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218 *columbare:—a dovecote.
 * columbaria:—putlog holes.
 * culumbarius:—a keeper of pigeons.
 * columbella:—a pigeon.
 * colustrum:—new milk.
 * comba:—a combe, valley.
 * combuslio:—trial of money at the Exchequer.
 * comes:—an ealdorman; a count; an earl.
 * comestio:—dinner.
 * comitatio, comitatus:— a county; a county court.
 * comitiva:—a company.
 * commandare. See commendare.
 * commarchia:—a frontier.
 * commater, cemmatrix:—used for the relationship between one who has held a child at baptism and the mother, O. E. gomm; a godmother.
 * commenda:—a, deposit; when a benefice is given to a layman, or to a clerk for a time, it is said to be given in commendam; a commandry, a benefice in the order of the knights of St. John.
 * commendare:—to lend, to deposit; to order; to put oneself under the protection of another.
 * commendatarius:—one who holds a living in commendam.
 * commendatitius:—of commendation, esp. literæ.
 * commendatus:—a person who puts himself under the protection of his superior by doing voluntary homage.
 * commensale:—board; diet; commons.
 * commensalis:—a fellow-boarder, fellow-commoner.
 * commensare:—to begin.
 * commissarius:—a commissary, one who exercises spiritual jurisdiction by commission of a bishop.
 * commissio:—a commission.
 * commissionarias:—one who acts by commission; a commissioner.
 * commonitio: - summons.
 * commorancia:—dwelling, residence.
 * commothum:—a commote, a quarter, or some say a half of a cantred.
 * communa:—common land or property; right of common; commons; a community; a fiscal regulation.
 * communantia:—the communance, the folk having the right of common.
 * communare: —to enjoy the right of common.
 * communaris:-—a fellow-citizen.
 * communarius, communiarius:—a commoner.
 * commnunes:—commons at a college or Inn of Court.
 * communia:—a corporation or community.
 * communia (pl.):—commonalty; commons; ordinary business of a court.
 * communia:—commons.
 * communiare:—to have right of common.