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The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.

To make terms; to stipulate. Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye. Beau. & Fl.

Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. [Obs.] Beaumont.

nfess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg. Milton. I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned. Addison.

To meet together; to concur. [obs.] Beau. & Fl.

[Obs.] Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl.

A quest at a banquet. [R.] Beaumont.

A small, hard particle; a grain. "Corn of sand." Bp. Hall. "A corn of powder." Beau & Fl. Corn ball, a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostem…

To correct. [Obs.] When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.

A woman who corrupts. Thou studied old corruptress. Beau & Fl.

Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation. First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers. Pope.

alter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.

To take account or note; -- with of. [Obs.] "No man counts of her beauty." Shak.

s. He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties. Macualay.

tle or cloak. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throune. Milton. All that beauty than doth cover thee. Shak.

A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull. [Obs.] Go; you're a brainless cox, a toy, a fop. Beau. & Fl.

elf. We will belabor you a little better, And beat a little more care into your coxcombs. Beau & Fl.

like a coxcomb. [Obs.] "You coxcombly ass, you!" Beau & Fl.

Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl.