Search the Dictionary

To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.

Any venomous or deadly thing. This little cockatrice of a king. Bacon.

The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity. [R.] Bacon.

ink called coffee . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. Bacon.

plural. He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. Bacon. Hold, here is half my coffer. Shak.

gitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon.

To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel. Arbuthnot.

of the first magnitude, nor need be of the degree of the coif, yet are they considerable. Bacon.

Not pungent or acrid. "Cold plants." Bacon

conferring or bestowing. [Obs.] Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon.

A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd.

nt bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.

Set; placed. [Obs.] Bacon.

establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in. Bacon. They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell.

The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.

Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. "Columbine innocency." Bacon.

rage; to relieve; to console; to cheer, Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men. Bacon. That we may be adle to comfort them that are in any affliction. 2 Cor. i. 4. (Rev. Ver. ). A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command. Wordsworth.

(the difference beyween a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. Comma bacillus (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; -- called also cholera bacillus. --…

to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends. Bacon. Go to your mistress: Say, I command her come to me. Shak.

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