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words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Swift.

A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. Swift.

d; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod. Swift.

The state of being close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison.

thing by contribution. The owl, the raven, and the bat, Clubbed for a feather to his hat. Swift.

Clatter; confused noise. Swift.

, indicating the order or office; cloth. Men of his coat should be minding their prayers. Swift. She was sought by spirits of richest coat. Shak.

turn up. Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears. Gay. Dick would cock his nose in scorn. Swift.

An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. Dryden. Swift.

eces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

A kind of lace. [Obs.] Pinners edged with colbertine. Swift. Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine. Young.

Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic. Swift.

nesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.

Colonelcy. Swift.

xt May. [U. S.] -- To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for subsidies." Swift. -- To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to; to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme. -- To come it ever, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of. [Colloq.] -- To come near or nigh, to approach in…

oncerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

municate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift.

ature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company. Swift.

A pair of compasses. [R.] To fix one foot of their compass wherever they please. Swift.

erty of the clergy in England hath been the complaint of all who wish well to the church. Swift.