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A common multipleMultiple Mul"ti*ple, n. (Math.)
A quantity containing another quantity a number of times
without a remainder.
Note:
A common multiple of two or more numbers contains each of
them a number of times exactly; thus, 24 is a common
multiple of 3 and 4. The
least common multiple is the least number that will do
this; thus, 12 is the least common multiple of 3 and 4. Accidental Common VocalChord Chord, n. [L chorda a gut, a string made of a gut, Gr.
?. In the sense of a string or small rope, in general, it is
written cord. See Cord.]
1. The string of a musical instrument. --Milton.
2. (Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed,
producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common
chord.
3. (Geom.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of
a circle or curve.
4. (Anat.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
5. (Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually
horizontal, resisting compression or tension. --Waddell.
Accidental, Common, & Vocal chords. See under
Accidental, Common, and Vocal.
Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch.
Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a
curve, in the circle of curvature for that point.
Scale of chords. See Scale. Common
Common Com"mon, v. i.
1. To converse together; to discourse; to confer. [Obs.]
Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers
means of entreaty were commoned of. --Grafton.
2. To participate. [Obs.] --Sir T. More.
3. To have a joint right with others in common ground.
--Johnson.
4. To board together; to eat at a table in common.
Common appurtenantAppurtenant Ap*pur"te*nant, a. [F. appartenant, p. pr. of
appartenir. See Appurtenance.]
Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing;
accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land
or buildings. --Blackstone.
Common appurtenant. (Law) See under Common, n. common barBlank Blank, a. [OE. blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, fr. F.
blanc, fem. blanche, fr. OHG. blanch shining, bright, white,
G. blank; akin to E. blink, cf. also AS. blanc white. ?98.
See Blink, and cf. 1st Blanch.]
1. Of a white or pale color; without color.
To the blank moon Her office they prescribed.
--Milton.
2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty
space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said
of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a
blank check; a blank ballot.
3. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. --Milton.
4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space;
a blank day.
5. Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank
desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections,
hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of
sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated
characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.;
expressionless; vacant. ``Blank and horror-stricken
faces.' --C. Kingsley.
The blank . . . glance of a half returned
consciousness. --G. Eliot.
7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
Blank bar (Law), a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in
an action of trespass to assign the certain place where
the trespass was committed; -- called also common bar.
Blank cartridge, a cartridge containing no ball.
Blank deed. See Deed.
Blank door, or Blank window (Arch.), a depression in a
wall of the size of a door or window, either for
symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion
of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed.
Blank indorsement (Law), an indorsement which omits the
name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is
usually made by simply writing the name of the indorser on
the back of the bill.
Blank line (Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a
line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats.
Blank tire (Mech.), a tire without a flange.
Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind.
Blank verse. See under Verse.
Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead
wall. Common brawlerBrawler Brawl"er, n.
One that brawls; wrangler.
Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by
brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a
nuisance). --Wharton. Common carrierCarrier Car"ri*er, n. [From Carry.]
1. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds.
--Bacon.
2. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry
goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich
manufactures. --Swift.
3. (Mach.) That which drives or carries; as:
(a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the
motion of the face plate; a lathe dog.
(b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
(c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers
the cartridge to a position from which it can be
thrust into the barrel.
Carrier pigeon (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the domestic pigeon
used to convey letters from a distant point to to its
home.
Carrier shell (Zo["o]l.), a univalve shell of the genus
Phorus; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones
and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as
almost to conceal it.
Common carrier (Law.) See under Common, a. Common divisorDivisor Di*vi"sor, n. [L., fr. dividere. See Divide.]
(Math.)
The number by which the dividend is divided.
Common divisor. (Math.) See under Common, a. Common in grossGross Gross, n. [F. gros (in sense 1), grosse (in sense 2).
See Gross, a.]
1. The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass. ``The gross
of the enemy.' --Addison.
For the gross of the people, they are considered as
a mere herd of cattle. --Burke.
2. sing. & pl. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times
twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
Advowson in gross (Law), an advowson belonging to a person,
and not to a manor.
A great gross, twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four
dozen.
By the gross, by the quantity; at wholesale.
Common in gross. (Law) See under Common, n.
In the gross, In gross, in the bulk, or the undivided
whole; all parts taken together. Common of shackShack Shack, n. [Cf. Scot. shag refuse of barley or oats.]
1. The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which
have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.]
2. Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.]
3. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a
tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby.
All the poor old shacks about the town found a
friend in Deacon Marble. --H. W.
Beecher.
Common of shack (Eng.Law), the right of persons occupying
lands lying together in the same common field to turn out
their cattle to range in it after harvest. --Cowell. Common or VulgarFraction Frac"tion, n. [F. fraction, L. fractio a breaking,
fr. frangere, fractum, to break. See Break.]
1. The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially
by violence. [Obs.]
Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to
any fraction or breaking up. --Foxe.
2. A portion; a fragment.
Some niggard fractions of an hour. --Tennyson.
3. (Arith. or Alg.) One or more aliquot parts of a unit or
whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a
unit or magnitude.
Common, or Vulgar, fraction, a fraction in which the
number of equal parts into which the integer is supposed
to be divided is indicated by figures or letters, called
the denominator, written below a line, over which is the
numerator, indicating the number of these parts included
in the fraction; as 1/2, one half, 2/5, two fifths.
Complex fraction, a fraction having a fraction or mixed
number in the numerator or denominator, or in both.
--Davies & Peck.
Compound fraction, a fraction of a fraction; two or more
fractions connected by of.
Continued fraction, Decimal fraction, Partial fraction,
etc. See under Continued, Decimal, Partial, etc.
