Part 2138

<i>Wyclif.</i>

<blockquote>Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be <b>comfortable</b>; hold death a while at the arm's end. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Serviceable; helpful.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Be <b>comfortable</b> to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Affording or imparting comfort or consolation; able to comfort; cheering; <as>as, a <ex>comfortable</ex> hope</as>.</def> "Kind words and <i>comfortable</i>."

<i>Cowper.</i>

<blockquote>A <b>comfortable</b> provision made for their subsistence. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>In a condition of comfort; having comforts; not suffering or anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; <as>as, to lead a <ex>comfortable</ex> life</as>.</def>

<blockquote>My lord leans wondrously to discontent; His <b>comfortable</b> temper has forsook him: He is much out of health. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Free, or comparatively free, from pain or distress; -- used of a sick person.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Comfortable</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"fort*a*ble</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Comfortableness</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"fort*a*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>State of being comfortable or comforting manner.</def>

<blockquote>Speak ye <b>comfortably</b> to Jerusalem. <i>Is. xl. 2.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Comforter</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"fort*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who administers comfort or consolation.</def>

<blockquote>Let no <b>comforter</b> delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Script.)</fld> <def>The Holy Spirit, -- reffering to his office of comforting believers.</def>

<blockquote>But the <b>Comforter</b>, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. <i>John xiv. 26.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<blockquote>The American schoolboy takes off his <b>comforter</b> and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. <i>Pop. Sci. Monthly.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<cs><col>Job's comforter</col>, <cd>a boil. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Comfortless</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"fort*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.</def>

<blockquote><b>Comfortless</b> through turanny or might. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable.</syn>