Having columns.

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.

a journalist who writes or edits a regularly scheduled column{8} in a periodical, usually in editorial style; a type of editorialist.

One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90/ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure.

small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods.

Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa.

an order of birds, including the family Podicipedidae, which consitutes the grebes.

A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.

A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.

small genus of chiefly North American parasitic plants.

A covenant.

Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

Comatose.

A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.

A dry measure. See Coomb.

Pectinate.

A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.

One who engages in combat. IN military use, opposed to noncombatant.

One who combats.

Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.

A tooth of a wool comb.

See Comb.

That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.

The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.

Capable of combining; consistent with.

United; joined; betrothed.

The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.

of or relating to combinations.

produced by a combinatorial process.

same as combinatorial, 1.

able to combine; tending to combine.

To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.

United closely; confederated; chemically united.

In combination or cooperation; jointly.

One who, or that which, combines.

The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool.

Without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock.

a small band of jazz musicians.

A Muslim rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads.

any of numerous shrubs or small trees of the genus Combretum having spikes of small flowers.

supporting combustion.

Burnt; consumed.

The quality of being combustible.

A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn.

Combustibility.

The state of burning.

Inflammable.

Coming.

A gripping device, as for stretching wire, etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring.

One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer.

An actor or player in comedy.

A women who plays in comedy.

A dramatic sketch; a brief comedy.

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).

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.

In a suitable or becoming manner.

The quality or state of being comely.

In a becoming manner.

One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.

The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.

A reveling; a rioting.

Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural.

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.

A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.

An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet.

Matter; affair.

Relating to a comet.

One who describes or writes about comets.

A description of, or a treatise concerning, comets.

The branch of astronomy relating to comets.

An unpleasant experience a person endures, which is viewed by others as a just retribution for bad behavior; just deserts; as, the Senator took bribes for years, and finally got his comeuppance when he was caught in a sting operation.

To preserve dry with sugar.

See Comfit, n.

Assistance; relief; support.

A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort.

State of being comfortable.

In a comfortable or comforting manner.

One who administers comfort or consolation.

providing freedom from worry.

Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.

Act or process of administering comfort.

A woman who comforts.

A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum.

comfortable.

A comedian.

a brief sequence of drawings, usually with characters drawn only sketchily, as in a cartoon, with dialog written in /balloons/ over a character's head, and depicting a fictional and usually comical incident; -- also called a cartoon. Each comic strip contains typically from four to six panels arranged horizontally, but widely varying arrangements are published. In modern newspapers, weekly comic strips are in color, and daily strips are usually in black and white. In some, the story depicted may be serialized and continuous, carried over from day to day or week to week. Stories of adventure, drama, mystery or an otherwise non-comical nature depicted in the same style are also called comic strips.

Relating to comedy.

The quality of being comical; something comical.

The power of exciting mirth; comicalness.

The section of a newspaper containing mostly comic strips; -- called also funnies and funny papers. Many but not all newspapers have a comics section.

Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.

an abbreviation for communications intelligence; technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients.

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

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

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

Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States.

A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.

Capable of being commanded.

A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.

Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.

To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers.

A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.

The office of a commander.

The office or rank of a commander.

Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.

In a commanding manner.

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.

A woman invested with authority to command.

See Commandery.

The frontier of a country; confines.

Consisting of the same material.