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A term at omber, signifying that the game is won. Pope.

ecially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. Silence! coeval with eternity! Pope. Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade. Cowper.

thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general. Pope.

lonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.

oy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

coming week or year; the coming exhibition. Welcome the coming, speed the parting, guest. Pope. Your coming days and years. Byron.

Relating to the comitia, or popular assembles of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws. Middleton.

commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. "Commendatory verses." Pope.

ady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden. I must translate and comment. Pope.

my and comfortable; as, a commodious house. "A commodious drab." Shak. "Commodious gold." Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts. xxvii. 12.

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

Mutual; reciprocal; united. [R.] There, with commutual zeal, we both had strove. Pope.

ole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence. Pope. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Shak.

tongue, and smooth his thoughts. Addison. With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust. Pope.

man. There are to whom my satire seems too bold: Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough. Pope.

d to the taste Of lustful appetence. Milton. And, to complete her bliss, a fool for mate. Pope.

e find them complotting together, and contriving a new scence of miseries to the Trojans. Pope.

, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture. Let me compose Something in verse as well as prose. Pope. The genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper". B. R. Haydon.

ssed. The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate, Composed his posture, and his look sedate. Pope. -- Com*pos"ed*ly (, adv. -- Com*pos"ed*ness, n.

One who drinks with another. [R.] Pope.