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et go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop. These personal comparisons I omit. Bacon.

The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted; forbearance; neglect. Shak.

One who omits. Fuller.

A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.

A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws.

Relating to the comitia, or popular assembles of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws. Middleton.

A body of followers; -- applied to the lawless or brigand bands in Italy and Sicily.

and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States. Comity of nations (International Law), the courtesy by which nations recognize within their own territory, or in their courts, the peculiar institutions of another nation or the rights and p…

To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation.

ate of accompanying; accompaniment. The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other. Sir T. Browne.

d our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure. Locke.

In company with others; unitedly; concurrently. Bp. pearson.

A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.

Pertaining to dolomite.

That can be tamed. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.

One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.

Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

To vomit. [Obs.]