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A joint executrix.

The cocoanut.

The bitter fruit of Cola acuminata, which is nearly as large as a chestnut, and furnishes a stimulant, which is used in medicine.

Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n.

A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. Bailey.

One of the speakers in a dialogue. Derham.

A medicated wash for the mouth.

One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer. [Colloq. U. S.]

To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.

reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted. Bentley.

The quality of being commutable.

Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.

The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation. [R.] So great is the commutation that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves. South.

, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb. 4, 1887 (24 Stat. 379), and in 145 U. S. 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being "obvi…

Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal. -- Com*mut"a*tive"ly, adv. Rich traders, from their success, are presumed . . . to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice. Burke.

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence; to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares. The sounds wa…

One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

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