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Show CO CO Co'Lumsine, n £ [ columbinus, Lat.} Az, The top or creft of a cock, fo calle kind of violet colour, or changeabl from its pectinated indentures dove colour CO'LUMN Did u.f 1. A round pillar Som o th ol [columna, Latin. Gree columns and altars were brought from the ruins of Apollo's temple a Delos Peacham Round broken columns clafping ivy twin'd Pope 2. Any body of certain dimenfions preflin vertically upon its bafe The whole weight of any column of the atmo here, and likewife the fpecifick gravity of it afis, are certainly known by many experiments Dryden With dents embattled like a caftle-wall th to to th bottom and, b feveral parallel lines, pages are ofte divided into three or more columns CoLu'MNAR adj. [ from column. CoLumMnaRIAN. } Formed in columns White colunnar fpar, out of a ftone-pit Woodwoard on Foffils CoLv'rES n. [, [coluri, Latin ; xoAovgos. Two great circies fuppofed to pafs through th poles of the world: one through the equinottia points, Aries and Libra; the other through th folftitial points, Cancer and Capricorn They ar called the equino&@ial and folftitial colures, and di wide the ecliptick into four equal parts. Th points where they interfect the ecliptick are calle the cardinal points Harris Thrice the equino&ial lin Hecircled ; four times crofs'd the car of nigh From pole to pole, traverfing each colure Milton CO'MA. ». [ [#ipa.] A morbid difpofition to fleep; a lethargy Co'marT. z /. This word, which I hav only met with in one place, feems t fignify treaty article fro con an wart, Or market By the fame comart Co'maTE. 7 ). [con and mate. Compa nion My comates and brothers in exile Shakefpeare's As you like it ComaTosE. adj. [from coma. gick; {leepy to a difeafe Lethar Our beft caftor is from Ruffia; the great an principal ufe whereof, is in hyfterical and comatof cafes COM in the end and Cowm Grew in th be ginning, of names, feem to be derive from the Britifh Zum, which fignifies low fituation Gibjon's Camden Cowms, in Cornif, fignifies a walley, an had the fame meaning anciently in th French tongue COMB #. /. [camb . An inftrumen the hair Saxon; fam, Dut. to feparat and adjuf By fair Ligea's golden comb Wherewith fhe fits on diamond rocks Sleeking her foft alluring locks I made an inftrument in fafhio Milion of a comb whofe teeth, being in number fixteen, were abou an inc and a half broad, and the intervals of th teeth about two inches wide Neawton defpairin Diy en fhriv combatants t you, as if they had beheld unv'e?{ed g,v: again agica thield of Ariofto, which dazzled th beholdeys wit too much brightnefs Drydyy Co'MBER To fortify the combs, to build the wall To prop the ruins, left the fabrick fall Her care fhall b To ¢omb your noddle with a three-legg'd ftool Skakefpeare Divers with us, that are grown grey, and yet would appear young, find means to make their bhai black, by combing it, as the comb, or the like fay, with a leade Bacon She with ribbons tie His tender neck, and comb'd his filken hide Dryden's Aneid There was a fort of engine, from which wer extended twenty long poles, wherewith the manmountain combs his head Swift 2. To lay any thing confifting of filament {mooth, by drawing through narrow interftices 5 as, 2o comb awool Coms-BrUsH 7 /. [comb and bru/h.] bruth to clean combs ComB-MAKER #. /i [comb and maker. One whofe trade 1s to make combs This woo is of ufe for the turner, engraver carver, and combmaker 7o CO'MBAT Mortimer's Hufbandry <. . [combatire, Fr. 1. To fight: generally in a duel, or han to hand Pardon me, I will not combat in my fhirt Shakefpeare 2. To a& in oppofition, as the acid an alkali combat Of fierceft oppofiticn in mid fky Should combar, and their jarring {pheres confound Milton 7o Co'mMBAT. . 