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-- <wordforms><wf>Com"fort*less*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Com"fort*less*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<blockquote>When all is coldly, <b>comfortlessly</b> costly. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Comfortment</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"fort*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Act or process of administering comfort.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The gentle <b>comfortment</b> and entertainment of the said embassador. <i>Hakluyt.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Comfortress</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"fort*ress</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A woman who comforts.</def>

<blockquote>To be your <b>comfortress</b>, and to preserve you. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Comfrey</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"frey</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. from F. <ets>conferve</ets>, L. <ets>conferva</ets>, fr. <ets>confervere</ets> to boil together, in medical language, to heal, grow together. So called on account of its healing power, for which reason it was also called <ets>consolida</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus <spn>Symphytum</spn>.</def>

<note>&hand; A decoction of the mucilaginous root of the "common comfrey" (<spn>S. officinale</spn>) is used in cough mixtures, etc.; and the gigantic "prickly comfrey" (<spn>S. asperrimum</spn>) is somewhat cultivated as a forage plant.</note>

<h1>Comic</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>comicus</ets> pertaining to comedy, Gr. <?/: cf. F. <ets>comique</ets>. See <er>Comedy</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.</def>

<blockquote>I can not for the stage a drama lay, Tragic or <b>comic</b>, but thou writ'st the play. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Causing mirth; ludicrous.</def> "<i>Comic</i> shows."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Comic</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"ic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A comedian.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Steele.</i>

<h1>Comical</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Relating to comedy.</def>

<blockquote>They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted <b>comical</b>. <i>Gay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; <as>as, a <ex>comical</ex> story</as>.</def> "<i>Comical</i> adventures."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Humorous; laughable; funny. See <er>Droll</er>.</syn>

-- <wordforms><wf>Com"ic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Com"ic*al"ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Comicality</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com`i*cal"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Comicalities</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <def>The quality of being comical; something comical.</def>