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word: Consonantize
definition:
Consonantize

Con"so*nant*ize
(?)
v. t.
To change into, or use as, a consonant.
consonantized
Peile.


word: Consonantness
definition:
Consonantness

Con"so*nant*ness
n.
The quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent.


word: Consopite
definition:
Consopite

Con"so*pite
(k&obreve_;n"so̝*pīt)
a.
[L. consopitus, p. p. of consopire.]
Lulled to sleep.
[Obs.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Consopite₂
definition:
Consopite

Con"so*pite
v. t.
To lull to sleep; to quiet; to compose.
[Obs.]

The operation of the masculine faculties of the soul were, for a while, well slacked and consopited.
Dr. H. More.


word: Consort
definition:
Consort

Con"sort
(k&obreve_;n"sôrt)
n.
[L. consore, -sortis; con- + sors lot, fate, share. See Sort.]
1.
One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
Milton.

He single chose to live, and shunned to wed,
Well pleased to want a consort of his bed.
Dryden.

The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere.
Thakeray.

The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort.
Darwin.

2.
(Naut.)
A ship keeping company with another.

3.
Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.
consort
Fuller.
consort
Hare.

Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different.
Atterbury.

4.
[LL. consortium.]
An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
[Obs.]

In one consort' there sat
Cruel revenge and rancorous despite,
Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate.
Spenser.

Lord, place me in thy consort.
Herbert.

5.
[Perh. confused with concert.]
Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
[Obs.]
Milton.

To make a sad consort';
Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs.
Spenser.

Prince consort, the husband of a queen regnant. -- Queen consort, the wife of a king, as distinguished from a queen regnant, who rules alone, and a queen dowager, the window of a king.


word: Consort₂
definition:
Consort

Con*sort"
(k&obreve_;n*sôrt")
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Consorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Consorting.]
To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.

Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee?
Dryden.


word: Consort₃
definition:
Consort

Con*sort"
v. t.
1.
To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.

He with his consorted Eve.
Milton.

For all that pleasing is to living ears
Was there consorted in one harmony.
Spenser.

He begins to consort himself with men.
Locke.

2.
To attend; to accompany.
[Obs.]

Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
Shalt with him hence.
Shak.


word: Consortable
definition:
Consortable

Con*sort"a*ble
(k&obreve_;n*sôrt"ȧ*b'l)
a.
Suitable for association or companionship.
[Obs.]
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Consortion
definition:
Consortion

Con*sor"tion
(k&obreve_;n*sôr"shŭn)
n.
[L. consortio.]
Fellowship; association; companionship.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Consortship
definition:
Consortship

Con"sort*ship
(k&obreve_;n"sôrt*shĭp)
n.
The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership.
Hammond.


word: Consound
definition:
Consound

Con"sound
(-sound)
n.
[Corrupted fr. F. consoude, fr L. consolida comfrey (so called because supposed to have healing power); con- + solidus solid, consolidare to make solid. Cf. Comfrey, Consolidate.]
(Bot.)
A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.


word: Conspectuity
definition:
Conspectuity

Con`spec*tu"i*ty
(-spĕk*tū"ĭ*t&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Conspectuities (-tĭz).
The faculty of seeing; sight; eye.
[A word of Menenius's making. Coriolanus ii. 1.]
Shak.


word: Conspectus
definition:
Conspectus

Con*spec"tus
(k&obreve_;n*spĕk"tŭs)
n.
A general sketch or outline of a subject; a synopsis; an epitome.


word: Conspersion
definition:
Conspersion

Con*sper"sion
(?)
n.
[L. conspersio, fr. conspergere to sprinkle.]
The act of sprinkling.
[Obs.]

The conspersion washing the doorposts.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Conspicuity
definition:
Conspicuity

Con`spi*cu"i*ty
(?)
n.
The state or quality of being clear or bright; brightness; conspicuousness.
[R.]
Chapman.


word: Conspicuous
definition:
Conspicuous

Con*spic"u*ous
(?)
a.
[L. conspicuus, fr. conspicere to get sight of, to perceive; con- + spicere, specere, to look. See Spy]
1.
Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye.

It was a rock
Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds,
Conspicious far.
Milton.

Conspicious by her veil and hood,
Signing the cross, the abbess stood.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault.

A man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of England.
Macaulay.


word: Conspiracy
definition:
Conspiracy

Con*spir"a*cy
(?)
n.
pl. Conspiracies (#).
[See Conspiration.]
1.
A combination of people for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.

When shapen was all his conspiracy
From point to point.
Chaucer.

They made a conspiracy against [Amaziah].
2 Kings xiv. 19.

I had forgot that foul conspiracy
Of the beast Caliban and his confederates.
Shak.

2.
A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.

A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things.
Sir P. Sidney.

3.
(Law)
An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.


word: Conspirant
definition:
Conspirant

Con*spir"ant
(?)
a.
[L. conspirans, p. pr. of conspirare: cf. F. conspirant.]
Engaging in a plot to commit a crime; conspiring.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Conspiration
definition:
Conspiration

Con`spi*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[F. conspiration, L. conspiratio.]
Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.
[R.]

As soon as it was day, certain Jews made a conspiration.
Udall.

In our natural body every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: conspiratorial
definition:
conspiratorial

conspiratorial
adj.
relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators; as, a conspiratorial whisper.

Syn. -- conspirative.


word: Conspire
definition:
Conspire

Con*spire"
(k&obreve_;n*spīr")
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Conspired (k&obreve_;n*spīrd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Conspiring.]
[F. conspirer, L. conspirare to blow together, harmonize, agree, plot; con- + spirare to breathe, blow. See Spirit.]
1.
To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.

They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.
Gen. xxxvii. 18.

You have conspired against our royal person,
Joined with an enemy proclaimed.
Shak.

2.
To concur to one end; to agree.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage
Conspire to censure and expose our age.
Roscommon.


word: Conspire₂
definition:
Conspire

Con*spire"
v. t.
To plot; to plan; to combine for.

Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.
Bp. Hall.


word: Conspissation
definition:
Conspissation

Con`spis*sa"tion
(?)
n.
[L. conspissatio, fr. conspissare to make thick.]
A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation.
[R.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Conspurcate
definition:
Conspurcate

Con*spur"cate
(?)
v. t.
[L. conspurcatus, p. p. of conspurcare.]
To pollute; to defile.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: Conspurcation
definition:
Conspurcation

Con`spur*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. conspurcare, -spuratum, to defile.]
The act of defiling; defilement; pollution.
Bp. Hall.


word: Constable
definition:
Constable

Con"sta*ble
(k&obreve_;n"stȧ*b'l or kŭn"stȧ*b'l)
n.
[OE. conestable, constable, a constable (in sense 1), OF. conestable, F. connétable, LL. conestabulus, constabularius, comes stabuli, orig., count of the stable, master of the horse, equerry; comes count (L. companion) + L. stabulum stable. See Count a nobleman, and Stable.]
1.
A high officer in the monarchical establishments of the Middle Ages.

&hand_; The constable of France was the first officer of the crown, and had the chief command of the army. It was also his duty to regulate all matters of chivalry. The office was suppressed in 1627. The constable, or lord high constable, of England, was one of the highest officers of the crown, commander in chief of the forces, and keeper of the peace of the nation. He also had judicial cognizance of many important matters. The office was as early as the Conquest, but has been disused (except on great and solemn occasions), since the attainder of Stafford, duke of Buckingham, in the reign of Henry VIII.

2.
(Law)
An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to execute the warrants of judicial officers.
Bouvier.

&hand_; In England, at the present time, the constable is a conservator of the peace within his district, and is also charged by various statutes with other duties, such as serving summons, precepts, warrants, etc. In the United States, constables are town or city officers of the peace, with powers similar to those of the constables of England. In addition to their duties as conservators of the peace, they are invested with others by statute, such as to execute civil as well as criminal process in certain cases, to attend courts, keep juries, etc. In some cities, there are officers called high constables, who act as chiefs of the constabulary or police force. In other cities the title of constable, as well as the office, is merged in that of the police officer.

High constable, a constable having certain duties and powers within a hundred. [Eng.] -- Petty constable, a conservator of the peace within a parish or tithing; a tithingman. [Eng.] -- Special constable, a person appointed to act as constable of special occasions. -- To overrun the constable, or outrun the constable, to spend more than one's income; to get into debt. [Colloq.] Smollett.


word: Constablery
definition:
Constablery

Con"sta*bler*y
(? or _; )
n.
[OF. conestablerie. Cf. Constabulary.]
1.
The constabulary.
[Obs.]

2.
The district or jurisdiction of a constable.
[Obs.]


word: Constablewick
definition:
Constablewick

Con"sta*ble*wick`
(?)
n.
[Constable + wick a village]
The district to which a constable's power is limited.
[Obs.]
Sir M. Hale.


word: Constabulary
definition:
Constabulary

Con*stab"u*la*ry
(?)
a.
[LL. constabularius an equerry. See Constable.]
Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.


word: Constabulary₂
definition:
Constabulary

Con*stab"u*la*ry
n.
The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country.


word: Constancy
definition:
Constancy

Con"stan*cy
(?)
n.
[L. constantia: cf. F. constance. See Constant.]
1.
The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.

2.
Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity.

A fellow of plain uncoined constancy.
Shak.

Constancy and contempt of danger.
Prescott.


word: Constant
definition:
Constant

Con"stant
(k&obreve_;n"stant)
a.
[L. onstans, -antis, p. pr. of constare to stand firm, to be consistent; con- + stare to stand: cf. F. constant. See Stand and cf. Cost, v. t.]
1.
Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid.
[Obs.]

If . . . you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.
Boyle.

2.
Not liable, or given, to change; permanent; regular; continuous; continually recurring; steadfast; faithful; not fickle.  Opposite of changeable and variable.

Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.
Sir P. Sidney.

I am constant to my purposes.
Shak.

His gifts, his constant courtship, nothing gained.
Dryden.

Onward the constant current sweeps.
Longfellow.

3.
(Math. & Physics)
Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, force, law, etc.

4.
Consistent; logical.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Constant₂
definition:
Constant

Con"stant
n.
1.
That which is not subject to change; that which is invariable.

2.
(Math.)
A quantity that does not change its value; -- used in countradistinction to variable.

3.
(Astron.)
A number whose value, when ascertained (as by observation) and substituted in a general mathematical formula expressing an astronomical law, completely determines that law and enables predictions to be made of its effect in particular cases.

4.
(Physics)
A number expressing some property or condition of a substance or of an instrument of precision; as, the dielectric constant of quartz; the collimation constant of a transit instrument.

5.
(Computers)
a data structure that does not change during the course of execution of a program.  It may be a number, a string, or a more complex data structure; --  contrasted with variable.

Aberration constant, or Constant of aberration (Astron.), a number which by substitution in the general formula for aberration enables a prediction to be made of the effect of aberration on a star anywhere situated. Its value is 20″.47. -- Absolute constant (Math.), one whose value is absolutely the same under all circumstances, as the number 10, or any numeral. -- Arbitrary constant, an undetermined constant in a differential equation having the same value during all changes in the values of the variables. -- Gravitation constant (Physics), the acceleration per unit of time produced by the attraction of a unit of mass at unit distance. When this is known the acceleration produced at any distance can be calculated. -- Solar constant (Astron.), the quantity of heat received by the earth from the sun in a unit of time. It is, on the C. G. S. system, 0.0417 small calories per square centimeter per second. Young. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] -- Constant of integration (Math.), an undetermined constant added to every result of integration.


word: constantan
definition:
constantan

constantan
n.
a copper-nickel alloy composed of approximately 55 per cent copper and 45 per cent nickel, with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; it is used as resistance wire and in thermocouples.
It has a resistance factor ρ of 44.1 x 10-6 ohm-cm at 0° C, in comparison to the value 1.71 x 10-6 ohm-cm for pure copper and 7.8 x 10-6 ohm-cm for pure nickel. It is similar to the alloy Eureka, which has a ρ = 47 x 10-6 ohm-cm.  Handbook of Ch. 61.


word: Constantia
definition:
Constantia

Con*stan"ti*a
(? or _;)
n.
A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in South Africa.


word: Constantinople
definition:
Constantinople

Constantinople
prop. n.
the former capital of the Eastern Roman Empire; it was built on the site of ancient Byzantium, and the name was changed to Istanbul by the Turks.

Syn. -- Istanbul, Stambul, Stamboul.

The name change was the subject of a humorous song in the 1950's "Istanbul (not Constantinople)":

Artists: The Four Lads 
 -- peak Billboard position # 10 in 1953
 -- Words by Jimmy Kennedy and Music by Nat Simon
 -- (C) Chappell & Co. 

 Istanbul was Constantinople
 Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
 Been a long time gone, Constantinople
 Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

 Every gal in Constantinople
 Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
 So if you've a date in Constantinople
 She'll be waiting in Istanbul

 Even old New York
 Was once New Amsterdam
 Why they changed it I can't say
 People just liked it better that way

 Take me back to Constantinople
 No, you can't go back to Constantinople
 Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
 Why did Constantinople get the works?
 That's nobody's business but the Turks'


word: Constantly
definition:
Constantly

Con"stant*ly
(?)
adv.
With constancy; steadily; continually; perseveringly; without cessation; uniformly.

But she constantly affirmed that it was even so.
Acts. xii. 15.


word: Constat
definition:
Constat

Con"stat
(?)
n.
[L., it is evident.]
(Law)
A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.


word: Constate
definition:
Constate

Con*state"
(?)
v. t.
[F. constater; L. con- + stare to stand.]
To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.
F. P. Cobbe.


word: Constellate
definition:
Constellate

Con"stel*late
(? or _;)
v. i.
[Pref. con- + L. stellatus, p. p. of stellare to cover with stars, stella star. See Stellate.]
To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.
[R.]

The several things which engage our affections . . . shine forth and constellate in God.
Boule.


word: Constellate₂
definition:
Constellate

Con"stel*late
v. t.
1.
To unite in one luster or radiance, as stars.
[R.]

Whe know how to constellate these lights.
Boyle.

2.
To set or adorn with stars or constellations; as, constellated heavens.
J. Barlow.


word: Constellation
definition:
Constellation

Con`stel*la"tion
(?)
n.
[F. constellation, L. constellatio.]
1.
A cluster or group of fixed stars, or division of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.

The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible.
Sir J. Herschel.

&hand_; In each of the constellations now recognized by astronomers (about 90 in number) the brightest stars, both named and unnamed, are designated nearly in the order of brilliancy by the letters of the Greek alphabet; as, α Tauri (Aldebaran) is the first star of Taurus, γ Orionis (Bellatrix) is the third star of Orion.

2.
An assemblage of splendors or excellences.

The constellations of genius had already begun to show itself . . . which was to shed a glory over the meridian and close of Philip's reign.
Prescott.

3.
Fortune; fate; destiny.
[Obs.]

It is constellation, which causeth all that a man doeth.
Gower.


word: consternate
definition:
consternate

consternate
v. t.
to cause to be confused; confuse emotionally; to dismay.

Syn. -- confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off, bewilder, bemuse, discombobulate, throw.


word: Consternation
definition:
Consternation

Con`ster*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. consternatio, fr. consternare to overome, perplex, an accessory form of consternere to throw down, prostrate; con + sternere to spread out, throw down: cf. F. consternation. See Stratum.]
Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

The chiefs around,
In silence wrapped, in consternation drowned.
Attend the stern reply.
Pope.


word: Constipate
definition:
Constipate

Con"sti*pate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Constipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Constipating.]
[L. constipatus, p. p. of constipare; con- + stipare to crowd together. See Costive.]
1.
To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.
[Obs.]

Of cold the property is to condense and constipate.
Bacon.

2.
To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

3.
(Med.)
To render costive; to cause constipation in.


word: constipated
definition:
constipated

constipated
adj.
having difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels; costive.


word: Constipation
definition:
Constipation

Con`sti*pa"tion
(?)
n.
[L. constipatio a crowding together: cf. F. constipation.]
1.
Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
[Obs.]

Fullness of matter, or a pretty close constipation . . . of its particles.
Boyle.

2.
A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened fæces; costiveness.


word: Constituency
definition:
Constituency

Con*stit"u*en*cy
(k&obreve_;n*stĭt"&uuptack_;*e̝n*s&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Constituencies (k&obreve_;n*stĭt"&uuptack_;*e̝n*sĭz).
A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.


word: Constituent
definition:
Constituent

Con*stit"u*ent
(k&obreve_;n*stĭt"&uuptack_;*e̝nt)
a.
[L. constituens, -entis, p. pr. See Constitute.]
1.
Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.
Dryden.

2.
Having the power of electing or appointing.

A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body.
Junius.


word: Constituent₂
definition:
Constituent

Con*stit"u*ent
n.
1.
The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.

Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance.
Sir M. Hale

2.
That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.

We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.
Tyndall.

3.
One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.

The electors in the district of a representative in Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are termed his constituents.
Abbot.

To appeal from the representatives to the constituents.
Macaulay.

4.
(Law)
A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
Burrill.


word: Constitute
definition:
Constitute

Con"sti*tute
(k&obreve_;n"stĭ*tūt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Constituted; p. pr. & vb. n. Constituting.]
[L. constitutus, p. p. of constiture to constitute; con- + statuere to place, set, fr. status station, fr. stare to stand. See Stand.]
1.
To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
Jer. Taylor.

2.
To make up; to compose; to form.

Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
Johnson.

3.
To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.

Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.
Wordsworth.

Constituted authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc. Bartlett.


word: Constitution
definition:
Constitution

Con`sti*tu"tion
(k&obreve_;n`stĭ*tū"shŭn)
n.
[F. constitution, L. constitutio.]
1.
The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

2.
The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes a system or body; natural condition; structure; texture; conformation.

The physical constitution of the sun.
Sir J. Herschel.

3.
The aggregate of all one's inherited physical qualities; the aggregate of the vital powers of an individual, with reference to ability to endure hardship, resist disease, etc.; as, a robust constitution.

Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world.
Story.

4.
The aggregate of mental qualities; temperament.

He defended himself with . . . less passion than was expected from his constitution.
Clarendon.

5.
The fundamental, organic law or principles of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs.

Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions.
Macaulay.

&hand_; In England the constitution is unwritten, and may be modified from time to time by act of Parliament.  In the United States a constitution cannot ordinarily be modified, exept through such processes as the constitution itself ordains.

6.
An authoritative ordinance, regulation or enactment; especially, one made by a Roman emperor, or one affecting ecclesiastical doctrine or discipline; as, the constitutions of Justinian.

The positive constitutions of our own churches.
Hooker.

A constitution of Valentinian addressed to Olybrius, then prefect of Rome, for the regulation of the conduct of advocates.
George Long.

Apostolic constitutions. See under Apostolic.


word: Constitutional
definition:
Constitutional

Con`sti*tu"tion*al
(k&obreve_;n`stĭ*tū"shŭn*al)
a.
[Cf. F. constitutionnel.]
1.
Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.

2.
In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society; as, constitutional reforms.

3.
Regulated by, dependent on, or secured by, a constitution; as, constitutional government; constitutional rights.
Hallam.

4.
Relating to a constitution, or establishment form of government; as, a constitutional risis.

The anient constitutional traditions of the state.
Macaulay.

5.
For the benefit or one's constitution or health; as, a constitutional walk.
[Colloq.]

Constitutional law, law that relates to the constitution, as a permanent system of political and juridical government, as distinguished from statutory and common law, which relate to matters subordinate to such constitution.


word: Constitutional₂
definition:
Constitutional

Con`sti*tu"tion*al
n.
A walk or other exercise taken for one's health or constitution.
[Colloq.]
Thackeray.

The men trudged diurnal constitutionals along the different roads.
Compton Reade.


word: Constitutionalism
definition:
Constitutionalism

Con`sti*tu"tion*al*ism
(k&obreve_;n`stĭ*tū"shŭn*al*ĭz'm)
n.
The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherence to a constitution or constitutional government.
Carlyle.


word: Constitutionalist
definition:
Constitutionalist

Con`sti*tu"tion*al*ist
n.
One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.


word: Constitutionality
definition:
Constitutionality

Con`sti*tu`tion*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. -ties (#)
[Cf. F. constitutionalité.]
1.
The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame.

2.
The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions.
Burke.

Constitutionalities, bottomless cavilings and questionings about written laws.
Carlyle.


word: Constitutionally
definition:
Constitutionally

Con`sti*tu"tion*al*ly
(?)
adv.
1.
In accordance with the constitution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid.

The English were constitutionally humane.
Hallam.

2.
In accordance with the constitution or fundamental law; legally; as, he was not constitutionally appointed.

Nothing would indue them to acknowledge that [such] an assembly . . . was constitutionally a Parliament.
Macaulay.


word: Constitutionist
definition:
Constitutionist

Con`sti*tu"tion*ist
n.
One who adheres to the constitution of the country.
Bolingbroke.


word: Constitutive
definition:
Constitutive

Con"sti*tu`tive
(?)
a.
1.
Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.

An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue.
Barrow.

2.
Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Constrain
definition:
Constrain

Con*strain"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Constrained (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Constraining.]
[OF. constraindre, F. contrainde, L. constringere; con- + stringere to draw tight. See Strain, and. cf. Constrict, Constringe.]
1.
To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.

He binds in chains
The drowsy prophet, and his limbs constrains.
Dryden.

When winter frosts constrain the fields with cold.
Dryden.

2.
To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.

How the strait stays the slender waist constrain.
Gay.

3.
To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.

My sire in caves constrains the winds.
Dryden.

4.
To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.

The love of Christ constraineth us.
2. Cor. v. 14.

I was constrained to appeal unto Cæsar.
Acts xxviii. 19.

5.
To violate; to ravish.
[Obs.]
Shak.

6.
To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.


word: Constrainable
definition:
Constrainable

Con*strain"a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. OF. constraignable, F. contraignable.]
Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint.
Hooker.


word: Constrained
definition:
Constrained

Con*strained"
(?)
a.
Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.


word: Constrainedly
definition:
Constrainedly

Con*strain"ed*ly
(?)
adv.
By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner.
Hooker.


word: Constraint
definition:
Constraint

Con*straint"
(?)
n.
[OF. constrainte, F. constrainte.]
The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

Long imprisonment and hard constraint.
Spenser.

Not by constraint, but by my choice, I came.
Dryden.


word: Constrict
definition:
Constrict

Con*strict"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Constricted; p. pr. & vb. n. Constricting.]
[L. constrictus, p. p. of constringere. See Constrain.]
To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

Such things as constrict the fibers.
Arbuthnot.

Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction serves to constrict.
Todd & Bowman.


word: Constricted
definition:
Constricted

Con*strict"ed
a.
1.
Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

2.
(Bot.)
Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others.


word: constricting
definition:
constricting

constricting
adj.
1.
hindering freedom of movement.

Syn. -- binding.

2.
being reduced in width.

Syn. -- constrictive, narrowing.


word: Constriction
definition:
Constriction

Con*stric"tion
(?)
n.
[L. constrictio: cf. F. constriction.]
1.
The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.

2.
The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.

A constriction of the parts inservient to speech.
Grew.


word: Constrictor
definition:
Constrictor

Con*strict"or
(?)
n.
1.
That which constricts, draws together, or contracts.

2.
(Anat.)
A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter.

3.
(Zool.)
A serpent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it with its folds; as, the boa constrictor.


word: Constringe
definition:
Constringe

Con*stringe"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Constringed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Constringing.]
[L. constringere. See onstrain.]
To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.
[R.]

Strong liquors . . . intoxicate, constringe, harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids.
Arbuthnot.


word: Constringent
definition:
Constringent

Con*strin"gent
(?)
a.
[L. constringens, p. pr.]
Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing.
Thomson.


word: Construct
definition:
Construct

Con*struct"
(k&obreve_;n*strŭkt")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Constructed; p. pr. & vb. n. Constructing.]
[L. constructus, p. p. of construere to bring together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See Structure, and cf. Construe.]
1.
To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

2.
To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics.


word: Construct₂
definition:
Construct

Con"struct
(?)
a.
Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference.

Construct form or Construct state (Heb. Gram.), that of a noun used before another which has the genitive relation to it.


word: Construction
definition:
Construction

Con*struc"tion
(?)
n.
[L. constructio: cf. F. construction.]
1.
The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

2.
The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement.

An astrolabe of peculiar construction.
Whewell.

3.
(Gram.)
The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement.

Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them.
Locke.

4.
The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense.

Any person . . . might, by the sort of construction that would be put on this act, become liable to the penalties of treason.
Hallam.

Strictly, the term [construction] signifies determining the meaning and proper effect of language by a consideration of the subject matter and attendant circumstances in connection with the words employed.
Abbott.

Interpretation properly precedes construction, but it does not go beyond the written text.
Parsons.

Construction of an equation (Math.), the drawing of such lines and figures as will represent geometrically the quantities in the equation, and their relations to each other. -- Construction train (Railroad), a train for transporting men and materials for construction or repairs.


word: Constructional
definition:
Constructional

Con*struc"tion*al
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.


word: Constructionist
definition:
Constructionist

Con*struc"tion*ist
n.
One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.


word: Constructive
definition:
Constructive

Con*struct"ive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. constructif.]
1.
Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power.

The constructive fingers of Watts.
Emerson.

2.
Derived from, or depending on, construction, inference, or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.

3.
helpful; promoting improvement; intended to help; as, constructive criticism; constructive suggestions.  Contrasted with destructive.

Constructive crimes (Law), acts having effects analogous to those of some statutory or common law crimes; as, constructive treason. Constructive crimes are no longer recognized by the courts. -- Constructive notice, notice imputed by construction of law. -- Constructive trust, a trust which may be assumed to exist, though no actual mention of it be made.


word: Constructively
definition:
Constructively

Con*struct"ive*ly
adv.
In a constructive manner; by construction or inference.

A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government.
Kent.


word: constructive-metabolic
definition:
constructive-metabolic

constructive-metabolic
adj. prenom.
causing buildup of body tissues or tissue components.
[Narrower terms: anabolic (vs. catabolic)]

Syn. -- energy-storing(prenominal).


word: Constructiveness
definition:
Constructiveness

Con*struct"ive*ness
n.
1.
Tendency or ability to form or construct.

2.
(Phren.)
The faculty which enables one to construct, as in mechanical, artistic, or literary matters.


word: Constructure
definition:
Constructure

Con*struc"ture
(?; 135)
n.
That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric.
[Obs.]


word: Construe
definition:
Construe

Con*strue
(?; Archaic ?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Construed (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Construing (#).]
[L. construere: cf. F. construire. See Construct.]
1.
To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.

2.
To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.

Thus we are put to construe and paraphrase our own words to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our enemies.
Bp. Stilingfleet.

And to be dull was construed to be good.
Pope.


word: Constuprate
definition:
Constuprate

Con"stu*prate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Construprated; p. p. & vb. n. Constuprating.]
[L. constupratus, p. p. of constuprare to ravish; con- + stuprare to ravish, stuprum rape.]
To ravish; to debauch.
Burton.


word: Consubstantial
definition:
Consubstantial

Con`sub*stan"tial
(?)
a.
[L. consubstantialis; con- + substantialis: cf. F. consubstantiel. See Substantial.]
Of the same kind or nature; having the same substance or essence; coessential.

Christ Jesus . . . coeternal and consubstantial with the Father and with the Holy Ghost.
Foxe.


word: Consubstantiality
definition:
Consubstantiality

Con`sub*stan"ti*al"i*ty
(?;  106)
n.
[Cf. F. consubstantialité.]
Participation of the same nature; coexistence in the same substance.
consubstantiality
Hammend.


word: Consubstantially
definition:
Consubstantially

Con`sub*stan"tial*ly
(?)
adv.
In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.


word: Consubstantiate
definition:
Consubstantiate

Con`sub*stan"ti*ate
(?; 106)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Consubstantiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Consubstantiating.]
To cause to unite, or to regard as united, in one common substance or nature.
[R.]

His soul must be consubstantiated with reason.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Consubstantiate₂
definition:
Consubstantiate

Con`sub*stan"ti*ate
v. i.
To profess or belive the doctrine of consubstantion.

The consubstantiating church and priest.
Dryden.


word: Consubstantiate₃
definition:
Consubstantiate

Con`sub*stan"ti*ate
(?)
a.
Partaking of the same substance; united; consubstantial.

We must love her [the wife] that is thus consubstantiate with us.
Feltham.


word: Consubstantiation
definition:
Consubstantiation

Con`sub*stan`ti*a"tion
(?; 106)
n.
1.
An identity or union of substance.

2.
(Theol.)
The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation; -- opposed to transubstantiation.

&hand_; This view, held by Luther himself, was called consubstantiation by non Lutheran writers in contradistinction to transsubstantiation, the Catholic view.


word: Consuetude
definition:
Consuetude

Con"sue*tude
(?; 144)
n.
[L. consuetudo. See Custom.]
Custom, habit; usage.
[R.]

To observe this consuetude or law.
Barnes


word: Consuetudinal
definition:
Consuetudinal

Con`sue*tu"di*nal
(?)
a.
[LL. consuetudinalis.]
According to custom; customary; usual.
[R.]


word: Consuetudinary₂
definition:
Consuetudinary

Con`sue*tu"di*na*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Consuetudinaries (_;).
A manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises.


word: Consul
definition:
Consul

Con"sul
(k&obreve_;n"sŭl)
n.
[L., prob. fr. consulere to deliberate. See Consult.]
1.
(Rom. Antiq.)
One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.

&hand_; They were chosen annually, originally from the patricians only, but later from the plebeians also.

2.
A senator; a counselor.
[Obs.]

Many of the consuls, raised and met,
Are at the duke's already.
Shak.

With kings and consuls of the earth.
Job. iii. 14 (Douay Ver. )

3.
(Fr. Hist.)
One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul.

4.
An official commissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen.

Consul general, a consul of the first rank, stationed in an important place, or having jurisdiction in several places or over several consuls. -- Vice consul, a consular officer holding the place of a consul during the consul's absence or after he has been relieved.


word: Consulage
definition:
Consulage

Con"sul*age
(?)
n.
(Com.)
A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their commerce by means of a consul in a foreign place.


word: Consular
definition:
Consular

Con"su*lar
(?)
a.
[L. consularis; cf. F. consulaire.]
Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.


word: Consulate
definition:
Consulate

Con"su*late
(?)
n.
[L. consulatus: cf. F. consulat.]
1.
The office of a consul.
Addison.

2.
The jurisdiction or residence of a consul.
Kent.

3.
Consular government; term of office of a consul.


word: Consulship
definition:
Consulship

Con"sul*ship
(?)
n.
1.
The office of a consul; consulate.

