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{ } a. Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Comely. ] The quality or state of being comely. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comeliness is a disposing fair
Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Zoöl.) See Ermine. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after the German chemist Gmelin. ] (Min.) A rhombohedral zeolitic mineral, related in form and composition to chabazite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gommeline, from gomme gum. ] (Chem.) See Dextrin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Homely. ] 1. Domesticity; care of home. [ Obs. ] “Wifely homeliness.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Familiarity; intimacy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Prov. E. kemlin, kimlin, kimmel, a salting tub, any tub, kembing a brewing tub, G. kumme bowl, basin, W. cwmman a tub, brewing tub. ] A tub; a brewer's vessel. [ Obs. ] Chaucer.

n. A subdivision of mammals not used in some classifications; it includes the badgers.
Syn. -- subfamily Melinae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. ] (Chem.) A high explosive similar to lyddite, consisting principally of picric acid, used in the French military service. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Sameness, 2. [ R. ] Bayne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A timeserver. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]