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Corrugate
CORRUGATE, verb transitive [Latin , to wrinkle, in our vulgar language, to ruck, to furrow.] To wrinkle; to draw or contract into folds; as, to corrugate the skin.
CORRUGATE, adjective Wrinkled.
Corrugated
CORRUGATED, participle passive Wrinkled.
Corrugating
CORRUGATING, participle present tense Contracting into wrinkles.
Corrugation
CORRUGATION, noun A wrinkling; contraction into wrinkles.
Corrugator
CORRUGATOR, noun A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.
Corrupt
CORRUPT, verb transitive [Latin , to break.] Literally, to break, separate or dissolve. Hence,
1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to separate the component parts of a body, as by a natural process, which accompanied by a fetid smell.
2. To vitiate or deprave; to change from good to bad.
Evil communications corrupt good manners. .
3. To waste, spoil or consume.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt .
4. To defile or pollute. .
5. To entice from good and allure to evil. .
6. To pervert; to break, disobey or make void. .
7. To pervert or vitiate integrity; to bribe; as, to corrupt a judge.
8. To debase or render impure, by alterations or innovations; as, to corrupt language.
9. To pervert; to falsify; to infect with errors; as, to corrupt the sacred text.
CORRUPT, verb intransitive
1. To become putrid; to putrefy; to rot. Animal and vegetable substances speedily corrupt in a warm and moist air.
2. To become vitiated; to lose purity.
CORRUPT, adjective [Latin]
1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state, as by natural decomposition.
2. Spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound; as corrupt air, or bread.
3. Depraved; vitiated; tainted with wickedness.
They are corrupt; they have done abominable works. .
The earth was corrupt before God. .
4. Debased; rendered impure; changed to a worse state; as corrupt language.
5. Not genuine; infected with errors or mistakes. The text is corrupt
Corrupted
CORRUPTED, participle passive Putrefied; vitiated; depraved; spoiled; marred; bribed; infected with errors.
Corrupter
CORRUPTER, noun
1. One who corrupts; one who vitiates, or taints; as a corrupter of morals, or of Christianity.
2. One who bribes; that which depraves or destroys integrity.
3. One who introduces errors.
Corruptibility
CORRUPTIBILITY, noun The possibility of being corrupted.
Corruptible
CORRUPTIBLE, adjective
1. That may be corrupted; that may become putrid; subject to decay and destruction. Our bodies are corruptible
2. That may be vitiated in qualities or principles; susceptible of depravation. Manners are corruptible by evil example.
CORRUPTIBLE, noun That which may decay and perish; the human body.
This corruptible must put on incorruption. .
Corruptibleness
CORRUPTIBLENESS, noun Susceptibility of corruption; corruptibility.
Corruptibly
CORRUPTIBLY, adverb In such a manner as to be corrupted or vitiated.
Corrupting
CORRUPTING, participle present tense Putrefying; depraving; vitiating.
Corruption
CORRUPTION, noun [Latin]
1. The act of corrupting, or state of being corrupt or putrid; the destruction of the natural form of bodies, by the separation of the component parts, or by disorganization, in the process of putrefaction.
Thou wilt not suffer thy holy One to see corruption .
2. Putrid matter; pus.
3. Putrescence; a foul state occasioned by putrefaction.
4. Depravity; wickedness; perversion or deterioration of moral principles; loss of purity or integrity.
Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. .
CORRUPTION in elections is the great enemy of freedom.
5. Debasement; taint; or tendency to a worse state.
Keep my honor from corruption
6. Impurity; depravation; debasement; as a corruption of language.
7. Bribery. He obtained his suit by corruption
8. In law, taint; impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled to inherit lands from an ancestor, nor can retain those in his possession, nor transmit them by descent to his heirs.
CORRUPTION of blood can be removed only by act of parliament.
Corruptive
CORRUPTIVE, adjective Having the quality of corrupting, tainting or vitiating.
It should be endued with some corruptive quality.
Corruptless
CORRUPTLESS, adjective Not susceptible of corruption, or decay.
Corruptly
CORRUPTLY, adverb
1. In a corrupt manner; with corruption; viciously; wickedly; without integrity.
We have dealt very corruptly against thee. .
2. By bribery. A judgment was obtained corruptly
Corruptness
CORRUPTNESS, noun
1. The state of being corrupt; putrid state or putrescence.
2. A state of moral impurity; as the corruptness of a judge.
3. A vicious state; debasement; impurity; as the corruptness of language.
Corruptress
CORRUPTRESS, noun A female that corrupts others.