2 , Their oppreflor hav To oppofe ; to fight change the fcene an combated the opinions in their true fhape Decay of Piety Love yields at laft, thus combated by pride And fhe fubmits to be the Roman's bride Granwille Co'mBAT. 2 /. [from the verb.] Conteft battle ; duel; ftrife; oppofition rally between two ufed for battle gene but fometimes it i ‘Thofe regions were full both of cruel monfter and monftrous men j all which, by private combats they delivered the countries of Sidney The noble combat that, *twixt joy and forrow was fought in Paulina! She had one eye decline for the lofs of her hufband, another elevated tha the oracle was fulfilled Shake[peare "The combat now by courage muft be tried. Drpd Co'mBaTANT. 2. [ [combattant, Fr. 1. He that fights with another ; duellift antagonift in arms So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hel Grew datker at their frown Milton's Par. Loff Who, fingle combatant Duel'd their armies rank'd in proud array Himfelf an army Milton's Agoniftes 7. /i [from comb He whof trade it is to difentangle wool, and la it fmooth for the fpinner Co'MBINATE. adj. [from combine,] Betrothed ; promifed ; fettled by compag A word of Shakefpeare She loft a nobler brother; with him the fine of her fortune, her marriage dowry: with both her combinate hufband, this well-feeming Angelo Shakefpeare's Meafure for Meafure CoMeinA‘TION 2 / [from combine. 1. Union for fome certain purpofe; affgei. ation ; league combination is of private perfons ; a confederacy, of flate or {overeigns ‘This cunning cardinal The articles o' th' combination drew As himfelf pleas' S hakefpeare's Hemj VI EL z. It is now generally ufed in an ill fenfe but was formerly indifferent They aim to fubdue all to their own will m power, under the difguifes of holy combination S King Charles 3. Unio of bodies, or qualities; com mixture ; conjunétion Thef Two planets rufhing from afpe@ malig . And carriage of the articles defign'd His fell to Hamlet Shakefpeare's Hamlet Lik Men become combatants forth ofe opini) o s, Loce Employ'd at home, abides within the gate row of troops, or of baggage, of an arm fro in ff v ands both combatants to ceaf fore the thing defende d This in affairs of ftate 7% ComB. @. a. [from the noun. 1. To divide, and clean, and adjuft th hair with a comb in its march. An army marches in one two, three, or more columns, accordin as the ground will allow 4. [With printers. A column is half page, when divided into two equal part by a line paffing through the middle He with his fvord unfheath'd, o Com 3. The cavities in which the bees lodgef z. A champion When any of thofe combatants frips hi their honey Perhaps from the fam rm o a b g i y I thall think him a champi word which makes the termination o n fo knowledge towns, and fignifies hollow or deep 3. With for b { Dryden's Virgil 3. [In the military art.] The long file o Bacon none High was his comb, and coral-red withal Bentley Cocks have great combs and fpurs, hens little o Co natures, from the moment of their fir combination, have been and are for ever infeparable Hooker Refolution of compound bodies by fire, does no as it divides the bodies fo much enrich mankin as upon the fcore of its making new compound Boyle by new combinations Ingratitude is always in combination with prid and-hard-heartednefs South 4. Copulation of ideas in the mind They never fufer any ideas to be joine i thei underftandings, in any other or ftronger combinatio than what their own ndture and correfpondenc « Locke give them 5. ComBINaTION is ufed, in mathematicks, to denote the variation or altera tion of any number of quantities, letter founds or the like, in all the differen manners poflible. Thus the number o poflible changes or combinations of th - four letters of the alphabet twent taken firft two by two, then three b three &c amoun t 1,391,724428,8 887,252,99 Chambers, 7o COMBI'NE, w. a. [combiner, Fr. bine Jungere, Lat. 1. To join together Let us not then fufpect our happy ftate As not fecure to fingle or combin'd Milton's Paradife 2. To link in union God, the beft maker of all marriages Combin yout hearts in one Friendfhip is the cemen mankind your realms in one eart "Shake which really conibine Gowvernment o the Tongne 3. To agree; to accord; tofettle byf‘?m paét h e dau fai hi o fe i lov dea My heart' As mine on hers, fo hers is fet on ming An |