coma (1)

[Gr. kōma =deep slumber; koimað = to lull or hush to sleep, to put to sleep; cognate with keimai =to lie, to lie outstretched.] Med.: A morbid state which, if considered a dis. tinct disease, is a milder form of apoplexy, but which may be properly regarded as a symptom rather than an idiopathic affection. It is charac terized by a morbid condition of the brain, produc ing lo of sensation and voluntary motion, so that the patient seems as if in a deep sleep. It const i. tutes the most pronounced state of torpor which can occur, the succe ion being as follows: When a patient is so overcome by la itude that he tends perpetually to sleep, is incapable of muscular exertion, and cannot, except when excited, give attention to what is pa ing around, his state is called leth pricking or pinching him, will restore him to partial argy when a mechanical stimulus, such as that of consciousne , it is car us ; when not even this will rouse him, it is coma . The cerebral functions are suspended in coma, and the nervous and sanguiferous systems deranged. There are two well-marked types of it, one in which the pulse is oppre ed, irregular, and slow; and the other in which it is strong, with a hot skin and other marks of febrile inflammation. When coma is intense it pa es into apoplexy (q. v.). cô-ma (2), s. [Lat.=hair, foliage, gra .] 1. Astronomy: (1) Gen .: Anything more or le hair-like. [COMA IMG:content-0229.png:[blocks in formation] Coma Berenices, s . [BERENICE'S HAIR.] *co-mart', s . [? Pref. co con , and mart (q. v.). More probably a misprint for cov'nant , which is the reading found in the first folio.] A treaty or agreement. "By the same comart , And carriage of the articles design'd, His fell to Hamlet." Shakesp.: Ham . , i. 1. IMG:content-0230.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0231.png:[blocks in formation] fleece from the doffing-cylinder of a carding- machine. ( Knight .) 4. Hat - making . The form or shape on which a fleece of fiber is taken up and hardened into a bat. Probably from cone, the usual shape. ( Knight .) 5. Mechanics: (1) A steel tooth with teeth corresponding to those of a screw, and used for chasing screws on work which is rotated in a lathe. [CHASER.] (2) The notched scale of a wire-micrometer. Compounds of obvious signification: Comb- case , comb - maker , comb - making . which wool is dre ed. comb-broach, s. The tooth of a comb, with 1. Lit .: A brush for cleaning combs. *2. Fig .: A ladies'-maid. IMG:content-0232.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0233.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0234.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0235.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0236.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0237.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0238.png:[blocks in formation] there is regard to the order of the quantities, and a department of arithmetic is technically called Per- mutations and Combinations. If a, b , and e be three quantities to be taken two together, there will be three po ible combinations, that is, ways of arranging them in pairs, without allowing to compact. stand before a , or c before the two letters which precede it in the alphabet. These combinations will be ab , ac , and be . But there can be six permu- tations of the same three letters, i. e., six distinct pairs of them if permi ion be granted to put them in any order one pleases, viz., ab , ba , ac , ca , bc , cb . [PERMUTATION.] 2. Chem .: The act of uniting by means of chem- ical affinity; the state of being so united. There are two kinds of chemical combination, that by weight and that by volume. In a large number of instances the law relating to combination by weight is as fol- lows: When two bodies, A and B, are capable of uniting, the several quantities of B, which combine with a given or constant quantity of A, stand to one another in very simple ratios. [MULTIPLE ( Chem .), EQUIVALENT, ATOMIC.] With regard to gases com- bining by volume, the law is that the combining volumes of all elementary gases are equal, except- ing those of phosphorus and arsenic, which are only half those of the other elements in the gaseous state, and those of mercury and cadmium, which are double those of the other elements. ( Fownes .) claims. A cabal is the intrigue of a party or fac- tion, formed by cunning practices in order to give a