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hich the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces. Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. Arbuthnot.

A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut. Homans.

Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! B. Jonson. The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene. Addison.

Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n.

A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. [Obs.]

Any hue distinguished from white or black.

Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.

The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.

A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.

d set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure (Geol.), a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of…

An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.

A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. Byron.

A gripping device, as for stretching wire, etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring.

Consisting of the same material. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.

The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.

Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. A. Murpph…

The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. [Eng.] 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank…

A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton.