Coast – Cojoin

Coast

COAST, noun

1. The exterior line, limit or border of a country, as in Scripture. From the river to the uttermost sea shall your coast be. Deuteronomy 11:24. And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim. Numbers 24:24. Hence the word may signify the whole country within certain limits. Exodus 10:4.

2. The edge or margin of the land next to the sea; the sea-shore. This is the more common application of the word; and it seems to be used for sea-coast, the border of the sea. Hence it is never used for the bank of a river.

3. A side; applied to objects indefinitely, by Bacon and Newton. This is a correct use of the word, but now obsolete.

4. The country near the sea-shore; as, populous towns along the coast

The coast is clear, is a proverbial phrase signifying, the danger is over; the enemies have marched off, or left the coast

COAST, verb intransitive

1. To sail near a coast; to sail by or near the shore, or in sight of land.

The ancients coasted only in their navigation.

2. To sail from port to port in the same country.

COAST, verb transitive

1. To sail by or near to; as, to coast the American shore.

2. To draw near; to approach; to follow.

Coasted

COASTED, participle passive Sailed by.

Coaster

COASTER, noun

1. One who sails near the shore.

2. A vessel that is employed in sailing along a coast, or is licensed to navigate or trade from port to port in the same country. In the United States, coasting vessels of twenty tuns burthen and upwards must be enrolled at the custom house.

Coasting

COASTING, participle present tense Sailing along or near a coast.

Coasting-Pilot

COASTING-PILOT, noun A pilot who conducts vessels along a coast.

Coasting-Trade

COASTING-TRADE, noun The trade which is carried on between the different ports of the same country, or under the same jurisdiction, as distinguished from foreign trade.

Coasting-Vessel

COASTING-VESSEL, noun A vessel employed in coasting; a coaster.

Coat

COAT, noun

1. An upper garment, of whatever material it may be made. The word is, in modern times, generally applied to the garment worn by men next over the vest.

God made coats of skin and clothed them. Genesis 3:21.

Jacob made Joseph a coat of many colors. Genesis 3:217.

He shall put on the holy linen coat Leviticus 16:4.

Goliath was armed with a coat of mail. 1 Samuel 17:5.

2. A petticoat; a garment worn by infants or young children.

3. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office.

Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.

So we say, men of his cloth.

4. External covering, as the fur or hair of a beast, the skin of serpents, the wool of sheep, etc.

5. A tunic of the eye; a membrane that serves as a cover; a tegument.

6. The division or layer of a bulbous root; as the coats of an onion.

7. A cover; a layer of any substance covering another; as a coat of tar, pitch or varnish; a coat of canvas round a mast; a coat of tin-foil.

8. That on which ensigns armorial are portrayed; usually called a coat of arms. Anciently knights wore a habit over their arms, reaching as low as the navel, open at the sides, with short sleeves, on which were the armories of the knights, embroidered in gold and silver, and enameled with beaten tin of various colors. This habit was diversified with bands and fillets of several colors, placed alternately, and called devises, as being divided and composed of several pieces sewed together. The representation of these is still called a coat of arms.

9. A coat of mail is a piece of armor, in form of a shirt, consisting of a net-work of iron rings.

10. A card; a coat-card is one on which a king, queen or knave is painted.

COAT, verb transitive

1. To cover or spread over with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a retort; to coat a ceiling; to coat a vial.

2. To cover with cloth or canvas; as, to coat a mast or a pump.

Coat-Armor

COAT-ARMOR, noun A coat of arms; armorial ensigns.

Coated

COATED, participle passive

1. Covered with a coat; loricated; covered or overspread with any thing that defends; clothed with a membrane.

2. Having concentric coats or layers, as a bulbous root.

Coati

COATI, noun An animal of South America, resembling the raccoon, but with a longer body and neck, shorter fur and smaller eyes; the Viverra nasua of Linne.

Coating

COATING, participle present tense Covering with a coat; overspreading.

COATING, noun

1. A covering, or the act of covering; lorication; any substance spread over for cover or defense; as the coating of a retort or of a vial.

2. Cloth for coats; as, merchants advertise an assortment of coatings.

Coax

COAX, verb transitive To wheedle; to flatter; to soothe, appease or persuade by flattery and foundling.

Coaxed

COAXED, participle passive Soothed or persuaded by flattery.

Coaxer

COAXER, noun A wheedler; a flatterer.

Coaxing

COAXING, participle present tense Wheedling; flattering.

Cob

COB, noun

1. The top or head; a covetous wretch; a foreign coin.

2. In America, the receptacle of the maiz, or American corn; a shoot in form of a pin or spike, on which grows the corn in rows. This receptacle, with the corn, is called the ear.

3. A sea-fowl, the sea-cob.

4. A ball or pellet for feeding fowls.

5. In some parts of England, a spider. Old Dutch, kop or koppe, a spider, retained in koppespin, spinnekop, a spider.

6. A horse not castrated; a strong poney.

COB, verb transitive In seamens language, to punish by striking the breech with a flat piece of wood, or with a board.

