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kom'un, a. Belonging equally to more than one, or to many indefinitely; serving for the use of all; general; public; often met with; not distinguished by rank or character; commonplace; mean; vulgar. — n. An nninolosed tract of public ground. (Law.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another. — v. To have a joint right with others in common ground; to board together; eat at a table m common. [OF. commvn, L. communis, common, general, fr. eon and munis, obliging, binding by obligation.] — Common cancer. One who undertakes, for hire, to transport goods. — C. chord. (Mus.) A chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth. — Ccotmcil. A representative council for the government of a city. — C. gender. Gram.) One which is either masculine or feminine. — C. law. The unwritten law; law derived from immemorial usage and universal reception, disting. written or statute law.— C. measure. (Arith.) A number > fame, far, pa or opera, fare end, COMPACT which will divide each of two or more numbers exactly.— C. noun. (Gram.) The name of one of a cla of objects, as disting. a proper noun, the name of a particular person or thing. — C. Pleas. A court for trying civil actions. In the U. S., sometimes has criminal jurisdiction.— C. Prayer. The liturgy of the Prot. Epis. church. — C. sense. Sound, practical judgment; the instantaneous decision of unperverted reason. — C. time. (Mus.) That variety of time in which the measure consists of 2 or 4 equal portions. — C. verb. One which both active and pa ive.— In common.. Equally with another, or with others. — Com'mons, -munz, n. pi. The ma of the people; the commonalty; the lower house of the Eng. parliament; provisions, food, fare; a club where all eat at a common table. — Com'monable, a. Held in common; allowed to pasture on common land. — Com'monage, n. Eight of pasturing on a common; joint light ol using anything in common with others. — Com'monalty, -al-tY, n. The common people body of citizens. — Com'moner, n. One under the degree of nobility; a member of the House of Commons; one having a joint right in common ground; a student of the second rank in the university of Oxford, England.— Com'monly, adv. Usually; ordinarily; for the most part. — Com'mcnne n.— Com'monish, a. Common-place; vulgar.— Com'- mon-place, a. Common trite hackneyed. — n. (lihet.) A general idea applicable to different subjects; a trite remark. — v. To enter in a com- — mon-place book, or to reduce to general heads. Com'mon-place'-book, n. A book for recording things to be remembered. — Commonweal, -weK, -wealth, -w?lth, n. Prop., a free state; a popular government republic whole body of citizens.