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are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuosly. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.] They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser.

anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life. My lord leans wondrously to discontent; His comfortable temper has forsook him: He is much out of health. Shak.

), and in 145 U. S. 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being "obviously within the commuting principle."

To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another. The rival statesmen, with eyes fixed on America, were all the while competing for European alliances. Bancroft.…

tency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. Burke. To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law. Burke.

tisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves. Addison.

To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments. [Obs.] Shak.

To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E. Phillips.

To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously. Fixedly did look Upon the muddy waters which he conned As if he had been reading in a book. Wodsworth. I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson. Burke. To con answer, to be able to answer. [Obs.] -- To con thanks, to thank…

Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.] A conceited chair to sleep in. Evelyn.

. He [Herodotus] says that the sun draws or attracts the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies. Whewell.

In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.

he set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.

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

of abstract laws. -- Concrete sound or movement of the voice, one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a discrete movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another. Rush.

To run together; to meet. [Obs.] Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates. J. Hughes.

on on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously. J. S. Mill.

By confession; without denial. [Written also confessly.]