Cobalt

COBALT, noun A mineral of a reddish gray or grayish white color, very brittle, of a fine close grain, compact, but easily reducible to powder. It crystalizes in bundles of needles, arranged one over another. It is never found in a pure state; but usually as an oxyd, or combined with arsenic or its acid, with sulphur, iron, etc. Its ores are arranged under the following species, viz. Arsenical cobalt of a white color, passing to steel gray; its texture is granular, and when heated it exhales the odor of garlic: gray cobalt a compound of cobalt arsenic, iron, and sulphur, of a white color, with a tinge of red; its structure is foliated, and its crystals have a cube for their primitive form; sulphuret of cobalt compact and massive in its structure: oxyd of cobalt brown or brownish black, generally friable and earthy: sulphate and arseniate of cobalt both of red color, the former soluble in water. The impure oxyd of cobalt is called zaffer; but when fused with three parts of siliceous sand and an alkaline flux, it is converted into a blue glass, called smalt. The great use of cobalt is to give a permanent blue color to glass and enamels upon metals, porcelain and earthern wares.

COBALT-bloom, acicular arseniate of cobalt

COBALT-crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt

Cobaltic

COBALTIC, adjective Pertaining to cobalt, or consisting of it; resembling cobalt, or containing it.

Cobble

COBBLE,

COBBLE-STONE, noun A roundish stone; a pebble; supposed to be a fragment, rounded by the attrition of water. We give this name to stones of various sizes, from that of a hens egg or smaller, to that of large paving stones. These stones are called by the English copple-stones and bowlder-stones or bowlders. The latter name is among us known only in books.

COBBLE, verb transitive

1. To make or mend coarsely, as shoes; to botch.

2. To make or do clumsily or unhandily; as, a cobble rhymes.

Cobble-Stone

COBBLE-STONE, n. A roundish stone; a pebble; supposed to be a fragment, rounded by the attrition of water. We give this name to stones of various sizes, from that of a hens egg or smaller, to that of large paving stones. These stones are called by the English copple-stones and bowlder-stones or bowlders. The latter name is among us known only in books.

Cobbler

COBBLER, noun

1. A mender of shoes.

2. A clumsy workman.

3. A mean person.

Cobbling

COBBLING, participle present tense Mending coarsely.

Cobby

COBBY, adjective Stout; brisk.

Cobcal

COBCAL, noun A sandal worn by ladies in the east.

Cobcoals

COBCOALS, noun Large round coals.

Cobelligerent

COBELLIGERENT, adjective [See Belligerent.] Carrying on war in conjunction with another power.

COBELLIGERENT, noun A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another.

Cobiron

COBIRON, noun [See Cob.] An andiron with a knob at the top.

Cobishop

COBISHOP, noun A joint or coadjutant bishop.

Coble

COBLE, noun A boat used in the herring fishery.

Cobloaf

COBLOAF, noun A loaf that is irregular, uneven or crusty. Is it not a round loaf?

Cobnut

COBNUT, noun A boys play, or a hazle-nut so called, used in play; the conquering nut.

Coboose

COBOOSE, noun [See Caboose.]

Cobstone

COBSTONE, noun [See Cobble.]

Cobweb

COBWEB, noun

1. The line, thread or filament which a spider spins from its abdomen; the net-work spread by a spider to catch its prey. Hence,

2. Any snare, implying insidiousness and weakness.

In this sense it is used adjectively or in composition, for thin, flimsy; as a cobweb law.

Or slender, feeble; as the cobweb thread of life.

Cobwebbed

COBWEBBED, noun

1. In botany, covered with a thick interwoven pubescence.

2. Covered with cobwebs.

Cocalon

COCALON, noun A large cocoon, of a weak texture.

Cocciferous

COCCIFEROUS, adjective Bearing or producing berries; as cocciferous trees or plants.

Coccolite

COCCOLITE, noun A variety of augite or pyroxene; called by Hauy, granuliform pyroxene. Its color is usually some shade of green. It is composed of granular distinct concretions, easily separable, some of which present the appearance of crystals whose angles and edges have been obliterated.

Cocculus Indicus, the fruit of the Menispermum cocculus, a poisonous berry, often used in adulterating malt liquors.

Cochineal

COCHINEAL, noun An insect, the Coccus cacti, of the genus Coccus, a native of the warmer climates of America, particularly of Oaxaca, in Mexico. It is found on a plant called nopal or Indian fig-tree. The female, which alone is valued for its color, is ill-shaped, tardy and stupid; the male is small, slender and active. It is of the size of a tick. At a suitable time, these insects are gathered and put in a pot, where they are confined for some time, and then killed by the application of heat. These insects thus killed form a mass or drug, which is the proper cochineal of the shops. It is used in giving red colors, especially crimson and scarlet, and for making carmine. It has been used in medicine, as a cardiac, sudorific, alexipharmic and febrifuge; but is now used only to give a color to tinctures, etc.

