Word Finder - commoner

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Mutual; shared by more than one.

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The two competitors have the common aim of winning the championship.

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Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.

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It is common to find sharks off this coast.

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Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.

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It differs from the common blackbird in the size of its beak.

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Simple, ordinary or vulgar.

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(grammar) In some languages, particularly Germanic languages, of the gender originating from the coalescence of the masculine and feminine categories of nouns.

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(grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.

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Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal, i.e., common name vs. scientific name.

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Profane; polluted.

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Given to lewd habits; prostitute.

The table on the opposite page shows the uses of a few of the commoner signs.

He was admitted to the Middle Temple in February 1637, and in May be became a fellow commoner of Balliol College, Oxford.

Now indeed it is the commoner meaning.

In fact, five scholars and perhaps one commoner left Winchester for Eton in 1443, probably in July, just before the election.

In 1721 he entered Merton College, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, and studied philosophy, mathematics, French, Italian and music. He afterwards studied law at the Inner Temple, but was never called to the bar.

But Gibbon's friends in a few weeks discovered that the new tutor preferred the pleasures of London to the instruction of his pupils, and in this perplexity decided to send him prematurely to Oxford, where he was matriculated as a gentleman commoner of Magdalen College, 3rd April 1752.

This section treats of the qualitative detection and separation of the metals, and the commoner methods employed in quantitative analysis.

The galls and the gallproducing form are much commoner in America than in the Old World.

Among the commoner of the galls of the Cynipidae are the " oak-apple " or " oak-sponge " of Andricus terminalis, Fab.; the " currant " or " berry galls " of Spathegaster baccarum, L., above mentioned; and the " oak-spangles " of Neuroterus lenticularis, 9 Oliv., generally reputed to be fungoid growths, until the discovery of their true nature by Frederick Smith, 10 and the succulent " cherry-galls " of Dryophanta scutellaris, Oliv.

The remaining mineral products include lead, from which a considerable quantity of silver is extracted, copper, cobalt, arsenic, the rarer metal cadmium, alum, brown coal, marble, and a few of the commoner precious stones, jaspers, agates and amethysts.

Considering, however, the numbers of venomous and innocuous snakes that occur in most tropical countries, it might be supposed that mimicry in this order of reptiles would be of commoner occurrence than appears to be the case.

No opulent gentleman commoner, panting for oneand-twenty, could have treated the academical authorities with more gross disrespect.

All the commoner sorts of fruitapples, pears, cherries, &c.grow everywhere, but the more delicate kinds, such as figs, apricots and peaches, are confined to the warmer districts.

Hence it is probable that in Mecca, where the art of writing was commoner than in Medina, he had already begun to have his oracles committed to writing.

Wayland's son Wittich, and was cunningly exchanged by Hilde - brand for a commoner blade before Wittich's fight with Dietrich.

The case was different when the Jews were dispersed through the new Greek kingdoms, and lived in cities like Jerusalem and Alexandria, centres of wealth and luxury, inhabited by mixed populations; this form of debauchery then became commoner and better organized.

The great bulk of the wine is stored for many years before shipping, but this does not apply to the commoner varieties, nor to the finest wines, which, being the produce of a specific year, are shipped unblended and as a vintage wine.

By the acceptance of a peerage the great commoner lost at least as much and as suddenly in popularity as he gained in dignity.

Smilax, clematis, honeysuckle and woodbine are the commoner forest vines.

Noteworthy counts of commoner migrants included 12 new blackcaps at the Obs.

The Duke of Windsor married a commoner, Wallis Simpson.

He became the first commoner to hold the post in 2000.

At the time he was described as the richest commoner in England having made his fortune from Soldiering and Coal mining in Durham.

Here, the edge of the lough is fringed by stands of great fen-sedge along with other commoner swamp types.

William Russell, a Sunderland banker who bought Brancepeth castle in 1796, was the country's wealthiest commoner.

In 1635 he became a gentleman commoner at Christ Church, Oxford.

Mr Maurice Scarr, our oldest fellow commoner, sadly lost his wife Mabel in November.

Among the commoner ducks, I found a single drake Garganey.

Wheatears and Whinchats were still present in good numbers but most other commoner migrants were thin on the ground.

In associating itself with commerce philosophy behaved just like a young noblewoman who marries a commoner whom she supposes to be an honest man.

A retired vet informed me that dog fatalities were commoner in early Spring.

The thin scatter of commoner migrants included 12 whinchats between the Bill and Barleycrates Lane and a Pied Flycatcher at Reap Lane.

Later the commoner antithesis is between Ionian and Dorian, first (probably) in the colonial regions of Asia Minor, and later more universally.

From her tuition he passed to that of Dr Griffiths, at Warminster, in Wiltshire, in 1803; and in 1807 he was removed to Winchester, where he remained until 1811, having entered as a commoner, and afterwards become a scholar of the college.

As a denizen of the poultry-yard there are at least two distinct breeds, though crosses between them are much commoner than purely-bred examples of either (see Poultry).

In acute poisoning by it the symptoms are almost identical with those of arsenical poisoning, which is much commoner (See Arsenic).

The thin scatter of commoner migrants included 12 Whinchats between the Bill and Barleycrates Lane and a Pied Flycatcher at Reap Lane.

The best of the commoner kinds should be planted by the thousand, and, indeed, in many cases this has been done with the best results.

It flowers a month earlier than L. rotundifolius, and may be increased by division or seed, but is not so vigorous in ordinary conditions as the commoner Everlasting Peas, and should, until plentiful, be planted in warm borders.

Flowering Nutmeg (Leycesteria) - L. formosa is a distinct flowering shrub, and hardy, but much commoner in Ireland and the west than in the home counties.

A dwarf sort, nanus, deserves a place, as it flowers at midsummer, when its commoner relative has done.

L. palustre is commoner than L. latifolium, but being smaller in every part is not so good; it is dwarf and spreading, and its flowers are white.

There are variegated forms of the commoner species, but none have much value.

In Henry Thew Stephenson's extensive article on Elizabethan Fashion, he explains that the commoner in Elizabethan England would emulate the nobles but with less elaboration and using "cheaper materials."

Boots were very expensive, so it was rare that a commoner would actually be able to afford more than one pair in their lifetime.

You start off as a "commoner", and after you gain enough experience, you can become a mage, priest, thief or warrior.

Nor was he a commoner in college at Winchester or at New College, as his name does not appear in the Hall books, or lists of those dining in hall, at either college.

That he was a day-boy commoner at Winchester is possible, but seems unlikely.

The word "plebeian," in its strict sense, is no more contemptuous than the word commoner !in England.

On the whole, human sacrifice is far commoner among the semi-civilized and barbarous races than in still lower stages of culture.