COMBING
COMBING, participle present tense Separating and adjusting hair, wool, etc.COMBING, noun Borrowed hair combed over a bald part of the head.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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COMBINING
COMBINING, participle present tense Uniting closely; joining in purpose; confederating; uniting by chimical affinity.
COMBLESS
COMBLESS, adjective Without a comb or crest; as a combless cock.
COMBUST
COMBUST, adjective When a planet is in conjunction with the sun or apparently very near it, it is said to be combust or in combustion. The distance within which this epithet is ...
COMBUSTIBILITY
COMBUSTIBILITY, noun The quality of taking fire and burning; the quality of a substance which admits the action of fire upon it; capacity of being burnt, or combined with oxygen...
COMBUSTIBLE
COMBUSTIBLE, adjective That will take fire and burn; capable of catching fire; thus, wood and coal are combustible bodies.COMBUSTIBLE, noun A substance that will take fire and b...
COMBUSTIBLENESS
COMBUSTIBLENESS,COMBUSTION, noun1. The operation of fire on inflammable substances; or according to modern chimistry, the union of an inflammable substance with oxygen, attended...
COMBUSTION
COMBUSTION, n.1. The operation of fire on inflammable substances; or according to modern chimistry, the union of an inflammable substance with oxygen, attended with light, and i...
COME
COME, verb intransitive1. To move towards; to advance near, in any manner, and from any distance. We say, the men come this way, whether riding or on foot; the wind comes from t...
COME-OFF
COME-OFF, noun Means of escape; evasion; excuseWe do not want this come-off
COMEDIAN
COMEDIAN, noun [See Comedy.]1. An actor or player in comedy; or a player in general, male or female.2. A write of comedy.
COMEDY
COMEDY, noun A dramatic composition intended to represent human characters, which are to be imitated in language, dress and manner, by actors on a stage, for the amusement of sp...
COMELILY
COMELILY, adverb In a suitable or decent manner.
COMELINESS
COMELINESS, noun That which is becoming, fit or suitable, in form or manner. comeliness of person implies symmetry or due proportion of parts; comeliness of manner implies decor...
COMELY
COMELY, adjective1. Properly, becoming; suitable: whence, handsome; graceful. Applied to person or form, it denotes symmetry or due proportion, but it expresses less than beauti...
COMENCING
COMENCING, participle present tense Beginning; entering on; originating.
COMER
COMER, noun One that comes; one who approaches; one who has arrived and is present.
COMESSATION
COMESSATION, noun Feasting or reveling.
COMESTIBLE
COMESTIBLE, adjective Eatable.
COMET
COMET, noun An opake, spherical, solid body, like a planet, but accompanied with a train of light, performing revolutions about the sun, in an elliptical orbit, having the sun i...
COMET-LIKE
COMET-LIKE, adjective Resembling a comet.
COMETARIUM
COMETARIUM,COMETARY, noun A machine exhibiting an idea of the revolution of a comet round the sun.COMETARY, adjective Pertaining to a comet.
COMETARY
COMETARY, n. A machine exhibiting an idea of the revolution of a comet round the sun.COMETARY, a. Pertaining to a comet.
COMETIC
COMETIC, adjective Relating to a comet.
COMETOGRAPHY
COMETOGRAPHY, noun A description or treatise of comets.
COMFIT
COMFIT,COMFIT-MAKER, noun One who makes or prepares comfits.
COMFITURE
COMFITURE, noun A dry sweet-meat; any kind of fruit or root preserved with sugar and dried.COMFIT, verb transitive To preserve dry with sugar.