2.
The term of office of a consul.


word: Consult
definition:
Consult

Con*sult"
(k&obreve_;n*sŭlt")
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Consulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Consulting.]
[L. consultare, fr. consulere to consult: cf. f. consulter. Cf. Counsel.]
To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.

Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.
Shak.

All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons.
Hobbes.


word: Consult₂
definition:
Consult

Con*sult"
v. t.
1.
To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary.

Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . . ; they were content to consult libraries.
Whewell.

2.
To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.

We are . . .  to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.
L'Estrange.

3.
To deliberate upon; to take for.
[Obs.]

Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.
Clarendon.

4.
To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
[Obs.]

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.
Hab. ii. 10.


word: Consult₃
definition:
Consult

Con*sult"
(k&obreve_;n*sŭlt" or  k&obreve_;n"sŭlt)
n.
1.
The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.
[Obs.]

The council broke;
And all grave consults dissolved in smoke.
Dryden.

2.
A council; a meeting for consultation.
[Obs.]
consult
Swift.

3.
Agreement; concert
[Obs.]
Dryden.


word: Consultary
definition:
Consultary

Con*sult"a*ry
(k&obreve_;n*sŭlt"ȧ*r&ybreve_;)
a.
Formed by consultation; resulting from conference.

Consultary response (Law), the opinion of a court on a special case.
Wharton.


word: Consultation
definition:
Consultation

Con`sul*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. consultatio: cf. F. consultation.]
1.
The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.

Thus they doubtful consultations dark
Ended.
Milton.

2.
A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.

Writ of consultation (Law), a writ by which a cause, improperly removed by prohibition from one court to another, is returned to the court from which it came; -- so called because the judges, on consultation, find the prohibition ill-founded.


word: Consultative
definition:
Consultative

Con*sult"a*tive
(k&obreve_;n*sŭlt"ȧ*tĭv)
a.
Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference.
consultative
Abp. Bramhall.


word: Consultatory
definition:
Consultatory

Con*sult"a*to*ry
(k&obreve_;n*sŭlt"ȧ*to̝*r&ybreve_;)
a.
Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.
Bancroft.


word: Consulting
definition:
Consulting

Con*sult"ing
a.
That consults.

Consulting physician (Med.), a physician who consults with the attending practitioner regarding any case of disease.


word: Consultive
definition:
Consultive

Con*sult"ive
(k&obreve_;n*sŭlt"ĭv)
a.
Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative.

He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, consultive, knowing act.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Consumable
definition:
Consumable

Con*sum"a*ble
(k&obreve_;n*sūm"ȧ*b'l)
a.
Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent.
Consumable
Locke.


word: Consume
definition:
Consume

Con*sume"
(k&obreve_;n*sūm")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Consumed (k&obreve_;n*sūmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Consuming.]
[L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere to buy. See Redeem.]
To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

If he were putting to my house the brand
That shall consume it.
Shak.

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume.
Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver.).

Let me alone . . . that I may consume them.
Ex. xxxii. 10.


word: Consume₂
definition:
Consume

Con*sume"
(k&obreve_;n*sūm")
v. i.
To waste away slowly.

Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire,
Consume away in sighs.
Shak.


word: consumed
definition:
consumed

consumed
adj.
1.
completely used up.

Syn. -- used-up(prenominal), used up(predicate).

2.
eaten or drunk up.


word: consuming
definition:
consuming

consuming
adj.
taking up most of one's attention; ardent; as, politics is his consuming passion.

Syn. -- overwhelming.


word: Consumedly
definition:
Consumedly

Con*sum"ed*ly
(k&obreve_;n*sūm"ĕd*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
Excessively.
[Low]

He's so consumedly proud of it.
Thackeray.


word: Consumer
definition:
Consumer

Con*sum"er
(k&obreve_;n*sūm"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.

2.
(Econ.)
the person or organization that uses some item of commerce or service in its own acitities, as opposed to reselling the item or including it as part of another item for resale; -- called also the end user.


word: consumer price index
definition:
consumer price index

consumer price index
n.
An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer, calculated and published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics; abbreviated CPI, and usually referred to by that acronym.  The Bureau maintains several indices for different groups of consumers, but the most commonly referred to is the index for “All urban consumers”, called the CPI-U. The increase of this value each year is one measure of monetary inflation.

Syn. -- CPI, cost-of-living index.

&hand_;  For a table of values from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the CPI over time, see CPI-U from 1913 to 1998.


word: Consumer's goods
definition:
Consumer's goods

Con*sum"er's goods
(?)
(Polit. Econ.)
Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods.


word: Consumer's surplus
definition:
Consumer's surplus

Consumer's surplus
(Polit. econ.)
The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent.
The price which a person pays for a thing can never exceed, and seldom comes up to, that which he would be willing to pay rather than go without it. . . . The excess of the price which he would be willing to pay rather than go without it, over that which he actually does pay, is the economic measure of this surplus satisfaction.  It has some analogies to a rent; but is perhaps best called simply consumer's surplus.
Alfred Marshall.


word: Consummate
definition:
Consummate

Con*sum"mate
(k&obreve_;n*sŭm"ma̝t)
a.
[L. consummatus, p. p. or consummare to accomplish, sum up; con- + summa sum. See Sum.]
Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.
consummate
Addison.

The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
Motley


word: Consummate₂
definition:
Consummate

Con"sum*mate
(k&obreve_;n"sŭm*māt or k&obreve_;n*sŭm"māt; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Consummated (k&obreve_;n"sŭm*mā`tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Consummating (k&obreve_;n"sŭm*mā`tĭng).]
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.

To consummate this business happily.
Shak.


word: Consummation
definition:
Consummation

Con`sum*ma"tion
(k&obreve_;n`sŭm*mā"shŭn)
n.
[L. consummatio.]
The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).

'T is a consummation
Devoutly to be wished.
Shak.

From its original to its consummation.
Addison.

Quiet consummation have,
And renownéd be thy grave.
Shak.

Consummation of marriage, completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.


word: Consummative
definition:
Consummative

Con*sum"ma*tive
(?)
a.
Serving to consummate; completing.
consummative
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Consumption
definition:
Consumption

Con*sump"tion
(?; 215)
n.
[L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.]
1.
The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption.
Burke.

2.
The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

3.
(Med.)
A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.

Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.


word: Consumptive
definition:
Consumptive

Con*sump"tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. consomptif.]
1.
Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.

It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time.
Sharp.

A long consumptive war.
Addison.

2.
(Med.)
Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.

The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
Dryden.


word: Consumptiveness
definition:
Consumptiveness

Con*sump"tive*ness
n.
A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.


word: Contabescent
definition:
Contabescent

Con`ta*bes"cent
(?)
a.
[L. contabescenc, p. pr. of contabescere.]
Wasting away gradually.
Darwin.


word: Contact
definition:
Contact

Con"tact
(k&obreve_;n"tăkt)
n.
[L. contactus, fr. contingere, -tactum, to touch on all sides. See Contingent.]
1.
A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

2.
(Geom.)
The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.

3.
(Mining)
The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Raymond.

4.
(Electricity)
A metallic conducting component of an electrical device connected to a circuit within and so situated that it may form a conducting pathway to an external power source or device when contacted by another conductor; as, the contact on a standard light bulb has the shape of a screw for easy insertion into the socket.

5.
A person who serves to commmunicate information to or from one group to another, whether formally or informally; as, a good Washington reporter has contacts in the White House.

Contact level, a delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.


word: Contagion
definition:
Contagion

Con*ta"gion
(k&obreve_;n*tā"jŭn)
n.
[L. contagio: cf. F. contagion. See Contact.]
1.
(Med.)
The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.

&hand_; The term has been applied by some to the action of miasmata arising from dead animal or vegetable matter, bogs, fens, etc., but in this sense it is now abandoned.
Dunglison.

And will he steal out of his wholesome bed
To dare the vile contagion of the night?
Shak.

2.
That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.

3.
The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
contagion
Eikon Basilike.

When lust . . . 
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion.
Milton.

4.
Venom; poison.
[Obs.]
contagion
Shak.


word: Contagionist
definition:
Contagionist

Con*ta"gion*ist
n.
One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.


word: Contagious
definition:
Contagious

Con*ta"gious
(?)
a.
[L. contagiosus: cf. F. contagieux.]
1.
(Med.)
Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

2.
Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.

3.
Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.

His genius rendered his courage more contagious.
Wirt.

The spirit of imitation is contagious.
Ames.


word: Contagious disease
definition:
Contagious disease

Con*ta"gious dis*ease"
(Med.)
A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs.  Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required.


word: Contain
definition:
Contain

Con*tain"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contained (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Containing.]
[OE. contenen, conteinen, F. contenir, fr. L. continere, -tentum; con- + tenere to hold. See Tenable, and cf. Countenance.]
1.
To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house!
2 Chron. vi. 18.

When that this body did contain a spirit.
Shak.

What thy stores contain bring forth.
Milton.

2.
To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.

3.
To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
[Obs., exept as used reflexively.]

The king's person contains the unruly people from evil occasions.
Spenser.

Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves.
Shak.


word: Contain₂
definition:
Contain

Con*tain"
v. i.
To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

But if they can not contain, let them marry.
1 Cor. vii. 9.


word: Container
definition:
Container

Con*tain"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, contains; particularly, an artifactual object that is designed to contain some fluid or solid material, object or objects, especially for convenience in transporting the contained objects.

2.
a large metallic box designed to hold many smaller boxes or packages, and used for convenience in loading and unloading large quantities of freight, such as on ships, trains, or airplanes.


word: containership
definition:
containership

container ship

container ship, containership
n.
a ship designed to hold containerized cargoes.


word: Containment
definition:
Containment

Con*tain"ment
(?)
n.
1.
That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
[Obs.]

The containment of a rich man's estate.
Fuller.

2.
the act of containing.

3.
(Diplomacy)
the act or policy of restricting the influence or territorial growth of a hostile nation.
The policy of containment is employed when the defeat of a hostile nation or overthrow of its government is considered impractical or too costly.

4.
the act of restricting some deleterious substance within a confined space, especially when such material is released unintentionally or by accident; as, containment of nuclear waste; containment of an oil spill.  Also used attributively, as a containment boom.

5.
a structure surrounding a nuclear power plant designed to prevent release of radioactive materials into the environment in the event of an accident.


word: Contaminate
definition:
Contaminate

Con*tam"i*nate
(k&obreve_;n*tăm"ĭ*nāt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contaminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Contaminating (?).]
[L. contaminatus, p. p. of contaminare to bring into contact, to contaminate, fr. contamen contagion, for contagmen; con- + root of tangere to touch. See Contact.]
To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.

Shall we now
Contaminate our figures with base bribes?
Shak.

I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated.
Goldsmith.


word: Contaminate₂
definition:
Contaminate

Con*tam"i*nate
(-na̝t)
a.
Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.
Contaminate
Daniel.


word: contaminated
definition:
contaminated

contaminated
adj.
1.
containing undesired or infective microorganisms.

Syn. -- dirty, infected.

2.
rendered impure by addition of deleterious substances; as, had to boil the contaminated water.

Syn. -- polluted.

3.
1
(Computers)
damaged by inclusion of incorrect data or information not belonging; as, The file was contaminated by a buggy editor.

Syn. -- corrupted.

4.
appearing unethical due to a questionable source or motives; -- of money or activities; as, The fund was contaminated by a large donation from a mobster.

Syn. -- tainted.


word: contaminating
definition:
contaminating

contaminating
adj.
spreading contamination; especially radioactive contamination.
clean

Syn. -- dirty.

2.
causing moral or behavioral degredation.
the contaminating influence of violent movies

Syn. -- corrupting.


word: Contamination
definition:
Contamination

Con*tam`i*na"tion
(k&obreve_;n*tăm`ĭ*nā"shŭn)
n.
[L. contaminatio.]
The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.


word: Contango
definition:
Contango

Con*tan"go
(k&obreve_;n*tă&nsmacr_;"go̝)
n.
pl. Contangoes (#).
[Prob. a corruption of contingent.]
1.
(Stock Exchange)
The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day.
[Eng.]

2.
(Law)
The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.
N. Biddle.


word: Conte
definition:
Conte

Conte
(?)
n.
pl. Contes (#)
[F.]
A short narrative or tale, esp. one dealing with surprising or marvelous events.
The conte (sic) is a tale something more than a sketch, it may be, and something less than a short story. . . . The “Canterbury Tales” are contes, most of them, if not all, and so are some of the “Tales of a Wayside Inn.”
Brander Matthews.


word: Contection
definition:
Contection

Con*tec"tion
(-tĕk"shŭn)
n.
[L. contegere, -tectum, to cover up.]
A covering.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Contek
definition:
Contek

Con"tek
(k&obreve_;n"tĕk)
n.
[OE. conteck, conteke, contake, perh. a corruption either of contact or contest.]
1.
Quarrel; contention; contest.
[Obs.]

Contek with bloody knife.
Chaucer.

2.
Contumely; reproach.
[Obs.]
Wyclif.


word: Contemn
definition:
Contemn

Con*temn"
(k&obreve_;n*tĕm")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contemned (-tĕmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Contemning (-tĕm"nĭng or -tĕm"ĭng).]
[L. contemnere, -temptum; con- + temnere to slight, despise: cf. OF. contemner.]
To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.

Thy pompous delicacies I contemn.
Milton.

One who contemned divine and human laws.
Dryden.


word: Contemner
definition:
Contemner

Con*tem"ner
(k&obreve_;n*tĕm"nẽr or -tĕm"ẽr)
n.
One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner.
Contemners
South.


word: Contemper
definition:
Contemper

Con*tem"per
(k&obreve_;n*tĕm"pẽr)
v. t.
[L. contemperare, -temperatum; con- + temperare to temper. Cf. Contemperate.]
To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften.
[Obs.]

The antidotes . . . have allayed its bitterness and contempered its malignancy.
Johnson.


word: Contemperate
definition:
Contemperate

Con*tem"per*ate
(k&obreve_;n*tĕm"pẽr*āt)
v. t.
[See Contemper.]
To temper; to moderate.
[Obs.]

Moisten and contemperate the air.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Contemperation
definition:
Contemperation

Con*tem`per*a"tion
(k&obreve_;n*tĕm`pẽr*ā"shŭn)
n.
1.
The act of tempering or moderating.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.

2.
Proportionate mixture or combination.
Contemperation
Boyle.


word: Contemperature
definition:
Contemperature

Con*tem"per*a*ture
(k&obreve_;n*tĕm"pẽr*ȧ*t&uuptack_;r; 135)
n.
The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature.
[Obs.]

The different contemperature of the elements.
South.


word: Contemplant
definition:
Contemplant

Con*tem"plant
(?)
a.
[L. contemplans, p. pr.]
Given to contemplation; meditative.
[R.]
Coleridge.


word: Contemplate
definition:
Contemplate

Con"tem*plate
(?; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contemplated (# or #); p. pr. & vb. n. Contemplating.]
[L. contemplatus, p. p. of contemplari to contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the augur. See Temple.]
1.
To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.

To love, at least contemplate and admire,
What I see excellent.
Milton.

We thus dilate
Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.

Byron.

2.
To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.

There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
A. Hamilton.

If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
Kent.


word: Contemplate₂
definition:
Contemplate

Con"tem*plate
v. i.
To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.

So many hours must I contemplate.
Shak.


word: Contemplation
definition:
Contemplation

Con`tem*pla"tion
(?)
n.
[F. contemplation, L. contemplatio.]
1.
The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.

In contemplation of created things,
By steps we may ascend to God.
Milton.

Contemplation is keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time actually in view.
Locke.

2.
Holy meditation.
[Obs.]

To live in prayer and contemplation.
Shak.

3.
The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.

In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left.
Reid.

To have in contemplation, to inted or purpose, or to have under consideration.


word: Contemplative
definition:
Contemplative

Con*tem"pla*tive
(?)
a.
[F. contemplatif, L. contemplativus.]
1.
Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative.

Fixed and contemplative their looks.
Denham.

2.
Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties.
Ray.


word: Contemplative₂
definition:
Contemplative

Con*tem"pla*tive
n.
(R. C. Ch.)
A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.


word: Contemporaneity
definition:
Contemporaneity

Con*tem`po*ra*ne"i*ty
(?)
n.
The state of being contemporaneous.

The lines of contemporaneity in the oolitic system.
J. Philips.


word: Contemporaneous
definition:
Contemporaneous

Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[L. contemporaneus; con- + tempus time. See Temporal, and cf. Contemporaneous.]
Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.

The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy.
Milman


word: contemporaries
definition:
contemporaries

contemporaries
n.
all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age.

Syn. -- coevals, generation.


word: Contemporariness
definition:
Contemporariness

Con*tem"po*ra*ri*ness
(?)
n.
Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness.
Howell.


word: Contemporary
definition:
Contemporary

Con*tem"po*ra*ry
(?)
a.
[Pref. con- + L. temporarius of belonging to time, tempus time. See Temporal, and cf. Contemporaneous.]
1.
Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.

This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
Strype.

2.
Of the same age; coeval.

A grove born with himself he sees,
And loves his old contemporary trees.
Cowley.


word: Contemporary₂
definition:
Contemporary

Con*tem"po*ra*ry
n.
pl. Contemporaries (_;).
1.
One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

2.
a person of nearly the same age as another.

Syn. -- coeval.


word: contemporize₂
definition:
contemporize

contemporize
v. t.
to arrange or represent events so that they co-occur.

Syn. -- synchronize.


word: Contempt
definition:
Contempt

Con*tempt"
(k&obreve_;n*tĕmt"; 215)
n.
[L. contemptus, fr. contemnere: cf. OF. contempt. See Contemn.]
1.
The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

Criminal contempt of public feeling.
Macaulay.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.
Addison.

2.
The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.

Contempt and begarry hangs upon thy back.
Shak.

3.
An act or expression denoting contempt.

Little insults and contempts.
Spectator.

The contempt and anger of his lip.
Shak.

4.
(Law)
Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

&hand_; Contempt is in some jurisdictions extended so as to include publications reflecting injuriously on a court of justice, or commenting unfairly on pending proceedings; in other jurisdictions the courts are prohibited by statute or by the constitution from thus exercising this process.


word: Contemptibility
definition:
Contemptibility

Con*tempt`i*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.
Speed.


word: Contemptible
definition:
Contemptible

Con*tempt"i*ble
(?)
a.
1.
Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.
Milton.

The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful.
Burke.

2.
Despised; scorned; neglected; abject.
Locke.

3.
Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
[Obs.]

If she should make tender of her love, 't is very possible he 'll scorn it; for the man . . . hath a contemptible spirit.
Shak.


word: Contemptibleness
definition:
Contemptibleness

Con*tempt"i*ble*ness
n.
The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.


word: Contemptuous
definition:
Contemptuous

Con*temp"tu*ous
(?; 135)
a.
Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.

A proud, contemptuous behavior.
Hammond.

Savage invective and contemptuous sarcasm.
Macaulay.

Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
Atterbury.


word: Contemptuously
definition:
Contemptuously

Con*temp"tu*ous*ly
adv.
In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.

The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Contemptuousness
definition:
Contemptuousness

Con*temp"tu*ous*ness
n.
Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.


word: Contend
definition:
Contend

Con*tend"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Contended; p. pr. & vb. n. Contending.]
[OF. contendre, L. contendere, -tentum; con- + tendere to strech. See Tend.]
1.
To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

For never two such kingdoms did contend
Without much fall of blood.
Shak.

The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
Deut. ii. 9.

In ambitious strength I did
Contend against thy valor.
Shak.

2.
To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.

You sit above, and see vain men below
Contend for what you only can bestow.
Dryden.

3.
To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

The question which our author would contend for.
Locke.

Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
Dr. H. More.


word: Contend₂
definition:
Contend

Con*tend"
v. t.
To struggle for; to contest.
[R.]

Carthage shall contend the world with Rome.Dryden.


word: Contendent
definition:
Contendent

Con*tend"ent
(?)
n.
[L. contendens, p. pr.]
An antagonist; a contestant.
[Obs.]

In all notable changes and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party.
L'Estrange.


word: Contenement
definition:
Contenement

Con*ten"e*ment
(k&obreve_;n*tĕn"e̝*ment)
n.
[Pref. con- + tenement.]
(Law)
That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of land adjacent to a dwelling, and necessary to the reputable enjoyment of the dwelling; appurtenance.
Burrill.


word: Content
definition:
Content

Con*tent"
(k&obreve_;n*tĕnt")
a.
[F. content, fr. L. contentus, p. p. of contenire to hold together, restrain. See Contain.]
Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

Having food and rai
ment, let us be therewith content.
1 Tim. vi. 8.


word: Content₂
definition:
Content

Con"tent
(k&obreve_;n"tĕnt or k&obreve_;n*tĕnt"; 277)
n.
usually in pl
Contents
1.
That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book.

I shall prove these writings . . . authentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original.
Grew.

2.
Power of containing; capacity; extent; size.
[Obs.]

Strong ship's, of great content.
Bacon.

3.
(Geom.)
Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents.

The geometrical content, figure, and situation of all the lands of a kingdom.
Graunt.

Table of contents, or Contents, a table or list of topics in a book, showing their order and the place where they may be found: a summary.


word: Content₃
definition:
Content

Con*tent"
(?)
v. t.
[F. contenter, LL. contentare, fr. L. contentus, p. p. See Content, a.]
1.
To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.

Do not content yourselves with obscure and confused ideas, where clearer are to be attained.
I. Watts.

Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them.
Mark xv. 15.

2.
To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.
Shak.


word: Content₄
definition:
Content

Con*tent"
n.
1.
Rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.

Such is the fullness of my heart's content.
Shak.

2.
Acquiescence without examination.
[Obs.]

The sense they humbly take upon content.
Pope.

3.
That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.

So will I in England work your grace's full content.
Shak.

4.
(Eng. House of Lords)
An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes “Content.”.

Supposing the number of “Contents” and “Not contents” strictly equal in number and consequence.
Burke.


word: Contented
definition:
Contented

Con*tent"ed
(?)
a.
Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing.
Con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Con*tent"ed*ness, n.


word: Contention
definition:
Contention

Con*ten"tion
(?)
n.
[F. contention, L. contentio. See Contend.]
1.
A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.

I would my arms could match thee in contention.
Shak.

2.
Strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention.

Contentions and strivings about the law.
Titus iii. 9.

3.
Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal.

An end . . . worthy our utmost contention to obtain.
Rogers.

4.
A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or strife; a position taken or contended for.

All men seem agreed what is to be done; the contention is how the subject is to be divided and defined.
Bagehot.

This was my original contention, and I still maintain that you should abide by your former decision.
Jowett.


word: Contentious
definition:
Contentious

Con*ten"tious
(?)
a.
[L. contentiosus: cf. F. contentieux.]
1.
Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.

Despotic and contentious temper.
Macaulay.

2.
Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention.
Spenser.

More cheerful, though not less contentious, regions.
Brougham.

3.
(Law)
Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.

Contentious jurisdiction (Eng. Eccl. Law), jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed or controverted.


word: Contentment
definition:
Contentment

Con*tent"ment
(k&obreve_;n*tĕnt"ment)
n.
[Cf. F. contentement. See Content, v. t.]
1.
The state of being contented or satisfied; content.

Contentment without external honor is humility.
Grew.

Godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Tim. vi. 6.

2.
The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.

3.
Gratification; pleasure; satisfaction.
[Obs.]

At Paris the prince spent one whole day to give his mind some contentment in viewing of a famous city.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Conterminable
definition:
Conterminable

Con*ter"mi*na*ble
(?)
a.
Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous.

Love and life not conterminable.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Conterminant
definition:
Conterminant

Con*ter"mi*nant
(?)
a.
Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous.
Lamb.


word: Conterminate
definition:
Conterminate

Con*ter"mi*nate
(?)
a.
[L. conterminare to border upon, fr. conterminus conterminous; con- + terminus border.]
Having the same bounds; conterminous.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Conterminous
definition:
Conterminous

Con*ter"mi*nous
(?)
a.
[L. conterminus.  Cf. Conterminous.]
Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.

This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws.
Sir M. Hale.


word: Conterraneous
definition:
Conterraneous

Conterranean

{ Con`ter*ra"ne*an (?), Con`ter*ra"ne*ous (?), }
a.
[L. conterraneus; con- + terra country.]
Of or belonging to the same country.
Howell.


word: Contesseration
definition:
Contesseration

Con*tes`ser*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. contesseratio, from contesserare to contract friendship by means of the tesserae (friendship tokens).]
An assemblage; a collection; harmonious union.
[Obs.]

That person of his [George Herbert], which afforded so unusual a contesseration of elegancies.
Oley.


word: Contest
definition:
Contest

Con*test"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contested; p. pr. & vb. n. Contesting.]
[F. contester, fr. L. contestari to call to witness, contestari litem to introduce a lawsuit by calling witnesses, to bring an action; con- + testari to be a witness, testic witness. See Testify.]
1.
To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

The people . . . contested not what was done.
Locke.

Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this.
J. D. Morell.

2.
To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.

3.
(Law)
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.

To contest an election. (Polit.) (a) To strive to be elected. (b) To dispute the declared result of an election.


word: Contest₂
definition:
Contest

Con*test"
v. i.
To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.

The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.
Bp. Burnet.

Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest?
Pope.


word: Contest₃
definition:
Contest

Con"test
(?)
n.
1.
Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.

Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language.
I. Watts.

2.
Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.

The late battle had, in effect, been a contest between one usurper and another.
Hallam.

It was fully expected that the contest there would be long and fierce.
Macaulay.


word: Contestant
definition:
Contestant

Con*test"ant
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. contestant.]
One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.


word: Contestation
definition:
Contestation

Con`tes*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. contestatio testimony: cf. F. contestation a contesting.]
1.
The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.
contestation
Milton.

After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw.
Clarendon.

2.
Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.
[Obs.]

A solemn contestation ratified on the part of God.
Barrow.


word: Context
definition:
Context

Con*text"
(?)
a.
[L. contextus, p. p. of contexere to weave, to unite; con- + texere to weave. See Text.]
Knit or woven together; close; firm.
[Obs.]

The coats, without, are context and callous.
Derham.


word: Context₂
definition:
Context

Con"text
(?)
n.
[L. contextus; cf. F. contexte .]
The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.

According to all the light that the contexts afford.
Sharp.


word: Context₃
definition:
Context

Con*text"
(?)
v. t.
To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
[Obs.]
Feltham.

The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.
R. Junius.


word: Contextural
definition:
Contextural

Con*tex"tur*al
(?; 135)
a.
Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven.
Dr. John Smith (1666).


word: Contexture
definition:
Contexture

Con*tex"ture
(?; 135)
n.
[Cf. F. contexture.]
The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture.

That wonderful contexture of all created beings.
Dryden.

He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Contextured
definition:
Contextured

Con*tex"tured
(?; 135)
a.
Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed.
[R.]
Carlyle.


word: Conticent
definition:
Conticent

Con"ti*cent
(?)
a.
[L. conticens, p. pr. of conticere; con- + tacere to be silent.]
Silent.
[R.]
conticent
Thackeray.


word: Contignation
definition:
Contignation

Con`tig*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. contignatio, fr. contignare to join with beams; con- + tignum beam.]
1.
The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.
Burke.

2.
A framework or fabric, as of beams.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Contiguity
definition:
Contiguity

Con`ti*gu"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. contiguité, LL. contiguitas.]
The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.

The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes.
T. Warton.


word: Contiguous
definition:
Contiguous

Con*tig"u*ous
(?)
a.
[L. contiguus; akin to contigere to touch on all sides. See Contingent.]
In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.

The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles.
Sir I. Newton.

Sees no contiguous palace rear its head.
Goldsmith.

Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.


word: Continency
definition:
Continency

Continence

{ Con"ti*nence (?), Con"ti*nen*cy (?) }
n.
[F. continence, L. continentia. See Continent, and cf. Countenance.]
1.
Self-restraint; self-command.

He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers.
Dryden.

2.
The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence.

If they [the unmarried and widows] have not continency, let them marry.
1 Cor. vii. 9 (Rev. Ver. ).

Chastity is either abstinence or continence: abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence, that of married persons.
Jer. Taylor.

3.
Uninterrupted course; continuity.
[Obs.]
Ayliffe.


word: Continent
definition:
Continent

Con"ti*nent
(?)
a.
[L. continens, -entis, prop., p. pr. of continere to hold together, to repress: cf. F. continent. See Contain.]
1.
Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
[Obs.]
Shak.

2.
Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.

Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.
Shak.

3.
Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.

My past life

Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,

As I am now unhappy.
Shak.

4.
Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
[Obs.]

The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disoined by sea of all that coast.
Berrewood.


word: Continent₂
definition:
Continent

Con"ti*nent
n.
[L. continens, prop., a holding together: cf. F. continent. See Continent, a.]
1.
That which contains anything; a receptacle.
[Obs.]

The smaller continent which we call a pipkin.
Bp. Kennet.

2.
One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.

&hand_; The continents are now usually regarded as six in number: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. But other large bodies of land are also reffered to as continents; as, the Antarctic continent; the continent of Greenland. Europe, Asia, and Africa are often grouped together as the Eastern Continent, and North and South America as the Western Continent.

The Continent, the main land of Europe, as distinguished from the islands, especially from England.


word: Continental
definition:
Continental

Con`ti*nen"tal
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to a continent.

2.
Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition.
Macaulay.

No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances.
Hallam.

3.
(Amer. Hist.)
Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.

The army before Boston was designated as the Continental army, in contradistinction to that under General Gage, which was called the “Ministerial army.”
W. Irving.

Continental Congress. See under Congress. -- Continental system (Hist.), the blockade of Great Britain ordered by Napoleon by the decree of Berlin, Nov. 21, 1806; the object being to strike a blow at the maritime and commercial supremacy of Great Britain, by cutting her off from all intercourse with the continent of Europe.


word: Continental₂
definition:
Continental

Con`ti*nen"tal
(?)
n.
1.
(Amer. Hist.)
A soldier in the Continental army. See Continental, a., 3.

2.
(Amer. Hist.)
a piece of the Continental currency, paper money issued under authority of the Continental Congress. See Continental, a., 3.

