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CLIMATURE. A variant of'climate* CO-MEDLED, mixed or mingled
«=. region. N.E.D. ('climate' together; N.E.D. quotes only
I b) quotes from 1605: 'When one other instance, Le. Webster,
the Sunne is Eclipsed, all the White Devil (1612), 3. 3. 36
earth is not darkened, but onely 'Religion; oh how it is com-
one Climat'; 1. 1. 121 medled with policie'; 3. 2. 67
CLOSE (adj.), secret; 2. 1.115 COMMA, brief pause or interval
CLOSE WITH, engage in conversa- (v. note); 5. 2.42
tion, lit come to close quarters COMMEND, (a) offer respectfully,
in fight (cf. 2 Hen. IF, 2.1.20)$ (£) praise; 5. 2.182, 184
2. x. 44 COMMENT (sb.), critical observa-
CLOSELY, secretly; 3. 1. 29 tion; 3. 2.77
CLOUDS (IN), in obscurity; 4. 5. 88 COMMERCE, intercourse, conversa-
CLOUTS, cloths, clothes; 2. 2. 387 tion; 3. 1.109
COCK (BY), by God; 4. 5. 60 COMPANIES, companionship; 2. 2.
COCKLE HAT, 'a hat with a cockle 14
or scallop-shell stuck in it, worn COMPARE WITH, vie with, rival;
by pilgrims, as a sign of their 5. 2.142
having been at the shrine of COMPETENT, adequate, (here) equal;
St James of Compostella in 1.1. 90
Spain' (N.E.D.); 4. 5. 25 COMPLEXION, disposition, constitu-
COIL (sb.), (a) bustle, turmoil, tion. One of the four tempera-
(b) with a quibble upon 'coil' of ments (sanguine, melancholy,
3
rope (v. Introd. p. xxxiv); . 1 . choleric and phlegmatic); 1. 4.
67 27; 5.2.103
COIXEAGUED, allied; 1. 2. 21 COMPLY, 'observe the formalities
COLLECTION, (i) deduction, in- of courtesy' (N.E.D.); 2.2.375;
ference, guess-work (from Lat. 5. 2. 188
colleclio, deduction, a term of COMPOST, prepared manure; 3: 4.
4
rhetoric); .5.9; (ii) assortment 151
'of extracts, historical or literary CONCEIT, (i) imagination; 2. 2.
materials' (N.E.D. 3 a); 5. 2. 556,560; 3.4.114; (ii) 'conceit
192 upon' •= fanciful notion sug-
COLOUR (vb.), gloss, disguise; gested by; 4. .43; (iii) design;
5
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2. 2. 284; .1. 45 $• *• 155
COLUMBINE, an emblem of cuck- CONCEPTION, (a) understanding,
oldry (N.E.D.); 4. 5. 180 (b) pregnancy (cf. Lear, 1. 1.
CO-MART, joint bargain (cf. 12-13); 2. 2. 184
'mart' 1. 1. 74 and Shrew, CONCERNANCY, import, relevance;
2.1. 320 'a desperate mart'); 5. 2. 126
1. 1. 93 CONCERNING, concern; 3.4. 191
COME AWAY, COME YOUR WAYS, CONCLUSION, experiment; 3. 4.
come along; 1. 3. 135; 4. z. 28 „ I 9 5
etc
CONDOLEMENT, gtiefj I. 2. 93
COME TARDY OFF, fall short, to be CONFEDERATE, conspiring to assist;
done inadequately; 3. 2.25
3. 2. 256