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

third and fifth. -- Common council, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other munisipal corporation. -- Common crier, the crier of a town or city. -- Common divisor (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a…

ose which are based on a comprehensive comparison of the range of objects or facts in any branch or department, and which aim to study out and treat of the fundamental laws or systems of relation pervading them; as, comparative anatomy, comparative physiology, comparative philology.

describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.

That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.

remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.

A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrance.

A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.

Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

tions of the plane are sometimes, though not generally included. -- Conic sections, that branch of geometry which treats of the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. -- Conical pendulum. See Pendulum. -- Conical projection, a method of delineating the surface of a sphere upon a plane surface as if projected upon the sur…

That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.

The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrance.

n close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc.

ially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.

A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3].

A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.

onsignee at one time or by one conveyance. To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce. Burke.

cramp; to contract or ause to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.

to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour. If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. Shak. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume. Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver. ). Let me alone . . . that I may consume them. Ex. xxxii. 10.

ndscapes. W. Irwing. Continual proportionals (Math.), quantities in continued proportion. Brande & C.