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The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.

The beshow or candlefish of Alaska.

The indicator of a balance. Johnson.

rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.

room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace. Brande & C.

Ralating to a codex, or a code.

the horse and allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals. -- Coffin joint, the joint next above the coffin bone.

e loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin. Hammond. Coin balance. See Illust. of Balance. -- To pay one in his own coin, to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him. [Colloq.]

A salad made of sliced cabbage.

A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.

ic specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.

get through. Chaucer. -- To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the worst." Calamy. -- To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave disquisitions." Felton. -- To come on. (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive. (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene. -- To come out. (a) To pass…

s; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden. I must translate and comment. Pope.

To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for. The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.

scription, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation. Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movem…

That which is complex; intricacy; complication. Many-corridored complexities Of Arthur's palace. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.

eiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit. [Obs.] How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them. Sir P. Sidney.

The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.

A celebrated prison, attached to the Palais de Justice in Paris.