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An object at which stones are flung. "Making a cockshy of him," replied the hideous small boy. Dickens.

o the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations Bentley.

become liquid; to melt. [Obs.] The ore of it is colliquated by the violence of the fire. Boyle. [Ice] will colliquate in water or warm oil. Sir T. Browne.

o cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. Shak.

ess of combining or uniting persons and things. Making new compounds by new combinations. Boyle. A solemn combination shall be made Of our dear souls. Shak.

A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow. [U. S.] The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Commixture; mingling. [R.] An exact commixtion of the ingredients. Boyle.

One who communicates. Boyle.

essions of respect. I make the interlocutors, upon occasion, compliment with one another. Boyle.

n complimental phrases, and such froth. Sir H. Wotton. -- Com`pli*men"tal*ly, adv. [Obs.] Boyle. -- Com`pli*men"tal*ness, n. [Obs.] Hammond.

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as. to concede the point in question. Boyle.

ted, or the state of being concentrated; concentration. Concentration of the lunar beams. Boyle. Intense concetration of thought. Sir J. Herschel.

o divide all concretes, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances. Boyle.

vations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion. Boyle.

The tendency of fluids to run together. [R.] Boyle.

ogether. Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days. Boyle.

In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture. Boyle.

To attend; to accompany. [Obs.] Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence. Shak.

[Obs.] If . . . you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body. Boyle.