Cochleary

COCHLEARY,

COCHLEATE,

COCHLEATED, adjective Having the form of a screw; spiral; turbinated; as a cochleate pod.

Cochleate

COCHLEATE,

Cochlite

COCHLITE, noun A fossil shell having a mouth like that of a snail.

Cock

COCK, noun

1. The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls, which having no appropriate or distinctive name, are called dunghill fowls or barn-door fowls.

2. A weather-cock; a vane in shape of a cock [It is usually called a weather-cock.]

3. A spout; an instrument to draw out or discharge liquor from a cask, vat or pipe; so named from its projection.

4. The projecting corner of a hat.

5. A small conical pile of hay, so shaped for shedding rain; called in England a cop. When hay is dry and rolled together for carting, the heaps are not generally called cocks, at least not in New England. A large conical pile is called a stack.

6. The style or gnomon of a dial.

7. The needle of a balance.

8. The piece which covers the balance in a clock or watch.

9. The notch of an arrow.

10. The part of a musket or other fire arm, to which a flint is attached, and which, being impelled by a spring, strikes fire, and opens the pan at the same time.

11. A small boat. It is now called a cock-boat, which is tautology, as cock itself is a bot.

12. A leader; a chief man.

Sir Andrew is the cock of the club.

13. Cock-crowing; the time when cocks crow in the morning.

COCK a hoop, or cock on the hoop, a phrase denoting triumph; triumphant; exulting.

COCK and a bull, a phrase denoting tedious trifling stories.

COCK, verb transitive

1. To set erect; to turn up; as, to cock the nose or ears.

2. To set the brim of a hat so as to make sharp corners or points; or to set up with an air of pertness.

3. To make up hay in small conical piles.

4. To set or draw back the cock of a gun, in order to fire.

COCK, verb intransitive

1. To hold up the head; to strut; to look big, pert, or menacing.

2. To train or use fighting cocks.

3. To cocker.

Cock-Bill

COCK-BILL. In seamens language, the anchor is a cock-bill when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cat-head, ready to be let go in a moment.

Cock-Boat

COCK-BOAT, noun A small boat. [See Cock, No. 11.]

Cock-Brained

COCK-BRAINED, adjective Giddy; rash.

Cock-Broth

COCK-BROTH, noun Broth made by boiling a cock.

Cock-Chaffer

COCK-CHAFFER, noun The May-bug or dorr-beetle, a species of Scarabaeus.

Cock-Crowing

COCK-CROWING, noun The time at which cocks crow; early morning. Mark 13:1.

Cock-Fight

COCK-FIGHT,

COCK-FIGHTING, noun A match or contest of cocks; a barbarous sport of the ancients, and moderns, in which cocks are set to fight with each other, till one or the other is conquered.

Cock-Horse

COCK-HORSE, adjective On horse back; triumphant; exulting.

Cock-Loft

COCK-LOFT, noun [See Cock.] The top-loft; the upper room in a house or other building; a lumber room.

Cock-Master

COCK-MASTER, noun One who breeds game cocks.

Cock-Match

COCK-MATCH, noun A match of cocks; a cock-fight.

Cock-Paddle

COCK-PADDLE, noun The lump fish or sea-owl.

Cock-Weed

COCK-WEED, noun A plant called also dittander and pepperwort.

Cockade

COCKADE, noun A ribin or knot of ribin, or something similar, worn on the hat, usually by officers of the army or navy, sometimes by others. It most usually designates the military character; sometimes political parties.

Cockaded

COCKADED, adjective Wearing a cockade.

Cockal

COCKAL, noun A game called huckle bone.

Cockatrice

COCKATRICE, noun A serpent imagined to proceed from a cocks egg.

Cockatto

COCKATTO noun A bird of the parrot kind.

Cocker

COCKER, verb transitive To fondle; to indulge; to treat with tenderness; to pamper.

COCKER, noun

1. One who follows cock-fighting.

2. A sort of spatter-dash.

Cockerel

COCKEREL, noun A young cock.

Cockering

COCKERING, noun Indulgence.

Cocket

COCKET, adjective Brisk; pert.

COCKET, noun A seal of the custom-house; a royal seal; rather a scroll of parchment, sealed and delivered by the officers of the customhouse, to merchants, as a warrant that their merchandize is entered. The office of entry.

Cocket-Bread

COCKET-BREAD, noun The finest sort of wheat bread.

Cocking

COCKING, noun Cock-fighting.

Cockle

COCKLE, noun A plant or weed that grows among corn, the cornrose, a species of Agrostemma. It is also applied to the Lolium or darnel.

COCKLE, noun

1. A small testaceous shell; or rather a genus of shells, the Cardium. The general characteristics are; shells nearly equilateral and equivalvular; hinge with two small teeth, one on each side near the beak, and two larger remote lateral teeth, one on each side; prominent ribs running from the hinge to the edge of the valve.

2. A mineral; a name given by the Cornish miners to shirl or shorl.

3. A young cock.

COCKLE, verb intransitive or t. To contract into wrinkles; to shrink, pucker, or wrinkle, as cloth.