Improper fraction, a fraction in which the numerator is
greater than the denominator.
Proper fraction, a fraction in which the numerator is less
than the denominator. Common pyritesPyrites Py*ri"tes, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? fire. See Pyre.]
(Min.)
A name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides of
iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or
yellowish color.
Note: The term was originally applied to the mineral pyrite,
or iron pyrites, in allusion to its giving sparks when
struck with steel.
Arsenical pyrites, arsenopyrite.
Auriferous pyrites. See under Auriferous.
Capillary pyrites, millerite.
Common pyrites, isometric iron disulphide; pyrite.
Hair pyrites, millerite.
Iron pyrites. See Pyrite.
Magnetic pyrites, pyrrhotite.
Tin pyrites, stannite.
White iron pyrites, orthorhombic iron disulphide;
marcasite. This includes cockscomb pyrites (a variety of
marcasite, named in allusion to its form), spear pyrites,
etc.
Yellow, or Copper, pyrites, the sulphide of copper and
iron; chalcopyrite. common railSora So"ra, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the
Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with
black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the
breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called
also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake,
common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and
orto.
King sora, the Florida gallinule. Common recoveryRecovery Re*cov"er*y (r?*k?v"?r*?), n.
1. The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.
2. Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the
like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of
fright, etc.
3. (Law) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to
something by a verdict and judgment of court.
4. The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had.
[Obs.] ``Help be past recovery.' --Tusser.
5. In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for
making a new stroke.
Common recovery (Law), a species of common assurance or
mode of conveying lands by matter of record, through the
forms of an action at law, formerly in frequent use, but
now abolished or obsolete, both in England and America.
--Burrill. Warren. Common schoolSchool School, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc?lu, L. schola, Gr. ?
leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation,
lecture, a school, probably from the same root as ?, the
original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See
Scheme.]
1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an
institution for learning; an educational establishment; a
place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the
school of the prophets.
Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
--Acts xix. 9.
2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the
instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common
school; a grammar school.
As he sat in the school at his primer. --Chaucer.
3. A session of an institution of instruction.
How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? --Shak.
4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and
theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which
were characterized by academical disputations and
subtilties of reasoning.
At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still
dominant in the schools. --Macaulay.
5. The room or hall in English universities where the
examinations for degrees and honors are held.
6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon
instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
What is the great community of Christians, but one
of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which
God has instituted for the education of various
intelligences? --Buckminster.
7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a
common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or
denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine,
politics, etc.
Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by
reason of any difference in the several schools of
Christians. --Jer. Taylor.
8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice,
sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age;
as, he was a gentleman of the old school.
His face pale but striking, though not handsome
after the schools. --A. S. Hardy.
9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as,
the school of experience.
Boarding school, Common school, District school,
Normal school, etc. See under Boarding, Common,
District, etc.
High school, a free public school nearest the rank of a
college. [U. S.]
School board, a corporation established by law in every
borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses
or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school
accommodation for all children in their district.
School committee, School board, an elected committee of
citizens having charge and care of the public schools in
any district, town, or city, and responsible for control
of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U. S.] Common thriftThrift Thrift, n. [Icel. [thorn]rift. See Thrive.]
1. A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in
regard to property; frugality.
The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove
very good husbands. --Spenser.
2. Success and advance in the acquisition of property;
increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. ``Your thrift
is gone full clean.' --Chaucer.
I have a mind presages me such thrift. --Shak.
3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
4. (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants of the
genera Statice and Armeria.
Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria vulgaris; -- also called
sea pink.
Syn: Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit. Commonable
Commonable Com"mon*a*ble, a.
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.
Commonage
Commonage Com"mon*age, n. [Cf. OF. communage.]
The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using
anything in common with others.
The claim of commonage . . . in most of the forests.
--Burke.
CommonerCommoner Com"mon*er, n.
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
All below them [the peers] even their children, were
commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each
other. --Hallam.
2. A member of the House of Commons.
3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
Much good land might be gained from forests . . .
and from other commonable places, so as always there
be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no
injury. --Bacon.
4. One sharing with another in anything. [Obs.] --Fuller.
5. A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not
dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all
university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.
6. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak. Commonish
Commonish Com"mon*ish, a.
Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
CommonitionCommonition Com`mo*ni"tion, n. [L. commonitio. See
Monition.]
Advice; warning; instruction. [Obs.] --Bailey. Commonitive
Commonitive Com*mon"i*tive, a.
Monitory. [Obs.]
Only commemorative and commonitive. --Bp. Hall.
Commonitory
Commonitory Com*mon"i*to*ry, a. [L. commonitorius.]
Calling to mind; giving admonition. [Obs.] --Foxe.
Commonly
Commonly Com"mon*ly, adv.
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most
part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.
2. In common; familiarly. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Commonness
Commonness Com"mon*ness, n.
1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the
commonness of sunlight.
2. Triteness; meanness.
Commonplace
Commonplace Com"mon*place`, v. t.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general
heads. --Felton.
Commonplace
Commonplace Com"mon*place`, a.
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or
observation.
CommonplaceCommonplace Com"mon*place`, n.
1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a
trite or customary remark; a platitude.
2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or
referred to.
Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our
fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by
way of commonplace. --Swift.
Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of
things to be remembered. Commonplace
Commonplace Com"mon*place`, v. i.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
Meaning of Ommon from wikipedia
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since been
completely replaced. For example, Adomnán
records Sainea, Elena,
Ommon and
Oideacha in the
Inner Hebrides.
These names presumably p****ed out of...
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considered "[c]
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uncommon in Oaxaca, Mexico." BirdLife...
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concluded that Adomnán's
Airtraig is
Shona but
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Longa could refer to
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