Corsair
CORSAIR, noun A pirate; one who cruises or scours the ocean, with an armed vessel, without a commission from any prince or state, to seize and plunder merchantmen.
Corsak
CORSAK, noun A species of fox.
Corse
CORSE, noun [Latin] A corpse; the dead body of a human being; a poetical word.
Corse-Encumbered
CORSE-ENCUMBERED, adjective Loaded with dead bodies; as the corse-encumbered plains.
Corse-Present
CORSE-PRESENT, noun A mortuary or present paid at the interment of a dead body.
Corselet
CORSELET, noun
1. A little cuirass, or an armor to cover the body for protection, worn formerly by pike-men.
2. [See Corcelet.]
CORSELET, verb transitive To encircle with a corselet
Corset
CORSET, noun A boddice; jumps; something worn to give shape to the body; used by ladies and dandies.
Corsned
CORSNED, noun The morsel of execration, or curse; a piece of bread consecrated by exorcism, and to be swallowed by a suspected person, as a trial of his innocence. If guilty, it was supposed the bread would produce convulsions and paleness, and find no passage. If innocent, it was believed it would turn to nourishment.
Cortege
CORTEGE, noun A train of attendants.
Cortes
CORTES, noun plural [from corte, court.] The Spanish name of the States of the kingdom, composed of nobility, clergy and representatives of cities; the assembly of the States, answering, in some measure, to the parliament of Great Britain.
Cortical
CORTICAL, adjective [from Latin , bark. See Chart.] Belonging to bark; consisting of bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; belonging to the external covering; as the cortical part of the brain.
A cortical bud in plants proceeds from the scales of the bark.
Corticate
CORTICATE, CORTICATED, adjective [Latin , bark.] Resembling the bark or rind of a tree.
Corticated
CORTICATE, CORTICATED adjective [Latin , bark.] Resembling the bark or rind of a tree.
Corticiferous
CORTICIFEROUS, adjective [cortex and fero, to produce.] Producing bark, or that which resembles it.
Corticiform
CORTICIFORM, adjective [cortex and form.[ Resembling bark.
Corticose
CORTICOSE, CORTICOUS, adjective Barky; full of bark.
Corticous
CORTICOSE, CORTICOUS adjective Barky; full of bark.
Corundum
CORUNDUM, noun The corindon-harmophane of nauy, corindon adamantin of Brongniart, the korund of Werner, and the adamantine spar of Kirwan. It is octahedral, rhomboidal or prismatic.
Coruscant
CORUSCANT, adjective [see Coruscate.] Flashing; glittering by flashes.
Coruscate
CORUSCATE, verb intransitive [Latin , to flash.] To flash; to lighten; to glitter.
Coruscation
CORUSCATION, n [Latin]
1. A flash; a sudden burst of light in the clouds or atmosphere.
2. The light produced by the combustion of imflammable gas in the earth.
Artificial coruscations are produced by phosporus and sulphuric acid, or by sulphuric acid and iron filings.
Corvet
CORVET, noun A sloop of war; an advice boat.
Corvus
CORVUS, noun [Latin , a raven.]
1. In astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, containing nine stars.
2. A military engine or gallery used by the Romans for boarding ships in war. It was a strong platform of boards at the prow, movable as on a spindle, and thrown over the side of the enemys vessel, when grappled.
Corybantic
CORYBANTIC, adjective Madly agitated; inflamed like the Corybantes, the frantic priests of Cybele.
Corymb
CORYMB, noun [Latin Gr.] Primarily, a top, head or cluster. In modern botany, a species of inflorescence, in which the lesser or partial flower-stalks are produced along the common stalk on both sides, and though of unequal length, rise to the same height, so as to form an even surface; as in spiraea opulifolia, scurvy-grass, etc.
Corymbiated
CORYMBIATED, adjective Garnished with corymbs.
Corymbiferous
CORYMBIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , to bear.] Producing corymbs; bearing fruit or berries in clusters, or producing flowers in clusters.
Corymbous
CORYMBOUS, adjective Consisting of corymbs; in clusters.
Corymbulous
CORYMBULOUS, adjective Having or consisting of little corymbs.
Coryphene
CORYPHENE, noun A fish with a sloping truncated head, and the dorsal fin extending the whole length of the back.
Corypheus
CORYPHEUS, noun [Gr.] The chief of a chorus; the chief of a company.