Cockle-Stairs

COCKLE-STAIRS, noun Winding or spiral stairs.

Cockled

COCKLED, participle passive

1. Contracted into folds or wrinkles; winding.

2. Having shells.

Cockler

COCKLER, noun One that takes and sells cockles.

Cockney

COCKNEY, noun

1. A native of London, by way of contempt.

2. An effeminate, ignorant, despicable citizen.

Cockneylike

COCKNEYLIKE, adjective Resembling the manners of a cockney.

Cockpit

COCKPIT, noun

1. A pit or area, where game cocks fight.

2. In ships of war, a room or apartment, in which the wounded men are dressed; situated near the after-hatchway, under the lower gun-deck. The fore-cockpit is a place leading to the magazine passage and the store room of the boatswain, gunner and carpenter.

Cockroach

COCKROACH, noun A genus of insects, the Blatta, of several species. They have four semicrustaceous wings, and resemble the beetle; the head is inflected towards the breast; the feelers are hard like bristles; the elytra and wings are plain and resemble parchment. These animals are very troublesome, as they enter chests of clothes, meal-tubs, pantries, and infest beds. They avoid the light, and have a very unsavory smell.

Cockscomb

COCKSCOMB, noun

1. The caruncle or comb of a cock.

2. A plant. This name is given to the Celosia cristata, the Pedicularis or louse-wort, and the Rhinanthus, or yellow rattle.

3. A fop, or vain silly fellow. [See Coxcomb.]

Cockshead

COCKSHEAD, noun A plant, the Hedysarum or sainfoin.

Cockshut

COCKSHUT, noun The close of the day, when fowls go to roost.

Cockspur

COCKSPUR, noun Virginia hawthorn, a species of medlar.

Cocksure

COCKSURE, adjective Confidently certain.

Cockswain

COCKSWAIN, noun [See Swain.] An officer on board of a ship who has the care of the boat and the boats crew.

Cocoa

COCOA, noun A tree belonging to the genus Cocos, of the order of Palmae; and the fruit or nut of the tree. This tree grows in the warm climates of both the Indies. It rises to the highth of 60 feet, and the stem is like an apothecarys pestle, of equal thickness at the ends, but somewhat smaller in the middle. The bark is smooth, of a pale brown color, and the tree often leans to one side. The leaves or branches are 14 or 15 feet long, about 28 in number, winged, of a yellow color, straight and tapering. The nuts hang in clusters of a dozen each, on the top of the tree. The husk of this nut consists of strong, tough, stringy filaments, resembling coarse oakum. This covers a hard shell, which contains a white kernel that is wholesome food, and a liquor which is a cooling beverage.

Cocoa-Nut

COCOA-NUT, noun The nut or fruit of the cocoa-tree.

Cocoon

COCOON, noun An oblong ball or case in which the silk-worm involves itself, formed by threads which compose silk.

Coctile

COCTILE, adjective Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

Coction

COCTION, noun The act of boiling or exposing to heat in liquor. In medicine, that alteration in the crude matter of a disease, which fits it for a discharge; digestion.

Cod

COD,

COD-FISH, noun A species of fish, of the genus Gadus, inhabiting northern seas, but particularly the banks of Newfoundland, and the shores of New England. [See Haddock.]

COD, noun

1. Any husk, envelop or case, containing the seeds of a plant; a pod.

2. A bag; the scrotum.

3. A pillow.

Cod-Fish

COD-FISH, n. A species of fish, of the genus Gadus, inhabiting northern seas, but particularly the banks of Newfoundland, and the shores of New England. [See Haddock.]

Codded

CODDED, adjective Inclosed in a cod.

Codder

CODDER, noun A gatherer of cods or peas.

Coddle

CODDLE, verb transitive To parboil, or soften by the heat of water.

CODLE, verb transitive To make much of.

Coddy

CODDY, adjective Husky.

Code

CODE, noun

1. A collection of the laws and constitutions of the Roman emperors, made by order of Justinian, containing twelve books. The name is also given to other collections of Roman laws; as the Theodosian code Hence in general,

2. Any collection or digest of laws.

Codger

CODGER, noun A rustic; a clown; a miserly man.

Codicil

CODICIL, noun A writing by way of supplement to a will.

Codille

CODILLE, noun A term at ombre, when the game is won.

Codle

CODLE,

CODLIN, noun An apple codled; or one suitable for codling, or used for that purpose.

CODLING, noun A young cod.

Codlin

CODLIN, n. An apple codled; or one suitable for codling, or used for that purpose.

Codling

CODLING,

COEFFICACY, noun Joint efficacy; the power of two or more things acting together to produce an effect.

Coefficiency

COEFFICIENCY, noun Cooperation; joint power of two or more things or causes, acting to the same end.

Coefficient

COEFFICIENT, noun

1. That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect.

2. In algebra, a number or known quantity put before letters, or quantities, known or unknown, and into which it is supposed to be multiplied; as in 3x and ax, 3 and a are the coefficients of x.

