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or groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries. [Written also coistrel.]

oasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. [Written also Colosseum.]

aired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks. [Written also colly, colley.]

A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.

The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome. [Also written Coliseum.]

ached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]

ch forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it. [Written also coombe.] Buckland. A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed. Southey.

A tooth of a wool comb. [Written also combrouch.]

A writer of comedy. Milton.

One who describes or writes about comets.

as distinct from tragedy. I can not for the stage a drama lay, Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play. B. Jonson.

A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley.

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden…

A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.

To write comments or notes upon; to make comments. [R.] Commentate upon it, and return it enriched. Lamb.

One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.

One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.