Coscinomancy
COSCINOMANCY, noun [Gr., a sieve, and divination.] The art or practice of divination, by suspending a sieve and taking it between two fingers, or by fixing it to the point of a pair of shears, then repeating a formula of words, and the names of persons suspected. If the sieve trembles, shakes or turns, when any name is repeated, the person is deemed guilty. This divination is mentioned by Theocritus, and is said to be still practiced in some parts of England. The practice and the name are strangers in America.
Cosier
COSIER, noun A botcher. [Not used.]
Cosinage
COSINAGE, noun [See Cousin.] In law, a writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered and abated, after the death of the tresail, or the grandfathers grandfather, or other collateral relation.
Cosmetic
COSMETIC, adjective s as z. [Gr., order, beauty.] Beautifying; improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the skin.
COSMETIC, noun Any preparation that renders the skin soft, pure and white, and helps to beautify and improve the complexion.
Cosmical
COSMICAL, adjective s as z. [Gr., order, the world.]
1. Relating to the world, or to the whole system of visible bodies, including the earth and stars.
2. In astronomy, rising or setting with the sun; not acronical.
Cosmically
COSMICALLY, adverb With the sun at rising or setting; a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.
Cosmogonist
COSMOGONIST, noun [See Cosmogony.] One who treats of the origin or formation of the universe.
Cosmogony
COSMOGONY, noun s as z. [Gr., world, and generation.] The generation, origin or creation of the world or universe. In physics, the science of the origin or formation of the universe.
Cosmographer
COSMOGRAPHER, noun [See Cosmography.] one who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.
Cosmographic
COSMOGRAPHIC, COSMOGRAPHICAL, adjective Relating to the general description of the universe.
Cosmographically
COSMOGRAPHICALLY, adverb In a manner relating to the science of describing the universe, or corresponding to cosmography.
Cosmography
COSMOGRAPHY, noun [Gr., the world, to describe.] A description of the world or universe; or the art which teaches the construction of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition and the relation of all its parts, and the manner of representing them on a plane.
Cosmolabe
COSMOLABE, noun s as z. [Gr., world, to take.] An ancient instrument for measuring distances in the heavens or on earth, much the same as the astrolabe, and called also pantacosm.
Cosmolatory
COSMOLATORY, noun s as z. [Gr., world and to worship.] The worship paid to the world or its parts by heathens.
Cosmological
COSMOLOGICAL, adjective [See Cosmology.] Relating to a discourse or treatise of the world, or to the science of the universe.
Cosmologist
COSMOLOGIST, noun One who describes the universe.
Cosmology
COSMOLOGY, noun s as z. [Gr., the universe, discourse.] The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
Cosmoplastic
COSMOPLASTIC, adjective [Gr, world, and to form.] World-forming; pertaining to the formation of the world.
Cosmopolitan
COSMOPOLITAN, COSMOPOLITE, noun s as z. [Gr., world, a citizen.] A person who has no fixed residence; on who is no where a stranger, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.
Cosmopolite
COSMOPOLITAN, COSMOPOLITE noun s as z. [Gr., world, a citizen.] A person who has no fixed residence; on who is no where a stranger, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.
Coss
COSS, noun A Hindoo measure of one English mile and a quarter nearly.
Cossack
COSSACK, noun The Cossacks inhabit the Ukraine, in the Russian empire.
Cossas
COSSAS, noun Plain India muslins, of various qualities and breadths.
Cosset
COSSET, noun [G., a house.] A lamb brought up by hand, or without the aid of the dam.
Cossic
COSSIC, adjective Relating to algebra.
Cost
COST, noun [See the Verb.]
1. The price, value or equivalent of a thing purchased; the amount in value paid, charge or engaged to be paid for any thing bought or taken in barter. The word is equally applicable to the price in money or commodities; as the cost of a suit of clothes; the cost of a house or farm.
2. Expense; amount in value expended or to be expended; charge; that which is given or to be given for another thing.
I will not offer burnt offerings without cost .
Have we eaten at all at the kings cost? .
The cost of maintaining armies is immense and often ruinous.
3. In law, the sum fixed by law or allowed by the court for charges of a suit awarded against the party losing, in favor of the party prevailing, etc. The jury find that the plaintiff recover of the defendant ten dollars with costs of suit or with his cost
4. Loss or expense of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering. The vicious man indulges his propensities at a great cost
5. Sumptuousness; great expense.
COST, verb transitive [The noun cost coincides in most of these languages with coast and Latin Costa, a rib, the exterior part. The primary sense of the verb is, to throw or send out, to cast, as we say, to lay out. I call this a transitive verb. In the phrase, a hat costs six dollars, the sense is, it expends, lays out, or causes to be laid out six dollars.]
