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etimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes.

A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.

The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.

dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.

Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)

Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful sShak.

In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.

The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness. Sir P. Sidney.

incipal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.

The fur of the common genet (Genetta vulgaris); also, any skin dressed in imitation of this fur.

A genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe.

A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.

An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definit…

spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ] One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor.

A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot. Fairholt.

A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.

The Pagrus, or Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.

and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.

With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly. The common people heard him gladly. Mark xii. 37.