"Not worth a continental." was said of Continental currency after the American revolution, when it was considered almost worthless.  Eventually, under Alexander Hamilton's direction at the Treasury department, the currency was all redeemed at full value.


word: Continental drift
definition:
Continental drift

Continental drift
the movements of continents relative to each other across the Earth's surface; see plate tectonics.


word: Continental drive
definition:
Continental drive

Con`ti*nen"tal drive
(Automobiles)
A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.


word: Continental glacier
definition:
Continental glacier

Continental glacier
A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.


word: Continental pronunciation
definition:
Continental pronunciation

Continental pronunciation
(of Latin and Greek.)
A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continental method of Greek pronunciation is often called Erasmian.


word: Continental system
definition:
Continental system

Continental system
(Hist.)
The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British subjects, property, and merchandise subject to capture, and excluding British ships from all parts of Europe under French dominion. The retaliatory measures of England were followed by the Milan decree, issued by Napoleon from Milan Dec. 17, 1807, imposing further restrictions, and declaring every ship going to or from a port of England or her colonies to be lawful prize.


word: Contingency
definition:
Contingency

Con*tin"gen*cy
(?)
n.
pl. Contingencies (#)
[Cf. F. contingence.]
1.
Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
contingency
J. Gregory.

2.
The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.

Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on the contingency of human actions.
South.

3.
An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.

The remarkable position of the queen rendering her death a most important contingency.
Hallam.

4.
An adjunct or accessory.
Wordsworth.

5.
(Law)
A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.


word: Contingent
definition:
Contingent

Con*tin"gent
(?)
a.
[L. contingens, -entis, p. pr. of contingere to touch on all sides, to happen; con- + tangere to touch: cf. F. contingent. See Tangent, Tact.]
1.
Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.

Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage.
Burke.

2.
Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.
contingent
Tillotson.

3.
(Law)
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate.

If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one.
Blackstone.


word: Contingent₂
definition:
Contingent

Con*tin"gent
n.
1.
An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.

His understanding could almost pierce into future contingents.
South.

2.
That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.

From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms.
Milman.


word: Contingently
definition:
Contingently

Con*tin"gent*ly
adv.
In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.


word: Continual
definition:
Continual

Con*tin"u*al
(?)
a.
[OE. continuel, F. continuel. See Continue.]
1.
Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding.

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Prov. xv. 15.

2.
Occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated.

The eye is deligh by a continental succession of small landscapes.
W. Irwing.

Continual proportionals (Math.), quantities in continued proportion. Brande & C.


word: Continually
definition:
Continually

Con*tin"u*al*ly
adv.
1.
Without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; as, the current flows continually.

Why do not all animals continually increase in bigness?
Bentley.

2.
In regular or repeated succession; very often.

Thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
2 Sam. ix. 7.


word: Continuance
definition:
Continuance

Con*tin"u*ance
(?)
n.
[OF. continuance.]
1.
A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.

Great plagues, and of long continuance.
Deut. xxviii. 59.

Patient continuance in well-doing.
Rom. ii. 7.

2.
Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation.

The brute immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.
Addison.

3.
A holding together; continuity.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

4.
(Law)
(a)
The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.
(b)
The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.


word: Continuant
definition:
Continuant

Con*tin"u*ant
(?)
a.
Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound.
n. A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged.


word: Continuate
definition:
Continuate

Con*tin"u*ate
(?)
a.
[L. continuatus, p. p. See Continue.]
1.
Immediately united together; intimately connected.
[R.]

We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his.
Hooker.

2.
Uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued.

An untirable and continuate goodness.
Shak.


word: Continuation
definition:
Continuation

Con*tin`u*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. continuatio: cf. F. connuation.]
1.
That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.

Preventing the continuation of the royal line.
Macaulay.

2.
That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story.

My continuation of the version of Statius.
Pope.


word: Continuative
definition:
Continuative

Con*tin"u*a*tive
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. continuatif.]
1.
(Logic)
A term or expression denoting continuance.
[R.]

To these may be added continuatives; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes, at least, two propositions, viz., Rome was, and Rome is.
I. Watts.

2.
(Gram.)
A word that continues the connection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction.

Continuatives . . . consolidate sentences into one continuous whole.
Harris.


word: Continuator
definition:
Continuator

Con*tin"u*a`tor
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. continuateur.]
One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Continue
definition:
Continue

Con*tin"ue
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Continued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Continuing.]
[F. continuer, L. continuare, -tinuatum, to connect, continue, fr. continuus. See Continuous, and cf. Continuate.]
1.
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

Here to continue, and build up here
A growing empire.
Milton.

They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
Matt. xv. 32.

2.
To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.

But now thy kingdom shall not continue.
1 Sam. xiii. 14.

3.
To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.

If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed.
John viii. 31.


word: Continue₂
definition:
Continue

Con*tin"ue
v. t.
1.
To unite; to connect.
[Obs.]

the use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother.
Sir T. browne.

2.
To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.

O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee.
Ps. xxxvi. 10.

You know how to make yourself happy by only continuing such a life as you have been long accustomed to lead.
Pope.

3.
To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.

A bridge of wond'rous length,
From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb
of this frail world.
Milton.

4.
To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.

And how shall we continue Claudio.
Shak.


word: Continued
definition:
Continued

Con*tin"ued
(?)
p. p. & a.
Having extension of time, space, order of events, exertion of energy, etc.; extended; protracted; uninterrupted; also, resumed after interruption; extending through a succession of issues, session, etc.; as, a continued story.
Continued
Jenyns.
Continued
Locke.

Continued bass (Mus.), a bass continued through an entire piece of music, while the other parts of the harmony are indicated by figures beneath the bass; the same as thorough bass or figured bass; basso continuo. [It.] -- Continued fever (Med.), a fever which presents no interruption in its course. -- Continued fraction (Math.), a fraction whose numerator is 1, and whose denominator is a whole number plus a fraction whose numerator is 1 and whose denominator is a whole number, plus a fraction, and so on. -- Continued proportion (Math.), a proportion composed of two or more equal ratios, in which the consequent of each preceding ratio is the same with the antecedent of the following one; as, 4 : 8 : 8 : 16 :: 16 : 32.


word: Continuer
definition:
Continuer

Con*tin"u*er
(?)
n.
One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence.
continuers
Hammond.

I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer.
Shak.


word: Continuity
definition:
Continuity

Con`ti*nu"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Continuities (#)
[L. continuitas: cf. F. continuité. See Continuous.]
the state of being continuous; uninterrupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers.
Grew.

The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects.
Dryden.

Law of continuity (Math. & Physics), the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states. -- Solution of continuity. (Math.) See under Solution.


word: Continuous
definition:
Continuous

Con*tin"u*ous
(?)
a.
[L. continuus, fr. continere to hold together. See Continent.]
1.
Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.

he can hear its continuous murmur.
Longfellow.

2.
(Bot.)
Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

Continuous brake (Railroad), a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine. -- Continuous impost. See Impost.


word: Continuously
definition:
Continuously

Con*tin"u*ous*ly
(?)
adv.
In a continuous maner; without interruption.
Con*tin"u*ous*ness, n.


word: Contline
definition:
Contline

Cont"line`
(?)
n.
1.
(Ropemaking)
The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.
Knight.

2.
(Naut.)
The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.


word: Contopus
definition:
Contopus

Contopus
n.
a genus of birds comprised of pewees, and including the wood pewees Contopus sordidulus and Contopus virens.

Syn. -- genus Contopus.


word: Contorniate
definition:
Contorniate

Contorniate

{ Con*tor"ni*ate (?), &VerbarCon*tor"ni*a`te (?) }
n.
[It. contorniato, p. pr. of contorniare to make a circuit or outline, fr. contorno circuit, outline. See Contour.]
(Numis.)
A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors.
R. S. Poole.


word: Contort
definition:
Contort

Con*tort"
(?)
v. t.
[L. contortus, p. p. of contorquere to twist; con- + torquere to twist. See Torture.]
To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.

The vertebral arteries are variously contorted.
Ray.

Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Contorted
definition:
Contorted

Con*tort"ed
a.
1.
Twisted, or twisted together.
contorted
Massinger.

2.
(Bot.)
(a)
Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.
(b)
Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute æstivation.


word: Contortion
definition:
Contortion

Con*tor"tion
(k&obreve_;n*tô"shŭn)
n.
[L. contortio: cf. F. contorsion. See Contort, and cf. Torsion.]
A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face.
Swift.

All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration.
Burke.


word: Contortionist
definition:
Contortionist

Con*tor"tion*ist
(k&obreve_;n*tô"shŭn*ĭst)
n.
One who makes or practices contortions;
especially,
a gymnast who is able to twist the limbs into positions impossible for normal people to achieve.


word: Contortuplicate
definition:
Contortuplicate

Con`tor*tu"pli*cate
(?)
a.
[L. contortuplicatus; contortus contorted + plicare to fold.]
(Bot.)
Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory.
Gray.


word: Contour
definition:
Contour

Con*tour"
(?)
n.
[F. contour, fr. contourner to mark the outlines; con- + tourner to turn. See Turn.]
1.
The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.

Titian's coloring and contours.
A. Drummond.

2.
(Mil.)
The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.

Contour feathers (Zool.), those feathers that form the general covering of a bird. -- Contour of ground (Surv.), the outline of the surface of ground with respect to its undulation, etc. -- Contour line (Topographical Suv.), the line in which a horizontal plane intersects a portion of ground, or the corresponding line in a map or chart.


word: Contourne
definition:
Contourne

Con`tour`né"
(?)
a.
[F., p. p. of contourner to twist.]
(Her.)
Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like.


word: Contourniated
definition:
Contourniated

Con*tour"ni*a`ted
(?)
a.
[Cf. Contorniate.]
(Numis.)
Having furrowed edges, as if turned in a lathe.


word: Contra
definition:
Contra

Con"tra
(?)
A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.


word: Contraband
definition:
Contraband

Con"tra*band
(?)
n.
[It. contrabando; contra + bando ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See Ban an edict.]
1.
Illegal or prohibited traffic.

Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures.
Burke.

2.
Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.

3.
A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
[U.S.]

Contraband of war, that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent. Wharton.


word: Contraband₂
definition:
Contraband

Con"tra*band
a.
Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.

The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure, with the fair trade.
Burke.


word: Contraband₃
definition:
Contraband

Con"tra*band
v. t.
1.
To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
[Obs.]
Johnson.

2.
To declare prohibited; to forbid.
[Obs.]

The law severly contrabands
Our taking business of men's hands.
Hudibras.


word: Contrabass
definition:
Contrabass

Con`tra*bass"
(?)
n.
(Mus.)
The lowest stringed instrument of the violin family; the double bass; -- also applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon.


word: Contrabasso
definition:
Contrabasso

Con`tra*bas"so
(?)
n.
[It. contrabasso.]
(Mus.)
The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone.


word: contraception
definition:
contraception

contraception
n.
the intentional prevention of conception or impregnation, especially when accomplished by the use of contraceptive medications or devices; a form of birth control.


word: contraceptive
definition:
contraceptive

contraceptive
adj.
capable of preventing conception or impregnation; as, contraceptive devices and medications.

Syn. -- prophylactic.


word: contraceptive₂
definition:
contraceptive

contraceptive
n.
a substance or device used to prevent conception.

Syn. -- preventive, preventative, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, prophylactic.


word: contraclockwise
definition:
contraclockwise

contraclockwise
adj.
in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock; counterclockwise.  Opposite of clockwise.
[Also See: sinistral.]

Syn. -- counterclockwise, anticlockwise.


word: Contract
definition:
Contract

Con*tract"
(k&obreve_;n*trăkt")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Contracting.]
[L. contractus, p. p. of contrahere to contract; con- + trahere to draw: cf. F. contracter. See Trace, and cf. Contract, n.]
1.
To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
Dr. H. More.

2.
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
Shak.

3.
To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

Each from each contract new strength and light.
Pope.

Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high station.
Swift.

4.
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen.
Hakluyt.

Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law.
Strype.

5.
To betroth; to affiance.

The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,
Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.
Shak.

6.
(Gram.)
To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.


word: Contract₂
definition:
Contract

Con*tract"
(k&obreve_;n*trăkt")
v. i.
1.
To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.

Years contracting to a moment.
Wordsworth.

2.
To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.


word: Contract₄
definition:
Contract

Con*tract"
(k&obreve_;n*trăkt")
a.
[L. contractus, p. p.]
Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Contract₅
definition:
Contract

Con"tract
(k&obreve_;n"trăkt)
n.
[L. contractus, fr. contrahere: cf. F. contrat, formerly also contract.]
1.
(Law)
The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.
Wharton.

2.
A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

3.
The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

This is the the night of the contract.
Longwellow.


word: contractable
definition:
contractable

con*tract"a*ble
(k&obreve_;n*trăkt"ȧ*b'l)
adj.
capable of being transmitted by infection; same as communicable, 1; -- of disease.

Syn. -- catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable.


word: Contracted
definition:
Contracted

Con*tract"ed
(k&obreve_;n*trăkt"ĕd)
a.
1.
Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

2.
Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.

3.
Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.

Inquire me out contracted bachelors.
Shak.


word: Contractedness
definition:
Contractedness

Con*tract"ed*ness
n.
The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.


word: Contractibility
definition:
Contractibility

Con*tract`i*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
Arbuthnot.


word: Contractible
definition:
Contractible

Con*tract"i*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of contraction.

Small air bladders distable and contractible.
Arbuthnot.


word: Contractile
definition:
Contractile

Con*tract"ile
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. contractile.]
tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.

The heart's contractile force.
H. Brooke.

Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.
Hixley.

Contractile vacuole (Zool.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in function. There may be one, two, or more.


word: Contractility
definition:
Contractility

Con`trac*til"i*ty
(?)
n.
1.
The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

2.
(Physiol.)
The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

&hand_; When subject to the will, as in the muscles of locomotion, such power is called voluntary contractility; when not controlled by the will, as in the muscles of the heart, it is involuntary contractility.


word: contracting
definition:
contracting

contracting
n.
the act or process of acquiring an infectious disease; contraction; as, the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic.

Syn. -- catching.


word: Contraction
definition:
Contraction

Con*trac"tion
(?)
n.
[L. contractio: cf. F. contraction.]
1.
The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendon; the contraction produced by cold.

2.
(Math.)
The process of shortening an operation.

3.
The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.

4.
Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.

5.
(Gram.)
The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.

6.
A marriage contract.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Contractive
definition:
Contractive

Con*tract"ive
(?)
a.
Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.


word: Contractor
definition:
Contractor

Con*tract"or
(?)
n.
[L.]
One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.


word: Contract system
definition:
Contract system

Con"tract sys"tem
1.
The sweating system.

2.
The system of employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.


word: Contract tablet
definition:
Contract tablet

Con"tract tablet
(Babylonian & Assyrian Antiq.)
A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping.  Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.


word: Contracture
definition:
Contracture

Con*trac"ture
(?; 135)
n.
[L. contractura a drawing together.]
(Med.)
A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.


word: Contradance
definition:
Contradance

Con"tra*dance`
(?)
n.
[Pref. contra- + dance: cf. F. contrdance. Cf. Country-dance.]
A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.


word: Contradict
definition:
Contradict

Con`tra*dict"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contradicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Contradicting.]
[L. contradictus, p. p. of contradicere to speak against; contra + dicere to speak. See Diction.]
1.
To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.

Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,
And say it is not so.
Shak.

The future can not contradict the past.
Wordsworth.

2.
To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
[Obs.]

No truth can contradict another truth.
Hooker.

A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents.
Shak.


word: Contradict₂
definition:
Contradict

Con`tra*dict
v. i.
To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.

They . . . spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Acts xiii. 45.


word: Contradiction
definition:
Contradiction

Con`tra*dic"tion
(?)
n.
[L. contradictio answer, objection: cf. F. contradiction.]
1.
An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.

His fair demands
Shall be accomplished without contradiction.
Shak.

2.
Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.

can he make deathless death? That were to make
Strange contradiction.
Milton.

We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it.
Burke.

Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true.
Hobbes.

Of contradictions infinite the slave.
Wordsworth.

Principle of contradiction (Logic), the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, or a thing must either be or not be, or the same attribute can not at the same time be affirmed and and denied of the same subject; also called the law of the excluded middle. It develops itself in three specific forms which have been called the “Three Logical Axioms.” First, “A is A.” Second, “A is not Not-A” Third, “Everything is either A or Not-A.”


word: Contradictious
definition:
Contradictious

Con`tra*dic"tious
(?)
a.
1.
Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
[Obs.]

2.
Inclined to contradict or cavil
[Obs.]
Sharp.


word: Contradictoriness
definition:
Contradictoriness

Con"tra*dict`o*ri*ness
n.
The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency.
J. Whitaker.


word: Contradictory
definition:
Contradictory

Con`tra*dict"o*ry
(?)
a.
[LL. contradictorius: cf. F. contradictoire.]
1.
Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.
Contradictory
South.

2.
Opposing or opposed; repugnant.

Schemes . . . contradictory to common sense.
Addisn.


word: Contradictory₂
definition:
Contradictory

Con`tra*dict"o*ry
n.
pl. Contradictories (_;).
1.
A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety.

It is common with princes to will contradictories.
Bacon.

2.
pl.
(Logic)
propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity.


word: Contradistinction
definition:
Contradistinction

Con`tra*dis*tinc"tion
(?)
n.
Distinction by contrast.

That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned.
South.


word: Contradistinctive
definition:
Contradistinctive

Con`tra*dis*tinc"tive
(?)
a.
having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.
Con`tra*dis*tinc"tive, n.


word: Contradistinguish
definition:
Contradistinguish

Con`tra*dis*tin"guish
(?; 144)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contradistinguished (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Contradistinguishing.]
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.

These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished.
Locke.


word: Contrafagetto
definition:
Contrafagetto

Con`tra*fa*get"to
(?)
n.
[It.]
(Mus.)
The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.


word: Contrafissure
definition:
Contrafissure

Con`tra*fis"sure
(?; 135)
n.
(Med.)
A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
Coxe.


word: Contrahent
definition:
Contrahent

Con"tra*hent
(?)
a.
[L. contrahens, p. pr. See Contract.]
Entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties.
[Obs.]
Mede.


word: Contraindicant
definition:
Contraindicant

Con"tra*in"di*cant
(?)
n.
(Med.)
Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed.
Burke.


word: Contraindicate
definition:
Contraindicate

Con"tra*in*"di*cate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contraindicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Contraindicating (?).]
(Med.)
To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require; especially, to indicate that a particular method of treatment should not be used; as, penicilin is contraindicated in patients who have shown hypersensitivity.

Contraindicating symptoms must be observed.
Harvey.


word: Contraindication
definition:
Contraindication

Con"tra*in`di*ca"tion
(?)
n.
(med.)
An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.


word: Contralto
definition:
Contralto

Con*tral"to
(? or _;)
n.
[It., fr. contra + alto. See Alto.]
(Mus.)
(a)
The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
(b)
the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto.

&hand_; The usual range of the contralto voice is from G, below middle C, to the C above that; though exceptionally it embraces two octaves.


word: Contralto₂
definition:
Contralto

Con*tral"to
(? or _;)
a.
(Mus.)
Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice.


word: Contranatural
definition:
Contranatural

Con"tra*nat"u*ral
(?; 135)
a.
[Cf. Counternatural.]
Opposed to or against nature; unnatural.
[R.]
Bp. Rust.


word: Contraplex
definition:
Contraplex

Con"tra*plex
(?)
a.
[Contra- + -plex as in duplex.]
(Teleg.)
Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time.


word: Contraposition
definition:
Contraposition

Con"tra*po*si"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. contra- + position: cf. f. conterposition.]
1.
A placing over against; opposite position.
[Obs.]
F. Potter.

2.
(Logic)
A so-called immediate inference which consists in denying the original subject of the contradictory predicate; e. g.: Every S is P; therefore, no Not-P is S.


word: Contraption
definition:
Contraption

Con*trap"tion
(?)
n.
A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully.
[Colloq. or Dial.]
Con*trap"tious (#), a.
We all remember some of the extraordinary contraptions which have been thus evolved and put upon the market.
F. M. Ware.


word: Contrapuntal
definition:
Contrapuntal

Con`tra*pun"tal
(?)
a.
[It. contrappunto counterpoint. See Counterpoint.]
(Mus.)
Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.


word: Contrapuntist
definition:
Contrapuntist

Con`tra*pun"tist
(?)
n.
[It. contrappuntista.]
(Mus.)
One skilled in counterpoint.
L. Mason.


word: Contraremonstrant
definition:
Contraremonstrant

Con"tra*re*mon"strant
(?)
n.
One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant.
[R.]

They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants.
Hales.


word: contrarian
definition:
contrarian

con*tra"ri*an
(?)
a.
[LL. contrarians, p. pr. of contrariare to oppose, fr. L. contrarius: cf. F. contrariant, p. pr. of contrarier to contradict. See Contrary.]
taking an opposing view, especially a view opposite to that taken by the majority.


word: contrarian₂
definition:
contrarian

con*tra"ri*an
(?)
n.
[see contrarian, a..]
a person who habitually takes a view opposite to that held by the majority; as, the contrarians in the stock market prefer to sell when most analysts advise us to buy.


word: Contrariant
definition:
Contrariant

Con*tra"ri*ant
(?)
a.
[LL. contrarians, p. pr. of contrariare to oppose, fr. L. contrarius: cf. F. contrariant, p. pr. of contrarier to contradict. See Contrary.]
Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory.
[R.]

The struggles of contrariant factions.
Coleridge.


word: Contraries
definition:
Contraries

Con"tra*ries
(? or _;; 48)
n. pl.
[Pl. of Contrary, n.]
(Logic)
Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.

If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false.
I. Watts.


word: Contrariety
definition:
Contrariety

Con`tra*ri"e*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Contrarieties (#).
[L. contrarietas: cf. F. contrariété.]
1.
The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.

There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses.
South.

2.
Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency.

How can these contrarieties agree?
Shak.


word: Contrarily
definition:
Contrarily

Con"tra*ri*ly
(? or _;)
adv.
In a contrary manner; in opposition; on the other side; in opposite ways.


word: Contrariness
definition:
Contrariness

Con"tra*ri*ness
n.
state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy.


word: Contrarious
definition:
Contrarious

Con*tra"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[LL. contrariosus: cf. OF. contrarios contralius.]
Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse.
[Archaic]
Milton.

She flew contrarious in the face of God.
Mrs. Browning.


word: Contrariwise
definition:
Contrariwise

Con"tra*ri*wise
(? or _;)
adv.
1.
On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand.

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing.
1 Pet. iii. 9.

2.
In a contrary order; conversely.

Everything that acts upon the fluids must, at the same time, act upon the solids, and contrariwise.
Arbuthnot.


word: Contrarotation
definition:
Contrarotation

Con`tra*ro*ta"tion
(?)
n.
Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.


word: Contrary
definition:
Contrary

Con"tra*ry
(? or ?; 48)
a.
[OE. contrarie, contraire, F. contraire, fr. L. contrarius, fr. contra. See Contra-.]
1.
Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.

And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me.
Lev. xxvi. 21.

We have lost our labor; they are gone a contrary way.
Shak.

2.
Opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent.

Fame, if not double-faced, is double mouthed,
And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds.
Milton.

The doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred Scripture.
Whewell.

3.
Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.

4.
(Logic)
Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions.

Contrary motion (Mus.), the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending.


word: Contrary₂
definition:
Contrary

Con"tra*ry
n.
pl. Contraries (_;).
1.
A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.

No contraries hold more antipathy
Than I and such a knave.
Shak.

2.
An opponent; an enemy.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

3.
the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1.
Locke.

4.
(Logic)
See Contraries.

On the contrary, in opposition; on the other hand. Swift. -- To the contrary, to an opposite purpose or intent; on the other side. “They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary.” Bp. Stillingfleet.


word: Contrary₃
definition:
Contrary

Con"tra*ry
v. t.
[F. contrarier. See Contrary, a.]
To contradict or oppose; to thwart.
[Obs.]

I was advised not to contrary the king.
Bp. Latimer.


word: Contrast
definition:
Contrast

Con*trast"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Contrasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Contrasting.]
[F. contraster, LL. contrastare to resist, withstand, fr. L. contra + stare to stand. See Stand.]
To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.

The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.
Lyell.


word: Contrast₂
definition:
Contrast

Con*trast"
v. t.
1.
To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.

2.
(Fine Arts)
To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.

the figures of the groups must not be all on side . . . but must contrast each other by their several position.
Dryden.


word: Contrast₃
definition:
Contrast

Con"trast
(k&obreve_;n"trȧst)
n.
[F. contraste: cf. It. contrasto.]
1.
The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.

place the prospect of the soul
In sober contrast with reality.
Wordsworth.

2.
Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.

The contrasts and resemblances of the seasons.
Whewell.

3.
(Fine Arts)
The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.
Fairholt.


word: Contrastimulant
definition:
Contrastimulant

Con`tra*stim"u*lant
(?)
a.
Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants.
n. (Med.) An agent which counteracts the effect of a stimulant.


word: Contrate
definition:
Contrate

Con"trate
(?)
a.
[See Contra-.]
Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.
[R.]

Contrate wheel. See Crown wheel.


word: Contravallation
definition:
Contravallation

Con`tra*val*la"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. contra- + vallation: cf. F. contrevallation. Cf. Countervallation.]
(Fort.)
A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.


word: Contravene
definition:
Contravene

Con`tra*vene"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contravened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Contravening.]
[LL. contravenire; L. contra + venire to come: cf. F. contrevenir. See Come.]
1.
To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.

So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened.
Southey.

2.
To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law.

Laws that place the subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority.
Johnson.


word: Contravention
definition:
Contravention

Con`tra*ven"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. contravention.]
The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.

Warrants in contravention of the acts of Parliament.
Macaulay.

In contravention of all his marriage stipulations.
Motley.


word: Contrayerva
definition:
Contrayerva

Con`tra*yer"va
(?)
n.
[Sp. contrayerba, literally, a counter herb, hence, an antidote for poison, fr. l. contra + herba herb.]
(Bot.)
A species of Dorstenia (Dorstenia Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.


word: Contrecoup
definition:
Contrecoup

Con`tre*coup"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. contre (L. contra) + coup a blow.]
(med.)
A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.


word: Contredanse
definition:
Contredanse

Con"tre*danse`
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. contredanse (fr. E. Country-dance). ]
1.
(a)
A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.
(b)
The quadrille.
[Obs.]

2.
(Music)
A piece of music in the rhythm of such a dance.


word: Contretemps
definition:
Contretemps

Con`tre*temps"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. contre (L. conta) + temps time, fr. L. tempus.]
An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch.

In this unhappy contretemps.
De Quincey.


word: Contributary
definition:
Contributary

Con*trib"u*ta*ry
(?)
a.
1.
Contributory.
[R.]

2.
Tributary; contributing.
[R.]

It was situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream.
D'Anville (Trans. ).


word: Contribute
definition:
Contribute

Con*trib"ute
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contributed; p. pr. & vb. n. Contributing.]
[L. contributus, p. p. of contribuere to bring together, to add; con- + tribuere to grant, impart. See Tribute.]
To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.

England contributes much more than any other of the allies.
Addison.


word: Contribute₂
definition:
Contribute

Con*trib"ute
v. i.
1.
To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect.

We are engaged in war; the secretary of state calls upon the colonies to contribute.
Burke.

2.
To give or use one's power or influence for any object; to assist.

These men also contributed to obstruct the progress of wisdom.
Goldsmith.


word: Contribution
definition:
Contribution

Con`tri*bu"tion
(?)
n.
[L. contributio: cf. F. contribution.]
1.
The act of contributing.

2.
That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals.

A certain contribution for the poor saints which are at jerusalem.
Rom. xv. 26.

Aristotle's actual contributions to the physical sciences.
Whewell.

3.
(Mil.)
An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.

These sums, . . . and the forced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together.
Motley.

4.
(Law)
Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit.


word: Contribution plan
definition:
Contribution plan

Con`tri*bu"tion plan
(Life Insurance)
A plan of distributing surplus by giving to each policy the excess of premiums and interest earned thereon over the expenses of management, cost of insurance, and the policy value at the date of computation. This excess is called the contribution of the policy.


word: Contributor
definition:
Contributor

Con*trib"u*tor
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, contributes;
specifically,
one who writes articles for a newspaper, magazine, or book.


word: Contributory
definition:
Contributory

Con*trib"u*to*ry
(?)
a.
Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.
Milton.

Bonfires of contributory wood.
Chapman.

Contributory negligence (Law), negligence by an injured party, which combines with the negligence of the injurer in producing the injury, and which bars recovery when it is the proximate cause of the injury. Wharton.


word: Contributory₂
definition:
Contributory

Con*trib"u*to*ry
n.
pl. Contributories (_;).
One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
Abbott.


word: Contrist
definition:
Contrist

Con*trist"
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. F. contrister. See Contristate.]
To make sad.
[Obs.]

To deject and contrist myself.
Sterne.


word: Contristate
definition:
Contristate

Con*tris"tate
(?)
v. t. & i.
[L. contristatus, p. p. of contristare to sadden; con- + tristis sad.]
To make sorrowful.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Contrite
definition:
Contrite

Con"trite
(?; 277)
a.
[L. contritus bruised, p. p. of contrere to grind, bruise; con- + terere to rub, grind: cf. F. contrit See Trite.]
1.
Thoroughly bruised or broken.
[Obs.]

2.
Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.

A contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Ps. li. 17.

Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite.
Milton.


word: Contrition
definition:
Contrition

Con*tri"tion
(?)
n.
[F. contrition, L. contritio.]
1.
The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.
[Obs.]

The breaking of their parts into less parts by contrition.
Sir I. Newton.

2.
The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to God; humble penitence; through repentance.

My future days shall be one whole contrition.
Dryden.


word: Contrivable
definition:
Contrivable

Con*triv"a*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.

A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable.
Bp. Wilkins.


word: Contrivance
definition:
Contrivance

Con*triv"ance
(?)
n.
1.
The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.

The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver.
Paley.

2.
The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; artifice; arrangement.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Burke.


word: Contrive
definition:
Contrive

Con*trive"
(k&obreve_;n*trīv")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contrived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Contriving.]
[OE. contriven, contreven, controven, to invent, OF. controver, contruver; con- + trouver to find. See Troubadour, trover.]
To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom.
Tillotson.

neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.
Hawthorne.


word: Contrive₂
definition:
Contrive

Con*trive"
v. i.
To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

The Fates with traitors do contrive.
Shak.

Thou hast contrived against th very life
Of the defendant.
Shak.


word: Contrivement
definition:
Contrivement

Con*trive"ment
(?)
n.
Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
[Obs.]

Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric.
Glanvill.