1. To require to be given or expend in barter or purchase; to be bought for; as, this book cost a dollar; the army and navy cost four millions a year.
2. To require to be laid out, given, bestowed or employed; as, Johnsons Dictionary cost him seven years labor.
3. To require to be borne or suffered. Our sins cost us many pains. A sense of ingratitude to his maker costs the penitent sinner many pangs and sorrows.
Costal
COSTAL, adjective [Latin , a side or rib. A coast or side is the extreme part, a limit, from extending, throwing or shooting out, Eng. to cast.] Pertaining to the side of the body or the ribs; as costal nerves.
Costard
COSTARD, noun
1. A head. [Not used.]
2. An apple, round and bulky, like the head.
Costard-Monger
COSTARD-MONGER, noun An apple-seller.
Coster-Monger
COSTER-MONGER, noun An apple seller.
Costive
COSTIVE, adjective [L, to cram, to stuff.]
1. Literally, crowded, stuffed, as the intestines; hence, bound in body; retaining fecal matter in the bowels, in a hard and dry state; having the excrements obstructed, or the motion of the bowels too slow.
2. Dry and hard; as costive clay. [Not used.]
Costiveness
COSTIVENESS, noun A preternatural detention of the fecal matter of the bowels, with hardness and dryness; an obstruction or preternatural slowness of evacuations from the bowels.
Costless
COSTLESS, adjective Costing nothing.
Costliness
COSTLINESS, noun [See Costly.] Expensiveness; great cost, or expense; sumptuousness. .
Costly
COSTLY, adjective [from cost.] Of a high price; sumptuous; expensive; purchased at a great expense; as a costly habit; costly furniture.
Mary took a pound of spikenard, very costly .
Costmary
COSTMARY, noun [Gr. Latin , an aromatic plant, and Maria.] A species of tansy, or Tanacetum; alecost.
Costrel
COSTREL, noun A bottle. [Not in use.]
Costume
COSTUME, noun
1. In painting, a rule or precept by which an artist is enjoined to make every person and thing sustain its proper character, observing the scene of action, the country or place, and making the habits, arms, manners, and proportions correspond. Hence, the observance of this rule in execution.
2. An established mode of dress.
Cot
COT, COTE, noun [G. In Welsh, this word signifies a cot a hovel or stye, an abrupt termination, a rump, a tail, a skirt. Cwta, short, abrupt, bob-tailed; cwtau, to shorten. This indicates that cot is from cutting off, and hence defending.]
1. A small house; a hut; a mean habitation; also, a shed or inclosure for beasts. .
2. A leathern cover for a sore finger.
3. An abridgement of cotquean.
4. A cade lamb. [Local.]
5. A little boat.
Cote
COTE, noun A sheepfold. [See Cot.]
COTE, verb transitive TO pass by and turn before; to gain ground in coursing and give a competitor the turn. [Little used.]
Cotemporaneous
COTEMPORANEOUS, adjective [infra.] Living or being at the same time.
Cotemporary
COTEMPORARY, adjective [Latin , time.] Living or being at the same time; as cotemporary authors. Josephus was cotemporary with Vespasian.
COTEMPORARY, adjective [Latin , time.] One who lives at the same time with another. [I consider this word as preferable to contemporary, as being more easily pronounced.]
Coterie
COTERIE, noun A friendly party, or fashionable association.
Coticular
COTICULAR, adjective [Latin , whetstone.] Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.
Cotillon
COTILLON, noun A brisk dance, performed by eight persons together; also, a tune which regulates the dance.
Cotland
COTLAND, noun Land appendant to a cottage.
Cotquean
COTQUEAN, noun A man who busies himself with the affairs which properly belong to women.
Cotswold
COTSWOLD, noun Sheepcotes in an open country.
Cott
COTT, noun A small bed; on board of ships, a bed frame suspended from the beams, for the officers to sleep in, between the decks; a piece of canvas, extended by a frame.
Cottage
COTTAGE, noun [from cot.] A cot; a hut; a small mean habitation.
The sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds. .
Cottaged
COTTAGED, adjective Set or covered with cottages.
Cottager
COTTAGER, noun
1. One who lives in a hut or cottage.
2. In law, one who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.
Cottar
COTTER, COTTAR or COTTIER, noun A cottager.
Cotter
COTTER, COTTAR or COTTIER, noun A cottager.
