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Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue. "A colossal stride." Motley.

a bad sense. A combination of the most powerful men in Rome who had conspired my ruin. Melmoth.

" Sir W. Temple. -- To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my mother came." Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by the eye." L'Estrange. -- To come off. (a) To depart or pass off from. (b) To get free; to get away; to escape. (c) To be carried through; to pass off;…

; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation. In comfort of her mother's fears. Shak. Cheer thy spirit with this comfort. Shak. Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not. Longfellow.

Serviceable; helpful. [Obs.] Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. Shak.

; to dominate by position; 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.

To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle. [R.] Straight the sands, Commoved around, in gathering eddies play. Thomson.

To impart; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. Jer. Taylor.

Involving many parts; complicated; intricate. When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex. Whewell. Complex fraction. See Fraction. -- Complex number (Math.), in the theory of numbers, an expression of the form a + bsq. root-1, when a and b are o…

or leaflets on a common leafstalk. -- Compound microscope. See Microscope. -- Compound motion. See Motion. -- Compound number (Math.), one constructed according to a varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt., 1 qr., 5 lb.; -- called also denominate number. -- Compound pier (Arch.), a clustered column. -- Compound…

strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues. Melmoth.

to expose to suspicion. To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances. Motley.

el; exercising or applying compulsion. Religion is . . . inconsistent with all compulsive motives. Sharp.

nto a focus; to concentrate the attention. (He) concentrated whole force at his own camp. Motley.

Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety. While they are so eager to destory the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden.

Promoting concretion. Sir T. Browne.

ondensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley.

In a manner to promote. [R.]

Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote. However conducive to the good or our country. Addison.

ich the current is "picked up" by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive. Hence Conduit railway.