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Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.

Full of ashes. [Obs.]

One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [Obs.] Champan.

One who, or that which, cleans.

Clownishness. L'Estrange.

A coalitionist.

A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.

f money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money. Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. Macaulay.

One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [Eng.]

A colonist. [Obs.] Holland

One who, or that which, combines.

e some bussiness, for the goverment, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. To another adress which requisted that a commission might be sent to examine into the state of things in Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the…

one having no rank of nobility. All below them [the peers] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam.

See Copartner. [Obs.]

One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. Beattie. Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak.

One who condemns or censures.

A compounder. [Obs.] Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood.

A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.