Cotton
COTTON, noun
1. A soft downy substance, resembling fine wool, growing in the capsules or pods of a shrub, called the cotton-plant. It is the material of a large proportion of cloth for apparel and furniture.
2. Cloth made of cotton
Lavender-cotton, a genus of plants, Santolina, of several species; shrubs cultivated in gardens. One species, the chamoecyparyssus or abrotanum foemina, female southernwood, is vulgarly called brotany.
Philosophic cotton flowers of zink, which resemble cotton
Silk-cotton tree, a genus of plants, the Bombax, growing to a great size in the Indies, and producing a kind of cotton in capsules.
COTTON, adjective Pertaining to cotton; made of cotton; consisting of cotton; as cotton cloth; cotton stockings.
COTTON, verb intransitive
1. To rise with a nap.
2. To cement; to unite with; a cant word.
Cotton-Gin
COTTON-GIN, noun A machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by that celebrated mechanician, E. Whitney.
Cotton-Grass
COTTON-GRASS, noun A genus of plants, the Eriophorum.
Cotton-Machine
COTTON-MACHINE, noun A machine for carding or spinning cotton.
Cotton-Mill
COTTON-MILL, noun A mill or building, with machinery for carding, roving and spinning cotton, by the force of water or steam.
Cotton-Plant
COTTON-PLANT, COTTON-SHRUB, noun A plant or shrub of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates. The principal species are, 1. The herbaceous cotton, with smooth leaves and yellow flowers, succeeded by roundish capsules, full of seeds and cotton; 2. The hairy American cotton, with hairy stalks and leaves, and yellow flowers succeeded by oval pods; 3. The Barbadoes shrubby cotton, has a shrubby stalk, yellow flowers and oval pods; 4. The arboreum or tree cotton, with a woody perennial stalk, bears yellow flowers and large pods. The first three species are annual plants; the last is perennial.
Cotton-Shrub
COTTON-PLANT, COTTON-SHRUB noun A plant or shrub of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates. The principal species are, 1. The herbaceous cotton, with smooth leaves and yellow flowers, succeeded by roundish capsules, full of seeds and cotton; 2. The hairy American cotton, with hairy stalks and leaves, and yellow flowers succeeded by oval pods; 3. The Barbadoes shrubby cotton, has a shrubby stalk, yellow flowers and oval pods; 4. The arboreum or tree cotton, with a woody perennial stalk, bears yellow flowers and large pods. The first three species are annual plants; the last is perennial.
In the southern states of America, the cotton cultivated is distinguished into three kinds; the nankeen cotton, so called from its color; the green seed cotton, producing white cotton with green seeds. These grow in the middle and upper country, and are called short staple cotton. The black seed cotton, cultivated in the lower country near the sea, and on the isles near the shore, produces cotton of a fine, white, silky appearance, very strong and of a long staple. The seeds of the long staple cotton are separated by roller-gins. The seeds of the short staple cotton are separated with more difficulty, by a sawgin invented by E. Whitney.
Cotton-Thistle
COTTON-THISTLE, noun A plant, the Onopordum.
Cotton-Weed
COTTON-WEED, noun A plant, the Filago. The name is given also to the Gnaphalium, cud-weed, or goldy-locks.
Cottony
COTTONY, adjective
1. Downy; nappy; covered with hairs or pubescence like cotton.
2. Soft like cotton.
Cotyle
COTYLE, noun [Gr.] The cavity of a bone which receives the end of another in articulation.
Cotyledon
COTYLEDON, noun [Gr., a hollow or cavity.]
1. In botany, the perishable lobe or placenta of the seeds of plants. It involves and nourishes the embryo plant, and then perishes. Some seeds have two lobes; others one only, and others none.
2. In anatomy, a little glandular body adhering to the chorion of some animals.
3. A genus of plants, navel-wort, or kidney-wort, of several species.
Cotyledonous
COTYLEDONOUS, adjective Pertaining to cotyledons; having a seed-lobe.
Couch
COUCH, verb intransitive
1. To lie down, as on a bed or place of repose.
2. To lie down on the knees; to stop and recline on the knees, as a beast.
Fierce tigers couched around.
3. To lie down in secret or in ambush; to lie close and concealed.
The earl of Angus couched in a furrow.
Judah couched as a lion. .
4. To lie; to lie in a bed or stratum.
Blessed of the Lord be his land-for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath. .
5. To stoop; to bend the body or back; to lower in reverence, or to bend under labor, pain, or a burden.
Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens. .
