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The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies. [Written also cenogamy.]

The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.

ng magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly depends on the molecular constitution of the metal. Nichol. The power of resisting magnetization or demagnization is sometimes called coercive force. S. Thompson.…

The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.

The state of being cognate.

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. Feltham.

The state of being a coheir.

The state of being cohesible. Good.

The act or state of sticking together; close union.

A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh. Cold sore (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever. -- To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.] Cold, v. i.…

The state or quality of being cold.

In the terminology of the United States Weather Bureau, an unusual fall in temperature, to or below the freezing point, exceeding 16º in twenty-four hours or 20º in thirty-six hours, independent of the diurnal range.

The state of being collateral.

A collected state of the mind; self-possession.

In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.

A state of union; mass.

Quality or state of being collective.

A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton. Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. W. Irving.

The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

The state or quality of being colloidal.