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The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray.

To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [Colloq.]

Quite certain. [Colloq.] I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.

A collection or digest of laws; a code. Burrill.

A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation. [Colloq.] A few of us old codgers met at the fireside. Emerson.

Recollection; recognition. Who, soon as on that knight his eye did glance, Eftsoones of him had perfect cognizance. Spenser.

re stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam.

sease attended with fever. -- To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.] Cold, v. i.

See Collop.

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

That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair.

come into a party or scheme. -- To come it ever, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of. [Colloq.] -- To come near or nigh, to approach in place or quality to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it." Sir W. Temple. -- To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my mother ca…

e who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer. [Colloq. U. S.]

A downfall; an humillation. [Colloq.]

A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [U. S.] Job's comforter, a boil. [Colloq.]

To take arbitrary or forcible possession of. [Colloq.]

The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.

cial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial knowledge and business. -- Commercial law. See under Law. -- Commercial note paper, a small size of writing paper, usually about 5 by 7½ or 8 inches. -- Commercial paper, n…

A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.

y matter or bussiness is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together. Commitee of the whole [house], a committee, embracing all the members present, into which a legislative or deliberative body sometimes resolves itself, for the purpose of considering a parti…