Active to meet their contrivements.
Sir G. Buck.


word: Control
definition:
Control

Con*trol"
(?)
n.
[F. contrôle a counter register, contr. fr. contr-rôle; contre (L. contra) + rôle roll, catalogue. See Counter and Roll, and cf. Counterroll.]
1.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
[Obs.]
Johnson.

2.
That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
control
Dryden.

3.
Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.

The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration.
Macaulay.

4.
(Mach.)
The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight;
specifically
(Aëronautics)
the mechanism controlling the rudders and ailerons.

5.
(Climatology)
Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, as latitude,distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

6.
(Technology)
in research, an object or subject used in an experimental procedure, which is treated identically to the primary subject of the experiment, except for the omission of the specific treatment or conditions whose effect is being investigated.  If the control is a group of living organisms, as is common in medical research, it is called the control group.
 For most experimental procedures, the results are not considered valid and reliable unless a proper control experiment is performed.  There are various types of control used in experimental science, and often several groups of subjects serve as controls, being subjected to different variations of the experimental procedure, or controlling for several variables being tested.  When the effects caused by an experimental treatment are not consistent and obvious, statistical analysis of the results is typically used to determine if there are any significant differences between the effects of different experimental conditions.

7.
(Technology)
the part of an experimental procedure in which the controls{6} are subjected to the experimental conditions.

8.
the group of technical specialists exercising control by remote communications over a distant operation, such as a space flight; as, the American Mission Control for manned flights is located in Houston.

Board of control. See under Board.


word: Control₂
definition:
Control

Con*trol"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Controlled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Controlling.]
[F. contrôler, fr. contrôle.]
[Formerly written comptrol and controul.]
1.
To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
[Obs.]

This report was controlled to be false.
Fuller.

2.
To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
But not a scepter to control the world.
Shak.

I feel my virtue struggling in my soul:
But stronger passion does its power control.
Dryden.
3.
to assure the validity of an experimental procedure by using a control{7}.


word: Controllable
definition:
Controllable

Con*trol"la*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.

Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason.
South.


word: Controller
definition:
Controller

Con*trol"ler
(?)
n.
[From control, v. t.: cf. F. contrôleur.]
1.
One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.

The great controller of our fate
Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
Dryden.

2.
An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.
[More commonly written controller.]

3.
(Naut.)
An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.

4.
(Elec.)
Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system;
specif.
(a)
An electromagnet, excited by the main current, for throwing a regulator magnet into or out of circuit in an automatic device for constant current regulation.
(b)
A kind of multiple switch for gradually admitting the current to, or shutting it off from, an electric motor; as, a car controller for an electric railway car.

5.
(Mach.)
A lever controlling the speed of an engine; -- applied esp. to the lever governing a throttle valve, as of a steam or gasoline engine, esp. on an automobile.


word: Controlment
definition:
Controlment

Con*trol"ment
(?)
n.
1.
The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.

You may do it without controlment.
Shak.

2.
Opposition; resistance; hostility.
[Obs.]

Here have we war for war, and blood for blood,
Controlment for controlment.
Shak.


word: Control theory
definition:
Control theory

Con*trol" the`o*ry
(?)
n.
(Math., Engineering)
That branch of Mathematics and Engineering which deals with the design, identification and analysis of systems with a view towards controlling them, i. e., to make them perform specific tasks or make them behave in a desired way.


word: Controversal
definition:
Controversal

Con`tro*ver"sal
(?)
a.
1.
Turning or looking opposite ways.
[Obs.]

The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces.
Milton.

2.
Controversial.
[Obs.]
Boyle.


word: Controverse₂
definition:
Controverse

Con"tro*verse
v. t.
[L. controversari, fr. controversus turned against, disputed.]
To dispute; to controvert.
[Obs.]
Controversed
Hooker.


word: Controversial
definition:
Controversial

Con`tro*ver"sial
(?)
a.
[Cf. LL. controversialis.]
Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.
Whole libraries of controversial books.
Macaulay.


word: Controversialist
definition:
Controversialist

Con`tro*ver"sial*ist
n.
One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.

He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made.
Macaulay.


word: Controversy
definition:
Controversy

Con"tro*ver`sy
(?)
n.
pl. Controversies (#)
[L. controversia, fr. controversus turned against, disputed; contro- = contra + versus, p. p. of vertere to turn. See Verse.]
1.
Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.

This left no room for controversy about the title.
Locke.

A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing.
Johnson.

2.
Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference.

The Lord hath a controversy with the nations.
Jer. xxv. 31.

3.
A suit in law or equity; a question of right.
[Obs.]

When any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment.
2 Sam. xv. 2.


word: Controvert
definition:
Controvert

Con"tro*vert
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Controverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Controverting.]
[See Controversy.]
To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.

Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists.
Macaulay.


word: Controverter
definition:
Controverter

Con"tro*ver`ter
(?)
n.
One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern.
B. Jonson.


word: Controvertible
definition:
Controvertible

Con`tro*ver"ti*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question.
Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.


word: Controvertist
definition:
Controvertist

Con"tro*ver`tist
(?)
n.
One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist.

How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic!
Campbell.


word: Contubernial
definition:
Contubernial

Contubernal

{ Con*tu"ber*nal (k&obreve_;n*tū"bẽr*nal), Con`tu*ber"ni*al (k&obreve_;n`t&uuptack_;*bẽr"nĭ*al) }
a.
[L. contubernalis a tent companion, fr. contubernium tent companionship.]
Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship.

Humble folk ben Christes friends: they ben contubernial with the Lord, thy King.
Chaucer.


word: Contumacious
definition:
Contumacious

Con`tu*ma"cious
(k&obreve_;n`t&uuptack_;*mā"shŭs)
a.
[L. contumax, -acis. See Contumacy.]
1.
Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient.

There is another very, efficacious method for subduing the most obstinate, contumacious sinner.
Hammond.

2.
(Law)
Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.
Blackstone.


word: Contumacy
definition:
Contumacy

Con"tu*ma*cy
(k&obreve_;n"t&uuptack_;*mȧ*s&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Contumacies (k&obreve_;n"t&uuptack_;*mȧ*sĭz)
[L. contumacia, fr. contumax, -acis, insolent; prob. akin to contemnere to despise: cf. F. contumace. Cf. Contemn.]
1.
Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.

The bishop commanded him . . . to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy.
Strype.

2.
(Law)
A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.


word: Contumelious
definition:
Contumelious

Con`tu*me"li*ous
(?or ?; 106)
a.
[L. contumeliosus.]
1.
Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.
Shak.

Curving a contumelious lip.
Tennyson.

2.
Shameful; disgraceful.
[Obs.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Contumely
definition:
Contumely

Con"tu*me*ly
(?)
n.
[L. contumelia, prob. akin to contemnere to despise: cf. OF. contumelie. Cf. Contumacy.]
Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.

The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely.
Shak.

Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely.
Burke.


word: Contuse
definition:
Contuse

Con*tuse"
(k&obreve_;n*tūz")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contused (k&obreve_;n*tūzd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Contusing.]
[L. contusus, p. p. of contundere to beat, crush; con- + tundere to beat, akin to Skr. tud (for stud) to strike, Goth. stautan. See Stutter.]
1.
To beat, pound, or bray together.

Roots, barks, and seeds contused together.
Bacon.

2.
To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.

Contused wound, a wound attended with bruising.


word: contusioned
definition:
contusioned

contused

contused contusioned
adj.
injured without breaking the skin; as, a cut arm and contused cheek.

Syn. -- bruised.


word: Contusion
definition:
Contusion

Con*tu"sion
(k&obreve_;n*tū"zhŭn)
n.
[L. contusio: cf. F. contusion.]
1.
The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.

2.
(Med.)
A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.


word: Conundrum
definition:
Conundrum

Co*nun"drum
(?)
n.
[Origin unknown.]
1.
A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.

Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint.
J. Philips.

2.
A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.

Do you think life is long enough to let me speculate on conundrums like that?
W. Black.


word: Conure
definition:
Conure

Co*nure"
(ko̝*nūr")
n.
[NL. conurus, fr. Gr. kw^nos a cone + o'yra` tail.  The name alludes to the tapering tail.]
(Zool.)
An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus.  Many species are known.  See Parrakeet.


word: Conus
definition:
Conus

Co"nus
(k&omacr"nŭs)
n.
[L., a cone.]
1.
A cone.

2.
(Zool.)
A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4.


word: Convalesce
definition:
Convalesce

Con`va*lesce"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Convalesced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Convalescing.]
[L. convalscere; con- + valescere to grow strong, v. incho. of valere to be strong. See Valiant.]
To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.


word: Convalesced
definition:
Convalesced

Con`va*lesced"
(?)
a.
Convalescent.
[R.]

He found the queen somewhat convalesced.
J. Knox.


word: Convalescency
definition:
Convalescency

Convalescence

{ Con`va*les"cence (?), Con`va*les"cen*cy (?) }
n.
[L. convalescentia: cf. F. convalescence.]
The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.


word: Convalescent
definition:
Convalescent

Con`va*les"cent
(?)
a.
[L. convalescens, -entis, p. pr.: cf. F. convalescent.]
1.
Recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength.

2.
Of or pertaining to convalescence.


word: Convalescently
definition:
Convalescently

Con`va*les"cent*ly
adv.
In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.


word: Convallariaceae
definition:
Convallariaceae

Convallariaceae
prop. n.
One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted.

Syn. -- family Convallariaceae.


word: Convallamarin
definition:
Convallamarin

Con*val`la*ma"rin
(k&obreve_;n*văl`lȧ*mā"rĭn)
n.
[Convallaria + L. amarus bitter.]
(Chem.)
A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet.


word: Convallaria
definition:
Convallaria

Con`val*la"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL., from L. convallis a valley; con- + vallis valley.]
(Bot. & Med.)
The lily of the valley.


word: Convallarin
definition:
Convallarin

Con`val*la"rin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.


word: Convection
definition:
Convection

Con*vec"tion
(?)
n.
[L. convectio, fr. convehere to bring together; con- + vehere to carry.]
1.
The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

2.
(Physics)
A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes.

Liquids are generally heated by convection -- when heat is applied from below.
Nichol.


word: Convective
definition:
Convective

Con*vec"tive
(?)
a.
Caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity.
Faraday.


word: Convellent
definition:
Convellent

Con*vel"lent
(?)
a.
[L. convellens, p. pr. of convellere. See Convulse.]
Tending to tear or pull up.
[Obs.]

The ends of the fragment . . . will not yield to the convellent force.
Todd & Bowman.


word: Convenable₂
definition:
Convenable

Con"ve*na*ble
(?)
a.
[F. convenable, fr. convenir. See Convene.]
Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies.
[Obs.]

With his wod his work is convenable.
Spenser.


word: Convenance
definition:
Convenance

Con"ve*nance
(?)
n.
[F., fitness, suitableness.]
That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient.

And they missed
Their wonted convenance, cheerly hid the loss.
Emerson.


word: Convene
definition:
Convene

Con*vene"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Convened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Convenong.]
[L. convenire; con- + venire to come: cf. F. convenir to agree, to be fitting, OF. also, to assemble. See Come, and cf. Covenant.]
1.
To come together; to meet; to unite.
[R.]

In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.
Sir I. Newton.

2.
To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
Locke.

The Parliament of Scotland now convened.
Sir R. Baker.

Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.
Thomson.


word: Convene₂
definition:
Convene

Con*vene"
v. t.
1.
To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.

And now the almighty father of the gods
Convenes a council in the blest abodes.
Pope.

2.
To summon judicially to meet or appear.

By the papal canon law, clerks . . . can not be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge.
Ayliffe.


word: Convener
definition:
Convener

Con*ven"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who convenes or meets with others.
[Obs.]

2.
One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.
[Scot.]


word: Conveniency
definition:
Conveniency

Convenience

{ Con*ven"ience (?; 106), Con*ven"ien*cy (?) }
n.
[L. convenientia agreement, fitness. See Convenient.]
1.
The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.

Let's further think of this;
Weigh what convenience both of time and means
May fit us to our shape.
Shak.

With all brief and plain conveniency,
Let me have judgment.
Shak.

2.
Freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation.

Thus necessity invented stools,
Convenience next suggested elbow chairs.
Cowper.

We are rather intent upon the end of God's glory than our own conveniency.
Jer. Taylor.

3.
That which is convenient; that which promotes comfort or advantage; that which is suited to one's wants; an accommodation.

A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences.
Swift.

4.
A convenient or fit time; opportunity; as, to do something at one's convenience.


word: conveniences
definition:
conveniences

conveniences
n.
things that make one comfortable and at ease.

Syn. -- comforts, creature comforts, amenities.


word: Convenient
definition:
Convenient

Con*ven"ient
(?; 277)
a.
[L. conveniens, -entis, suitable, p. pr. of convenire to be suitable, to come. See Convene, v. i.]
1.
Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.
[Archaic]

Feed me with food convenient for me.
Prov. xxx. 8.

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.
Eph. v. 4.

2.
Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.

3.
Seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion; a convenient season.
Acts xxiv. 25.

4.
Near at hand; easy of access.
[Colloq.]

Hereties used to be brought thither, convenient for burning.
Thackeray.


word: Convent
definition:
Convent

Con"vent
(?)
n.
[L. conventus a meeting, LL. also, a convent. See Convene, v. i.]
1.
A coming together; a meeting.
[Obs.]

A usual ceremony at their [the witches] convents or meetings.
B. Jonson.

2.
An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.

One of our convent, and his [the duke's] confessor.
Shak.

3.
A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.

One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent.
Addison.


word: Convent₂
definition:
Convent

Con*vent"
(?)
v. i.
[L. conventus, p. p. of convenire. See Convene, v. i.]
1.
To meet together; to concur.
[obs.]
Beau. & Fl.

2.
To be convenient; to serve.
[Obs.]

When that is known and golden time convents.
Shak.


word: Convent₃
definition:
Convent

Con*vent"
(?)
v. t.
To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Conventical
definition:
Conventical

Con*vent"ic*al
(?)
a.
Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent.
Conventical
Sterne.

Conventical prior. See Prior.


word: Conventicle
definition:
Conventicle

Con*ven"ti*cle
(?)
n.
[L. conventiculum, dim. of conventus: cf. F. conventicule. See Convent, n.]
1.
A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.

They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever.
Ayliffe.

2.
An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics.

The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecution.
Hammond.

A sort of men who . . . attend its [the curch of England's] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon.
Swift.


word: Conventicling
definition:
Conventicling

Con*ven"ti*cling
(?)
a.
Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.
[Obs.]

Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics.
South.


word: Convention
definition:
Convention

Con*ven"tion
(?)
n.
[L. conventio: cf. F. convention. See Convene, v. i.]
1.
The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

The conventions or associations of several particles of matter into bodies of any certain denomination.
Boyle.

2.
General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.

There are thousands now
Such women, but convention beats them down.
Tennyson.

3.
A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.

He set himself to the making of good laws in a grand convention of his nobles.
Sir R. Baker.

A convention of delegates from all the States, to meet in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of reserving the federal system, and correcting its defects.
W. Irving.

4.
(Eng. Hist)
An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.

Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange.
Macaulay.

5.
An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.

This convention, I think from my soul, is nothing but a stipulation for national ignominy; a truce without a suspension of hostilities.
Ld. Chatham.

The convention with the State of Georgia has been ratified by their Legislature.
T. Jefferson.


word: Conventional
definition:
Conventional

Con*ven"tion*al
(?)
a.
[L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel.]
1.
Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service.
Sir M. Hale.

2.
Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
Conventional
Whewell.

The conventional language appropriated to monarchs.
Motley.

The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional.
Latham.

3.
(Fine Arts)
(a)
Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
(b)
Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell.  Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.


word: Conventionalism
definition:
Conventionalism

Con*ven"tion*al*ism
(?)
n.
1.
That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.

All the artifice and conventionalism of life.
Hawthorne.

They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standard.
F. W. Robertson.

2.
(Fine Arts)
The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t.


word: Conventionalist
definition:
Conventionalist

Con*ven"tion*al*ist
n.
1.
One who adheres to a convention or treaty.

2.
One who is governed by conventionalism.


word: Conventionality
definition:
Conventionality

Con*ven`tion*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Conventionalities (_;).
The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.


word: Conventionalization
definition:
Conventionalization

Con*ven`tion*al*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
(Fine Arts)
(a)
The act of making conventional.
(b)
The state of being conventional.


word: Conventionalize
definition:
Conventionalize

Con*ven"tion*al*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Conventionalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Conventionalizing.]
1.
To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage.
[Also spelled conventionalise.]

2.
(Fine Arts)
(a)
To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.
(b)
To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.


word: Conventionalize₂
definition:
Conventionalize

Con*ven"tion*al*ize
(?)
v. i.
(Fine Arts)
To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.


word: Conventionary
definition:
Conventionary

Con*ven"tion*a*ry
(?)
a.
Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants.
[Obs.]
R. Carew.


word: Conventual
definition:
Conventual

Con*ven"tu*al
(?; 135)
a.
[LL. conventualis: cf. F. conventuel.]
Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.
conventual
Macaulay.

Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.


word: Converge
definition:
Converge

Con*verge"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Converged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Converging (?).]
[Pref. con- + L. vergere to turn, incline; cf. F. converger. See Verge, v. i.]
To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

The mountains converge into a single ridge.
Jefferson.


word: Converge₂
definition:
Converge

Con*verge"
v. t.
To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.

I converge its rays to a focus of dazzling brilliancy.
Tyndall.


word: Convergency
definition:
Convergency

Convergence

{ Con*ver"gence (?), Con*ver"gen*cy (?) }
n.
[Cf. F. convergence.]
1.
The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point; the occurrence of two or more things coming together.

2.
(Math.)
the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit.

Syn. -- convergency.

3.
a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.

Syn. -- overlap, intersection.

4.
the act of converging (coming closer).

Syn. -- converging, convergency.

5.
(Biol.)
a similarity of form or function in two or more organisms caused by evolutionary adaptations to a similarity in the environment, rather than to a common heredity.

The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil.
Berkeley.


word: Convergent
definition:
Convergent

Con*ver"gent
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. convergent.]
tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.

As many rays of light, as conveniently can be let in, and made convergent.
Boyle.

The vast dome of its cathedral . . . directing its convergent curves to heaven.
Hallam.


word: Converging
definition:
Converging

Con*ver"ging
(?)
a.
Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines.
Whewell.

Converging rays(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. -- Converging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum will become indefinitely near in value to a fixed quantity, which is called the sum of the series; -- opposed to a diverging series.


word: Conversable
definition:
Conversable

Con*vers"a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. conversable.]
Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse.

While young, humane, conversable, and kind.
Cowper.


word: Conversableness
definition:
Conversableness

Con*vers"a*ble*ness
n.
The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.


word: Conversance
definition:
Conversance

Con"ver*sance
(?)
n.
The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy.
[R.]


word: Conversant
definition:
Conversant

Con"ver*sant
(?)
a.
[L. conversans, p. pr. of conversari: cf. F. conversant.]
1.
Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.

I have been conversant with the first persons of the age.
Dryden.

2.
Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in.

Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy.
Dryden.

he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all.
Pope.

Conversant only with the ways of men.
Cowper.

3.
Concerned; occupied.

Education . . . is conversant about children.
W. Wotton.


word: Conversation
definition:
Conversation

Con`ver*sa"tion
(?)
n.
[OE. conversacio (in senses 1 & 2), OF. conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a place, intercourse, LL. also, manner of life.]
1.
General course of conduct; behavior.
[Archaic]

Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel.
Philip. i. 27.

2.
Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance.
Conversation
Dryden.

I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business.
Bacon.

3.
Commerce; intercourse; traffic.
[Obs.]

All traffic and mutual conversation.
Hakluyt.

4.
Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.

The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel.
Macaulay.

5.
Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.


word: Conversational
definition:
Conversational

Con`ver*sa"tion*al
(k&obreve_;n`vẽr*sā"shŭn*al)
a.
Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.
Thackeray.


word: Conversationed
definition:
Conversationed

Conver*sa"tioned
(-shŭnd)
a.
Aaquaintea with m`nners aod deportment; behaved.
[Obs.]

Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep
As far from her as the gallows.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Conversationism
definition:
Conversationism

Con`ver*sa"tion*ism
(-ĭz'm)
n.
A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism.


word: Conversationist
definition:
Conversationist

Con`ver*sa"tion*ist
n.
One who converses much, or who excels in conversation.
Byron.


word: Conversative
definition:
Conversative

Con*ver"sa*tive
(k&obreve_;n*vẽr"sȧ*tĭv)
a.
Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative.

She chose . . . to endue him with the conversative qualities of youth.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Conversazione
definition:
Conversazione

Con`ver*sa`zi*o"ne
(? or ?)
n.
pl. Conversazioni (#)
[It. See Conversation.]
A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects.
Gray.

These conversazioni [at Florence] resemble our card assemblies.
A. Drummond.


word: Converse
definition:
Converse

Con*verse"
(k&obreve_;n*vẽrs")
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Conversed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Conversing.]
[F. converser, L. conversari to associate with; con- + versari to be turned, to live, remain, fr. versare to turn often, v. intens. of vertere to turn See Convert.]
1.
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

To seek the distant hills, and there converse
With nature.
Thomson.

Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
Sir W. Scott.

But to converse with heaven -
This is not easy.
Wordsworth.

2.
To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing.

Companions
That do converse and waste the time together.
Shak.

We had conversed so often on that subject.
Dryden.

3.
To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.

According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety.
Locke.


word: Converse₂
definition:
Converse

Con"verse
(?)
n.
1.
Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.
Glanvill.

'T is but to hold
Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.
Byron.

2.
Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

Formed by thy converse happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
Pope.


word: Converse₃
definition:
Converse

Con"verse
a.
[L. conversus, p. p. of convertere. See Convert.]
Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.


word: Converse₄
definition:
Converse

Con"verse
n.
1.
(Logic)
A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.

&hand_; It should not (as is often done) be confounded with the contrary or opposite of a proposition, which is formed by introducing the negative not or no.

2.
(Math.)
A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.


word: Conversely
definition:
Conversely

Con"verse*ly
(? or _;; 277)
adv.
In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.
J. S. Mill.


word: Conversion
definition:
Conversion

Con*ver"sion
(?)
n.
[L. conversio: cf. F. conversion. See Convert.]
1.
The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

Artificial conversion of water into ice.
Bacon.

The conversion of the aliment into fat.
Arbuthnot.

2.
The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.
Conversion
Prescott.

3.
(Law)
An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.

Or bring my action of conversion
And trover for my goods.
Hudibras.

4.
(Logic)
The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.

5.
(Math.)
A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.

6.
(Mil.)
(a)
A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
(b)
A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.

7.
(Theol.)
A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.

He oft
Frequented their assemblies, . . . and to them preached
Conversion and repentance, as to souls
In prison under judgments imminent.
Milton.


word: Conversive
definition:
Conversive

Con*ver"sive
(?)
a.
1.
Capable of being converted or changed.

2.
Ready to converse; social.
[Archaic]
Feltham.


word: Convert
definition:
Convert

Con*vert"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Converted; p. pr. & vb. n. Converting.]
[L. convertere, -versum; con- + vertere to turn: cf. F. convertir. See Verse.]
1.
To cause to turn; to turn.
[Obs.]

O, which way shall I first convert myself?
B. Jonson.

2.
To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.

If the whole atmosphere were converted into water.
T. Burnet.

That still lessens
The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy.
Milton.

3.
To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.

No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.
Prescott.

4.
To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.

He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death.
Lames v. 20.

5.
To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.

When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [it was] held no larceny.
Cooley.

6.
To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

7.
(Logic)
To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

8.
To turn into another language; to translate.
[Obs.]

Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted.
B. Jonson.

Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes. Farrow. -- Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.


word: Convert₂
definition:
Convert

Con*vert"
v. i.
To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [the Neboites] would have converted.
Latimer.

A red dust which converth into worms.
Sandys.

The public hope
And eye to thee converting.
Thomson.


word: Convert₃
definition:
Convert

Con"vert
(?)
n.
1.
A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images.
Bp. Stillingfleet.

2.
A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.


word: converted
definition:
converted

converted
adj.
spiritually reborn or converted; as, a converted sinner.

Syn. -- born-again, reborn.


word: Convertend
definition:
Convertend

Con`ver*tend"
(?)
n.
[L. convertenus to be converted.]
(Logic)
Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic).


word: Converter
definition:
Converter

Con*vert"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who converts; one who makes converts.

2.
(Steel Manuf.)
A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.


word: Convertibility
definition:
Convertibility

Con*vert`i*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness.

The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land.
Burke.


word: Convertible
definition:
Convertible

Con*vert"i*ble
(?)
a.
[L. convertibilis: cf. F. convertible.]
1.
Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.

Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus.
Harvey.

2.
Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.

So long as we are in the regions of nature, miraculous and improbable, miraculous and incredible, may be allowed to remain convertible terms.
Trench.


word: Convertite
definition:
Convertite

Con"vert*ite
(?)
n.
[Cf. It. convertito, p. p. of convertire to convert.]
A convert.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: convertor
definition:
convertor

convertor
n.
a device for changing one substance or form or state into another.

Syn. -- converter.


word: Convex
definition:
Convex

Con"vex
(?)
a.
[L. convexus vaulted, arched, convex, concave, fr. convehere to bring together: cf. F. convexe. See Vehicle.]
Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.

Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface.
Whewell.

Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-convex.


word: Convex₂
definition:
Convex

Con"vex
n.
A convex body or surface.

Half heaven's convex glitters with the flame.
Tickell.

&hand_; This word was often pronounced con-vex' by early writers, as by Milton, and occasionally by later poets.


word: Convexity
definition:
Convexity

Con*vex"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Convexities (#)
[L. convexitas: cf. F. convexité.]
The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe.
Bentley.


word: Convexo-concave
definition:
Convexo-concave

Con*vex"o-con"cave
(?or ?)
a.
Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus.


word: Convey
definition:
Convey

Con*vey"
(k&obreve_;n*vā")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Conveyed (k&obreve_;n*vād"); p. pr. & vb. n. Conveying.]
[OF. conveir, convoier, to escort, convoy, F. convoyer, LL. conviare, fr. L. con- + via way. See Viaduct, Voyage, and cf. Convoy.]
1.
To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

I will convey them by sea in floats.
1 Kings v. 9.

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.
Shak.

2.
To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.

3.
To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.

The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.
Spenser.

4.
To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.

Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.
Locke.

5.
To manage with privacy; to carry out.
[Obs.]

I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means.
Shak.

6.
To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
[Obs.]

7.
To accompany; to convoy.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Convey₂
definition:
Convey

Con*vey"
v. i.
To play the thief; to steal.
[Cant]

But as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius.
Marston.


word: Conveyable
definition:
Conveyable

Con*vey"a*ble
(k&obreve_;n*vā"ȧ*b'l)
a.
Capable of being conveyed or transferred.
Burke.


word: Conveyance
definition:
Conveyance

Con*vey"ance
(k&obreve_;n*vā"ans)
n.
1.
The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.

The long journey was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyance.
Prescott.

Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text.
Sir W. Raleigh.

2.
The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water.

These pipes and these conveyances of our blood.
Shak.

3.
The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.

Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance.
Stillingfleet.

4.
(Law)
The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another.

[He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl.
Clarendon.

5.
Dishonest management, or artifice.
[Obs.]

the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off.
Hakewill.


word: Conveyancer
definition:
Conveyancer

Con*vey"an*cer
(k&obreve_;n*vā"an*sẽr)
n.
(Law)
One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc.
Burrill.


word: Conveyancing
definition:
Conveyancing

Con*vey"an*cing
(k&obreve_;n*vā"an*sĭng)
n.
(Law)
The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.


word: Conveyer
definition:
Conveyer

Con*vey"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.

2.
One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: conveying
definition:
conveying

conveying
n.
the act of transferring a property title from one person to another.

Syn. -- conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing.


word: Conveyor
definition:
Conveyor

Con*vey"or
(?)
n.
(Mach.)
A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.


word: Conviciate
definition:
Conviciate

Con*vi"ci*ate
v. i.
[L. conviciatus, p. p. of conviciari to revile, fr. convicium loud reproach.]
To utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail.
[Obs.]

To conviciate instead of accusing.
Laud.


word: Convicinity
definition:
Convicinity

Con`vi*cin"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Convicinities (_;).
Immediate vicinity; neighborhood.

The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes.
T. Warton.


word: Convicious
definition:
Convicious

Con*vi"cious
(?)
a.
Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting.
[Obs.]
Convicious
Queen Elizabeth (1559).


word: Convict
definition:
Convict

Con*vict"
(k&obreve_;n*vĭkt")
p. a.
[L. convictus, p. p. of convincere to convict, prove. See Convice.]
Proved or found guilty; convicted.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.
Milton.


word: Convict₂
definition:
Convict

Con"vict
(k&obreve_;n"vĭkt)
n.
1.
A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

2.
A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.


word: Convict₃
definition:
Convict

Con*vict"
(k&obreve_;n*vĭkt")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Convicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Convicting.]
1.
To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury.
Macaulay.

They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one.
John viii. 9.

2.
To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.

3.
To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.

Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find.
Hooker.

4.
To defeat; to doom to destruction.
[Obs.]

A whole armado of convicted sail.
Shak.


word: convictfish
definition:
convictfish

convictfish
n.
a type of greenling (Oxylebius pictus) with a whitish body marked with black bands.

Syn. -- painted greenling, Oxylebius pictus.


word: Conviction
definition:
Conviction

Con*vic"tion
(k&obreve_;n*vĭk"shŭn)
n.
[L. convictio proof: cf. F. conviction conviction (in sense 3 & 4). See Convict, Convince.]
1.
The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.

The greater certainty of conviction and the greater certainty of punishment.
Hallam.

2.
(Law)
A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.

Conviction may accrue two ways.
Blackstone.

3.
The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.

For all his tedious talk is but vain boast,
Or subtle shifts conviction to evade.
Milton.

4.
The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.

To call good evil, and evil good, against the conviction of their own consciences.
Swift.

And did you presently fall under the power of this conviction?
Bunyan.


word: Convictism
definition:
Convictism

Con"vict*ism
(?)
n.
The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
convictism
W. Howitt.


word: Convince
definition:
Convince

Con*vince"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Convinced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Convincing.]
[L. convincere, -victum, to refute, prove; con- + vincere to conquer. See Victor, and cf. Convict.]
1.
To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master.
[Obs.]

His two chamberlains
Will I with wine and wassail so convince
That memory, the warder of the brain,
Shall be a fume.
Shak.

