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ften used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.

A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.

A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.

Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men. Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. Shak.

A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

A kind of banjo, with a short neck, tuned a fourth higher than the common banjo; -- popularly so called.

to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. [Obs.] Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. Bacon.

Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. Jamieson. Bannock fluke, the turbot. [Scot.]

A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe. It is very commonly trained by showmen.

Having barbed points. A dart uncommonly barbated. T. Warton.

A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]…

of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

ing marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.