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n; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. "Unnecessary coinage . . . of words." Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak.

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

Fig.: A community. [R.] Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryden. College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. -- The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome.

ws thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.

He colors the falsehood of Æneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. Dryden.

of prime importance. Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists. Dryden.

A dry measure. See Coomb.

esce; to confederate. You with your foes combine, And seem your own destruction to design Dryden. So sweet did harp and voice combine. Sir W. Scott.

among the heads of the university. Mede. But say from whence this new combustion springs. Dryden.

e. -- To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my mother came." Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by the eye." L'Estrange. -- To come off. (a) To depart or pass off from. (b) To get free; to get away; to escape. (c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came of…

A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

"Kind words and comfortable." Cowper. A comfortable provision made for their subsistence. Dryden.

Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden.

ion; scope of vision; survey. Te steepy stand Which overlooks the vale with wide command. Dryden.

or an act. Historians commend Alexander for weeping when he read the actions of Achilles. Dryden.

e ground of approbation or praise. Good nature is the most godlike commendation of a man. Dryden.

on. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden. I must translate and comment. Pope.

d out with a charge or commission. A chosen band He first commissions to the Latian land. Dryden.

table in colleges and universities. Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant. Dryden.

To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson.