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A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.

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  • COMMONER
    1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
  • COMMONISH
    Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
  • COMMONLY
    1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
  • COMMONWEALTH
    Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
  • COMMONITION
    Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
  • INCLUDED
    Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
  • COMMONAGE
    The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.
  • COMMONS
    1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present
  • COMMONPLACE
    Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
  • COMMON SENSE
    See SENSE
  • COMMONNESS
    1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight. 2. Triteness; meanness.
  • COMMON
    comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Coth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. Immunity, Commune, n. 1. Belonging or relating equally, or
  • COMMONALTY
    1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons. The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. Blackstone. The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the
  • GROUP
    A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera,
  • COMMONABLE
    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.
  • COMMONPLACENESS
    The quality of being commonplace; commonness.
  • COMMONITORY
    Calling to mind; giving admonition. Foxe.
  • GROUPER
    One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper , and the black grouper, or warsaw , both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The tripletail .
  • GROUPING
    The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
  • COMMONITIVE
    Monitory. Only commemorative and commonitive. Bp. Hall.
  • UNCOMMON
    Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • INTERCOMMON
    To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
  • SUBGROUP
    A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
  • WENLOCK GROUP
    The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
  • AGGROUPMENT
    Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
  • LUDLOW GROUP
    A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
  • AGROUPMENT
    See AGGROUPMENT
  • INTERCOMMONAGE
    The right or privilege of intercommoning.
  • DISCOMMON
    To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill. (more info) 1. To deprive of the right of common. Bp. Hall. 2. To deprive of privileges. T. Warton.

 

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