3. In fluxions, the coefficient of any generating term is the quantity which arises from the division of that term by the generated quantity.

Coefficiently

COEFFICIENTLY, adverb By cooperation.

Coeliac

COELIAC,

CELIAC, adjective Pertaining to the belly, or to the intestinal canal.

COELIAC artery is the artery which issues from the aorta just below the diaphragm.

COELIAC passion, the lientery, a flux or diarrhoea of undigested food.

COELIAC vein, a vein of the intestinum rectum.

Coemption

COEMPTION, noun The act of purchasing the whole quantity of any commodity.

Coenjoy

COENJOY, verb transitive To enjoy together.

Coequal

COEQUAL, adjective Equal with another person or thing; of the same rank, dignity or power.

COEQUAL, noun One who is equal to another.

Coequality

COEQUALITY, noun The state of being equal with another; equality in rank, dignity or power.

Coequally

COEQUALLY, adverb With joint equality.

Coerce

COERCE,

1. To restrain by force; to keep from acting, or transgressing, particularly by moral force, as by law or authority; to repress.

2. To compel; to constrain.

These causes--coerced by those which preceded and coercing those which followed.

Coerced

COERCED, participle passive Restrained by force; compelled.

Coercible

COERCIBLE, adjective That may or ought to be restrained or compelled.

Coercing

COERCING, participle present tense Restraining by force; constraining.

Coercion

COERCION, noun Restraint, check, particularly by law or authority; compulsion; force.

Coercive

COERCIVE, adjective

1. That has power to restrain, particularly by moral force, as of law or authority.

2. Compulsory; constraining; forcing.

Coercively

COERCIVELY, adverb By constraint.

Coessential

COESSENTIAL, adjective Partaking of the same essence.

We bless and magnify that coessential spirit, eternally proceeding from the father and son.

Coessentiality

COESSENTIALITY, noun Participation of the same essence.

Coessentially

COESSENTIALLY, adverb In a coessential manner.

Coestablishment

COESTABLISHMENT, noun Joint establishment.

Coetaneous

COETANEOUS, adjective Of the same age with another; beginning to exist at the same time; with to. Every fault has penal effects, coetaneous to the act. But with may be preferable to to. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with cotemporary; but coetaneous seems properly to denote cotemporary in origin, rather than cotemporary in existence at any other period. It may however be used in both senses.

Coetenrnal

COETENRNAL, adjective Equally eternal with another.

Coeternally

COETERNALLY, adverb With equal eternity.

Coeternity

COETERNITY, noun Existence from eternity equal with another eternal being; equal eternity.

Coeval

COEVAL, adjective Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; of equal age; usually and properly followed by with.

COEVAL, noun One of the same age; one who begins to exist at the same time. It is not properly used as synonymous with cotemporary.

Coevous

COEVOUS, adjective The same as coeval, but not used.

Coexist

COEXIST, verb intransitive To exist at the same time with another; followed by with.

Coexistence

COEXISTENCE, noun Existence at the same time with another; followed regularly by with.

Coexistent

COEXISTENT, adjective Existing at the same time with another; regularly followed by with.

Coextend

COEXTEND, verb intransitive To extend through the same space or duration with another; to extend equally; as, one line coextends with another; or perhaps in a transitive sense, to coextend a line with another.

Coextended

COEXTENDED, participle passive Being equally extended.

Coextending

COEXTENDING, participle present tense Extending through the same space or duration with another.

Coextension

COEXTENSION, noun The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.

Coextensive

COEXTENSIVE, adjective Equally extensive; having equal extent.

Coextensiveness

COEXTENSIVENESS, noun Equal extension or extent.

Coffee

COFFEE, noun

1. The berry of a tree belonging to the genus Coffea, growing in Arabia, Persia, and in other warm climates of Asia and America. It will grow to the highth of 16 or 18 feet, but its growth is generally stinted to five feet, for the convenience of gathering the fruit. The stem is upright, and covered with a light brown bark; the branches are horizontal and opposite, crossing each other at every joint, and forming a sort of pyramid. The flowers grow in clusters at the root of the leaves, and close to the branches; they are of a pure white and of an agreeable odor. The fruit which is a berry, grows in clusters, along the branches, under the axils of the leaves.

2. A drink made from the berry of the coffee-tree, by decoction. The berry is first roasted, and then ground in a mill, and boiled. The use of it is said to have been introduced into France by Thevenot, the traveler, and into England, in 1652, by a Greek servant, called Pasqua. The best coffee is said to be the Mocha coffee from Arabia Felix. The coffee of Java, Bourbon and the West Indies constitutes an important article of commerce.

Coffee-Cup

COFFEE-CUP, noun A cup from which coffee is drank.

Coffee-House

COFFEE-HOUSE, noun

1. A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation.

2. A house of entertainment; an inn; which in some cities is also an exchange where merchants meet to transact business.

Coffee-Man

COFFEE-MAN, noun One who keeps a coffee-house.

