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Expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating. Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense. Walpole.

A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.

A shallow porus cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [Written also coppel.] Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.

r in Scotland. 1772). Curling irons, Curling tong, an instrument for curling the hair; -- commonly heated when used.

Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.

The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.

rough, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhytmically. Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance. Wiher. Good shepherd, what fair swain is this Which dances with your dauther Shak.

le, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals. [Written also datholite.]

nd inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively. And Abraham stood up from before his dead. Gen. xxiii. 3.

The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. Bouvier.

In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.

ive a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate. Passions commonly denominating selfish. Hume.

Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.

A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.

A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.

the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.