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excitement or passion; deliberately. He was slain in cold blood after thefight was over. Sir W. Scott. To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.

Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [Obs.] "Critical and collective reason." Sir T. Browne.

, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple.

gainst. [Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.

A binding together. Sir T. Browne.

lliquated by the violence of the fire. Boyle. [Ice] will colliquate in water or warm oil. Sir T. Browne.

h something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

s of identifying the book. De Morgan. The book was uninjured from title page to colophon. Sir W. Scott.

g else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton.

Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser.

A dovecote; a pigeon house. Sir T. Browne.

ine, And seem your own destruction to design Dryden. So sweet did harp and voice combine. Sir W. Scott.

ch 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 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…

being comely. Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.

Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.

ist's offering up his body for us." Hammond. An inscription commemorative of his victory. Sir G. C. Lewis.

. Among the objects of knowlwdge, two especially commend themselves to our contemplation. Sir M. Hale. I commend unto you Phebe our sister. Rom. xvi. 1.

able; the act or practice of eating at the same table. [Obs.] "Promiscuous commensality." Sir T. Browne.

Commensality. [Obs.] Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.