Coffee-Pot

COFFEE-POT, noun A covered pot in which coffee is boiled, or in which it is brought upon the table for drinking.

Coffer

COFFER, noun

1. A chest or trunk; and as a chest is customarily used for keeping money, hence,

2. A chest of money; a treasure.

3. In architecture, a square depression or sinking in each interval between the modillions of the Corinthian cornice, ordinarily filled with a rose, a pomegranate or other enrichment.

4. In fortification, a hollow lodgment across a dry moat, from 6 to 7 feet deep and from 16 to 18 broad; the upper part made of pieces of timber, raised two feet above the level of the moat; which little elevation has hurdles laden with earth for its covering, and serves as a parapet with embrasures. It is raised by the besieged to repulse besiegers when they endeavor to pass the ditch.

Coffered

COFFERED, participle passive Laid up in a coffer.

Cofferer

COFFERER, noun The cofferer of the kings household in Great Britain, a principal officer of the court, next under the Controller. He was also a white-staff officer, and a member of the privy council. He had the special charge and oversight of the other officers of the household. This office is now suppressed, and the business is transacted by the lord steward and paymaster of the household.

Coffin

COFFIN, noun

1. The chest or box in which a dead human body is buried, or deposited in a vault.

2. A mold of paste for a pie.

3. A paper case, in the form of a cone, used by grocers.

4. In farriery, the hollow part of a horses hoof; or the whole hoof above the coronet, including the coffin-bone, which is a small spungy bone in the midst of the hoof, and possessing the whole form of the hoof.

COFFIN, verb transitive To put in or inclose in a coffin

Coffin-Maker

COFFIN-MAKER, noun One who makes, or whose occupation is to make coffins.

Coffined

COFFINED, participle passive Inclosed in a coffin.

Cofounder

COFOUNDER, noun A joint founder.

Cog

COG, verb transitive

1. To flatter; to wheedle; to seduce or draw from, by adulation or artifice.

2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word to serve a purpose.

To cog a die, to secure it so as to direct its fall; to falsify; to cheat in playing dice.

COG, verb intransitive

1. To deceive; to cheat; to lie.

2. To wheedle.

COG, noun The tooth of a wheel, by which it drives another wheel or body.

COG, verb transitive To fix a cog; to furnish with cogs.

Cogency

COGENCY, noun Force; strength; power of compelling; literally, urgency, or driving. It is used chiefly of moral subjects, and in relation to force or pressure on the mid; as the cogency of motives or arguments.

Cogenial

COGENIAL, for congenial.

Cogent

COGENT, adjective [See Cogency.]

1. Forcible, in a physical sense; as the cogent force of nature.

2. Urgent; pressing on the mind; forcible; powerful; not easily resisted; as a cogent reason, or argument.

The harmony of the universe furnishes cogent proofs of a deity.

Cogently

COGENTLY, adverb With urgent force; with powerful impulse; forcibly.

Cogged

COGGED, participle passive Flattered; deceived; cheated; thrust in deceitfully; falsified; furnished with cogs.

Cogger

COGGER, noun A flatterer, or deceiver.

Coggery

COGGERY, noun Trick; falsehood.

Cogging

COGGING, participle present tense Wheedling; deceiving; cheating; inserting deceitfully; fixing cogs.

COGGING, noun Cheat; deception; fallacy.

Coggle

COGGLE, noun A boat; a fishing boat. [See cock.]

Cogitable

COGITABLE, adjective [See Cogitate.] That may be thought on; that may be meditated on.

Cogitate

COGITATE, verb intransitive To think; to meditate.

Cogitation

COGITATION, noun

1. The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.

2. Thought directed to an object; purpose.

Cogitative

COGITATIVE, adjective

1. Thinking; having the power of thinking, or meditating; as a cogitative substance.

2. Given to thought, or contemplation.

Cognate

COGNATE, adjective

1. Allied by blood; kindred by birth.

2. Related in origin; proceeding from the same stock; of the same family; as a cognate dialect.

3. Allied in the manner of formation or utterance; uttered by the same organs; as a cognate letter or round.

Cognation

COGNATION, noun

1. In the civil law, kindred or natural relation between males and females, both descended from the same father; as agnation is the relation between males only descended from the same stock.

2. Kindred; relation by descent from the same original.

Pride and hardheartedness are of near cognation to ingratitude.

3. Relation; participation of the same nature.

Cognition

COGNITION, noun Knowledge or certain knowledge, as from personal view or experience.

Cognitive

COGNITIVE, adjective Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as cognitive power.

Cognizable

COGNIZABLE, adjective

1. That falls or may fall under judicial notice; that may be heard, tried, and determined; as, a cause or action in cognizable before the circuit court.

These wrongs are cognizable by the ecclesiastical courts.

2. That falls or may fall under notice or observation; that may be known, perceived or apprehended.

The cause of many phenomena is not cognizable by the senses.

Cognizance

COGNIZANCE, noun

1. Judicial notice or knowledge; the hearing, trying and determining of a cause or action in court.

The court of kings bench takes cognizance of civil and criminal causes.