2.
To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof.

Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
Atterbury.

3.
To confute; to prove the fallacy of.
[Obs.]

God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Bacon.

4.
To prove guilty; to convict.
[Obs.]

Which of you convinceth me of sin?
John viii. 46.

Seek not to convince me of a crime
Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.
Dryden.


word: Convincement
definition:
Convincement

Con*vince"ment
(?)
n.
Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction.
[R.]

The fear of a convincement.
Milton.


word: Convincible
definition:
Convincible

Con*vin"ci*ble
(?)
a.
1.
Capable of being convinced or won over.

2.
Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: convincing
definition:
convincing

convincing
adj.
causing one to believe the truth of something; having the power to influence or convince; cogent; -- of evidence or testimony; as, a convincing manner.  Opposite of unconvincing.
[Narrower terms: disenchanting, disillusioning]
[Also See: persuasive.]

Syn. -- cogent, potent.


word: Convival
definition:
Convival

Con*viv"al
(?)
a.
[L. convivalis. See Convive.]
pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial.
[Obs.]
convival
Sir T. Browne.


word: Convive
definition:
Convive

Con*vive"
(?)
v. i.
[L. convivari; akin to convivium a feast, convivere to live or feast together; con- + vivere to live.]
To feast together; to be convivial.
[Obs.]
convive
Shak.


word: Convivial
definition:
Convivial

Con*viv"i*al
(?; 277)
a.
[From L. convivium a feast; con- + vivere to live. See Victuals, and cf. Convive.]
Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial.

Which feasts convivial meetings we did name.
Denham.


word: Conviviality
definition:
Conviviality

Con*viv`i*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Convivialities (_;).
The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.


word: Convocate
definition:
Convocate

Con"vo*cate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Convocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Convocating.]
[L. convocatus, p. p. of convocare to convocate; con- + vocare to call. See Vocal, and cf. Convoce.]
To convoke; to call together.
[Obs.]
May (Lucan).


word: Convocation
definition:
Convocation

Con`vo*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. convocatio: cf. F. convocation. See Convoke.]
1.
The act of calling or assembling by summons.

2.
An assembly or meeting.

In the first day there shall be a holy convocation.
Ex. xii. 16.

3.
(Ch. of Eng.)
An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.

&hand_; In England, the provinces of Canterbury and York have each their convocation, but no session for business were allowed from 1717 to 1861. The Convocation of Canterbury consists of two houses. In the Convocation of York the business has been generally conducted in one assembly.

4.
(Oxf. University)
An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.


word: Convoke
definition:
Convoke

Con*voke"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Convoked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Convoking.]
[L. convocare: cf. F. convoquer. See Convocate.]
To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons.

There remained no resource but the dreadful one of convoking a parliament.
palfrey.


word: Convolute
definition:
Convolute

Con"vo*lute
(?)
a.
[L. convolutus, p. p. of convolvere. See Convolve.]
(Bot.)
Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in æstivation.


word: Convoluted
definition:
Convoluted

Con"vo*lu`ted
(?)
a.
1.
Having convolutions.

beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn.
Pennant.

2.
Folded in tortuous windings.

A highly convoluted brain.
North Amer. Rev.


word: Convolution
definition:
Convolution

Con`vo*lu"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion.

O'er the calm sea, in convolution swift,
The feathered eddy floats.
Thomson.

2.
The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself.
Blackmore.

3.
(Anat.)
An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See Brain.


word: Convolve
definition:
Convolve

Con*volve"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Convolved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Convolving.]
[L. convolvere, -volutum; con- + volvere to roll. See Voluble.]
To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.

Then Satan first knew pain,
And writhed him to and fro convolved.
Milton.


word: Convolvulaceous
definition:
Convolvulaceous

Con*vol`vu*la"ceous
(?)
a.
[From Convolvus.]
(Bot.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.


word: Convolvulin
definition:
Convolvulin

Con*vol"vu*lin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.


word: Convolvulus
definition:
Convolvulus

Con*vol"vu*lus
(k&obreve_;n*v&obreve_;l"v&uuptack_;*lŭs)
n.
pl. L.Convolvuli (#), E. Convoluluses (#).
[L., bindweed, fr. convolvere to roll around. So named from its twining stems.]
(Bot.)
A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomæa.

The luster of the long convolvuluses
That coiled around the stately stems.
Tennyson.


word: Convoy
definition:
Convoy

Con*voy"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Convoyed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Convoying.]
[F. convoyer, OF. conveier, convoier. See Convey.]
To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.

I know ye skillful to convoy
The total freight of hope and joy.
Emerson.


word: Convoy₂
definition:
Convoy

Con"voy
(?)
n.
[F. convoi.]
1.
The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.

To obtain the convoy of a man-of-war.
Macaulay.

2.
A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.

3.
A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.

When every morn my bosom glowed
To watch the convoy on the road.
Emerson.

4.
Conveyance; means of transportation.
[Obs.]
Shak.

5.
A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.
Knight.


word: Convoy pennant
definition:
Convoy pennant

Con"voy pen"nant
A white pennant with red border, carried: (a) Forward on all vessels on convoy duty. (b) Alone by a senior officer present during evolutions or drills, when it commands “Silence.”  (c) Over a signal number, when it refers to the signal number of an officer in the Annual Navy Register.


word: Convulse
definition:
Convulse

Con*vulse"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Convulsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Convulsing.]
[L. convulsus, p. p. of convellere to tear up, to shake; con- + vellere to pluck, pull.]
1.
To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain.

With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame.
Macaulay.

2.
To agitate greatly; to shake violently.

The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations.
Macaulay.


word: Convulsion
definition:
Convulsion

Con*vul"sion
(?)
n.
[L. convulsio: cf. F. convulsion.]
1.
(Med.)
An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.

2.
Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion.

Those two massy pillars,
With horrible convulsion, to and fro
He tugged, he shook, till down they came.
Milton.

Times of violence and convulsion.
Ames.


word: Convulsional
definition:
Convulsional

Con*vul"sion*al
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary.
[R.]
Lamb.


word: Convulsionary
definition:
Convulsionary

Con*vul"sion*a*ry
(_;)
a.
[Cf. F. convulsionnaire.]
Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive.
Convulsionary
Sir W. Scott.


word: Convulsionist
definition:
Convulsionist

Con*vul"sion*ist
n.
One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Médard.


word: Convulsive
definition:
Convulsive

Con*vul"sive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. convulsif.]
Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
Burke.


word: Cony
definition:
Cony

Co"ny
(? or ?; 277)
n.
[OE. coning, conig, coni, OF. connin, conin, connil, fr. L. cuniculus a rabbit, cony, prob. an Hispanic word.]
[Written also coney.]
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus)
(b)
The chief hare.

&hand_; The cony of Scripture is thought to be Hyrax Syriacus, called also daman, and cherogril. See Daman.

2.
A simpleton.
[Obs.]

It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony and cony catcher.
Diet's Dry Dinner (1599).

3.
(Zool.)
(a)
An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.
(b)
A local name of the burbot.
[Eng.]


word: Cony-catch
definition:
Cony-catch

Co"ny-catch
(?)
v. t.
To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
[Obs.]

Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business.
Shak.


word: Conylene
definition:
Conylene

Con"y*lene
(?)
n.
[Conine + acetylene.]
An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.


word: Conyrine
definition:
Conyrine

Con"y*rine
(?)
n.
[From Conine.]
(Chem.)
A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.


word: Coo
definition:
Coo

Coo
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Cooed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cooing.]
1.
To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.

The stockdove only through the forest cooes,
Mournfully hoarse.
Thomson.

2.
To show affection; to act in a loving way. See under Bill, v. i.
cooing
Byron.


word: Cooee
definition:
Cooee

Cooey

{ Coo"ey, Coo"ee (?) }
n.
[Of imitative origin.]
A peculiar cry uttered by the Australian aborigines as a call to attract attention, and also in common use among the Australian colonists. In the actual call the first syllable is much prolonged (kō"-) and the second ends in a shrill, staccato ē. To represent the sound itself the spelling cooee is generally used.
[Written also cooie.]
Within cooey, within earshot.


word: Cooee₂
definition:
Cooee

Cooey

{ Coo"ey, Coo"ee  }
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Cooeyed or Cooeed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Cooeying or Cooeeing.]
To call out cooee.
[Australia]
I cooeyed and beckoned them to approach.
E. Giles.


word: cooing
definition:
cooing

cooing
adj.
[pr. Participle of verb coo (definition 2)]
emitting a cry like that of a dove; as, The cooing pigeons.


word: Cook
definition:
Cook

Cook
(kōk)
v. i.
[Of imitative origin.]
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
[Obs. or R.]

Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
The Silkworms (1599).


word: Cook₃
definition:
Cook

Cook
(kŏk)
n.
[AS. c&omacrc, fr. L. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. pe`ptein, Skr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.]
1.
One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

2.
(Zool.)
A fish, the European striped wrasse.


word: Cook₄
definition:
Cook

Cook
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cooked (kŏkt); p. pr & vb. n. Cooking.]
1.
To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

2.
To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
[Colloq.]

They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.
Addison.


word: Cookbook
definition:
Cookbook

Cook"book`
(-bŏk`)
n.
A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.
[U.S.]

“Just How”: a key to the cookbooks.
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.


word: cooked-over
definition:
cooked-over

cooked-over
adj.
heated again after having cooled down; -- often used of food remaining from a previous day.

Syn. -- warmed-over, reheated.


word: Cookery
definition:
Cookery

Cook"er*y
(kŏk"ẽr*&ybreve_;)
n.
1.
The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat; cooking.

2.
A delicacy; a dainty.
[Obs.]
R. North.


word: cooking
definition:
cooking

cooking
n.
1.
the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery.

Syn. -- cookery, cuisine, culinary art.

2.
the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.


word: Cookroom
definition:
Cookroom

Cook"room`
(?)
n.
A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: cookware
definition:
cookware

cookware
n.
cooking utensils, such as pots, pans, or baking dishes made of heat-resistant material.

Syn. -- cooking utensil.


word: Cooky
definition:
Cooky

Cook"y
(?)
n.
pl. Cookies (#)
[Cf. D. koek cake, dim. koekje; akin to G. kuchen, E. cake; or cf. OE. coket, prob., a sort of cake, and prob. of French origin.]
A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.


word: Cool
definition:
Cool

Cool
(?)
a.
[Compar. Cooler (?); superl. Coolest.]
[AS. c&omacrl; akin to D. koel, G. kühl, OHG. chouli, Dan. kölig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala. See Cold, and cf. Chill.]
1.
Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.

Fanned with cool winds.
Milton.

2.
Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.

For a patriot, too cool.
Goldsmith.

3.
Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.

4.
Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

5.
Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.

Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
Hawthorne.

6.
Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

He had lost a cool hundred.
Fielding.

Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
Dickens.


word: Cool₂
definition:
Cool

Cool
n.
A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.


word: Cool₃
definition:
Cool

Cool
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cooling.]
1.
To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.

Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.
Luke xvi. 24.

2.
To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.

We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
Shak.

To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] Dryden.


word: Cool₄
definition:
Cool

Cool
v. i.
1.
To become less hot; to lose heat.

I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool.
Shak.

2.
To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.

I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool.
Congreve.


word: coolant
definition:
coolant

coolant
n.
a fluid (gas or liquid) used to cool a device by transferring heat away from one part to another.


word: cooled
definition:
cooled

cooled
adj.
made or become cool or made cool as specified; often used as a combining form; as, air-cooled auto engine; the cooled milk was put in the refrigerator.


word: Cooler
definition:
Cooler

Cool"er
(?)
n.
That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.

If acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case.
Arbuthnot.

2.
Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

3.
An alcoholic beverage containing liquor or wine plus a carbonated beverage, usually served with ice.

4.
jail; -- usually used in the form the cooler.
[slang]

4.
an air conditioner.


word: coolheaded
definition:
coolheaded

cool-headed

cool"-head`ed, cool"head*ed
(?)
a.
Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion; unshakably calm and collected.
Cool"-head`ed*ness, n.

Syn. -- cool, imperturbable, unflappable.


word: Cooling
definition:
Cooling

Cool"ing
(?)
p. a.
Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.
cooling
Goldsmith.

Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.


word: Coolly₂
definition:
Coolly

Cool"ly
adv.
In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.


word: Coolness
definition:
Coolness

Cool"ness
n.
1.
The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.

2.
Calm impudence; self-possession.
[Colloq.]


word: Coolung
definition:
Coolung

Coo"lung
(?)
n.
[From the native name.]
(Zool.)
The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea).
[Also written coolen and cullum.]


word: Coolie₂
definition:
Coolie

Cooly

{ Coo"ly, Coo"lie  }
(?)
n.
pl. Coolies (#).
[Hind. k_;lī a laborer, porter: cf. Turk. k_;l, ky_;leh, slave.]
An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.


word: Coom
definition:
Coom

Coom
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. kahm mold gathered on liquids, D. kam, Sw. kimrök pine soot, smoke black, Icel. kām grime, film of dirt.]
Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.
Phillips. Bailey.


word: Coomb
definition:
Coomb

Coomb
(?)
n.
[AS. cumb a liquid measure, perh. from LL. cumba boat, tomb of stone, fr. Gr. _; hollow of a vessel, cup, boat, but cf. G. kumpf bowl.]
A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.
[Written also comb.]


word: Coombe
definition:
Coombe

Coomb

{ Coomb, Coombe  }
(?)
n.
[See Comb, Combe, in this sense.]
A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.


word: Cooncan
definition:
Cooncan

Coon"can
(?)
n.
[Corrupt of conquian.]
A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards.


word: coonskin
definition:
coonskin

coonskin
n.
a cap made from the skin of a raccoon, with the tail hanging down the back; -- called also coonskin cap.

Syn. -- coonskin cap.


word: Coontie
definition:
Coontie

Coon"tie
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.


word: co-op
definition:
co-op

co"-op
(k&omacr"&obreve_;p)
n.
[ contraction of co-operative enterprise.]
a commercial enterprise run for the benefit of its owners.

Syn. -- cooperative, coop.


word: Coop
definition:
Coop

Coop
(kōp)
n.
[Cf. AS. cypa a measure, D. kuip tub, Icel. kupa bowl, G. kufe coop tub; all fr. L. cupa vat, tub, LL. cupa, copa, cup. See Cup, and cf. Keeve.]

1.
A barrel or cask for liquor.
[Obs.]
Johnson.

2.
An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

3.
A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
[Scotch]


word: Coop₂
definition:
Coop

Coop
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cooping.]
To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.

The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
Dryden.

The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds.
Locke.

2.
To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
[Obs.]
cooped
Holland.


word: Cooper₂
definition:
Cooper

Coop"er
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Coopered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Coopering.]
To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel.


word: Cooperage
definition:
Cooperage

Coop"er*age
(?)
n.
1.
Work done by a cooper.

2.
The price paid for coopers' work.

3.
A place where coopers' work is done.


word: Cooperate
definition:
Cooperate

Co*öp"er*ate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Cooperated; p. pr. & vb. n. Cooperating.]
[L. cooperatus, p. p. of cooperari to cooperate; co + operari to work, opus work. See Operate.]
To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect.

Whate'er cooperates to the common mirth.
Crashaw.


word: Cooperation
definition:
Cooperation

Co*öp`er*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. cooperatio: cf. F. coopération.]
1.
The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.

Not holpen by the cooperation of angels.
Bacon.

2.
(Polit. Econ.)
The association of a number of persons for their benefit.


word: Cooperative
definition:
Cooperative

Co*öp"er*a*tive
(?)
a.
Operating jointly to the same end.

Cooperative society, a society established on the principle of a joint-stock association, for the production of commodities, or their purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending of capital among its members. -- Cooperative store, a store established by a cooperative society, where the members make their purchases and share in the profits or losses.


word: Cooperator
definition:
Cooperator

Co*öp"er*a`tor
(?)
n.
[L.: cf. F. coopérateur.]
One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end.
Cooperators
Boyle.


word: Coopering
definition:
Coopering

Coop"er*ing
(?)
n.
Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.


word: Coopery
definition:
Coopery

Coop"er*y
a.
Relating to a cooper; coopered.
[Obs.]

Coopery vessels made of wood.
Holland.


word: coopt
definition:
coopt

co-opt

co-opt", co*öpt"
(?)
v. t.
[See Cooptate. Cf. F. coopter.]
To choose or elect in concert with another.
[R.]

Each of the hundred was to coopt three others.
Jowett (Thucyd.).

2.
To choose or elect as a colleague or fellow member of a group; as, The church members co-opted individuals from similar backgrounds to replenish the congregation.

3.
To assimilate (a smaller group) into a larger group.

4.
To persuade an opponent to join one's own side.

5.
To appoint summarily (with or without the appointee's consent).

6.
To appropriate (something rightly belonging to another) as one's own; to preempt; as, to co-opt someone's name.


word: Cooptate
definition:
Cooptate

Co*öp"tate
(?)
v. t.
[L. cooptatus, p. p. of cootare to elect to something; co- + optare to choose.]
To choose; to elect; to coopt.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: cooptation
definition:
cooptation

co-optation

co-optation, co`öp*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. cooptatio.]
The act of choosing; selection; choice.
[Obs.]

The first election and cooptation of a friend.
Howell.

2.
the selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership).  See co-opt{2}.

Syn. -- co-option.

3.
the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent).

Syn. -- co-option.


word: Coordinate
definition:
Coordinate

Co*ör"di*nate
(?)
a.
[Pref. co- + L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare to regulate. See Ordain.]
Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.

Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many coordinate powers presiding over each country.
Law.

Conjunctions joint sentences and coordinate terms.
Rev. R. Morris.

Coordinate adjectives, adjectives disconnected as regards one another, but referring equally to the same subject. -- Coordinate conjunctions, conjunctions joining independent propositions. Rev. R. Morris.


word: coordinate
definition:
coordinate

co-ordinate

co-ordinate, co*ör"di*nate
(-nāt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Coordinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Coordinating.]
1.
To make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification.

2.
To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coordinate muscular movements.

3.
to be co-ordinated; as, These activities co-ordinate well.

Syn. -- coordinate.


word: Coordinate₂
definition:
Coordinate

Co*ör"di*nate
(?)
n.
1.
A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.

It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is absolutely one.
Coleridge.

2.
pl.
(Math.)
Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See Abscissa.
&hand_; Coordinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of the different cases, of the following elements, namely: (a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the coordinate axes AY and AX. (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole, P. (c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to three coordinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from the corresponding coordinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ, XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is thereby determined with respect to these planes and axes. (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which means any point in space at the free extremity of the radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole of the radius vector.

Cartesian coordinates. See under Cartesian. -- Geographical coordinates, the latitude and longitude of a place, by which its relative situation on the globe is known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a third coordinate. -- Polar coordinates, coordinates made up of a radius vector and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line and plane; as those defined in (b) and (d) above. -- Rectangular coordinates, coordinates the axes of which intersect at right angles. -- Rectilinear coordinates, coordinates made up of right lines. Those defined in (a) and (c) above are called also Cartesian coordinates. -- Trigonometrical coordinates or Spherical coordinates, elements of reference, by means of which the position of a point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with respect to two great circles of the sphere. -- Trilinear coordinates, coordinates of a point in a plane, consisting of the three ratios which the three distances of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.


word: coordinated
definition:
coordinated

coordinated
adj.
1.
dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements.

She was usually good with her hands and well coordinated.
Mary McCarthy
2.
matched in color and pattern so as to be pleasing to the esthetic sense; as, The curtains and walls were color coordinated.

Syn. -- matching.

3.
operating as a unit; as, a coordinated development plan.

Syn. -- coordinated, concerted, interconnected, unified.


word: co-ordinating
definition:
co-ordinating

coordinating

coordinating co-ordinating
adj.
(Grammar)
joining together words or phrases of equal grammatical rank.
subordinative

Syn. -- coordinative.


word: coordinative
definition:
coordinative

coordinative
adj.
(Grammar)
same as coordinating.
subordinative

Syn. -- co-ordinating, coordinating.


word: Coordinateness
definition:
Coordinateness

Co*ör"di*nate*ness
n.
The state of being coordinate; equality of rank or authority.


word: Coordination
definition:
Coordination

Co*ör`di*na"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The act of coordinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coordination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coordination of functions.
Coordination
Carpenter.

2.
The state of being coordinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc.

In this high court of parliament, there is a rare coordination of power.
Howell.


word: Coot
definition:
Coot

Coot
(kōt)
n.
[Cf. D. koet, W. cwtair; cwta short, bodtailed + iar hen; cf. cwtau to dock. Cf. Cut.]
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.  The common European or bald coot is Fulica atra (see under bald); the American is Fulica Americana
(b)
The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (Œdemia are called coots. See Scoter.
coot
Halliwell.

2.
A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.
[Colloq.]


word: Cooter
definition:
Cooter

Coot"er
(-ẽr)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.
(b)
The box tortoise.


word: Cootfoot
definition:
Cootfoot

Coot"foot`
(-fŏt`)
n.
(Zool.)
The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.


word: Cop
definition:
Cop

Cop
(k&obreve_;p)
n.
[AS. cop; cf. G. kopf head. Cf. Cup, Cob.]
1.
The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
[Obs.]

Cop they used to call
The tops of many hills.
Drayton.

2.
A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

3.
A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

4.
(Mil. Arch.)
Same as Merlon.

5.
A policeman.
[Slang]

Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly of remnants of cops from which the greater part of the yarn has been unwound.


word: copasetic
definition:
copasetic

copacetic

copacetic copasetic
adj.
1.
completely satisfactory.

Syn. -- copesetic, copesettic.

You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic.
John O'Hara


word: Copaiva
definition:
Copaiva

Copaiba

{ Co*pai"ba (?; 277), Co*pai"va (?) }
n.
[Sp. & Pg., fr. Brazil. cupaúba.]
(Med.)
A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and was formerly much used in affections of the mucous membranes.  It is also used in varnishes and lacquers, and in cleaning oil paintings. -- called also balsam of copaiba, copaiba balsam, balsam capivi, and Jesuits' resin.
[Written also capivi.]


word: Copal
definition:
Copal

Co"pal
(k&omacr"pal; 277)
[Sp., fr. Mexican copalli, a generic name of resins. Clavigero.]
A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, Trachylobium verrucosum, and Hymenæa Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes.
Ure.


word: Copalm
definition:
Copalm

Co"palm`
(k&omacr"päm`)
n.
The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.


word: Coparcenary
definition:
Coparcenary

Co*par"ce*na*ry
(ko̝*pär"se̝*na̝*r&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Coparcenaries (-rĭz).
[Pref. co- + parcenary]
(Law)
Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.


word: Coparcener
definition:
Coparcener

Co*par"ce*ner
(-nẽr)
n.
[Pref. co- + parcener.]
(Law)
One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.

All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them.
Blackstone.


word: Copart
definition:
Copart

Co*part
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Compart]
To share.
[Obs.]

For, of all miserias, I hold that chief
Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief.
Webster (1661).


word: Copartner
definition:
Copartner

Co*part"ner
(?)
n.
One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer.

the associates and copartners of our loss.
Milton.


word: Copartnership
definition:
Copartnership

Co*part"ner*ship
n.
1.
The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.

2.
A partnership or firm; as, A. and B. have this day formed a copartnership.


word: Copartnery
definition:
Copartnery

Co*part"ner*y
(?)
n.
pl. Copartneries (_;).
the state of being copartners in any undertaking.
[R.]


word: Copatain
definition:
Copatain

Cop"a*tain
(?)
a.
[Formed fr. cop, in imitation of captain. See Cop, Captain.]
Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.
[Obs.]

A copatain hat made on a Flemish block.
Gascoigne.


word: Cope
definition:
Cope

Cope
(k&omacrp)
n.
[A doublet of cape. See Cape, Cap.]
1.
A covering for the head.
[Obs.]
Johnson.

2.
Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
cope
Milton.

3.
An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
Piers plowman.

A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes.
Bp. Burnet.

4.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

5.
(Founding)
The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
Knight. De Colange.


word: Cope₂
definition:
Cope

Cope
v. i.
To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
[Obs.]

Some bending down and coping toward the earth.
Holland.


word: Cope₄
definition:
Cope

Cope
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Coped (k&omacrpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Coping.]
[OE. copen, coupen, to buy, bargain, prob. from D. koopen to buy, orig., to bargain. See Cheap.]
1.
To exchange or barter.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

2.
To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Shak.

3.
To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.

Host coped with host, dire was the din of war.
Philips.

Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens.
Addison.


word: Cope₅
definition:
Cope

Cope
v. t.
1.
To bargain for; to buy.
[Obs.]

2.
To make return for; to requite; to repay.
[Obs.]

three thousand ducats due unto the Jew,
We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
Shak.

3.
To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
Shak.

They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
Shak.


word: Copeman
definition:
Copeman

Cope"man
(?)
n.
[D. koopman, fr. koopen to buy. See Cope, v. i. Chapman.]
A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.
[Obs.]

He would have sold his part of paradise
For ready money, had he met a copeman.
B. Jonson.


word: Copenhagen
definition:
Copenhagen

Copenhagen
prop. n.
(Geography)
The capital city of Denmark.  Population (2000) = 1,339,395.


word: Copenhagen₂
definition:
Copenhagen

Co`pen*ha"gen
(?)
n.
[From Copenhagen, Denmark.]
1.
A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

2.
A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.


word: Copepoda
definition:
Copepoda

Co*pep"o*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. _; an oar + -poda.]
(Zool.)
An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.

&hand_; They have a distinct carapace. The eggs are carried in a pair of external pouches. Some are parasites of fishes.


word: Copernican
definition:
Copernican

Co*per"ni*can
(?)
a.
Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.


word: copesettic
definition:
copesettic

copesetic

copesetic copesettic
adj.
1.
same as copacetic.

Syn. -- copacetic, copasetic.


word: Copesmate
definition:
Copesmate

Copes"mate`
(?)
n.
An associate or companion; a friend; a partner.
[Obs.]

Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night.
Shak.


word: copied
definition:
copied

copied
adj.
reproducing the features of an original especially in an inferior manner.
original

Syn. -- imitative.


word: Copier
definition:
Copier

Cop"i*er
(?)
n.
[From. Copy.]
1.
One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.

2.
An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist.

3.
a machine that makes copies of documents, especially by xerography; a photocopier; as, to run twenty copies off on the copier.


word: Coping
definition:
Coping

Cop"ing
(?)
n.
[See Cope, n.]
(Arch.)
The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.
Gwill.


word: Copious
definition:
Copious

Co"pi*ous
(?)
a.
[L. copiosus, fr. copia abundance: cf. F. copieux. See Copy, Opulent.]
Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.

Kindly pours its copious treasures forth.
Thomson.

Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name
Shall be the copious matter of my song.
Milton.


word: Copiousness
definition:
Copiousness

Co"pi*ous*ness
n.
The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style.

To imitatethe copiousness of Homer.
Dryden.


word: Copland
definition:
Copland

Cop"land`
(?)
n.
[Cop + land.]
A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.
[Obs.]


word: Coportion
definition:
Coportion

Co*por"tion
(?)
n.
Equal share.
[Obs.]

Myself will bear . . . coportion of your pack.
Spenser.


word: Copper
definition:
Copper

Cop"per
(?)
n.
[OE. coper (cf. D. koper, Sw. koppar, Dan. kobber, G. kupfer), LL. cuper, fr. L. cuprum for earlier Cyprium, Cyprium aes, i.e., Cyprian brass, fr. Gr. _; of Cyprus (Gr. _;), anciently renowned for its copper mines. Cf. Cypreous.]
1.
A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.

&hand_; Copper is the only metal which occurs native abundantly in large masses; it is found also in various ores, of which the most important are chalcopyrite, chalcocite, cuprite, and malachite. Copper mixed with tin forms bell metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with zinc, it forms brass, pinchbeck, and other alloys.

2.
A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.
[Colloq.]

My friends filled my pockets with coppers.
Franklin.

3.
A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.

4.
pl.
(Naut.)
the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.

&hand_; Copper is often used adjectively, commonly in the sense of made or consisting of copper, or resembling copper; as, a copper boiler, tube, etc.

All in a hot and copper sky.
Coleridge.

It is sometimes written in combination; as, copperplate, coppersmith, copper-colored.

Copper finch. (Zool.) See Chaffinch. -- Copper glance, or Vitreous copper. (Min.) See Chalcocite. -- Indigo copper. (Min.) See Covelline.


word: Copper₂
definition:
Copper

Cop"per
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Coppered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Coppering.]
To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.


word: Copperas
definition:
Copperas

Cop"per*as
(?)
n.
[OE. coperose, F. couperose, fr. (assumed?) L. cuprirosa, equiv. to G. cha`lkanqos, i. e. copper flower, vitriol.  See Copper and Rose.]
Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.

&hand_; The term copperas was formerly synonymous with vitriol, and included the green, blue, and white vitriols, or the sulphates of iron, copper, and zinc.


word: copperbottom
definition:
copperbottom

copper-bottom

copper-bottom, copperbottom
v. t.
to provide with a copper bottom.

Syn. -- copperbottom.

2.
to bind with a cord, tie with a cord.

Syn. -- cord up.


word: Copper-bottomed
definition:
Copper-bottomed

Cop"per-bot`tomed
(?)
a.
Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.


word: Copper-fastened
definition:
Copper-fastened

Cop"per-fas`tened
(?)
a.
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.


word: Copperhead
definition:
Copperhead

Cop"per*head`
(?)
n.
[From its color.]
1.
(Zool.)
A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.

2.
A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
[U.S.]


word: Coppering
definition:
Coppering

Cop"per*ing
n.
1.
The act of covering with copper.

2.
An envelope or covering of copper.


word: Copperish
definition:
Copperish

Cop"per*ish
a.
Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.


word: Copperplate
definition:
Copperplate

Cop"per*plate`
(k&obreve_;p"pẽr*plāt`)
n.
(a)
A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
(b)
An impression on paper taken from such a plate.

&hand_; In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper laid upon it, and the impression taken by pressing it under the roller of a plate press.

Copperplate press. See Plate press, under Plate.


word: Coppersmith
definition:
Coppersmith

Cop"per*smith`
(-smĭth`)
n.
One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.


word: Copperworm
definition:
Copperworm

Cop"per*worm`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.
(b)
The ringworm.


word: Coppice
definition:
Coppice

Cop"pice
(k&obreve_;p"pĭs)
n.
[OF. copeiz, fr. coper, couper, to cut, F. couper, fr. cop, coup, colp, a blow, F. coup, L. colaphus, fr. Gr. ko`lafos. Cf. Copse, and cf. Coupé, Coupee.]
A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.

