COMFORTER
Com"fort*er, n.
1. One who administers comfort or consolation. Let no comforter delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. Shak.
2. (Script.)
Defn: The Holy Spirit, — reffering to his office of comforting
believers.
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send
in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26.
3. A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow. [U. S.] The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
4. A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [U. S.] Job's comforter, a boil. [Colloq.]
COMFORTLESS
Com"fort*less, a.
Defn: Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.
Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser.
Syn.
— Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate;
wretched; miserable.
— Com"fort*less*ly, adv.
— Com"fort*less*ness, n.
When all is coldly, comfortlessly costly. Milton.
COMFORTMENT
Com"fort*ment, n.