turn to the course of things to its own advantage: the natural and ruling idea in cabal is that of a embling a number, and maneuvering secretly with addre . A plot is a clandestine union of some persons for the purpose of mischief: the ruling idea in a plot is that of a complicated enterprise formed in secret, by two or more persons. A conspiracy is a general intelligence among persons united in senti- ment to effect some serious change: the ruling and natural idea in this word is that of unanimity and concert in the prosecution of a plan. A combina- tion is seldom of so serious a nature as a cabal , or a plot , though always objectionable; a combination may have many or few." ( Crabb : Eng . Synon.) combination-attachment, s. Sewing-machine : A device to be attached to the sewing-machine proper, and by which two or more distinct cla es of work may be performed, such as com-bin'ed, pa . par . or a. [COMBINE, V.] com-bin-ěd-lý, adv . [Eng. combined; -ly.] In a united manner; in combination or concert. "The flesh, the world, the devil, all combinedly are so ."-Barrow: Sermons , ii. 30. many fierce adversaries, com-bine-ment, s . [Eng. combine; -ment.] Combination, a ociation in interests. IMG:content-0239.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0240.png:[blocks in formation] côm-bi-ning, pr . par ., a . & 8. [COMBINE.] A. & B. As pr . par. & particip . adj .: (See the obscured or eclipsed by his light; applied to the "A comble cock, so Kate will be my hen." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew , ii. L. *com-brance, *com-branse, *com-braunçe, *cum-branse, s. (ENCUMBRANCE.] An encum- brance, an injury, a hurt. "In the contrare kark and combraunce huge." E. Eng . Allit. Poems; Cleanne , 4. moon and planets when not further than eight and a half degrees from the sun. "That he be not retro grad ne combust ." Chaucer: Astrolabe , p. 19. *com-bust', v. t. [COMBUST, a.] 1. Lit .: To burn up, to calcine. 2. Fig .: To kindle, to excite, to stir up. (in which case all Germany was combusted with great troubles) " -Time's Storehouse , 251-2. †com-bust-I-bil-1-ty, s. [Eng. combustible ; -ity . The quality of being combustible; capability of taking or being set on fire; inflammability. ( Digby .) IMG:content-0241.png:[blocks in formation] B. As subst.: Any substance capable of being set on fire, any inflammable material. wood, coal, turf, or like common combust i- bles." Sir T. Herbert: Travels , p. 197. com-bust-i-ble-ne , 8. [Eng. combustible ; -ne .] Combustibility, inflammability; aptne or *com-bust-i-ous, a. [Eng. combust; -ious .] Combustible, inflammable. "Subject and servile to all discontents, As dry combustious matter is to fire." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis. *com-bust-Ive, a . [Eng.combust; -ive.] Caus- ing combustion, burning, or inflaming. 1. Lit .: Combustible; capable of being burnt. 2. Fig .: In an excited state. not a little moved that matters should be thus combustuous in the Indies, .."-Time's Storehouse, 992, 2. (Latham.) come, *comen, *cume, *cumen, *kum (pa. ten. * come , came , cum , * com , * cam , * kam , * keme ; pa. par . * comen , come , * cumen , * comun , #cum , * i - comen , *y-come, * i -cumen), v. i. [A. S. cum an (pa. ten. cam ; pa. par. cumen); Dut. komen ; Icel. koma ; Dan. komme ; Sw. komma; Goth. kwiman ; O. H. Ger. queman; M. H. Ger. komen; Ger. kommen.] IMG:content-0242.png:[blocks in formation] 9. To return to a former state or condition. "Golden lads and girls all must Like chimney-sweepers come to dust." IMG:content-0243.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To move from a distant to a place nearer to the churning, when it begins to appear. speaker, to approach, to move toward. IMG:content-0244.png:[blocks in formation] ally used impersonally). "How comes it about , that, for above sixty years, affairs have been placed in the hands of new men?"- Swift . *(b) To change sides, to turn over from one party to another. "They are come about, and won to the true side." Ben Jonson. (2) Naut.: To change, to chop round. "The wind came about , and settled in the West for many days."-Bacon: New At lant is . *2. To come abroad: To become known, to be published. ". neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad." - Luke viii. 17. 