The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines.
Locke.


word: Coppice₂
definition:
Coppice

Cop"pice
(k&obreve_;p"pĭs)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Coppiced (k&obreve_;p"pĭst); p. pr. & vb. n. Coppicing (k&obreve_;p"pĭ*sĭng).]
(Forestry)
To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.


word: Copple
definition:
Copple

Cop"ple
(?)
n.
[A dim. of Cop.]
Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high.
Hakluyt.


word: Copple-crown
definition:
Copple-crown

Cop"ple-crown
(?)
n.
A created or high-topped crown or head.
copple-crown
T. Randolph.


word: Copra
definition:
Copra

Co"pra
(?)
n.
[Malayálam koppara or Hind. khoprā.]
(Com.)
The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.
[Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]


word: Coprolite
definition:
Coprolite

Cop"ro*lite
(?)
n.
[Gr. ko`pros dung + -lite.]
(Paleon.)
A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.


word: Coprophagan
definition:
Coprophagan

Co*proph"a*gan
(?)
n.
[See Coprophagous.]
(Zool.)
A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.


word: Coprophagous
definition:
Coprophagous

Co*proph"a*gous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; exrement + _; to eat.]
(Zool.)
Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.


word: Cop-rose
definition:
Cop-rose

Cop-rose`
(?)
n.
[F. coprose, of uncertain origin; cf. D. klaproos, klapperroos.]
The red, or corn, poppy.
[Written also cup-rose.]


word: Copse
definition:
Copse

Copse
(?)
n.
[Contr. from coppice.]
A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.

Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled.
Goldsmith.


word: Copse₂
definition:
Copse

Copse
v. t.
1.
To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
Halliwell.

2.
To plant and preserve, as a copse.
Swift.


word: Coptic
definition:
Coptic

Cop"tic
(k&obreve_;p"tĭk)
a.
[Abbrev. from L. Aegyptius an Egyptian, Gr. _;, Ar. kibtī, pl. kibt.]
Of or pertaining to the Copts.
n. The language of the Copts.


word: Coptic Church
definition:
Coptic Church

Coptic Church
The native church of Egypt or church of Alexandria, which in general organization and doctrines resembles the Roman Catholic Church, except that it holds to the Monophysitic doctrine which was condemned (a. d. 451) by the council of Chalcedon, and allows its priests to marry. The “pope and patriarch” has jurisdiction over the Abyssinian Church. Since the 7th century the Coptic Church has been so isolated from modifying influences that in many respects it is the most ancient monument of primitive Christian rites and ceremonies. But centuries of subjection to Moslem rule have weakened and degraded it.


word: Coptis
definition:
Coptis

Coptis
n.
small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers.

Syn. -- genus Coptis.


word: Copts
definition:
Copts

Copts
(k&obreve_;pts")
n. pl.
sing. Copt (k&obreve_;pt).
[See Coptic.]
(Etnol.)
1.
An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians.

2.
The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.

&hand_; they belong to the Jacobite sect of Monophysite Christians, and for eleven centuries have had possession of the patriarchal chair of Alexandria.


word: Copula
definition:
Copula

Cop"u*la
(?)
n.
[L., bond, band. See Couple.]
1.
(Logic & Gram.)
The word which unites the subject and predicate.

2.
(Mus.)
The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.


word: Copulate
definition:
Copulate

Cop"u*late
(?)
a.
[L. copulatus, p. p. of copulare to couple, fr. copula. See Copula.]
1.
Joined; associated; coupled.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

2.
(Gram.)
Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
F. A. March.


word: Copulate₂
definition:
Copulate

Cop"u*late
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Copulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Copulating.]
To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.


word: Copulation
definition:
Copulation

Cop`u*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. copulatio: cf. F. copulation.]
1.
The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
Johnson.

2.
The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.


word: Copulative
definition:
Copulative

Cop"u*la"tive
(?)
a.
[L. copulativus: cf. F. copulatif.]
Serving to couple, unite, or connect; as, a copulative conjunction like “and”.


word: Copulatory
definition:
Copulatory

Cop"u*la*to*ry
(k&obreve_;p"&uuptack_;*lȧ*to̝*r&ybreve_;)
a.
1.
Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.

2.
(Zool.)
Used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects.


word: Copy
definition:
Copy

Cop"y
(k&obreve_;p"&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Copies (-ĭz)
[F. copie, fr. L. copia abundance, number, LL. also, a transcript; co- + the root of opes riches. See Opulent, and cf. Copious.]
1.
An abundance or plenty of anything.
[Obs.]

She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humor thus.
B. Jonson.

2.
An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue.

I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
Denham.

3.
An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison.

4.
That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.

Let him first learn to write, after a copy, all the letters.
Holder.

5.
(print.)
Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.

6.
A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See under Paper.

7.
Copyhold; tenure; lease.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Copy book, a book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate. -- Examined copies (Law), those which have been compared with the originals. -- Exemplified copies, those which are attested under seal of a court. -- Certified copies or Office copies, those which are made or attested by officers having charge of the originals, and authorized to give copies officially. Abbot.


word: Copy₂
definition:
Copy

Cop"y
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Copied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Copying.]
[Cf. F. copir, fr. LL. copiare. See Copy, n.]
1.
To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off.

I like the work well; ere it be demanded
(As like enough it will), I'd have it copied.
Shak.

Let this be copied out,
And keep it safe for our remembrance.
Shak.

2.
To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life.

We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.
Stewart.


word: Copy₃
definition:
Copy

Cop"y
v. i.
1.
To make a copy or copies; to imitate.

2.
To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well.

Some . . . never fail, when they copy, to follow the bad as well as the good things.
Dryden.


word: copy cat
definition:
copy cat

copycat

cop"y*cat`, cop"y cat`
n.
someone who copies the words or behavior of another.

Syn. -- imitator, ape, aper.


word: Copygraph
definition:
Copygraph

Cop"y*graph
(?)
n.
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing; -- made obsolete by later developments in copying technology; see xerography.

&hand_; The writing or drawing is made with aniline ink on paper, and a reverse copy transfered by pressure to a slab of gelatin softened with glycerin. A large number of transcripts can be taken while the ink is fresh.

Various names have been given to the process [the gelatin copying process], some of them acceptable and others absurd; hectograph, polygraph, copygraph, lithogram, etc.
Knight.


word: Copyhold
definition:
Copyhold

Cop"y*hold`
(?)
n.
(Eng. Law)
(a)
A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court.
Blackstone.
(b)
Land held in copyhold.
Milton.

&hand_; Copyholds do not exist in the United States.


word: Copyholder
definition:
Copyholder

Cop"y*hold`er
(?)
n.
1.
(Eng. Law)
One possessed of land in copyhold.

2.
(print.)
(a)
A device for holding copy for a compositor.
(b)
One who reads copy to a proof reader.


word: Copying
definition:
Copying

Cop"y*ing
a. & n.
From Copy, v.

Copying ink. See under Ink. -- Copying paper, thin unsized paper used for taking copies of letters, etc., in a copying press. -- Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.


word: copyreader
definition:
copyreader

copyreader
n.
an editor who prepares text for publication.

Syn. -- copy editor, text editor.


word: Copyright
definition:
Copyright

Cop"y*right
(?)
n.
The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.

&hand_; In the United States in 1913 a copyright was valid for the term of twenty-eight years, with right of renewal for fourteen years on certain conditions.   The term was extended in stages, and in 1997 the term of a copyright was life plus 50 years for individuals retaining their copyright, or 75 years for works created for hire.  Further extension is still (1998) being discussed.
International copyright, an author's right in his productions as secured by treaty between nations.


word: Coque
definition:
Coque

Coque
(?)
n.
[F., prop., a shell.]
A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.


word: Coquelicot
definition:
Coquelicot

Coque"li*cot`
(?)
n.
[F.]
1.
(Bot.)
The wild poppy, or red corn rose.

2.
The color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet.


word: Coquet
definition:
Coquet

Co*quet"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Coquetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Coquetting.]
To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.

You are coquetting a maid of honor.
Swift.


word: Coquet₂
definition:
Coquet

Co*quet"
v. i.
To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.


word: Coquetry
definition:
Coquetry

Co*quet"ry
(?)
n.
pl. Coquetries (#)
[F. coquetterie.]
Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.
coquetry
Addison.


word: Coquette
definition:
Coquette

Co*quette"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. coquet, coquette, coquettish, orig., cocklike, strutting like a cock, fr. coq a cock. Cf. Cock, Cocket, Cocky, Cockade.]
1.
A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

2.
(Zool.)
A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.


word: Coquettish
definition:
Coquettish

Co*quet"tish
(?)
a.
Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.

A pretty, coquettish housemaid.
W. Irving.


word: Coquilla nut
definition:
Coquilla nut

Co*quil"la nut
(?)
[Pg. coquilho, Sp. coquillo, dim. of coco a cocoanut.]
(Bot.)
The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.).

&hand_; Its shell is hazel-brown in color, very hard and close in texture, and much used by turners in forming ornamental articles, such as knobs for umbrella handles.


word: Coquille
definition:
Coquille

Co*quille"
(ko̝*kēl"; F. ko̝`kē"y')
n.
[F.]
Lit., a shell;
hence:
(a)
A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served.
(b)
The expansion of the guard of a sword, dagger, etc.
(c)
A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.


word: Coquimbite
definition:
Coquimbite

Co*quim"bite
(?)
n.
A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili.


word: Coquina
definition:
Coquina

Co*qui"na
(?)
n.
[Sp., shellfish, cockle.]
A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.


word: Cora
definition:
Cora

Co"ra
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.


word: coracan
definition:
coracan

coracan
n.
an East Indian cereal grass (Eleusine coracana) whose seeds yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.

Syn. -- finger millet, ragi, ragee, African millet, corakan, kurakkan, Eleusine coracana.


word: Coraciidae
definition:
Coraciidae

Coraciidae
n.
(Zool.)
a family of birds comprising the rollers.

Syn. -- family Coraciidae.


word: Coraciiformes
definition:
Coraciiformes

Coraciiformes
n.
(Zool.)
an order of birds including the rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee-eaters; todies.

Syn. -- order Coraciiformes.


word: Coracle
definition:
Coracle

Cor"a*cle
(?)
n.
[W. corwgl, cwrwgl, fr. corwg, cwrwg, any round body or vessel, the trunk of the body, carcass.]
A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Tibet and in Egypt.


word: Coracoid
definition:
Coracoid

Cor"a*coid
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; ko`rax crow + e'i^dos form.]
1.
Shaped like a crow's beak.

2.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals.


word: Corah
definition:
Corah

Co"rah
(?)
n.
[Hind. k&omacrrā virgin, plain.]
Plain; undyed; -- applied to Indian silk.
n. Corah silk.


word: corakan
definition:
corakan

corakan
n.
same as coracan.

Syn. -- finger millet, ragi, ragee, African millet, coracan, kurakkan, Eleusine coracana.


word: Coral
definition:
Coral

Cor"al
(?)
n.
[Of. coral, F, corail, L. corallum, coralium, fr. Gr. kora`llion.]
1.
(Zool.)
The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.

&hand_; The large stony corals forming coral reefs belong to various genera of Madreporaria, and to the hydroid genus, Millepora. The red coral, used in jewelry, is the stony axis of the stem of a gorgonian (Corallium rubrum) found chiefly in the Mediterranean. The fan corals, plume corals, and sea feathers are species of Gorgoniacea, in which the axis is horny. Organ-pipe coral is formed by the genus Tubipora, an Alcyonarian, and black coral is in part the axis of species of the genus Antipathes. See Anthozoa, Madrepora.

2.
The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.

3.
A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.

Brain coral, or Brain stone coral. See under Brain. -- Chain coral. See under Chain. -- Coral animal (Zool.), one of the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called coral insects. -- Coral fish. See in the Vocabulary. -- Coral reefs (Phys. Geog.), reefs, often of great extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, coral sands, and the solid limestone resulting from their consolidation. They are classed as fringing reefs, when they border the land; barrier reefs, when separated from the shore by a broad belt of water; atolls, when they constitute separate islands, usually inclosing a lagoon. See Atoll. -- Coral root (Bot.), a genus (Corallorhiza) of orchideous plants, of a yellowish or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of coral. See Illust. under Coralloid. -- Coral snake. (Zo) (a) A small, venomous, Brazilian snake (Elaps corallinus), coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South American snake (Tortrix scytale). -- Coral tree (Bot.), a tropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is Erythrina Corallodendron. -- Coral wood, a hard, red cabinet wood. McElrath.


word: coralberry
definition:
coralberry

coralberry
n.
1.
a North American deciduous shrub (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) cultivated for its abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits.

Syn. -- Indian currant, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus.

2.
shrub (Ardisia crenata) with coral-red berries; it is found from Japan to northern India.

Syn. -- spiceberry, Ardisia crenata.


word: Coral fish
definition:
Coral fish

Cor"al fish`
(?)
(Zool.)
Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chætodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.


word: Corallian
definition:
Corallian

Co*ral"li*an
(?)
n.
(Geol.)
A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag.


word: Coralliferous
definition:
Coralliferous

Cor`al*lif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. corallum coral + -ferous.]
Containing or producing coral.


word: Coralligena
definition:
Coralligena

Cor`al*lig"e*na
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. corallum coral + root of gignere to produce.]
(Zool.)
Same as Anthozoa.


word: Coralligerous
definition:
Coralligerous

Cor`al*lig"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. corallum coral + -gerous.]
Producing coral; coralliferous.


word: Corallin
definition:
Corallin

Cor"al*lin
(?)
n.
[So named in allusion to the color of red corallin, fr. L. corallum coral.]
(Chem.)
A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic.

Red corallin, a red dyestuff which is obtained by treating aurin or rosolic acid with ammonia; -- called also pæonin. -- Yellow corallin. See Aurin.


word: Coralline
definition:
Coralline

Cor"al*line
(? or ?)
a.
[Cf. L. corallinus coralred.]
Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone.


word: Coralline₂
definition:
Coralline

Cor"al*line
n.
[Cf. F. coralline.]
1.
(Bot.)
A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.

2.
(Zool.)
Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.


word: Corallite
definition:
Corallite

Cor"al*lite
(?)
n.
[L. corallum coral.]
1.
(Min.)
A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.

2.
(Zool.)
One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal.
[Written also corallet.]


word: Coralloid
definition:
Coralloid

Cor"al*loid
(?)
a.
[L. corallum coral + -oid: cf. F. coralloïde.]
Having the form of coral; branching like coral.


word: Corallorhiza
definition:
Corallorhiza

Corallorhiza
n.
a genus of leafless root-parasitic orchids having small purplish or yellowish racemose flowers with lobed lips; it is widely distributed in temperate regions.

Syn. -- genus Corallorhiza.


word: Corallum
definition:
Corallum

Co*ral"lum
(?)
n.
[L.]
(Zool.)
The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.


word: coralroot
definition:
coralroot

coralroot
n.
a European bittercress (Dentaria bulbifera) having a knotted white rootstock.

Syn. -- coral-root bittercress, coralwort, Cardamine bulbifera, Dentaria bulbifera.


word: coralwood
definition:
coralwood

coralwood
n.
an East Indian tree (Adenanthera pavonina) with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental.

Syn. -- red sandalwood, Barbados pride, peacock flower fence, Adenanthera pavonina.


word: Coralwort
definition:
Coralwort

Cor"al*wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.


word: Coranach
definition:
Coranach

Cor"a*nach
(?)
n.
[Gael. coranach, or corranach, a crying, the Irish funeral cry (the keen), a dirge; comh with + ranaich a roaring, ran to roar, shriek.]
A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.
[Written also coranich, corrinoch, coronach, cronach, etc.]
[Scot.]


word: Coranto
definition:
Coranto

Corant

{ Co*rant (?), Co*ran"to (?) }
n.
[See Courant.]
A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion.

It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig.
Sir W. temple.

Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath.
Macaulay.


word: Corb
definition:
Corb

Corb
(kôrb)
n.
[L. corbis basket. Cf. Corbeil, Corp.]
1.
A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf.

2.
(Arch.)
An ornament in a building; a corbel.


word: Corban
definition:
Corban

Cor"ban
(kôr"băn)
n.
[Heb. qorbān, akin to Ar. qurbān.]
1.
(Jewish Antiq.)
An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow.

&hand_; In the old Testament the hebrew word is usually translated “oblation” as in Numb. xviii. 9, xxxi. 50.

&hand_; The traditionists laid down that a man might interdict himself by vow, not only from using for himself, but from giving to another, or receiving from him, some particular object, whether of food or any other kind. A person might thus exempt himself from assisting parents in distress, under plea of corban. Dr. W. Smith.

2.
An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.


word: Corbelling
definition:
Corbelling

Corbeling

{ Cor"bel*ing, Cor"bel*ling  }
n.
Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.


word: Corbeil
definition:
Corbeil

Cor"beil
(kôr"bĕl)
n.
[F. corbeille, fr. L. corbicula a little basket, dim. of corbis basket. Cf. Corbel, Corb, Corvette.]
1.
(Arch.)
A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel.
[Obs.]

2.
pl.
(Fort.)
Small gabions.
Brande & C.


word: Corbel
definition:
Corbel

Cor"bel
(kôr"bĕl)
n.
[F. corbeau, for older corbel, dim. of L. corbis basket. (Corbels were often in the form of a basket.) See Corbeil.]
(Arch.)
A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

&hand_; A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.


word: Corbel₂
definition:
Corbel

Cor"bel
v. t.
To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

To corbel out, to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it.


word: Corbel-table
definition:
Corbel-table

Cor"bel-ta`ble
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.


word: Corby
definition:
Corby

Corbie

{ Cor"bie or Cor"by  }
(kôr"b&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Corbies (-bĭz).
[F. corbeau, OF. corbel, dim. fr. L. corvus raven.]
1.
(Zool.)
The raven.
[Scot.]

2.
(her.)
A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge.

Corbie crow, the carrion crow. [Scot.]


word: Corbiestep
definition:
Corbiestep

Cor"bie*step`
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.


word: Corchorus
definition:
Corchorus

Cor"cho*rus
(kôr"ko̝*rŭs)
n.
[Nl., fr. L. corchorus a poor kind of pulse, Gr. ko`rchoros a wild plant of bitter taste.]
(Bot.)
The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens.


word: Corcule
definition:
Corcule

Corcle

{ Cor"cle (kôr"k'l), Cor"cule (-k&uuptack_;l) }
n.
[L. corculum a little heart, dim. of cor heart.]
(Bot.)
The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ.
[Obs.]


word: Cord
definition:
Cord

Cord
(kôrd)
n.
[F. corde, L. chorda catgut, chord, cord, fr. Gr. chordh`; cf. chola`des intestines, L. haruspex soothsayer (inspector of entrails), Icel. görn, pl. garnir gut, and E. yarn. Cf. Chord, Yarn.]
1.
A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

2.
A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

3.
Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.

The knots that tangle human creeds,
The wounding cords that bind and strain
The heart until it bleeds.
Tennyson.

4.
(Anat.)
Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.

5.
(Mus.)
See Chord.
[Obs.]

Cord wood, wood for fuel cut to the length of four feet (when of full measure).


word: Cord₂
definition:
Cord

Cord
(kôrd)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corded; p. pr. & vb. n. Cording.]
1.
To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.

2.
To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.


word: Cordage
definition:
Cordage

Cord"age
(kôrd"a̝j)
n.
[F. cordage. See Cord.]
Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.


word: Cordaitales
definition:
Cordaitales

Cordaitales
n.
an order of extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads; known from the Pennsylvanian; probably extinct since the Mesozoic.

Syn. -- order Cordaitales.


word: Cordaites
definition:
Cordaites

Cordaites
n.
a genus of tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; they were structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers.

Syn. -- genus Cordaites.


word: Corded
definition:
Corded

Cord"ed
(kôrd"ĕd)
a.
1.
Bound or fastened with cords.

2.
Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.

3.
Made of cords.
[Obs.]
corded
Shak.

4.
Striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface.

5.
(Her.)
Bound about, or wound, with cords.


word: Cordelier
definition:
Cordelier

Cor`de*lier"
(kôr`de̝*lēr")
n.
[F., fr. OF. cordel, F. cordeau, dim. fr. corde string, rope. See Cord.]
1.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.

2.
(Fr. Hist.)
A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.


word: Cordeling
definition:
Cordeling

Cor"del*ing
(kôr"dĕ*ĭng)
a.
[F. cordeler to twist, fr. OF. cordel. See Cordelier.]
Twisting.


word: Cordial
definition:
Cordial

Cor"dial
(kôr"jal, formally kôrd"yal; 106, 277)
a.
[LL.  cordialis, fr. L. cor heart: cf. F.  cordial. See Heart.]
1.
Proceeding from the heart.
[Obs.]

A rib with cordial spirits warm.
Milton.

2.
Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.

He . . . with looks of cordial love
Hung over her enamored.
Milton.

3.
Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.

Behold this cordial julep here
That flames and dances in his crystal bounds.
Milton.


word: Cordial₂
definition:
Cordial

Cor"dial
n.
1.
Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates.

Charms to my sight, and cordials to my mind.
Dryden.

2.
(Med)
Any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial.

3.
(Com.)
Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur.


word: Cordiality
definition:
Cordiality

Cor*dial"i*ty
(kôr*jăl"ĭ*t&ybreve_; or kôr`dĭ*ăl"-; 106)
n.
pl. Cordialities (-tĭz).
[LL. cordialitas, fr. cordialis sincere: cf. F.  cordialité.]
1.
Relation to the heart.
[Obs.]

That the ancients had any respect of cordiality or reference unto the heart, will much be doubted.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness.
Motley.


word: Cordialize
definition:
Cordialize

Cor"dial*ize
(kôr"jal*īz or  kôrd"yal*īz; 106)
v. t.
1.
To make into a cordial.

2.
To render cordial; to reconcile.


word: Cordierite
definition:
Cordierite

Cor"di*er*ite
(kôr"dĭ*ẽr*īt)
n.
[Named after the geologist Cordier.]
(Min.)
See Iolite.


word: Cordiform
definition:
Cordiform

Cor"di*form
(kôr"dĭ*fôrm)
a.
[L. cor, cordis, heart + -form, cf. F. cordiforme.]
Heart-shaped.
Gray.


word: Cordillera
definition:
Cordillera

Cor*dil"ler*a
(kôr*dĭl"lẽr*ȧ; Sp. kôr`de̝*lya̝"rȧ)
n.
[Sp., fr. OSp. cordilla, cordiella, dim. of cuerda a rope, string. See Cord.]
(Geol.)
A mountain ridge or chain.

&hand_; Cordillera is sometimes applied, in geology, to the system of mountain chains near the border of a continent; thus, the western cordillera of North America in the United States includes the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Coast and Cascade ranges.


word: Cordite
definition:
Cordite

Cord"ite
(kôrd"īt)
n.
[From Cord, n.]
(Mil.)
A smokeless powder composed of nitroglycerin, guncotton, and mineral jelly, and used by the British army and in other services. In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords  (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known  as cordite M. D.


word: cordless
definition:
cordless

cordless
adj.
1.
operating without a wire connection to the companion communicating unit; -- of telephones and other devices using e.g. radio or infrared signals to allow communication between devices without a direct wire link; as, cordless telephones have a very restricted range compared with cellular phones.

2.
using a battery as a source of power; -- of tools which usually use line current for power; as, cordless electric drills are very convenient for use outdoors; cordless razors make shaving while travelling easy.


word: Cordoba
definition:
Cordoba

Cór"do*ba
(kôr"do̝*vä)
n.
[Prob. fr. the Spanish explorer Francisco Hernández de Córdoba.]
The monetary unit of Nicaragua, equivalent to the United States gold dollar.  It is divided into 100 centavos.


word: Cordon
definition:
Cordon

Cor"don
(kôr"d&obreve_;n; F. kôr`dôN")
n.
[F., fr. corde. See Cord.]
1.
A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

2.
The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
Sir E. Sandys.

3.
(Fort.)
The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.

4.
(Mil.)
A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.

5.
A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.

&VerbarCordon sanitaire (k_;r`d_;n" s_;`n_;`t_;r") [F., sanitary cordon], a line of troops or military posts around a district infected with disease, to cut off communication, and thus prevent the disease from spreading.  Also used figuratively, of a group of neutral states that forms a barrier between two hostile states.


word: Cordon bleu
definition:
Cordon bleu

Cordon bleu
(k_;r`d_;n" bl_;")
[F., blue cordon]
1.
a first-rate cook, or one worthy to be the cook of the cordons bleus, or Knights of the Holy Ghost, a distinguished order of French knights, famous for their good dinners.

2.
the blue ribbon worn by the Knights of the Holy Ghost.

3.
[one entitled to wear the cordon bleu{2}.]
a person of high distinction.

5.
(Cookery)
a dish prepared with thin slices of meat separated by layers of ham and cheese, and then sauteed; as, chicken cordon bleu is a popular dish.


word: Cordonnet
definition:
Cordonnet

Cor`don`net"
(k?r`d?n`n?")
n.
[F., dim. of cordon. See Cardon.]
Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc.
McElrath.


word: Cordovan
definition:
Cordovan

Cor"do*van
(kôr"do̝*văn)
n.
[Sp. cordoban, fr.  Cordova, or Cordoba, in Spain. Cf. Cordwain.]
Same as Cordwain.  In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.


word: cords
definition:
cords

cords
n.
[contraction of corduroys.]
trousers made of corduroy cloth; corduroys.

Syn. -- corduroys.


word: Corduroy
definition:
Corduroy

Cor"du*roy`
(kôr"d&uuptack_;*roi` or kôr`d&uuptack_;*roi")
n.
[Prob. for F. corde du roi king's cord.]
1.
A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.

2.
pl.
Trousers or breeches of corduroy.

Corduroy road, a roadway formed of logs laid side by side across it, as in marshy places; -- so called from its rough or ribbed surface, resembling corduroy. [U.S.]


word: Cordwain
definition:
Cordwain

Cord"wain
(k?rd"w?n)
n.
[OE. cordewan, cordian, OF.  cordoan, cordouan, fr. Sp.  cordoban. See Cordovan.]
A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.

Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain.
Spenser.


word: Cordwainer
definition:
Cordwainer

Cord"wain*er
(-?r)
n.
[OE.  cordwaner, cordiner, fr. OF. cordoanier, cordouanier, F. cordonnier.]
A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker.
[Archaic.]


word: Cordy
definition:
Cordy

Cord"y
(kôr"d&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Cordier (?); superl. Cordiest.]
Of, or like, cord; having cords or cordlike parts.


word: Cordylidae
definition:
Cordylidae

Cordylidae
n.
a small family of spiny ovoviviparous African lizards.

Syn. -- family Cordylidae.


word: Cordyline
definition:
Cordyline

Cordyline
n.
a genus of Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs remarkable for the fact that fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants.

Syn. -- genus Cordyline.


word: Cordylus
definition:
Cordylus

Cordylus
n.
the type genus of the Cordylidae; they are spiny lizards somewhat resembling tiny crocodiles.

Syn. -- genus Cordylus.


word: Core
definition:
Core

Core
(k&omacrr)
n.
[F.  corps. See Corps.]
A body of individuals; an assemblage.
[Obs.]

He was in a core of people.
Bacon.


word: Core₂
definition:
Core

Core
n.
[Cf. Chore.]
(Mining.)
A miner's underground working time or shift.
Raymond.

&hand_; The twenty-four hours are divided into three or four cores.


word: Core₃
definition:
Core

Core
n.
[Heb. k&omacrr: cf. Gr. ko`ros.]
A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
Num. xi. 32 (Douay version).


word: Core₄
definition:
Core

Core
n.
[OF.  cor, coer, cuer, F.  cœur, fr. L.  cor heart. See Heart.]
1.
The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.

A fever at the core,
Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
Byron.

2.
The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Raleigh.

3.
The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject; -- also used attributively, as the core curriculum at a college.

4.
(Founding)
The portion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.

5.
A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

6.
(Anat.)
The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.

7.
(Elec.)
A mass of iron or other ferrous metal, forming the central part of an electromagnet, such as those upon which the conductor of an armature, a transformer, or an induction coil is wound.
The presence of the iron intensifies the magnetic field created by a a current passing through the windings.

8.
(mining)
a sample of earth or rock extracted from underground by a drilling device in such a manner that the layers of rock are preserved in the same order as they exist underground; as, to drill a core; to extract a core. The sample is typically removed with a rotating drill bit having a hollow center, and is thus shaped like a cylinder.

9.
(Computers)
The main working memory of a digital computer system, which typically retains the program code being executed as well as the data structures that are manipulated by the program.  Contrasted to ROM and data storage device.
The term was applied originally to the main memory, consisting of small ferromagnetic rings, that were used to store data in older computers, where each ring representing one bit of information by virtue of its state of magnetization.  They were superseded by electronic data storage devices.

Syn. -- core memory, random access memory, RAM

10.
(Geol.)
the central part of the  earth, believed to be a sphere with a radius of about 2100 miles, and composed primarily of molten iron with some nickel.  It is distinguished from the crust and mantle.

11.
(Engineering)
the central part of a nuclear reactor, containing the fissionable fuel.

Core box (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. -- Core print (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core. -- Core dump See core dump in the vocabulary.


word: Core₅
definition:
Core

Core
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cord (k?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Coring.]
1.
To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.

He's like a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out.
Marston.

2.
To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.

3.
To extract a cylindrical sample from, with a boring device.  See core{8}.


word: core dump
definition:
core dump

core" dump`
(kôr"dŭmp`)
n.
1.
(Computers)
An complete and exact copy of the contents of a computer core{9}, usually produced as a file when some serious error occurs in the execution of a computer program, and used for debugging the program which produced the error.

2.
Hence:
A full account of a person's knowledge on some specific topic, usually produced in response to a question of some kind.  It is a mildly deprecatory term, suggesting that the person producing the account was unable to prepare a more concise and understandable summary of the information; as, I just need the essentials, not a core dump.


word: Coregonidae
definition:
Coregonidae

Coregonidae
n.
a natural family of soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae.

Syn. -- family Coregonidae.


word: Coreidae
definition:
Coreidae

Coreidae
n.
a natural family containing the squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs.