In the United States, the district courts have cognizance of maritime causes.

2. Jurisdiction, or right to try and determine causes.

The court of kings bench has original jurisdiction and cognizance of all actions of trespass vi et armis.

3. In law, an acknowledgment or confession; as in fines, the acknowledgment of the cognizor or deforciant, that the right to the land in question is in the plaintiff or cognizee, by gift or otherwise; in replevin, the acknowledgment of the defendant, that he took the goods, but alledging that he did it legally as the bailiff of another person who had a right to distrain.

4. A badge on the sleeve of a waterman or servant, by which he is known to belong to this or that nobleman or gentleman.

5. Knowledge or notice; perception; observation; as the cognizance of the senses.

6. Knowledge by recollection.

Cognizee

COGNIZEE, noun In law, one to whom a fine is acknowledged, or the plaintiff in an action for the assurance of land by fine.

Cognizor

COGNIZOR, noun One who acknowledges the right of the plaintiff or cognizee, in a fine; otherwise called the defendant or deforciant.

Cognominal

COGNOMINAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to a surname.

2. Having the same name.

Cognomination

COGNOMINATION, noun A surname; the name of a family; a name given from any accident or quality; as Alexander the Great.

Cognoscence

COGNOSCENCE, noun [See Cognition.] Knowledge; the act or state of knowing.

Cognoscible

COGNOSCIBLE, adjective That may be known.

Cognoscitive

COGNOSCITIVE, adjective Having the power of knowing.

Coguar

COGUAR, noun A carnivorous quadruped of America.

Cohabit

COHABIT, verb intransitive

1. To dwell with; to inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place, or country.

2. To dwell or live together as husband and wife; usually or often applied to persons not legally married.

Cohabitant

COHABITANT, noun One who dwells with another or in the same place.

Cohabitation

COHABITATION, noun

1. The act or state of dwelling together or in the same place with another.

2. The state of living together as man and wife, without being legally married.

Coheir

COHEIR, noun A joint heir; one who succeeds to a share of an inheritance, which is to be divided among two or more.

Coheiress

COHEIRESS, noun A female who inherits a share of an estate, which is to be divided among two or more heirs or heiresses; a joint heiress.

Cohere

COHERE, verb intransitive

1. To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass, or as two substances that attract each other. Thus, particles of clay cohere; polished surfaces of bodies cohere

2. To be well connected; to follow regularly in the natural order; to be suited in connection; as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning.

3. To suit; to be fitted; to agree.

Coherence

COHERENCE,

COHERENCY, noun

1. A sticking, cleaving or hanging together; union of parts of the same body, or a cleaving together of two bodies, by means of attraction; applied to all substances, solid or fluid.

2. Connection; suitable connection or dependence, proceeding from the natural relation of parts or things to each other, as in the parts of a discourse, or of any system; consistency.

Coherency

COHERENCY, n. 1. A sticking, cleaving or hanging together; union of parts of the same body, or a cleaving together of two bodies, by means of attraction; applied to all substances, solid or fluid.2. Connection; suitable connection or dependence, proceeding from the natural relation of parts or things to each other, as in the parts of a discourse, or of any system; consistency.

Coherent

COHERENT, adjective

1. Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies, solid or fluid.

2. Connected; united, by some relation in form or order; followed by to, but rather by with.

3. Suitable or suited; regularly adapted.

4. Consistent; having a due agreement of parts; as a coherent discourse. Or observing due agreement; as a coherent thinker or reasoner.

Coherently

COHERENTLY, adverb In a coherent manner; with due connection or agreement of parts.

Cohesibility

COHESIBILITY, noun The tendency which one part of matter evinces to unite with another part of matter, so as to form, out of different bodies, one common mass. It is opposed to divisibility.

Cohesible

COHESIBLE, adjective Capable of cohesion.

Cohesion

COHESION, noun s as z.

1. The act of sticking together; the state of being united by natural attraction, as the constituent particles of bodies which unite in a mass, by a natural tendency; one of the different species of attraction.

2. Connection; dependence; as the cohesion of ideas. But in this sense, see Coherence.

Cohesive

COHESIVE, adjective That has the power of sticking or cohering; tending to unite in a mass, and to resist separation.

Cohesively

COHESIVELY, adverb With cohesion.

Cohesiveness

COHESIVENESS, noun The quality of being cohesive; the quality of adhering together, as particles of matter.

Cohobate

COHOBATE, verb transitive Among chimists, to repeat the distillation of the same liquor or that from the same body, pouring the liquor back upon the matte remaining in the vessel.

Cohobated

COHOBATED, participle passive Repeatedly distilled.

Cohobating

COHOBATING, participle present tense Distilling repeatedly.

Cohobation

COHOBATION, noun The operation of repeatedly distilling the same liquor, or that from the same substance.

Cohoes

COHOES, OR COHOZE, noun A fall of water, or falls; a word of Indian origin in America.

