CPage 292
- English Word Comedian Definition A writer of comedy.
- English Word Comedienne Definition A women who plays in comedy.
- English Word Comedies Definition of Comedy
- English Word Comedietta Definition A dramatic sketch; a brief comedy.
- English Word Comedo Definition A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).
- English Word Comedones Definition of Comedo
- English Word Comedown Definition A downfall; an humiliation.
- English Word Comedy Definition A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy.
- English Word Comelily Definition In a suitable or becoming manner.
- English Word Comeliness Definition The quality or state of being comely.
- English Word Comely Definition Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good-looking; handsome.
- English Word Comely Definition Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable.
- English Word Comely Definition In a becoming manner.
- English Word Comer Definition One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.
- English Word Comes Definition The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.
- English Word Comessation Definition A reveling; a rioting.
- English Word Comestible Definition Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.
- English Word Comestible Definition Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural.
- English Word Comet Definition A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Comet- seeker Definition A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.
- English Word Comet-finder Definition Alt. of Comet- seeker
- English Word Cometarium Definition An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun.
- English Word Cometary Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet.
- English Word Cometic Definition Relating to a comet.
- English Word Cometographer Definition One who describes or writes about comets.
- English Word Cometography Definition A description of, or a treatise concerning, comets.
- English Word Cometology Definition The department of astronomy relating to comets.
- English Word Comfit Definition A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
- English Word Comfit Definition To preserve dry with sugar.
- English Word Comfiture Definition See Comfit, n.