3. To come acro : To happen on, to meet with accidentally. To come acro the mind: To occur to one's IMG:content-0245.png:[blocks in formation] 10. To come down: (1) Lit.: To descend. (2) Figuratively : Shakesp.: Two Gent., iii. L (a) To be humbled or abased. "Your principalities shall come down."-Jer. xiii. 18. (b) To pay. "See how he can come down." -Johnston: Chrysal., 1. 139, To come down in the world : To be reduced in circumstances. To come down handsomely: To be generous. To come down with : To pay over. "Little did he foresee when he said, 'All is but dust,' how soon he would come down with his own." - Dickens . (Ogilvie.) IMG:content-0246.png:[blocks in formation] 14. To come home: 989 (1) Ordinary Language: (a) Lit .: To return home. (b) Fig .: To pre a person very closely, to affect him nearly. (2) Naut .: Of an anchor, which becomes loosened from the ground, and will not hold. "When you cast out it still came home." --Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , i. 2. 15. To come in: (1) Literally: (a) To enter. IMG:content-0247.png:[blocks in formation] †(b) To be part of a composition; to enter into as an ingredient. "A generous contempt of that in which too many men place their happine , must come in to heighten his character."-Atterbury. *(c) To give in, to comply, to yield, or to acquiesce. "If the arch-rebel Tyrone. should offer to come in come (b) To end an affair or busine . the English, upon all encounters, have come off with honor and the better."- Bacon. (c) To take place "The affair came off yesterday afternoon in the Bois du Vesinet." London Daily Telegraph. *(d) To deviate from, to depart from a rule or standard. "The figure of a bell partaketh of the pyramis, but yet coming off and dilating more suddenly." - Bacon : Nat. Hist. IMG:content-0248.png:[blocks in formation] To come off by : To suffer, to meet with, to experience. "We must expect to come of by the worst before we obtain the final conquest."- Calamy . To come off from: To leave off, to forbear, to cease. "To come off from these grave disquisitions, I would clear the point by one instance more." -Felton : On the Cla ics. 23. To come on: (1) Lit.: To move forward or nearer, to approach (especially in a hostile manner). "The great ordnance once discharged, the armies came and submit himself to her majesty,.."-Spencer: On fast on, and joined battle."-Knolles: Hist. Turks. Ireland . (d) To arrive at the goal. (e) To a ume power, to enter into office; as, A Conservative government came in. (f) To accrue as income or revenue. "I had rather be mad with him that, when he had nothing, thought all the ships that came into the harbor his, than with you that, when you have so much coming in, think you have nothing."-Suckling. (g) To be given or handed over, to be got or gained. "If fairings come thus plentifully in ." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , v. 2. IMG:content-0249.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0250.png:[blocks in formation] (1) Lit .: To move from within to outside. (2) Figuratively : (a) To become publicly known; to be discovered or published. "It is indeed come out at last, that we are to look on the saints as inferior deities."- Stilling fleet. (b) To be published, without any idea of previous concealment. "Before his book came out, I had undertaken the answer of several others." -Stilling fleet. (c) To emerge from or outstrip a number of others. where Vista and Sweetbread came out , and the former, getting the best of the race, won cleverly by three the lord Audley, with whom their leaders had parts of a length "-London Daily Telegraph. IMG:content-0251.png:[blocks in formation] "The weight of the denarius, or the seventh of a Roman ounce, comes out sixty-two grains and four-sevenths."Arbuthnot. (g) To bud, to put out leaves. (h) To come to an end, to finish. ( i ) To take a position or rank in an examination. (j) To result or turn out well; to give a good result. "They take a favorable photographic effect, or, to use the technical term, come out well."- Vogel : Chemistry of Light and Photog ., ch. xv. To come out of : To proceed from. Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" John i. 46. To come out with : To give vent to. "Those great masters of chymical arcana must be provoked, before they will come out with them."- Boyle . 25. To come over : (1) Lit .: To pa from one place or position to another, to cro over. (2) Figuratively : ( a ) To change sides or parties. *(6) To rise in distillation. *(c) To repeat an act. *(d) To surpa , to excel, to get the better of. "No man living shall come over it." Shakesp.: Much Ado , v. 2. