commixture (komikstur)

[=It.commistu ra, The commixture of any thing that is more oily or sweet. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 1132 the part of the lender, by which the borrower is obliged to restore the identical thing which was lent, in the condition in which he received it. com mod at i onł (kom-ō-dā'shon), n. [ So, sir, am I not very commode to you? Cibber, Provoked Husband, iv. II. n. [F. commode , a particular use of the adj.] 1. A large and high head-dre , mounted on a frame of wire, covered with silk, lace, bows of ribbon, etc., worn about the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth. A nicene that wou'd as ill become me as... a high commode a lean Face. Southern, Maid's Last Prayer, ii. When we say of a Woman, she has a fine, a long, or a good Head, we speak only in relation to her Commode. Spectator, No. 265. 2. Any piece of furniture containing drawers and shelves for holding clothes, handy articles, tools, etc. Old commodes of rudely carved oak. Bulwer , Eugene Aram, iv. 10. 3. A small piece of furniture containing a chamber-pot below and a drawer and shelf above, and conveniently arranged in a bedroom for nece ary purposes.-4. A night-stool.5t. A procure ; a bawd. Foote. commodelyt (ko-mōd'li), adv. Conveniently. It will fall in very commodely between my parties. Walpole , Letters (1759), II. 103. You found the whole garden filled with masks, and spread with tents, which remained all night very com modely. Walpole , Letters (1749), II. 289.