These couchings, and these lowly courtesies.
COUCH, verb transitive
1. To lay down; to repose on a bed or place of rest.
Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, doth couch his limbs.
2. To lay down; to spread on a bed or floor; as, to couch malt.
3. To lay close, or in a stratum.
The waters couch themselves, as close as may be, to the center of the globe.
4. To hide; to lay close, or in another body.
It is in use at this day, to couch vessels in walls, to gather the wind from the top, and pass it down in spouts into rooms.
5. To include secretly; to hide; or to express in obscure terms, that imply what is to be understood; with under.
All this, and more, lies couched under this allegory.
Hence,
6. To involve; to include; to comprise; to comprehend or express.
This great argument for a future state, which St. Paul hath couched int he words read.
7. To lie close.
8. To fix a spear in the rest, in the posture of attack.
They couched their spears.
9. To depress the condensed crystaline humor or film that overspreads the pupil of the eye. To remove a catarct, by entering a needle through the coats of the eye, and pushing the lens to the bottom of the vitreous humor, and then downwards and outwards, so as to leave it in the under and outside of the eye. The true phrase is, to couch a cataract; but we say, to couch they eye, or the patient.
COUCH, noun
1. A bed; a place for rest or sleep.
2. A seat of repose; a place for rest and ease, on which it is common to lie down undressed.
3. A layer of stratum; as a couch of malt.
4. In painting, a lay or impression of color, in oil or water, covering the canvas, wall, or other matter to be painted.
5. Any lay, or impression, used to make a thing firm or consistent, or to screen it from the weather.
6. A covering of gold or silver leaf, laid on any substance to be gilded or silvered.
Couch-Fellow
COUCH-FELLOW, noun A bed fellow; a companion in lodging.
Couch-Grass
COUCH-GRASS, noun A species of grass, very injurious to other plants.
Couchant
COUCHANT, adjective [See Couch.] Lying down; squatting. In heraldry, lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; applied to a lion or other beast.
Levant and couchant in law, rising up and lying down; applied to beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land to lie down and rise up to feed, or one night at least.
Couched
COUCHED, participle passive Laid down; laid on; hid; included or involved; laid close; fixed in the rest, as a spear; depressed or removed, as a cataract.
Couchee
COUCHEE, noun Bedtime; late visiting at night.
Coucher
COUCHER, noun
1. One who couches cataracts.
2. In old English statutes, a factor; a resident in a country for traffick.
3. A book in which a religious house register their acts.
Couching
COUCHING, participle present tense Lying down; laying down; lying close; involving; including; expressing; depressing a cataract.
COUCHING, noun The act of stooping or bowing.
Cough
COUGH, noun A violent effort of the lungs to throw off offending matter; a violent, sometimes involuntary, and sonorous expiration, suddenly expelling the air through the glottis. The convulsion of the muscles serving for exspiration gives great force to the air, while the contraction of the glottis produces the sound. The air forced violently carries along with it the phlegm or irritating matter which causes the convulsion or effort of the muscles.
COUGH, verb intransitive To have the lungs convulsed; to make a violent effort with noise to expel the air from the lungs, and evacuate any offending matter that irritates the parts or renders respiration difficult.
COUGH, verb transitive To expel from the lungs by a convulsive effort with noise; to expectorate; followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
Cougher
COUGHER, noun One that coughs.
Coughing
COUGHING, participle present tense Expelling from the lungs by a violent effort with noise; expectorating.
Could
COULD, pronoun COOD. [The past tense of can, according to our customary arrangement in grammar; but in reality a distinct word, can having no past tense. could we receive through the Celtic dialects.]
1. Had sufficient strength or physical power. A sick man could not lift his hand. Isaac was old and could not see. Alexander could easily conquer the effeminate Asiatics.
2. Had adequate means or instruments. The men could defray their own expenses. The country was exhausted and could not support the war.
3. Had adequate moral power. We heard the story, but could not believe it. Th intemperate man could have restrained his appetite for strong drink. He could have refrained, if we would.
My mind could not be towards this people. .
4. Had power or capacity b the laws of its nature. The tree could not grow for want of water.
5. Had competent legal power; had right, or had the requisite qualifications. Formerly, a citizen could not vote for officers of government without the possession of some property. AB could not be elected to the office of senator, for want of estate. BC, not being the blood of the ancestor, could not inherit his estate.
6. Had sufficient capacity. The world could not contain the books. .
7. Was capable or susceptible, by its nature or constitution, as of some change. He found a substance that could not be fused.
