Index of English words, starting with "co"

(1) - Commissioner (n.) An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.
(2) - Commissioner (n.) A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims.

(1) - Commissural (a.) Of or pertaining to a commissure.

(1) - Commissure (n.) The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.
(2) - Commissure (n.) A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
(3) - Commissure (n.) The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.
(4) - Commissure (n.) A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.

(1) - Commit (v. i.) To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
(2) - Commit (v. t.) To confound.
(3) - Commit (v. t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
(4) - Commit (v. t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
(5) - Commit (v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
(6) - Commit (v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
(7) - Commit (v. t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

(1) - Commitment (n.) The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.
(2) - Commitment (n.) A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
(3) - Commitment (n.) The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
(4) - Commitment (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
(5) - Commitment (n.) The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.