Syn. -- family Coreidae.


word: co-religionist
definition:
co-religionist

coreligionist

coreligionist, co`-re*li"gion*ist
(-l?j"?n-?st)
n.
One of the same religion with another.


word: Core loss
definition:
Core loss

Core loss
(Elec.)
Energy wasted by hysteresis or eddy currents in the core of an armature, transformer, etc.


word: Coreopsis
definition:
Coreopsis

Co`re*op"sis
(k&omacr`re̝*&obreve_;p"sĭs)
prop. n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ko`ris bug + 'o`psis appearance.]
(Bot.)
A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed.  Coreopsis tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.


word: Coreplasty
definition:
Coreplasty

Cor"e*plas`ty
(k&obreve_;r"e̝*plăs`t&ybreve_;)
n.
[Gr. ko`rh pupil + -plasty.]
(Med.)
A plastic operation on the pupil, as for forming an artificial pupil.
Cor`e*plas"tic (-plăs"tĭk), a.


word: Co-respondent
definition:
Co-respondent

Co`-re*spond"ent
(k?`rr?-sp?nd"ent)
n.
(Law)
One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.


word: Corf
definition:
Corf

Corf
(kôrf)
n.
pl. Corves (kôrvz).
[Cf. LG. & D. korf basket, G. korb, fr. L.  corbis.]
1.
A basket.

2.
(Mining)
(a)
A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.
(b)
A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.


word: Corfute
definition:
Corfute

Corfiote

{ Cor"fi*ote (kôr"f?-?t), Cor"fute (k?r"f?t), }
n.
A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.


word: corgi
definition:
corgi

corgi
n.
either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied short-legged dogs with erect ears and a foxlike head.

Syn. -- Welsh corgi.


word: Coriaceous
definition:
Coriaceous

Co`ri*a"ceous
(k?`r?-?"sh?s)
a.
[L.  coriaceous, fr.  corium leather. See Cuirass.]
1.
Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.

2.
(Bot.)
Stiff, like leather or parchment.


word: Coriander
definition:
Coriander

Co`ri*an"der
(k?`r?-?n"d?r)
n.
[L. coriandrum, fr. Gr. _;_;_;_;, _;_;_;_;, perh. fr. _;_;_; bug, on account of the buglike or fetid smell of its leaves: cf. F. coriandre.]
(Bot.)
An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.


word: Coridine
definition:
Coridine

Co"ri*dine
(k?"r?-d?n; 104)
n.
[From L.  cortium leather.]
A colorless or yellowish oil, C10H15N, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type.
[Written also corindine.]


word: Corinne
definition:
Corinne

Co`rinne"
(k?`r?n")
n.
(Zool.)
The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle.
[Written also korin.]


word: Corinth
definition:
Corinth

Cor"inth
(k?r"?nth)
n.
[L. Corinthus, Gr. _;_;_;_;. Cf.  Currant.]
1.
A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.

2.
A small fruit; a currant.
[Obs.]
Broome.


word: Corinthian
definition:
Corinthian

Co*rin"thi*an
(-an)
a.
1.
Of or relating to Corinth.

2.
(Arch.)
Of or pertaining to the Corinthian order of architecture, invented by the Greeks, but more commonly used by the Romans.

This is the lightest and most ornamental of the three orders used by the Greeks.
Parker.

3.
Debauched in character or practice; impure.
Milton.

4.
Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateurs.)


word: Corinthian₂
definition:
Corinthian

Co*rin"thi*an
n.
1.
A native or inhabitant of Corinth.

2.
A gay, licentious person.
[Obs.]

3.
A man of fashion given to pleasuring or sport; a fashionable man about town; esp., a man of means who drives his own horse, sails his own yacht, or the like.


word: Corium
definition:
Corium

Co"ri*um
(k?"r?-?m)
n.
[L. corium leather.]
1.
Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I.
Fosbroke.

2.
(Anat.)
(a)
Same as Dermis.
(b)
The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.


word: Cork
definition:
Cork

Cork
(kôrk)
n.
[Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. kork, D.  kurk; all fr. Sp. corcho, fr. L. cortex, corticis, bark, rind. Cf. Cortex.]
1.
The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

2.
A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

3.
A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

&hand_; Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox.

Cork jackets, a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming. -- Cork tree (Bot.), the species of oak (Quercus Suber of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce.


word: Cork₂
definition:
Cork

Cork
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corked (kôrkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Corking.]
1.
To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

2.
To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace.
Bp. Hall.

&hand_; To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk.


word: Corkage
definition:
Corkage

Cork"age
(-a̝j)
n.
The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.


word: Corked
definition:
Corked

Corked
(k?rkt)
a.
having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.


word: Cork fossil
definition:
Cork fossil

Cork" fos`sil
(kôrk" f&obreve_;s`sĭl)
(Min.)
A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.


word: corking pin
definition:
corking pin

cork"ing pin`
(kôrk"ĭng pĭn`)
A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold.
[Obs.]
Swift.


word: corkscrew
definition:
corkscrew

cork"screw`
(kôrk"skr&usuml_;`)
n.
An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.


word: corkscrew₂
definition:
corkscrew

cork"screw`
(kôrk"skr&usuml_;`)
a.
shaped like a corkscrew; spiral; helical.

corkscrew stairs, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.


word: Corkscrew
definition:
Corkscrew

Cork"screw`
v. t.
To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd.
[Colloq.]
Dickens.


word: Corkwood
definition:
Corkwood

Cork"wood`
(kôrk"wŏd`)
n.
1.
The wood of the cork oak.
[Obs.]

2.
Any one of several trees or shrubs having light or corky wood;
esp.
(a)
In the United States, the tree Leitneria floridana, a very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in the southeastern US having extremely light wood; -- called also the corkwood tree.
(b)
In the West Indies: (1) Either of the cotton trees Ochroma lagopus and Pariti tiliaceum.
The tree producing the aligator apple.
The blolly.


word: Corky
definition:
Corky

Cork"y
(-&ybreve_;)
a.
1.
Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.

Bind fast hiss corky arms.
Shak.

2.
Tasting of cork.


word: Corm
definition:
Corm

Corm
(kôrm)
n.
[See Cormus.]
1.
(Bot.)
A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.

2.
(Biol.)
Same as Cormus, 2.


word: Cormogeny
definition:
Cormogeny

Cor*mog"e*ny
(kôr*m&obreve_;j"e̝*n&ybreve_;)
n.
[Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + root of gi`gnesqai to be born.]
(Biol.)
The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.


word: Cormophylogeny
definition:
Cormophylogeny

Cor`mo*phy*log"e*ny
(k?r`m?-f?-l?j"?-n?)
n.
[Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + E. phylogeny.]
(Biol.)
The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals.
Haeckel.


word: Cormophyta
definition:
Cormophyta

Cormophytes

{ Cor"mo*phytes (kôr"mo̝*fīts), &VerbarCor*moph"y*ta (k&obreve_;r*m&obreve_;f"ĭ*tȧ), }
n. pl.
[NL. cormophyta, fr. Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + fyto`n plant.]
(Bot.)
A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.


word: Cormorant
definition:
Cormorant

Cor"mo*rant
(kôr"mo̝*rant)
n.
[F.  cormoran, fr. Armor. m&omacrr-vran a sea raven; m&omacrr sea +  bran raven, with cor, equiv. to L.  corvus raven, pleonastically prefixed; or perh. fr. L.  corvus marinus sea raven.]
1.
(Zool.)
Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese.
[Written also corvorant.]

2.
A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.
B. Jonson.


word: Cormus
definition:
Cormus

Cor"mus
(kôr"mŭs)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. kormo`s the trunk of a tree (with the boughs cut off), fr. kei`rein to shear.]

1.
(Bot.)
See Corm.

2.
(Biol.)
A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.


word: Corn
definition:
Corn

Corn
(kôrn)
n.
[L.  cornu horn: cf. F. corne horn, hornlike excrescence. See Horn.]
A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.

Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes
Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you.
Shak.

&hand_; The substance of a corn usually resembles horn, but where moisture is present, as between the toes, it is white and sodden, and is called a soft corn.


word: Corn₂
definition:
Corn

Corn
n.
[AS.  corn; akin to OS.  korn, D. koren, G., Dan., Sw., & Icel. korn, Goth. kaúrn, L.  granum, Russ. zerno. Cf.  Grain, Kernel.]
1.
A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

2.
The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.

&hand_; In Scotland, corn is generally restricted to oats, in the United States, to maize, or Indian corn (see sense 3), and in England to wheat.

3.
a tall cereal plant (Zea mays) bearing its seeds as large kernels in multiple rows on the surface of a hard cylindrical ear, the core of which (the cob) is not edible; -- also called Indian corn and, in technical literature, maize. There are several kinds; as, yellow corn, which grows chiefly in the Northern States, and is yellow when ripe; white corn or southern corn, which grows to a great height, and has long white kernels; sweet corn, comprising a number of sweet and tender varieties, grown chiefly at the North, some of which have kernels that wrinkle when ripe and dry; pop corn, any small variety, used for popping.  Corn seeds may be cooked while on the ear and eaten directly, or may be stripped from the ear and cooked subsequently.  The term Indian corn is often used to refer to a primitive type of corn having kernels of varied color borne on the same cob; it is used for decoration, especially in the fall.

4.
The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.

In one night, ere glimpse of morn,
His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn.
Milton.

5.
A small, hard particle; a grain.
Corn
Bp. Hall.
corn
Beau. & Fl.

Corn ball, a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma Githago syn. Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also sword lily. -- Corn fly. (Zool.) (a) A small fly which, in the larval state, is injurious to grain, living in the stalk, and causing the disease called “gout,” on account of the swelled joints. The common European species is Chlorops tæniopus. (b) A small fly (Anthomyia ze) whose larva or maggot destroys seed corn after it has been planted. -- Corn fritter, a fritter having green Indian corn mixed through its batter. [U. S.] -- Corn laws, laws regulating trade in corn, especially those in force in Great Britain till 1846, prohibiting the importation of foreign grain for home consumption, except when the price rose above a certain rate. -- Corn marigold. (Bot.) See under Marigold. -- Corn oyster, a fritter containing grated green Indian corn and butter, the combined taste resembling that of oysters. [U.S.] -- Corn parsley (Bot.), a plant of the parsley genus (Petroselinum segetum), a weed in parts of Europe and Asia. -- Corn popper, a utensil used in popping corn. -- Corn poppy (Bot.), the red poppy (Papaver Rhœas), common in European cornfields; -- also called corn rose. -- Corn rent, rent paid in corn. -- Corn rose. See Corn poppy. -- Corn salad (Bot.), a name given to several species of Valerianella, annual herbs sometimes used for salad. Valerianella olitoria is also called lamb's lettuce. -- Corn stone, red limestone. [Prov. Eng.] -- Corn violet (Bot.), a species of Campanula. -- Corn weevil. (Zool.) (a) A small weevil which causes great injury to grain. (b) In America, a weevil (Sphenophorus zeæ) which attacks the stalk of maize near the root, often doing great damage. See Grain weevil, under Weevil.


word: Corn₃
definition:
Corn

Corn
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corned (k?rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Corning.]
1.
To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.

2.
To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.

3.
To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
Jamieson.

4.
To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
[Colloq.]

Corning house, a house or place where powder is corned or granulated.


word: Cornaceae
definition:
Cornaceae

Cornaceae
n.
a natural family of trees including the genera Aucuba; Cornus; Corokia; Curtisia; Griselinia; and Helwingia.

Syn. -- family Cornaceae, dogwood family.


word: Cornage
definition:
Cornage

Cor"nage
(k?r"n?j)
n.
[OF.,, horn-blowing, tax on horned cattle, fr. F.  corne a horn, L.  cornu.]
(Law)
An ancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.


word: Cornball
definition:
Cornball

Corn"ball
(kôrn"b&asuml_;l)
n.
1.
a corn ball.

2.
a person who is corny; one who is overly sentimental.
[informal]

3.
an unsophisticated person; a country bumpkin.
[informal]


word: cornbind
definition:
cornbind

corn"bind`
(kôrn"bīnd`)
n.
(Bot.)
A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: corn bread
definition:
corn bread

corn" bread`
(kôrn"brĕd`)
n.
1.
a bread made from corn meal.

2.
in the northeastern U. S., a moist and heavy sourdough rye bread.
RHUD


word: corncob
definition:
corncob

corn"cob`
(kôrn"k&obreve_;b`)
n.
The cob or axis on which the kernels of Indian corn grow.
[U.S.]


word: corncob pipe
definition:
corncob pipe

corn"cob pipe`
(kôrn"k&obreve_;b pīp`)
n.
a pipe{3} for smoking tobacco with a bowl made from a corncob.


word: corncockle
definition:
corncockle

corncockle
n.
a European annual (Agrostemma githago) having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America.

Syn. -- corn cockle, corn-cockle, corn campion, crown-of-the-field, Agrostemma githago.


word: Corncrake
definition:
Corncrake

Corn"crake`
(kôrn"krāk`)
n.
(Zool.)
A bird (Crex crex or Crex pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.


word: Corncutter
definition:
Corncutter

Corn"cut`ter
(kôrn"k?t`t?r)
n.
1.
A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

2.
An implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn.


word: Corndodger
definition:
Corndodger

Corn"dodg`er
(kôrn"d?j`?r)
n.
A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers.
[U.S.]
Bartlett.


word: Cornea
definition:
Cornea

Cor"ne*a
(k?r"n?-?)
n.
pl. Corneas (-_;z).
[Fem. sing., fr. L. corneus horny, fr. cornu a horn. See Horn.]
(Anat.)
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.


word: Cornel
definition:
Cornel

Cor"nel
(-n?l)
n.
[OF.  cornille, cornoille, F.  cornouille, cornel berry, LL.  cornolium cornel tree, fr. L.  cornus, fr.  cornu horn, in allusion to the hardness of the wood. See Horn.]
1.
(Bot.)
The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.

2.
Any species of the genus Cornus, as Cornus florida, the flowering cornel; Cornus stolonifera, the osier cornel; Cornus Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.


word: Cornelian
definition:
Cornelian

Cor*nel"ian
(k?r-n?lyan)
n.
[F.  cornaline, OF.  corneline, fr. L. cornu horn. So called from its horny appearance when broken. See Horn, and cf. Carnelian.]
(Min.)
Same as Carnelian.


word: Cornemuse
definition:
Cornemuse

Corne"muse
(k?rn"m?z)
n.
[F.]
A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.
Drayton.


word: Corneocalcareous
definition:
Corneocalcareous

Cor"ne*o*cal*ca"re*ous
(k?rn?-?-k?l-k?"r?-?s)
a.

1.
(Zool.)
Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

2.
Horny on one side and calcareous on the other.


word: Corneous
definition:
Corneous

Cor"ne*ous
(-?s)
a.
[L.  corneus, fr.  cornu horn.]
Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.
 Sir T. Browne.


word: Corner
definition:
Corner

Cor"ner
(k?r"n?r)
n.
[OF. corniere, cornier, LL.  cornerium, corneria, fr. L.  cornu horn, end, point. See Horn.]
1.
The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

2.
The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.

3.
An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.

From the four corners of the earth they come.
Shak.

4.
A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

This thing was not done in a corner.
Acts xxvi. 26.

5.
Direction; quarter.

Sits the wind in that corner!
Shak.

6.
The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
[Broker's Cant]

Corner stone, the stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially, the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice; hence, that which is fundamental importance or indispensable. “A prince who regarded uniformity of faith as the corner stone of his government.” Prescott. -- Corner tooth, one of the four teeth which come in a horse's mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle teeth and the tushes.


word: Corner₂
definition:
Corner

Cor"ner
n.
(Association Football)
[More fully corner kick.]
A free kick from close to the nearest corner flag post, allowed to the opposite side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line.


word: Corner₃
definition:
Corner

Cor"ner
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cornered (-n?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cornering.]
1.
To drive into a corner.

2.
To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.

3.
To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.


word: Cornercap
definition:
Cornercap

Cor"ner*cap`
(-k?p`)
n.
The chief ornament.
[Obs.]

Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society.
Shak.


word: Cornered
definition:
Cornered

Cor"nered
(-n?rd)
p. a.
1 Having corners or angles.

2.
In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.


word: Cornet
definition:
Cornet

Cor"net
(k?r"n?t)
n.
[F.  cornet, m. (for senses 1 & 2), cornette, f. & m. (for senses 3 & 4), dim. of corne horn, L.  cornu. See Horn.]
1.
(Mus.)
(a)
An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
(b)
A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-à-piston.
(c)
A certain organ stop or register.

2.
A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
Cotgrave.

3.
(Mil.)
(a)
A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
[Obs.]
cornets
Clarendon.
(b)
The standard of such a troop.
[Obs.]
(c)
The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.

4.
A headdress
(a)
A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
(b)
A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.

5.
[Cf.  Coronet.]
(Far.)
See Coronet, 2.


word: Cornet-a-piston
definition:
Cornet-a-piston

Cor"net-à-pis`ton
(k?r"n?t-?-p?s"t?n; F. k?r`n?`?p?s`t?n")
n.
pl. Cornets-à-piston.
[F.]
(Mus.)
A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.


word: Corneule
definition:
Corneule

Cor"neule
(kôr"nūl)
n.
[F., dim. of cornée the cornea.]
(Zool.)
One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates.
Carpenter.


word: Cornfield
definition:
Cornfield

Corn"field`
(k?rn"f?ld`)
n.
A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.


word: corn flour
definition:
corn flour

cornflour

corn"flour`, corn" flour`
n.
a flour or starch prepared from the grains of corn; it is used in cooking as a thickener.

Syn. -- cornstarch.


word: Cornflower
definition:
Cornflower

Corn"flow`er
(kôrn"flou`ẽr)
n.
(Bot.)
A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.


word: Cornic
definition:
Cornic

Cor"nic
(kôr"nĭk)
a.
Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).


word: Cornice
definition:
Cornice

Cor"nice
(k?r"n?s)
n.
[F. corniche, It. cornice, LL. coronix, cornix, fr. L.  coronis a curved line, a flourish with the pen at the end of a book or chapter, Gr. _;_;_;; akin to L.  corona crown. sEE Crown, and cf.  Coronis.]
(Arch.)
Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
Gwilt.

Cornice ring, the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.


word: Cornicle
definition:
Cornicle

Cor"ni*cle
(k?r"n?-k'l)
n.
[L. corniculum, dim. of cornu horn.]
A little horn.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Corniculate
definition:
Corniculate

Cor*nic"u*late
(k?r-n?k"?-l?t)
a.
[L.  corniculatus.]

1.
Horned; having horns.
Dr. H. More.

2.
(Bot.)
Having processes resembling small horns.


word: Corniculum
definition:
Corniculum

Cor*nic"u*lum
(k?r-n?k"?-l?m)
n.
pl. Cornicula (-l_;).
[L.  corniculum little horn.]
(Anat.)
A small hornlike part or process.


word: Corniferous
definition:
Corniferous

Cor*nif"er*ous
(k?r-n?f"?r-?s)
a.
[L.  cornu horn + -ferous.]
(Geol.)
Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.


word: Cornific
definition:
Cornific

Cor*nif"ic
(k?r-n?f"?k)
a.
[L.  cornu horn +  facere to make.]
Producing horns; forming horn.


word: Cornification
definition:
Cornification

Cor`ni*fi*ca"tion
(k?r`n?-f?-k?"sh?n)
n.
Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.


word: Cornified
definition:
Cornified

Cor"ni*fied
(k?r"n?-f?d)
a.
[L.  cornu horn +  -fy.]
(Anat.)
Converted into horn; horny.


word: Corniform
definition:
Corniform

Cor"ni*form
(-f?rm)
a.
[L.  cornu horn +  -form.]
Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.


word: Cornigerous
definition:
Cornigerous

Cor*nig"er*ous
(k?r-n?j"?r-?s)
a.
[L.  corniger; cornu horn +  gerere to bear.]
Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Cornin
definition:
Cornin

Cor"nin
(k?r"n?n)
n.
(Chem.)
(a)
A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.
(b)
An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.


word: Corniplume
definition:
Corniplume

Cor"ni*plume
(k?r"n?-pl?m)
n.
[L.  cornu horn +  pluma feather.]
(Zool.)
A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.


word: Cornish
definition:
Cornish

Cor"nish
(k?r"n?sh)
a.
Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England.

Cornish chough. See Chough. -- Cornish engine, a single-acting pumping engine, used in mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending.


word: Corno di bassetto
definition:
Corno di bassetto

Cor"no di bas*set"to
(k?r"n? d? b?s-s?t"t? or b?s-s?t"t?)
pl. Corni (-n_;) di basseto.
[It.]
(Mus.)
A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.


word: Corno Inglese
definition:
Corno Inglese

Cor"no In*gle"se
(?n-gl?"z?)
pl. Corni Inglesi (-z_;).
[It.]
(Mus.)
A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.


word: Cornsheller
definition:
Cornsheller

Corn"shell`er
(k?rn"sh?l`?r)
n.
A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.


word: Cornstarch
definition:
Cornstarch

Corn"starch`
(-stärch`)
n.
Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.


word: Cornu
definition:
Cornu

Cor"nu
(kôr"n&uuptack_;)
n.
pl. Cornua (-n&uuptack_;*ȧ).
[L.]
A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.


word: Cornu Ammonis
definition:
Cornu Ammonis

Cor"nu Am*mo"nis
(ăm*m&omacr"nĭs)
pl. &VerbarCornua Ammonis
[L., horn of Ammon. See Ammonite.]
(Paleon.)
A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.


word: Cornucopia
definition:
Cornucopia

Cor`nu*co"pi*a
(kôr`n&uuptack_;*k&omacr"pĭ*ȧ)
n.
pl. Cornucopias (-ȧz).
[L. cornu copiae horn of plenty. See Horn, and Copious.]
1.
The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.

2.
pl.
(Bot.)
A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.

&hand_; Some writers maintain that this word should be written, in the singular, cornu copiæ, and in the plural, cornua copiæ.


word: Cornuted
definition:
Cornuted

Cornute

{ Cor"nute (k?r"n?t or k?r-n?t"), Cor*nut"ed (k?r-n?"t?d), }
a.
[L.  cornutus horned, from cornu horn.]
1.
Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped.

2.
Cuckolded.
[R.]
cornuted
LEstrange.


word: Cornute
definition:
Cornute

Cor*nute"
(k?r-n?t")
v. t.
To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold.
[Obs.]
Burton.


word: Cornuto
definition:
Cornuto

Cor*nu"to
(k?r-n?"t?)
n.
[It., fr. L.  cornutus horned.]
A man that wears the horns; a cuckold.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Corny
definition:
Corny

Cor"ny
(k?r"n?)
a.
[L.  cornu horn.]
Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

Up stood the cornu reed.
Milton.


word: Corny₂
definition:
Corny

Corn"y
a.
1.
Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
[R.]
corny
Prior.

2.
Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
[R.]

A draught of moist and corny ale.
Chaucer.

3.
Tipsy.
[Vulgar, Eng.]
Forby.

4.
overly or simplistically sentimental.
[informal]

5.
trite or tiresome; too weak to be effective; -- said of unsubtle attempts at humor; as, a corny joke; a corny skit.
[informal]


word: Corocore
definition:
Corocore

Cor"o*core
(k?r"?-k?r)
n.
A kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago.


word: Corody
definition:
Corody

Cor"o*dy
(k?r"?-d?)
n.
[LL. corrodium, corredium, conredium, furniture, provision: cf. OF.  conroi. See Curry.]
(Old Law)
An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it.
[Written also corrody.]


word: Corolla
definition:
Corolla

Co*rol"la
(k?-r?l"l?)
n.
[L.  corolla a little crown or garland, dim. of corona. See Crown.]
(Bot.)
The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under Blossom.


word: Corollaceous
definition:
Corollaceous

Cor`ol*la"ceous
(k?r`?l-l?"sh?s)
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla.


word: Corollary
definition:
Corollary

Cor"ol*la*ry
(k?r"?l-l?-r?; 277)
n.
pl. Corollaries (-r_;z).
[L.  corollarium gift, corollary, fr.  corolla. See Corolla.]
1.
That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous.
[Obs.]

Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary,
Rather than want a spirit.
Shak.

2.
Something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence.


word: Corollated
definition:
Corollated

Corollate

{ Cor"ol*late (k?r"?l-l?t), Cor"ol*la`ted (-l?`t?d), }
a.
Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.


word: Corollet
definition:
Corollet

Cor"ol*let
(k?r"?l-l?t)
n.
[Dim. fr.  corolla.]
(Bot.)
A floret in an aggregate flower.
[Obs.]
Martyn.


word: Corolliflorous
definition:
Corolliflorous

Corollifloral

{ Co*rol`li*flo"ral (k?-r?l`l?-fl?"ral), Co*rol`li*flo"rous (-fl?"r?s), }
a.
[Corolla + L.  flos, floris, flower.]
(Bot.)
Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral.


word: Coromandel
definition:
Coromandel

Cor`o*man"del
(k?r`?-m?n"del)
n.
(Geol.)
The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal.

Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Coromandel wood, Calamander wood.


word: Corona
definition:
Corona

Co*ro"na
(k?-r?"n?)
n.
pl. L.  Coronæ (-n_;), E.  Coronas (-n_;z).
[L. corona crown. See Crown.]
1.
A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

2.
(Arch.)
The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.

3.
(Anat.)
The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.

4.
(Zool.)
The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.

5.
(Astronomy)
A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.

6.
(Bot.)
(a)
An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.
(b)
Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.

7.
(Meteorol.)
(a)
A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.
(b)
A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.

8.
A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.
Fairholt.

9.
(Mus.)
A character [&pause_;]  called the pause or hold.


word: Coronal
definition:
Coronal

Cor"o*nal
(k?r"?-nal or, esp. in science, k?-r?"nal; 277)
a.
[L. coronalis: cf. F.  coronal.]
1.
Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses).

The coronal light during the eclipse is faint.
Abney.

2.
Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation.

The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon.
Milton.

3.
Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.

4.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.

Coronal suture (Anat.), a suture extending across the skull between the parietal and frontal bones; the fronto-parietal suture.


word: Coronal₂
definition:
Coronal

Cor"o*nal
n.
1.
A crown; wreath; garland.
Spenser.

2.
The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronæ or garlands.
Hooper.


word: Coronamen
definition:
Coronamen

Cor`o*na"men
(k?r`-n?"m?n)
n.
[L., a crowning.]
(Zool.)
The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet.


word: Coronary
definition:
Coronary

Cor"o*na*ry
(k?r"?-n?-r?)
a.
[L. coronarius: cf. F. coronaire.]
1.
Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.
Coronary
Bp. Pearson.

The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
(Anat.)
Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.


word: Coronary₂
definition:
Coronary

Cor"o*na*ry
n.
1.
A small bone in the foot of a horse.

2.
Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used informally to mean heart attack.


word: Coronary cushion
definition:
Coronary cushion

Coronary cushion
A cushionlike band of vascular tissue at the upper border of the wall of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. It takes an important part in the secretion of the horny walls.


word: Coronary thrombosis
definition:
Coronary thrombosis

Cor"o*na*ry throm*bo"sis
n.
the blockage of the coronary artery of the heart by a thrombus.


word: Coronated
definition:
Coronated

Coronate

{ Cor"o*nate (k?r"?-n?t), Cor"o*na`ted (-n?`t?ed), }
a.
[L. coronatus, p. p. of coronare to crown, fr. corona. See Crown.]
1.
Having or wearing a crown.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.
(b)
Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.

3.
(Biol.)
Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.


word: Coronation
definition:
Coronation

Cor`o*na"tion
(k?r`?-n?"sh?n)
n.
[See Coronate.]

1.
The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.

2.
The pomp or assembly at a coronation.
Pope.


word: Coronel₂
definition:
Coronel

Cor"o*nel
(k?r"?-n?l or k?r"n?l)
n.
[Cf. Cronel, Crown.]
(Anc. Armor)
The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points.
[Written also cronel.]
Grose.


word: Coroner
definition:
Coroner

Cor"o*ner
(k?r"?-n?r)
n.
[From OE. coronen to crown, OF. coroner, fr. L.  coronare, fr. corona crown. Formed as a translation of LL. coronator coroner, fr. L. corona crown, the coroner having been originally a prosecuting officer of the crown. See Crown.]
An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred.
[In England formerly also written and pronounced crowner.]

&hand_; In some of the United States the office of coroner is abolished, that of medical examiner taking its place.

Coroner's inquest. See under Inquest.


word: Coronet
definition:
Coronet

Cor"o*net
(k?r"?-n?t)
n.
[Dim. of OE. corone crown; cf. OF. coronete. See Crown, and cf. Crownet, Cronet.]

1.
An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown.

Without a star, a coronet, or garter.
Goldsmith.

&hand_; The coronet of the Prince of Wales consist of a circlet of gold with four crosses pattée around the edge between as many fleurs-de-lis. The center crosses are connected by an arch which is surmounted by a globe or cross. The coronet of a British duke is adorned with strawberry leaves; that of a marquis has leaves with pearls interposed; that of an earl raises the pearls above the leaves; that of a viscount is surrounded with pearls only; that of a baron has only four pearls.

2.
(Far.)
The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin.
James White.

3.
(Anc. Armor)
The iron head of a tilting spear; a coronel.
Crose.


word: Coroneted
definition:
Coroneted

Cor"o*net*ed
(-n?t-?d)
a.
Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.


word: Coroniform
definition:
Coroniform

Co*ron"i*form
(k?-r?n"?-f?rm or k?-r?"n?-)
a.
[L. corona crown + -form.]
Having the form of a crown or coronet; resembling a crown.


word: Coronilla
definition:
Coronilla

Cor`o*nil"la
(k?r`?-n?l"l?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. corona crown: cf. F. coronille.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.


word: Coronis
definition:
Coronis

Co*ro"nis
(k?-r?"n?s)
n.
[Gr. korwni`s anything curved. See Cornice.]
1.
In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.
W. W. Goodwin.

2.
The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.
[R.]
Bp. Hacket.


word: Coronium
definition:
Coronium

Co*ro"ni*um
(?)
n.
[NL. See Corona.]
(Chem. & Astron.)
The principal gaseous substance forming the solar corona, characterized by a green line in the coronal spectrum.


word: Coronoid
definition:
Coronoid

Cor"o*noid
(k&obreve_;r"o̝*noid)
a.
[Gr. korw`nh crow + -oid: cf. F. coronoïde.]
(Anat.)
Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.


word: Coronule
definition:
Coronule

Cor"o*nule
(k?r"?-n?l)
n.
[L. coronula, dim. of corona crown.]
(Bot.)
A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus.
Martyn.


word: Corosso
definition:
Corosso

Corozo

{ &VerbarCo*ro"zo &VerbarCo*ros"so  }
(k?-r?"th? or -s?)
n.
[Cf. Sp. cerozo a kind of palm tree.]
The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut.


word: Corporal
definition:
Corporal

Cor"po*ral
(kôr"po̝*ral)
n.
[Corrupted fr. F. caporal, It. caporale, fr. capo head, chief, L. caput. See Chief, and cf. Caporal.]
(Mil.)
A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.

