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The common porpoise. (more info) 1. One who snuffs.

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  • COMMONER
    1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
  • COMMONISH
    Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
  • COMMONLY
    1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
  • COMMONWEALTH
    Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
  • COMMONITION
    Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
  • COMMONAGE
    The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.
  • COMMONS
    1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present
  • COMMONPLACE
    Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
  • COMMON SENSE
    See SENSE
  • COMMONNESS
    1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight. 2. Triteness; meanness.
  • COMMON
    comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Coth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. Immunity, Commune, n. 1. Belonging or relating equally, or
  • COMMONALTY
    1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons. The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. Blackstone. The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the
  • COMMONABLE
    1. Held in common. "Forests . . . and other commonable places." Bacon. 2. Allowed to pasture on public commons. Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground. Blackstone.
  • COMMONPLACENESS
    The quality of being commonplace; commonness.
  • COMMONITORY
    Calling to mind; giving admonition. Foxe.
  • COMMONITIVE
    Monitory. Only commemorative and commonitive. Bp. Hall.
  • COMMONTY
    A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right. Bell.
  • PORPOISE
    Any small cetacean of the genus Phocæna, especially P. communis, or P. phocæna, of Europe, and the closely allied American species . The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter
  • COMMONWEAL
    Commonwealth. Such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal. Shak.
  • UNCOMMON
    Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • INTERCOMMON
    To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
  • INTERCOMMONAGE
    The right or privilege of intercommoning.
  • DISCOMMON
    To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill. (more info) 1. To deprive of the right of common. Bp. Hall. 2. To deprive of privileges. T. Warton.

 

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