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• L. James Sullivan — Leroy James Sullivan, is an American firearms inventer. Going by Jim Sullivan, he is noted as the designer of several scaled down versions of larger firearms. He is largely responsible for the M16 [cite journal | title = Focus on Basics, Urges… …   Wikipedia

• comely — [13] Old English had an adjective cymlic ‘beautiful’ (no relation at all to come), but this seems to have died out around the year 1000, and it is likely that comely, which first appears in the early 13th century, represents a reduced version of… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• comely — beautiful, handsome, c.1400, probably from O.E. cymlic lovely, splendid, finely made, from cyme exquisite, glorious, delicate, from W.Gmc. *kumi delicate, feeble (Cf. O.H.G. chumo with difficulty, chumig weak, delicate; Ger. kaum hardly, scarcely …   Etymology dictionary

• comely — [ kʌmli] adjective (comelier, comeliest) 1》 archaic or humorous (typically of a woman) pleasant to look at; attractive. 2》 archaic agreeable; suitable. Derivatives comeliness noun Origin ME: prob. shortened from becomely fitting …   English new terms dictionary

• comeliness — comely ► ADJECTIVE (comelier, comeliest) archaic or humorous ▪ pleasant to look at; attractive. DERIVATIVES comeliness noun. ORIGIN probably shortened from becomely «fitting, becoming» …   English terms dictionary

• comely — ► ADJECTIVE (comelier, comeliest) archaic or humorous ▪ pleasant to look at; attractive. DERIVATIVES comeliness noun. ORIGIN probably shortened from becomely «fitting, becoming» …   English terms dictionary

• comely — [13] Old English had an adjective cymlic ‘beautiful’ (no relation at all to come), but this seems to have died out around the year 1000, and it is likely that comely, which first appears in the early 13th century, represents a reduced version of… …   Word origins