COMUS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Comus God of revelry. Milton represents him as a male Circe. (Greek, komos, carousal.) "This nymph [Circe], that gazed upon his [Bacchus's] clustering locks, ... Had by him, ere he parted thence, a son, Much like his father, but his mother more, Whom therefore she brought up, and Comus named." Milton: Comus, 54-58. Comus. The elder brother in this domestic drama is meant for Lord Viscount Brackley, eldest son of John, Earl of Bridgewater, president of Wales. The younger brother is Mr. Thomas Egerton. The lady is Lady Alice Egerton. (Milton.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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	"Commanding Officer of the Marine "Devilcats" Squadron (VMF-212) returns aboard the escort carrier USS Rendova (CVE-114) from the British destroyer HMS Comus. Brilliant was shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire and after bailing out of his damaged plane, was rescued at sea by the Comus. Photograph and quoted portion of caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 20 October 1951. Note details of breeches bouy used for the transfer, and crew working jackets marked with Rendova's hull number. Credit: NAVY.		Children playing quoits on deck of Steamer Comus. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: COMUS

"COMUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COMUS" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: COMUS

Anagrams: COMUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-m-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: mocs, scum, sumo.
	-2 letters: cos, cum, moc, mos, mus, oms, som, sou, sum.
	-3 letters: mo, mu, om, os, so, um, us.
	Words containing the letters "c-m-o-s-u"
	+1 letter: comous, custom, cymous, locums, mucors, mucosa, mucose, mucous, mucros.
	+2 letters: chymous, columns, combust, coniums, consume, cormous, costume, customs, mockups, mollusc, mouches, mucoids, mucosae, mucosal, mucosas, osculum, scrotum.
	+3 letters: accustom, chromous, clamours, coassume, coliseum, columels, combusts, communes, commutes, computes, consumed, consumer, consumes, costumed, costumer, costumes, costumey, coulombs, cumbrous, cumulous, customer, cutworms, decorums, hummocks, insomuch, leucomas, microbus, miscount, misfocus, mistouch, modicums, molluscs, mucinous, mucosity, mucrones, mudrocks, mullocks, muticous, nonmusic, outcomes, racemous, scholium, scrotums, syconium.
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