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Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant. Feltham.

hen placed one on the other. If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless. Cheyne.

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.

To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear his coming in" Massinger. (e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come in till late." Arbuthnot. (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment. (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the cro…

To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. These two were commited. Clarendon.

compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon.

der, of mind; heat; excitement. "He could not debate anything without some commotion." Clarendon.

owship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.

In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.

position to yield to others; complaisance. A man of few words and of great compliance. Clarendon.

e year. Shak. They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower. Clarendon. Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. R. Carew. Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Hudibras.

A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right. I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them. Lamb.

ce. He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction. Clarendon.

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

o conceive; to imagine. [Archaic] The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so. South. One of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer. Shak.

of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. Clarendon.

To agree; to act together. [Obs.] Clarendon.

To put under conditions; to render conditional.

To render coneshaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.