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A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. Simmonds.

f food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.

The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs. Smart.

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.

One of the same age; a contemporary. As if it were not enough to have outdone all your coevals in wit. Pope.

An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done. [Eng.]

The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. [Obs.] Bailey.

deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the pr…

Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion. "Collusive and sophistical arguings." J. Trapp. "Collusive divorces." Strype.

A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.

ty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. Donne.

The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.

One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.

To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. These two were commited. Clarendon.

pound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon.

he commodity of a footpath. B. Jonson. Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker.

ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only. Landon.

rs, and graze in commons. Shak. Doctors' Commons, a place near St. Paul's Chuchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. -- To be on short comm…