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-0252.png:[blocks in formation] 990 comenic lasted from B. C. 458 to B. C. 404. The later pieces of Aris toph anes belong to Middle Comedy. The chorus in a comedy consisted of twenty-four. [CHORUS.] Middle Comedy lasted from B. C. 404 to B. C. 340, and the New Comedy till B. C. 260. Mid- dle Comedy found its materials in satirizing cla es of people instead of individuals. New Comedy answers to the comedy of the present day. The most distinguished of Roman comic writers were Plautus and Terence, whose plots were mainly "Look to't, I charge you; come your ways." Shakesp.: Hamlet , i. 3. come-down, s. A fall or abasement. "That was rather a come-down."-Reade: Cloister and derived from their Greek predece ors. Hearth, ch. lii. *come-off, s . A means of escape. "We do not want this come - off ."-Grellman. come-outer, s. One who comes out or withdraws from a regular church or other organization under the pretense of its being corrupt; a radical reformer. "I am a Christian man of the sect called Come - outers ."Haliburton. come, imper. of v. [COME.] Used 1. As a particle of exhortation or incitement. "Yet, come a little,- Wishers were ever fools;-0, come , come , come ." Shakesp.: Ant . and Cleop ., iv. 13. 2. As equivalent to when it shall come . " Come Candle mas, nine years ago she died."- Gay . *come, s . [COME, v .] A sprout. "He being come to the estate, keeps a busy family." - both by the taste, and also by the falling off of the come Locke . IMG:content-0253.png:[blocks in formation] (vii) To revive, to recover one's self. (2) Naut.: To turn the head of the ship nearer the wind. 29. To come to blows: To fall out, to fight. 30. To come to the front: To come forward. 31. To come to grief: To meet with misfortune. 32. To come to the hammer : To be sold by auction. 33. To come to hand: To be received. 34. To come to life : To revive, to come to. 35. To come to light : To be discovered. 36. To come to nature: Metallurgy ( of the properly malleable iron ): To separate from the unmalleable and impure ma of ore with which it was in combination. ( Percy , in Weale .) 31. To come to one's self: To recover one's senses; to revive, either mentally or physically. 38. To come to pa : To happen, to fall out. 39. To come to the point: To addre one's self to the matter in hand, with circumlocution. 40. To come to the scratch : To engage any enemy or obstacle. 41. To come to a standstill : To stop. 42. To come to terms : To agree on terms or conditions, to accord. 43. To come to an understanding: To enter into an agreement. 44. To come up : "That the malt is sufficiently well dried, you may know or sprout."-Mortimer: Husbandry. cō-mê, conj . [It.] As. come prima, phrase. [Ital.] Mus.: As at first. ( Stainer & Barrett.) come sta, phrase. [Ital.] Mus .: As it stands. ( Stainer & Barrett .) † come-at-a-bil-i-tỹ, † com-at-a-bil-ity, sibility, attainability: [ Eng.come a table ; -ity .] Acce ibility, "The shape, the construction, com at ability and convenience of all the parts."- Sterne : Trist. Shandy, i. 212. †come-at-a-ble, a. [Eng. come; at: -able.] Po ible to come at; capable of acce ; attainable, acce ible. "The Trinity Audit ale is not come -at- able ." Barham: In golds by Leg.; St. Dunstan, *co-med-dle, v . t . [Pref. co con , and meddle (q. v).] To mix, to mingle, to temper. "Whose blood and judgment are so well comeddled." Shakesp.: Hamlet , iii. 2. (Quartos.) The folios read comingled (q. v.). com-e-di-an, *com-e-di-ent, s . [Fr. comédien ; from Lat.comœdus ; Gr. komodos .] 1. One who plays or acts parts in a comedy. "The world is a stage; every man an actor, and plates his part here, either in a comedie, or tragedie. The good man is a comedian which (however he begins) ends mer. rily; but the wicked man acts a tragedie and therefore ever ends in horror." -Bishop. †2. A player or actor generally. IMG:content-0254.png:[blocks in formation] *comelid, a. [ACOMELYD.] Numbed, stiffened, enervated with cold. "Coumforte ye comelid hond is." Wycliffe: Isa. xxxvi. 3. come-li-er, comp. of a. [COMELY.] *come-li-hood, *come-li-heed, *com-ly-hede, 8. [Eng. comely; and suff. hede, heedhood.] Beauty, comeline , grace. "I sigh yet never creature Of comlyhede and of feture Be licke her in comparison." Gower , ii. 214.