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The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.

Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.

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

ine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

The state or quality of being columnar.

The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

The quality of being combustible.

The quality or state of being comely. Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.…

State of being comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.

The quality of being comical; something comical.

Capable of being commanded.

Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional. She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had one. I. Walton.

Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy. Order and decent ceremonies in the church are not only comely but commendable. Bacon. -- Com*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mend"a*bly, adv.

The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.

Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. Commensurable numbers or quantities (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inc…

The state or quality of being commensurate. Foster.

The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate. All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or proportion of one thing to another. South.

ed, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.

The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted. Bentley.

edging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged. Hamilton.