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Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.

Containing or resembling collagen.

Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.

A struggling; a contention. [Obs.] Colluctation with old hags and hobgoblins. Dr. H. More.

Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc. ; the Column Vendôme; the spinal column.

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet. Cheyne.

omponents) when acting in given directions. Herbert. -- Composition metal, an alloy resembling brass, which is sometimes used instead of copper for sheathing vessels; -- also called Muntz metal and yellow metal. -- Composition of proportion (Math.), an arrangement of four proportionals so that the sum of the arrangem…

- Compound ether. (Chem.) See under Ether. -- Compound flower (Bot.), a flower head resembling a single flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or dandelion. -- Compound fraction. (Math.) See Fraction. -- Compound fracture. See Fracture. -- Compound…

Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. Kirwan.

or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden.

A doubling together or folding; a duplication. [R.]

Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae. Yon exiguous pool's confervous scum. O. W. Holmes.

A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.

Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.

A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico- hemispherical; conico-subulate.

A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification. We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed. Abp. Bramhall.