Cohort

COHORT, noun

1. Among the Romans, a body of about five or six hundred men; each cohort consisted of three maniples, and each maniple, of two centuries; and ten cohorts constituted a legion.

2. In poetry, a band or body of warriors.

Cohortation

COHORTATION, noun Exhortation; encouragement.

Cohoze

COHOES, or COHOZE noun A fall of water, or falls; a word of Indian origin in America.

Coif

COIF, noun A kind of caul, or cap, worn on the head, by sergeants at law, and others. Its chief use was to cover the clerical tonsure.

COIF, verb transitive To cover or dress with a coif

Coifed

COIFED, adjective Wearing a coif.

Coiffure

COIFFURE, noun A head-dress.

Coigne

COIGNE, for coin. [See coin, a corner.]

Coil

COIL, verb transitive To gather, as a line or cord into a circular form; to wind into a ring, as a serpent, or a rope.

COIL, noun

1. A rope gathered into a ring; on shipboard, a single turn or winding is called a fake, and a range of fakes is called a tier.

2. A noise, tumult, bustle.

Coiled

COILED, participle passive Gathered into a circular form, as a rope or a serpent.

Coiling

COILING, participle present tense Gathering or winding into a ring or circle.

Coin

COIN, noun

1. A corner; a jutting point, as of a wall.

Rustic coins, stones jutting from a wall for new buildings to be joined to.

2. A wedge for raising or lowering a piece of ordnance.

3. A wedge or piece of wood to lay between casks on shipboard.

COIN, noun Primarily, the die employed for stamping money. Hence,

1. Money stamped; a piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, or other metal, converted into money, by impressing on it marks, figures or characters. To make good money, these impressions must be made under the authority of government. That which is stamped without authority is called false or counterfeit coin Formerly, all coin was made by hammering; but it is now impressed by a machine or mill.

Current coin is coin legally stamped and circulating in trade.

Ancient coins are chiefly those of the Jews, Greeks and Romans, which are kept in cabinets as curiosities.

2. In architecture, a kind of die cut diagonally, after the manner of a flight of a stair case, serving at bottom to support columns in a level, and at top to correct the inclination of an entablature supporting a vault.

3. That which serves for payment.

The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin

COIN, verb transitive

1. To stamp a metal, and convert it into money; to mint.

2. To make; as, to coin words.

3. To make; to forge; to fabricate; in an ill sense; as, to coin a lie; to coin a fable.

Coinage

COINAGE,

COINCIDE, verb intransitive

1. To fall or to meet in the same point, as two lines, or bodies; followed by with.

If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revolution of the earth useless.

2. To concur; to be consistent with; to agree.

The rules of right judgment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other.

The judges did not coincide in opinion.

Coincide

COINCIDE, v.i. 1. To fall or to meet in the same point, as two lines, or bodies; followed by with.If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revolution of the earth useless.2. To concur; to be consistent with; to agree.The rules of right judgment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other.The judges did not coincide in opinion.

Coincidence

COINCIDENCE, noun

1. The falling or meeting of two or more lines, surfaces, or bodies in the same point.

2. Concurrence; consistency; agreement; as the coincidence of two or more opinions; coincidence of evidences.

3. A meeting of events in time; concurrence; a happening at the same time; as coincidence of events.

Coincident

COINCIDENT, adjective

1. Falling on the same point; meeting as lines, surfaces or bodies; followed by with.

2. Concurrent; consistent; agreeable to; followed by with.

Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly coincident with the ruling principles of a virtuous man.

Coincider

COINCIDER, noun He or that which coincides or concurs.

Coinciding

COINCIDING, participle present tense Meeting in the same point; agreeing; concurring.

Coindication

COINDICATION, noun In medicine, a sign or symptom, which, with other signs, assists to show the nature of the disease, and the proper remedy; a concurrent sign or symptom.

Coined

COINED, participle passive Struck or stamped, as money; made; invented; forged.

Coiner

COINER, noun

1. One who stamps coin; a minter; a maker of money.

2. A counterfeiter of the legal coin; a maker of base money.

3. An inventor or maker, as of words.

COINING, participle present tense Stamping money; making inventing; forging; fabricating.

Coining

COINING, noun

1. The act, art or practice of stamping money.

2. Coin; money coined; stamped and legitimated metal for a circulating medium.

3. Coins of a particular stamp; as the coinage of George III.

4. The charges or expense of coining money.

5. A making; new production; formation; as the coinage of words.

6. Invention; forgery; fabrication.

This is the very coinage of your brain.

Coinquinate

COINQUINATE, verb transitive To pollute.

Coinquination

COINQUINATION, noun Defilement.

Coiny

COIGNE or COINY verb intransitive To live by extortion.

Coistril

COISTRIL, noun

1. A coward; a runaway.

2. A young lad.

Coit

COIT, noun A quoit, which see.

Coiting

COITING. [See Quoit.]

Coition

COITION, noun A coming together; chiefly the venereal intercourse of the sexes; copulation.

Cojoin

COJOIN, verb transitive To join with another in the same office.