported. -- To commit to memory, or To commit, to learn by heart; to memorize.

ptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. A. Murpphy.

A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9.

rd's supper. To commune under both kinds. Bp. Burnet. To commune with one's self or one's heart, to think; to reflect; to meditate.

A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie.

A companion or companions. To thee and thy company I bid A hearty welcome. Shak.

Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South.

y of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.

us greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend. Tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies. Milton. Many a compliment politely penned. Cowper. To make one a compliment, to show one respect; to praise one in a flattering way.Locke. -- To make one's compliments to, to offer formal…

A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience. He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction. Clarendon.

used and exercised near twenty years of my life. Gibbon. Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Is. lix. 13.

st; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne.

roach is a concomitant to greatness. Addison. The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardheartedness. South.

An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

ships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure. Addison. He hath heard of our confederacy. Shak. Virginia promoted a confederacy. Bancroft.