8. Had adequate strength or fortitude; as, he could not endure the pain or the reproach.
9. Had motives sufficient to overcome objections. He thought at first he could not comply with the request; but after consideration he determined to comply.
10. Had competent knowledge or skill. He could solve the most difficult problems.
Coulter
COULTER. [See Colter.]
Council
COUNCIL, noun [Latin , to call, Gr. See Hold. This word is often confounded with counsel, with which it has no connection. council is a collection or assembly.]
1. An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation and advice.
The chief priest and all the council sought false witness. .
The kings of England were formerly assisted by a grand council or peers.
The word is applicable to any body of men, appointed or convened for consultation and advice, in important affairs; as, a council of divines or clergymen, with their lay delegates; a council of war, consisting of the principal officers, to advise the commander in chief or admiral; a council of physicians, to consult and advise in difficult cases of disease.
2. A body of men specially designated to advise a chief magistrate in the administration of the government, as in Great Britain.
3. In some of the American states, a branch of the legislature, corresponding with the senate in other states, and called legislative council
4. An assembly of prelates and doctors, convened for regulating matters of doctrine an discipline in the church.
5. Act of deliberation; consultation of a council
Common-Council of a city. In London, a court consisting of the lord mayor and aldermen in one house, and of representatives of the several wards, called common-council-men, in the other. But more generally the common-council is considered as the body of representatives of the citizens, as distinct from the mayor and aldermen. Thus in Connecticut, the cities are incorporated by the name of the The Mayor, Aldermen, Common-Council and Freemen, of the city of Hartford, New-Haven, etc.
Ecumenical council in church history, a general council or assembly of prelates and doctors, representing the whole church; as the council of Nice, of Ephesus, and of Chalcedon.
Privy council a select council for advising a king in the administration of the government.
Aulic council [See Aulic.]
Council-Board
COUNCIL-BOARD, noun Council-table; the table round which a council holds consultation. Hence, the council itself in deliberation or session.
Council-Table
COUNCIL-TABLE, noun Council-board.
Councilor
COUNCILOR, noun The member of a council. [See Counselor.]
Counsel
COUNSEL, noun [Latin , to consult; to ask, to assail.]
1. Advice; opinion, or instruction, given upon request or otherwise, for directing the judgment or conduct of another; opinion given upon deliberation or consultation.
Every purpose is established by counsel .
Thou hast not hearkened to my counsel .
2. Consultation; interchange of opinions.
We took sweet counsel together. .
3. Deliberation; examination of consequences.
They all confess that, in the working of that first cause, counsel is used, reason followed, and a way observed.
4. Prudence; deliberate opinion or judgment, or the faculty or habit of judging with caution.
O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men of honor. Ecclus. 25.
The law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. .
5. In a bad sense, evil advice or designs; art; machination.
The counsel of the froward is carried headlong. .
6. Secresy; the secrets entrusted in consultation; secret opinions or purposes. Let a man keep his own counsel
7. In a scriptural sense, purpose; design; will; decree.
What thy counsel determined before to be done. .
To show the immutability of his counsel .
8. Directions of God's word.
Thou shalt guide me by thy counsel .
9. The will of God or his truth and doctrines concerning the way of salvation.
I have not shunned to declare to you all the counsel of God. .
10. Those who give counsel in law; any counselor or advocate, or any number of counselors, barristers or sergeants; as the plaintiffs counsel or the defendants counsel The attorney-general and solicitor-general are the kings counsel In this sense, the word has no plural; but in the singular number, is applicable to one or more persons.
COUNSEL, verb transitive [Latin]
1. To give advice or deliberate opinion to another for the government of his conduct; to advise.
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire.
2. To exhort, warn, admonish, or instruct. We ought frequently to counsel our children against the vices of the age.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped.
3. To advise or recommend; as, to counsel a crime. [Not much used.]
Counsel-Keeper
COUNSEL-KEEPER, noun One who can keep a secret.
Counsel-Keeping
COUNSEL-KEEPING, adjective Keeping secrets.
Counselable
COUNSELABLE, adjective Willing to receive counsel; disposed to follow the advice or opinions of others.
Counseled
COUNSELED, participle passive Advised; instructed; admonished.
Counseling
COUNSELING, participle present tense Advising; instructing; admonishing.
Counselor
COUNSELOR, noun
1. Any person who gives advice; but properly one who is authorized by natural relationship, or by birth, office or profession, to advise another in regard to his future conduct and measures. Ahithophel was Davids counselor His mother was his counselor to do wickedly. . In Great Britain, the peers of the realm are hereditary counselor of the crown.
