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lla of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.

e become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. (b) The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.

als; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States. Comity of nations (International Law), the courtesy by which nations recognize within their own territory, or in their courts, the peculiar institutions of another nation or the rights and privileges acquired by its citizens in their own land. By some…

tion; to guard; to overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak.

h which . . . chooses the most flagrant act of murderous regicide treason for a feast of eternal commemoration. Burke.

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.

ion of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset. The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night. Hammond.

over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.

Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.

Design; pattern. [Obs.] Shak. In conceit with, in accord with; agreeing or conforming. -- Out of conceit with, not having a favorable opinion of; not pleased with; as, a man is out of conceit with his dress. -- To put [one] out conceit with, to make one indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.…

standing between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question.

nited States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.

The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.

Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.

Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

; a concrete term. The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety". J. S. Mill.

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate. I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king. Shak. And O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty…