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A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper.

A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.

h eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling.

an butterfly (Grapta comma), having a white comma-shaped marking on the under side of the wings.

r captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.

inal community of all things. Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irwing.

k. He never seemed to avail himself of my sympathy other than by mere companionship. W. Irwing

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.

A literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.

g; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand. At a loss to comprehend the question. W. Irwing. Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend. Job. xxxvii. 5.

*ness, n. Concealed weapons (Law), dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.

Drawing of inferences. [Poetic] Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes And still conclusion. Shak.

An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. Macaulay.

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale.

A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [Obs.] The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale

Growing together, or into union; uniting. [R.] Eclec. Rev.

A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.

erty or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. The confiscations following a subdued rebellion. Hallam.

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