2. The members of a counsel; one appointed to advise a king or chief magistrate, in regard to the administration of the government.
3. One who is consulted by a client in a law case; one who gives advice in relation to a question of law; one whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients.
Privy counselor a member of a privy counsel.
Counselorship
COUNSELORSHIP, noun The office of a counselor, or privy counselor.
Count
COUNT, verb transitive
1. To number; to tell or name one by one, or by small numbers, for ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; as, to count the years, days and hours of a mans life; to count the stars.
Who can count the dust of Jacob? .
2. To reckon; to preserve a reckoning; to compute.
Some tribes of rude nations count their years by the coming of certain birds among them at certain seasons, and leaving them at others.
3. To reckon; to place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
Abraham believed in God, and he counted it to him for righteousness. .
4. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
I count them my enemies. .
Neither count I my life dear to myself. .
I count all things loss. .
5. To impute; to charge.
COUNT, verb intransitive To count on or upon, to reckon upon; to found an account or scheme on; to rely on. We cannot count on the friendship of nations. count not on the sincerity of sycophants.
COUNT, noun
1. Reckoning; the act of numbering; as, this is the number according to my count
2. Number.
3. In law, a particular charge in an indictment, or narration in pleading, setting forth the cause of complaint. There may be different counts in the same declaration.
COUNT, noun [Latin , a companion or associate, a fellow traveler.] A title of foreign nobility, equivalent to the English earl, and whose domain is a county. An earl; the alderman of a shire, as the Saxons called him. The titles of English nobility, according to their rank, are Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron.
Count-Wheel
COUNT-WHEEL, noun The wheel in a clock which moves round and causes it to strike.
Countable
COUNTABLE, adjective That may be numbered.
Counted
COUNTED, participle passive Numbered; told; esteemed; reckoned; imputed.
Countenance
COUNTENANCE, noun [Latin , to hold.]
1. Literally, the contents of a body; the outline and extent which constitutes the whole figure or external appearance. Appropriately, the human face; the whole form of the face, or system of features; visage.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance .
Be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance .
2. Air; look; aspect; appearance of the face; as in the phrase, to change or alter the countenance
3. The face or look of a beast; as a horse of a good countenance
4. Favor; good will; kindness.
Thou hast made him glad with thy countenance .
Hence in scriptural language, the light of God's countenance is his smiles or favorable regards, his favor and grace; and to hide his face or countenance is to manifest his displeasure, and withdraw his gracious aids. So the rebuke of his countenance indicates his anger and frowns. .
This application of face or countenance which seems to be of high antiquity, proceeded probably from the practice of turning away the face to express anger, displeasure and refusal; a practice still common, but probably universal among rude nations. The opposite conduct would of course express favor. The grant of a petition is accompanied with a look directed to the petitioner; the refusal or denial, with an averted face. Hence,
5. Support; aid; patronage; encouragement; favor in promoting and maintaining a person or cause.
It is the province of the magistrate, to give countenance to piety and virtue.
Let religion enjoy the countenance of the laws.
Give no countenance to violations of moral duty.
6. Show; resemblance; superficial appearance.
The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat.
7. In law, credit or estimation.
To keep the countenance is to preserve a calm, composed or natural look, unruffled by passion; to refrain from expressing laughter, joy, anger or other passion, by an unchanged countenance
In countenance in favor; in estimation.
If the profession of religion were in countenance among men of distinction, it would have a happy effect on society.
To keep in countenance to give assurance or courage to; to support; to aid by favor; to prevent from shame or dismay.
To put in countenance to give assurance; to encourage; or to bring into favor; to support.
Out of countenance confounded; abashed; with the countenance cast down; not bold or assured.
To put out of countenance to cause the countenance to fall; to abash; to intimidate; to disconcert.
COUNTENANCE, verb transitive
1. To favor; to encourage by opinion or words.
The design was made known to the minister, but he said nothing to countenance it.
2. To aid; to support; to encourage; to abet; to vindicate; by any means.
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. .
3. To encourage; to appear in defense.
He countenanced the landing in his long boat.
4. To make a show of.
Each to these ladies love did countenance
5. To keep an appearance.
Countenanced
COUNTENANCED, participle passive Favored; encouraged; supported.
Countenancer
COUNTENANCER, noun One who countenances, favors or supports.
Countenancing
COUNTENANCING, participle present tense Favoring; encouraging; supporting.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.