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inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book. The colophon, or final description, fell into disuse, and . . . the title page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book. De Morgan. The book was uninjure…

Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. Shak.

pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.

The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse. [Prov. Eng.]

take fire and burn. All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel. Ure.

ng believers. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26.

remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk. Their lavish comment when her name was named. Tennyson.

tate of things in Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the commissioners. Macaulay.

A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion; as:

n barrator (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. -- Common Bench, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. -- Common brawler (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See Brawler. -- Common carrier (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or person…

Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.

The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.

Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. [Obs.] Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser.

A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices.

A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.

conceive you." Hawthorne. O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! Shak. You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate. Swift.

A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.

articular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3. Concrete is opposed to a abstract. The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract. J. S. Mill. Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. I. Watts. Concrete number, a numbe…