Scarabaeus (medicine) and common(2) (iou)

Scarabaeus (medicine)

scarabaeus
<zoology> Same as Scarab.

Origin: L.

Source: Websters Dictionary

common adjective & adverb. ME.
[Old French comun from Latin communis.]
A. adjective.
I. Of a public or non-private Nature.
Shared alike by all the persons or things in question, or by all humankind (foll. by to, (rare) between); having the same relationship to all the persons or things in question. ME.
Common Celtic, Common Germanic, etc.
Addison Faults common to both Parties. H. E. Bates Weeping to each Other in common grief.
Belonging to more than one as a result of joint action or agreement. ME.
Chaucer This was the commune voys of every man. W. Trevor They walked towards a common goal.
Of or belonging to the community or a civic authority. ME.
common council, common hall, common hangman, common seal, etc.
Tennyson He sow'd a slander in the common ear.
Free to be used by everyone; public. ME.
common alehouse, common lodging-house, etc.
Generally known; spec. (of an offender or offence) public, notorious, habitual. ME.
common nuisance etc.
J. Wesley Baptized liars and common swearers.
Of General application. LME.
[Latin communis.] Generally accessible, affable. LME-E17.
II. Of ordinary occurrence or quality.
Of frequent or ordinary occurrence; prevalent; usual. ME.
T. Hardy The Coggans..were as common among the Families of this district as the Avons and Derwents among our rivers. D. du Maurier That endless yattering, so common in women.
a. Of a person: undistinguished by rank or position; belonging to the General body of people. ME.
Addison Songs and Fables..in Vogue among the common People. R. West Even common soldiers had considerable opportunity for advancement.
b. Unrefined, vulgar. M19.
Jilly Cooper Nanny Ellis said it was..common to play with children whose friends were in trade.
Undistinguished by any special or superior quality; ordinary. LME.
Joseph Hall Dayes, whether common or sacred. G. Macdonald Here..was no common mind.
Of the most familiar type. LME.
B. Franklin Common fire..as well as electrical fire. G. White Flocks of the common linnet.
III.
In New Testament and derived use [= Hellenistic Greek koinos]: not ceremonially clean. ME.
IV. Technical uses.
Math. Of a quantity: belonging equally to two or more quantities. LME.
common factor, common multiple, etc.
Grammar.
a. Of a noun: applicable to any of an indefinite class of entities, not just one, or denoting a General property or quality. Opp. proper. LME.
b. Designating a gender to which both masculine and feminine words belong; (of a word) belonging to this gender. M16.
Prosody. Of a syllable: optionally either short or long. L17.
Phrases & special collocations: by common consent: see CONSENT noun 2. common astrologer: see ASTROLOGER 2. common carrier a person who undertakes as a business to transport any goods or any person in a specified category. common centaury: see CENTAURY 2. common chord: see CHORD noun1 4. common cold: see COLD noun 3. Common Council a town or city council, now only in London or US. Common Councilman a member of a Common Council. common crier a town crier. common denominator: see DENOMINATOR 1. Common Era the Christian era. common field Hist. a field belonging to the members of a local community as a whole. common form what is usually done and of no special significance, accepted procedure. common ground something on which two parties agree or in which both are interested in negotiation, conversation, etc. common ground dove = TOBACCO dove. common gull a migratory gull, Larus canus, widespread on coasts and lowlands in northern and eastern Eurasia and north-west N. America. common hunt: see HUNT noun1. common informer Hist. a person who sued for the penalty payable by an offender in cases where part or all of the penalty was given to anyone who would sue for it, not only the aggrieved party. common jackal: see JACKAL noun 1. common jury Hist.: for which no qualification of rank or property was required. common knowledge something known to most people. common land (a) land subject to rights of common; (b) open waste land. common laurel: see LAUREL noun 3. common lizard = viviparous lizard s.v. VIVIPAROUS 1. common LOGARITHM. common MALLOW. common maple: see MAPLE noun 1. Common Market the European Economic Community, an economic association of certain European countries with internal free trade and free movement of labour, and common external tariffs and internal policies on agriculture etc. common MERGANSER. common metre an iambic metre for hymns in which the verse has four lines with 8, 6, 8, and 6 syllables. common MICA. common opal: see OPAL noun 1. common or Garden colloq. ordinary. common PEAFOWL. common pleas: see PLEA noun. common POMPANO. common prayer prayer in which worshippers publicly unite; esp. (C- P-) the public worship of the Church of England as prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer, orig. in 1549. common privet: see PRIVET 1. common property fig. = common knowledge above. common REDSTART. common recovery: see RECOVERY 4. common roller: see ROLLER noun2. common ROOIBEKKIE. common-room a room in a college, school, etc., to which all members in a certain category have common access for social or business purposes; the members using it; (junior common-room: see JUNIOR adjective, middle common-room: see MIDDLE adjective, senior common-room: see SENIOR adjective). common RORQUAL. common ryegrass: see RYEGRASS 2. common salt: see SALT noun1 1. common sandpiper a migratory Old World sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, with olive-brown and white plumage. common scold: see SCOLD noun 1. common scrub-fowl: see SCRUB noun1. common scurvy-grass: see SCURVY noun. common seal a seal with a mottled grey coat, Phoca vitulina, of N. Atlantic and N. Pacific coasts. common SENSORIUM. common sensory: see SENSORY noun 2. Common Serjeant a circuit judge who has duties in the City of London and sits in the Central Criminal Court. common shore: see SHORE noun3. common shoveler: see SHOVELER noun1 2. common shrimp: see SHRIMP noun 1. common silverbill: see SILVER noun & adjective. common situs: see SITUS 2b. common snapping turtle: see SNAPPING ppl adjective 3. common snipe: see SNIPE noun 1. common soldier: see SOLDIER noun 1. common sole: see SOLE noun3. common St John's wort: see SAINT noun & adjective. common stock N. Amer. the ordinary shares of a company. common stork's-bill: see STORK noun. common suit: see SUIT noun 1b. common TEGU. common tern the widespread migratory tern Sterna hirundo. common time Music: in which there are two or four beats, esp. four crotchets, in a bar. common toadfish: see TOADFISH 1. common touch the ability to get on with or appeal to ordinary people. common twayblade: see TWAYBLADE 1. common valerian: see VALERIAN 1. common violet: see VIOLET noun 1. common vole: see VOLE noun2. common WALLAROO. common WOMBAT. common year a year of 365 days beginning on 1 January. least common multiple, lowest common multiple: see MULTIPLE noun. make common cause with: see CAUSE noun. the common rustic: see RUSTIC noun 3.
b. adverb. Commonly. obsolete exc. US colloq. ME.
commonish adjective rather common L18.

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