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the country, or of the owner of the property himself. -- Common chord (Mus.), a chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. -- Common council, the representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other munisipal corporation. -- Common crier, the…

The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities. It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the great council till some ages after the Conquest. Hume.

A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton.

A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation. Commorancy consists in usually lying there. Blackstone.

An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.

Compatibility; consistency; fitness; agreement.

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force. Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once. Hallam. And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross. Mark xv. 21.

Compatible; suitable; consistent. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Suitable; consistent. [Obs.] "Some comportable method." Wotton.

Consistency; accord; congruity. [Obs.] There is no composition in these news That gives them credit. Shak.

Able to exist with another thing; consistent. [R.] Chillingworth.

Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion. Religion is . . . inconsistent with all compulsive motives. Sharp.

pute the days of heaven. Milton. What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. Burns.

To arch over; to vault. Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone. Grew.

Consistency; accordance. [Obs.] In concent to his own principles. Atterbury.

The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension. Conception consists in a conscious act of the understanding, bringing any given object or impression into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all. Coleridge.…

air; interest. "Our everlasting concernments." I. Watts. To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton.

The state of accompanying; accompaniment. The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other. Sir T. Browne.

separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. Bp. Burnet.

dense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of sugar) for preservation and transportation. -- Condensing engine, a steam engine in which the steam is condensed after having exerted its force on the piston.…