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nor can be. Bacon. A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competititon. Dryden. There is no competition but for the second place. Dryden. Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly. A. T. Hadley.

Act of completing or perfecting; completion. [Obs.] Dryden.

One joined in a plot. Dryden.

g; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.] I knew them well, and marked their rude comport. Dryden.

proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate. In a peaceful grave my corpse compose. Dryden. How in safety best we may Compose our present evils. Milton.

ts . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature. Dryden.

An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. Knight.

ent or thought. [Obs.] He . . . is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticism. Dryden.

so eager to destory the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden.

close; to end; to terminate. A train of lies, That, made in lust, conclude in perjuries. Dryden. And, to conclude, The victory fell on us. Shak.

narch, In gracious clemency, does condescend, On these conditions, to become your friend. Dryden.

ife appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone Dryden.

ader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden.

heroic confederacy that ever existed. Harris. Virgil has a whole confederacy against him. Dryden.

her end Than to become my confidant and friend; As such I keep no secret from your sight. Dryden.

See Confidant. South. Dryden.

r die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. To be confined, to be in childbed.

A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. [R.] Bacon.

e with one's country. [R.] Swift. The subjects of England may congratulate to themselves. Dryden.

Obs.] Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there;congress in the field great Jove withstands. Dryden.