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See Commandery.

A member of a committee.

Confirmation. [Obs.]

Conformity. [R.] Marston.

A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.

A chapman; a dealer; a merchant. [Obs.] He would have sold his part of paradise For ready money, had he met a copeman. B. Jonson.

The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal. Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Coromandel wood, Calamander wood.

Divination by means of a suspended sieve.

A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.

A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods. [Eng.]

To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.

Capable of being countermanded; revocable. Bacon.

One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer. A simple countryman that brought her figs. Shak.

A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.

A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.

A burglar. [Slang]

One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.

The work of a craftsman.

One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.

A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.