Corporal's guard, a detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal for guard duty, etc.; hence, derisively, a very small number of persons. -- Lance corporal, an assistant corporal on private's pay. Farrow. -- Ship's corporal (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the master at arms in his various duties.


word: Corporal₂
definition:
Corporal

Cor"po*ral
a.
[L. corporalis, fr. corpus body. See Corpse.]
1.
Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
corporal
Shak.

Pillories and other corporal infections.
Milton.

Corporal punishment (law), punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment.

2.
Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.
Milton.

A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are.
Latimer.

What seemed corporal melted
As breath into the wind.
Shak.


word: Corporale
definition:
Corporale

Corporal

{ Cor"po*ral (kôr"po̝*ral), &VerbarCor`po*ra"le (-r?"l?), }
n.
[LL. corporale: cf. F. corporal. See Corporal,a.]
A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.

Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.


word: Corporality
definition:
Corporality

Cor`po*ral"i*ty
(k?r`p?-r?l"l?-t?)
n.
pl. Corporalities (-t_;z).
[L.  corporalitas: cf. F.corporalit_;.]
1.
The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality.
Dr. H. More.

2.
A confraternity; a guild.
[Obs.]
Milton.


word: Corporally
definition:
Corporally

Cor"po*ral*ly
(k?r"p?-ral-ly)
adv.
In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present.
Sharp.


word: Corporas
definition:
Corporas

Cor"po*ras
(k?r"p?-r?s)
n.
[Prop. pl. of corporal.]
The corporal, or communion cloth.
[Obs.]
Fuller.


word: Corporate
definition:
Corporate

Cor"po*rate
(k?r"p?-r?t)
a.
[L. corporatus, p. p. of corporare to shape into a body, fr.  corpus body. See Corpse.]
1.
Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.

2.
Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
Corporate
Hallam.

3.
United; general; collectively one.

They answer in a joint and corporate voice.
Shak.

Corporate member, an actual or voting member of a corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American Board.


word: Corporately
definition:
Corporately

Cor"po*rate*ly
(-r?t-l?)
adv.
1.
In a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body.

2.
In, or as regarda, the body.
Fabyan.


word: corporate raider
definition:
corporate raider

corporate raider
n.
(Finance)
a person who purchases or attempts to purchase a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management.
such a buyout is caled a hostile takeover.

Syn. -- buyout specialist, takeover artist.


word: Corporation
definition:
Corporation

Cor`po*ra"tion
(kôr`po̝*rā"shŭn)
n.
[L.  corporatio incarnation: cf. F. corporation corporation.]
A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.

&hand_; Corporations are aggregate or sole. Corporations aggregate consist of two or more persons united in a society, which is preserved by a succession of members, either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by the power that formed it, by the death of all its members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college, the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A corporation sole consists of a single person, who is made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him some legal capacities, and especially that of succession, which as a natural person he can not have. Kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in England sole corporations. A fee will not pass to a corporation sole without the word “successors” in the grant. There are instances in the United States of a minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in Massachusetts. Corporations are sometimes classified as public and private; public being convertible with municipal, and private corporations being all corporations not municipal.

Close corporation. See under Close.


word: Corporator
definition:
Corporator

Cor"po*ra`tor
(kô"p?-r?`t?r)
n.
A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.


word: Corporature
definition:
Corporature

Cor"po*ra*ture
(kôr"p?-r?-t?r)
n.
The state of being embodied; bodily existence.
[Obs.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Corporeal
definition:
Corporeal

Cor*po"re*al
(kôr*p&omacr"re̝*al)
a.
[L. corporeus, fr.  corpus body.]
Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.

His omnipotence
That to corporeal substance could add
Speed almost spiritual.
Milton.

Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed to incorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation). Mozley & W.


word: Corporealist
definition:
Corporealist

Cor*po"re*al*ist
(k&obreve_;r*p&omacr"re̝*al*ĭst)
n.
One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist.

Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God.
Bp. Berkeley.


word: Corporeality
definition:
Corporeality

Cor*po`re*al"i*ty
(-?l"?-t?)
n.
pl. Corporealities (-tĭz).
The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.


word: Corporeally
definition:
Corporeally

Cor*po"re*al*ly
(k&obreve_;r*p&omacr"re̝*al*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
In the body; in a bodily form or manner.


word: Corporeity
definition:
Corporeity

Cor`po*re"i*ty
(k?r`p?-r?"?-t?)
n.
[LL.  corporeitas:  cf. F. corpor_;it_;.]
The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality.

The one attributed corporeity to God.
Bp. Stillingfleet.

Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity.
Coleridge.


word: Corporify
definition:
Corporify

Cor*por"i*fy
(k?r-p?r"?-f?)
v. t.
[L.  corpus body + -fy: cf. F. corporifier.]
To embody; to form into a body.
[Obs.]
Boyle.


word: Corposant
definition:
Corposant

Cor"po*sant
(k?r"p?-z?nt)
n.
[It. corpo santo holy body.]
St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.


word: Corps
definition:
Corps

Corps
(k&omacrr, pl. k&omacrrz)
n. sing. & pl.
[F., fr. L.  corpus body. See Corpse.]
1.
The human body, whether living or dead.
[Obs.]
See Corpse, 1.

By what craft in my corps, it cometh [commences] and where.
Piers Plowman.

2.
A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps.

A corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry.
Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )

3.
A body or code of laws.
[Obs.]

The whole corps of the law.
Bacon.

4.
(Eccl.)
The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed.
[Obs.]

The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps.
Bacon.

5.
[Ger.]
In some countries of Europe, a form of students' social society binding the members to strict adherence to certain student customs and its code of honor; -- Ger. spelling usually korps.

Army corps, or (French) Corps d'armée (ko̝r` där`ma̝"), a body containing two or more divisions of a large army, organized as a complete army in itself. -- &VerbarCorps de logis (ko̝r` de lo̝`zhe̝") [F., body of the house], the principal mass of a building, considered apart from its wings. -- Corps diplomatique (k_;r d_;`pl_;`m_;-t_;k") [F., diplomatic body], the body of ministers or envoys accredited to a government.


word: Corpse
definition:
Corpse

Corpse
(kôrps)
n.
[OF.  cors (sometimes written corps), F.  corps, L.  corpus; akin to AS.  hrif womb. See Midriff, and cf. Corse, Corselet, Corps, Cuerpo.]
1.
A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
[Obs.]

&hand_; Formerly written (after the French form) corps. See Corps, n., 1.

2.
The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.

He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
D. Webster.

Corpse candle. (a) A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. -- Corpse gate, the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; -- called also lich gate.


word: Corpulency
definition:
Corpulency

Corpulence

{ Cor"pu*lence (k?r"p?-lens), Cor"pu*len*cy (k?r"p?-len-s?), }
n.
[L. corpulentia: cf. F.  corpulence.]

1.
Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.

2.
Thickness; density; compactness.
[Obs.]

The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it.
Ray.


word: Corpulent
definition:
Corpulent

Cor"pu*lent
(-p?-lent)
a.
[L.  corpulentus, fr. corpus: cf. F.  corpulent. See Corpse.]
1.
Very fat; obese.

2.
Solid; gross; opaque.
[Obs.]
Holland.


word: Corpus
definition:
Corpus

Cor"pus
(-pŭs)
n.
pl. Corpora (-po̝*rȧ).
[L.]
A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

Corpus callosum (kăl*l&omacr"sŭm); pl. Corpora callosa (-s_;) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain. -- Corpus Christi (krĭs"tī) [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. -- Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. -- Corpus delicti (de̝*lĭk"tī) [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. -- Corpus luteum (lū"te̝*ŭm); pl. Corpora lutea (-ȧ). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. -- Corpus striatum (stri̝*ā"tŭm); pl. Corpora striata (-tȧ). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.


word: Corpuscle
definition:
Corpuscle

Cor"pus*cle
(-pŭs*s'l)
n.
[L.  corpusculum, dim. of corpus.]
1.
A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

2.
(Anat.)
A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles.  See Blood.

Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue.
Quain's Anat.

3.
(Physics)
An electron.
[archaic]

Red blood corpuscles (Physiol.), in man, yellowish, biconcave, circular discs varying from 1/3500 to 1/3200 of an inch in diameter and about 1/12400 of an inch thick. They are composed of a colorless stroma filled in with semifluid hæmoglobin and other matters. In most mammals the red corpuscles are circular, but in the camels, birds, reptiles, and the lower vertebrates generally, they are oval, and sometimes more or less spherical in form. In Amphioxus, and most invertebrates, the blood corpuscles are all white or colorless. -- White blood corpuscles (Physiol.), rounded, slightly flattened, nucleated cells, mainly protoplasmic in composition, and possessed of contractile power. In man, the average size is about 1/2500 of an inch, and they are present in blood in much smaller numbers than the red corpuscles.


word: Corpuscular
definition:
Corpuscular

Cor*pus"cu*lar
(k?r-p?s"k?-l?r)
a.
[Cf. F. corpusculaire.]
Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.

Corpuscular philosophy, that which attempts to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, etc., of the minute particles of matter. -- Corpuscular theory (Opt.), the theory enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton, that light consists in the emission and rapid progression of minute particles or corpuscles. The theory is now generally rejected, and supplanted by the undulatory theory.


word: Corrade
definition:
Corrade

Cor*rade"
(k?r-r?d")
v. t.
[L.  corradere, -rasum; cor- +  radere to rub.]
1.
To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
[Obs.]
Dr. R. Clerke.

2.
(Geol.)
To erode, as the bed of a stream. See Corrosion.


word: Corradiate
definition:
Corradiate

Cor*ra"di*ate
(k?r-r?"d?-?t)
v. t.
To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays.


word: Corradiation
definition:
Corradiation

Cor*ra`di*a"tion
(k?r-r?`d?-?"sh?n)
n.
A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point.
Bacom


word: Corral
definition:
Corral

Cor*ral"
(k?r-r?l"; Sp. k?r-r?l")
n.
[Sp., a yard, a yard for cattle, fr. corro a circle or ring, fr. L.  currere to run. Cf. Kraal.]
A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.


word: Corral₂
definition:
Corral

Cor*ral"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corraled (-r?ld" or -r?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Corralling.]
To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything.
Bartlett.


word: Corrasion
definition:
Corrasion

Cor*ra"sion
(k?r-r?"zh?n)
n.
[See Corrade.]
(Geol.)
The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.


word: Corrasive
definition:
Corrasive

Cor*ra"sive
(-s?v)
a.
Corrosive.
[Obs.]

Corrasive sores which eat into the flesh.
Holland.


word: Correct
definition:
Correct

Cor*rect"
(kôr*rĕkt")
a.
[L. correctus, p. p. of corrigere to make straight, to correct; cor- + regere to lead straight: cf. F. correct. See Regular, Right, and cf. Escort.]
Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.

Always use the most correct editions.
Felton.


word: Correct₂
definition:
Correct

Cor*rect"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corrected; p. pr. & vb. n. Correcting.]
1.
To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.

This is a defect in the first make of some men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards.
T. Burnet.

2.
To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

3.
To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.

My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me.
Shak.

4.
To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.


word: Correctable
definition:
Correctable

Correctible

{ Cor*rect"i*ble (-r?k"t?-b'l), Cor*rect"a*ble (-r?k"t?-b'l), }
a.
Capable of being corrected.


word: Correctify
definition:
Correctify

Cor*rect"i*fy
(k?r-r?k"t?-f?)
v. t.
To correct.
[Obs.]

When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady.
Beau. & Fl.


word: correcting
definition:
correcting

correcting
n.
the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake.

Syn. -- correction, rectification.


word: Correction
definition:
Correction

Cor*rec"tion
(k?r-r?k"sh?n)
n.
[L. correctio: cf. F. correction.]
1.
The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.

The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices.
Strype.

2.
The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.

Correction and instruction must both work
Ere this rude beast will profit.
Shak.

3.
That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.

4.
Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.

5.
An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.

Correction line (Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares. -- House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. -- Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.


word: Correctional
definition:
Correctional

Cor*rec"tion*al
(k?r-r?k"sh?n-al)
a.
[Cf. F. correctionnel.]
Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.


word: Correctioner
definition:
Correctioner

Cor*rec"tion*er
(-?r)
n.
One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Corrective
definition:
Corrective

Cor*rect"ive
(k?rr-r?k"t?v)
a.
[Cf. F. correctif.]

1.
Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.

Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali.
Arbuthnot.

2.
Qualifying; limiting.
corrective
Holdsworth.


word: Corrective₂
definition:
Corrective

Cor*rect"ive
n.
1.
That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.
Burke.

2.
Limitation; restriction.
[Obs.]
Sir M. Hale.


word: Correctly
definition:
Correctly

Cor*rect"ly
(k?r-r?kt"l?)
adv.
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.


word: Correctness
definition:
Correctness

Cor*rect"ness
n.
The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.


word: Corrector
definition:
Corrector

Cor*rect"or
(k?r-r?kt"?r)
n.
[L.]
One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.


word: Corregidor
definition:
Corregidor

Cor*reg"i*dor
(k?r-r?j"?-d?r; Sp. k?r-r?`h?-d?r")
n.
[Sp., orig., a corrector.]
The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.


word: Correi
definition:
Correi

Cor"rei
(k?r"r?)
n.
[Scot., perh. fr. Celt.  cor a corner.]
A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies.
correi
Sir W. Scott.


word: Correlatable
definition:
Correlatable

Cor`re*lat"a*ble
(k3r`r?-l?t"?-b'l)
a.
Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.


word: Correlate
definition:
Correlate

Cor`re*late"
(k&obreve_;r`re̝*lāt" or  k&obreve_;r"re̝*lāt`)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Correlated; p. pr. & vb. n. Correlating.]
[Pref. cor- + relate.]
To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.

Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
Tylor.


word: Correlate₂
definition:
Correlate

Cor`re*late"
v. t.
To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena.
Darwin.


word: Correlate₃
definition:
Correlate

Cor"re*late
(k?r"r?-l?t)
n.
One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.
South.


word: correlated
definition:
correlated

correlated
adj.
1.
mutually related.

Syn. -- correlative, correlate.

2.
(Mathematics, statistics)
showing a statistically significant relationship between the values of two or more variables; as, The statures of fathers and sons are correlated.


word: Correlation
definition:
Correlation

Cor`re*la"tion
(-l?"sh?n)
n.
[LL. correlatio; L. cor- + relatio: cf. F.  corrélation. Cf. Correlation.]
Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.

Correlation of energy, the relation to one another of different forms of energy; -- usually having some reference to the principle of conservation of energy.  See Conservation of energy, under Conservation. -- Correlation of forces, the relation between the forces which matter, endowed with various forms of energy, may exert.


word: Correlative
definition:
Correlative

Cor*rel"a*tive
(k?r-r?l"?-t?v)
a.
[Cf. F.  corrélatif.]
Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.

Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms.
Hume.


word: Correlative₂
definition:
Correlative

Cor*rel"a*tive
n.
1.
One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing.
Locke.

Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives.
Spelman.

2.
(Gram.)
The antecedent of a pronoun.


word: Correption
definition:
Correption

Cor*rep"tion
(k?r-r?p"sh?n)
n.
[L.  correptio, fr.  corripere to seize.]
Chiding; reproof; reproach.
[Obs.]

Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.
Hammond.


word: Correspond
definition:
Correspond

Cor`re*spond"
(k?r`r?-sp?nd")
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Corresponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corresponding.]
[Pref.  cor- + respond: cf. f. correspondre.]
1.
To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.

None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets]  correspond to the Shakespearean type.
J. A. Symonds.

2.
To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to.

Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther.
Locke.

3.
To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with.

After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender.
Macaulay.


word: Correspondence
definition:
Correspondence

Cor`re*spond"ence
(-sp?nd"ens)
n.
[Cf. F.  correspondance.]
1.
Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.

Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state.
Bacon.

To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office.
Macaulay.

2.
The letters which pass between correspondents.

3.
Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.


word: Correspondence school
definition:
Correspondence school

Cor`res*pond"ence school
A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists.


word: Correspondency
definition:
Correspondency

Cor`re*spond"en*cy
(k?r`r?-sp?nd"en-s?)
n.
pl. Correspondencies (-s_;z).
Same as Correspondence, 3.

The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations.
S. Clarke.


word: Correspondent
definition:
Correspondent

Cor`re*spond"ent
(-ent)
a.
[Cf. F.  correspondant.]
Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.

Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
Hooker.

As fast the correspondent passions rise.
Thomson.

I will be correspondent to command.
Shak.


word: Correspondent₂
definition:
Correspondent

Cor`re*spond"ent
n.
1.
One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.
Macaulay.

2.
One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

3.
(Com.)
One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.


word: Corresponding
definition:
Corresponding

Cor`re*spond"ing
a.
1.
Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.

2.
Carrying on intercourse by letters.

Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management.


word: Corresponsive
definition:
Corresponsive

Cor`re*spon"sive
(-r?-sp?n"s?v)
a.
Corresponding; conformable; adapted.
Shak.
Cor`re*spon"sive*ly, adv.


word: Corridor
definition:
Corridor

Cor"ri*dor
(k?r"r?-d?r or -d?r)
n.
[F., fr. Itt. corridpore, or Sp.  corredor; prop., a runner, hence, a running or long line, a gallery, fr. L.  currere to run. See Course.]

1.
(Arch.)
A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

2.
(Fort.)
The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
[R.]

3.
any relatively narrow passageway or route, such as a strip of land through a foreign territory.

4.
a densely populated stretch of land; as, the Northeast corridor, extending from Richmond, Virginia into Maine.


word: Corridor train
definition:
Corridor train

Cor"ri*dor train
A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
[Eng.]


word: corrigenda
definition:
corrigenda

corrigenda
n. pl.
sing. corrigendum
a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections; as, an insert with addenda and corrigenda.


word: Corrigendum
definition:
Corrigendum

Cor`ri*gen"dum
(k?r`r?-j?n"d?m)
n.
pl. Corrigenda (-d_;).
[L.]
1.
A fault or error to be corrected.

2.
A correction of an error, especially in a printed document.


word: Corrigent
definition:
Corrigent

Cor"ri*gent
(k?r"r?--jent)
n.
[L. corrigens, p. pr. of corrigere to correct.]
(Med.)
A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action.
Dunglison.


word: Corrigibility
definition:
Corrigibility

Cor`ri*gi*bil"i*ty
(-j?-b?l"?-t?)
n.
Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.


word: Corrigible
definition:
Corrigible

Cor"ri*gi*ble
(k?r"r?-j?-b'l)
a.
[LL. corribilis, fr. L.  corrigere to correct: cf. F. corrigible. See Correrct.]

1.
Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.

2.
Submissive to correction; docile.
corrigible
Shak.

3.
Deserving chastisement; punishable.
[Obs.]

He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language.
Howell.

4.
Having power to correct; corrective.
[Obs.]

The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Shak.


word: Corrival
definition:
Corrival

Cor*ri"val
(k?r-r?"val)
n.
A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Corrivalship
definition:
Corrivalship

Cor*ri"val*ship
n.
Corivalry.
[R.]

By the corrivalship of Shager his false friend.
Sir T. Herbert.


word: Corrivate
definition:
Corrivate

Cor"ri*vate
(k?r"r?-v?t)
v. t.
[L. corrivatus, p. p. of corrivare to corrivate.]
To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams.
[Obs.]
Burton.


word: Corrivation
definition:
Corrivation

Cor`ri*va"tion
(-v?"sh?n)
n.
[L. corrivatio.]
The flowing of different streams into one.
[Obs.]
Burton.


word: Corroborant
definition:
Corroborant

Cor*rob"o*rant
(k?r-r?b"?-rant)
a.
[L. corroborans, p. pr. See Corroborate.]
Strengthening; supporting; corroborating.
Bacon.
n. Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic.

The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odors and with music.
Southey.


word: Corroborate
definition:
Corroborate

Cor*rob"o*rate
(k?r-r?b"?-r?t)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corroborated (-r?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Corroborating (-r?`t?ng). ]
[L. corroboratus, p. p. of corroborare to corroborate; cor- + roborare to strengthen, robur strength. See Robust.]
1.
To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.
[Obs.]

As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.
I. Watts.

2.
To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.

The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.
I. Taylor.


word: corroborated
definition:
corroborated

corroborated
adj.
supported or established by evidence or proof; as, corroborated testimony is especially convincing.

Syn. -- substantiated, verified.


word: Corroboration
definition:
Corroboration

Cor*rob`o*ra"tion
(k?r-r?b`?-r?"sh?n)
n.
[Cf. F. corroboration.]
1.
The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.

2.
That which corroborates.


word: Corroborative
definition:
Corroborative

Cor*rob"o*ra*tive
(k?r-r?b"?-r?-t?v)
a.
[Cf. F.  corroboratif.]
Tending to strengthen of confirm.


word: Corroboratory
definition:
Corroboratory

Cor*rob"o*ra*to*ry
(-t?-r?)
a.
Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.


word: Corroboree
definition:
Corroboree

Cor*rob"o*ree`
(?)
n.
[Also corrobboree, corrobori, etc.]
[Native name.]
1.
A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians.

2.
A song or chant made for such a festivity.

3.
A festivity or social gathering, esp. one of a noisy or uproarious character; hence, tumult; uproar.
[Australia]


word: Corrode
definition:
Corrode

Cor*rode"
(k?r-r?d")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corroded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corroding.]
[L. corrodere, -rosum; cor + rodere to gnaw: cf. F. corroder. See Rodent.]

1.
To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.

Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green-blue solution.
Boyle.

2.
To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.


word: Corrode₂
definition:
Corrode

Cor*rode"
v. i.
To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

Corroding lead, lead sufficiently pure to be used in making white lead by a process of corroding.


word: Corrodent
definition:
Corrodent

Cor*rod"ent
(k?r-r?"dent)
a.
[L. corrodens, p. pr. of corrodere.]
Corrosive.
[R.]
Bp. King.


word: Corrodiate
definition:
Corrodiate

Cor*ro"di*ate
(k?r-r?"d?-?t)
v. t.
[See Corrode.]
To eat away by degrees; to corrode.
[Obs.]
Sandys.


word: Corrodibility
definition:
Corrodibility

Cor*ro`di*bil"i*ty
(k?r-r?`d?-b?l"?-t?)
n.
The quality of being corrodible.
[R.]
Johnson.


word: Corrosion
definition:
Corrosion

Cor*ro"sion
(k?r-r?"zh?n)
n.
[LL. corrosio: cf. F. corrosion. See Corrode.]
The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.

Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum.
John Quincy.


word: Corrosive
definition:
Corrosive

Cor*ro"sive
(k?r-r?"s?v)
a.
[Cf. F. corrosif.]
1.
Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid.
Corrosive
Grew.
Corrosive
Thomson.

2.
Having the quality of fretting or vexing.

Care is no cure, but corrosive.
Shak.

Corrosive sublimate (Chem.), mercuric chloride, HgCl2; so called because obtained by sublimation, and because of its harsh irritating action on the body tissue. Usually it is in the form of a heavy, transparent, crystalline substance, easily soluble, and of an acrid, burning taste. It is a virulent poison, a powerful antiseptic, and an excellent antisyphilitic; called also mercuric bichloride. It is to be carefully distinguished from calomel, the mild chloride of mercury.


word: Corrosive₂
definition:
Corrosive

Cor*ro"sive
n.
1.
That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.

[Corrosives] act either directly, by chemically destroying the part, or indirectly by causing inflammation and gangrene.
Dunglison.

2.
That which has the power of fretting or irritating.

Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives.
Hooker.


word: Corroval
definition:
Corroval

Cor*ro"val
(kr-r?"val)
n.
A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.


word: Corrovaline
definition:
Corrovaline

Cor*ro"va*line
(-v?-l?n or -l?n)
n.
(Chem.)
A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.


word: Corrugant
definition:
Corrugant

Cor"ru*gant
(k?r"r?-gant)
a.
[L. corrugans, p. pr. See Corrugate.]
Having the power of contracting into wrinkles.
Johnson.


word: Corrugate
definition:
Corrugate

Cor"ru*gate
(k?r"r?-g?t)
a.
[L. corrugatus, p. p. of corrugare; cor-+ rugare to wrinkle, ruga wrinkle; of uncertain origin.]
Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.


word: Corrugate₂
definition:
Corrugate

Cor"ru*gate
(-g?t)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corrugated (-g?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Corrugating (-g?`t?ng).]
To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.

Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material for fragile articles, as bottles.


word: corrugated
definition:
corrugated

corrugated
adj.
shaped into parallel folds alternately grooved and ridged; as, the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated.


word: Corrugation
definition:
Corrugation

Cor`ru*ga"tion
(k?r`r?-g?"sh?n)
n.
[Cf. F.  corrugation.]
The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.


word: Corrugator
definition:
Corrugator

Cor"ru*ga`tor
(k?r"r?-g?`t?r)
n.
[NL.; cf. F. corrugateur.]
(Anat.)
A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.


word: Corrugent
definition:
Corrugent

Cor*ru"gent
(k?r-r?"jent)
a.
(Anat.)
Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator.
[Obs.]


word: Corrupt
definition:
Corrupt

Cor*rupt`
(k?r-r?pt")
a.
[L. corruptus, p. p. of corrumpere to corrupt; cor- + rumpere to break. See Rupture.]
1.
Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.
Knolles.

2.
Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.

At what ease
Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
To swear against you.
Shak.

3.
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.


word: Corrupt₂
definition:
Corrupt

Cor*rupt"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Corrupting.]
1.
To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

2.
To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.

Evil communications corrupt good manners.
1. Cor. xv. 33.

3.
To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge
That no king can corrupt.
Shak.

4.
To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.

He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines.
Locke.

5.
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.
Matt. vi. 19.


word: Corrupt₃
definition:
Corrupt

Cor*rupt"
(k?r-r?pt")
v. i.
1.
To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
Bacon.

2.
To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.


word: Corrupter
definition:
Corrupter

Cor*rupt"er
(k?r-r?p"t?r)
n.
One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.


word: Corruptful
definition:
Corruptful

Cor*rupt"ful
(-f?l)
a.
Tending to corrupt; full of corruption.
[Obs.]
Corruptful
Spenser.


word: Corruptibility
definition:
Corruptibility

Cor*rupt`i*bil"i*ty
(k?r-r?p`t?-b?l"?-t?)
n.
[L. corruptibilitas: cf. F. corruptibilité.]
The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness.
Burke.


word: Corruptible
definition:
Corruptible

Cor*rupt"i*ble
(k?r-r?p"t?-b'l)
a.
[L.  corruptibilis: cf. F. corruptible.]
1.
Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay.
corruptible
Hooker.

Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold.
1 Pet. i. 18.

2.
Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.

They systematically corrupt very corruptible race.
Burke.


word: Corruptible₂
definition:
Corruptible

Cor*rupt"i*ble
n.
That which may decay and perish; the human body.
[Archaic]
1 Cor. xv. 53.


word: Corruption
definition:
Corruption

Cor*rup"tion
(k?r-r?p"sh?n)
n.
[F. corruption, L.  corruptio.]
1.
The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to “generation”.
Bacon.

2.
The product of corruption; putrid matter.

3.
The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.

It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them.
Hallam.

They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
Bancroft.

&hand_; Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations.
Abbott.

4.
The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.

Corruption of blood (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others.

Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament.
Blackstone.


word: Corruptive
definition:
Corruptive

Cor*rupt"ive
(k?r-r?p"t?v)
a.
[L. corruptivus: cf. F. corruptif.]
Having the quality of tainting or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.

It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat.
Ray.


word: Corruptless
definition:
Corruptless

Cor*rupt"less
(k?r-r?pt"l?s)
a.
Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible.
Dryden.


word: Corruptly
definition:
Corruptly

Cor*rupt"ly
adv.
In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully.


word: Corruptress
definition:
Corruptress

Cor*rupt"ress
(-r?s)
n.
A woman who corrupts.

Thou studied old corruptress.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Corsage
definition:
Corsage

Cor"sage
(kôr"sa̝j)
n.
[F. See Corset.]
1.
The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
2.
(kôr*säzh")
a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament.  Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere.


word: Corsair
definition:
Corsair

Cor"sair
(k?r"s?r)
n.
[F. corsaire (cf. It. corsare, corsale, Pr.  corsari), LL. corsarius, fr. L.  cursus a running, course, whence Sp. corso cruise, corsa cruise, coasting voyage, corsear to cruise against the enemy, to pirate, corsario cruising, a privateer authorized to cruise against the enemy. See Course.]
1.
A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.

2.
A piratical vessel.

Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean.
Prescott.

3.
(Zool.)
A Californian market fish (Sebastichthys rosaceus).


word: Corsak
definition:
Corsak

Cor"sak
(k?r"s?k)
n.
(Zool.)
A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia.
[Written also corsac.]


word: Corse
definition:
Corse

Corse
(k?rs or k?rs; 277)
n.
[OF. cors, F. corps. See Corpse.]
1.
A living body or its bulk.
[Obs.]

For he was strong, and of so mighty corse
As ever wielded spear in warlike hand.
Spenser.

2.
A corpse; the dead body of a human being.
[Archaic or Poetic]

Set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul,
I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.
Shak.


word: Corselet
definition:
Corselet

Corse"let
(k?rs"l?t)
n.
[F., dim. of OF. cors. F. corps, body. See Corse.]
1.
Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.

2.
(Zool.)
The thorax of an insect.


word: Corsepresent
definition:
Corsepresent

Corse"pres`ent
(k?rs"pr?z`ent or k?rs"-)
n.
(Engl.Law)
An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.
Blackstone.


word: Corset
definition:
Corset

Cor"set
(k?r"s?t)
n.
[F., dim. of OF. cors, F. corps, body. See Corse.]
1.
In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.

2.
An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.


word: Corset₂
definition:
Corset

Cor"set
(k?r"s?t)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corseted; p. pr. & vb. n. Corseting.]
To inclose in corsets.


word: Corsica
definition:
Corsica

Corsica
n.
1.
an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France.

Syn. -- Corse.

2.
a region of France.

Syn. -- Corse.


word: Corsned
definition:
Corsned

Cors"ned
(kôrs"nĕd)
n.
[AS. corsn&aemacr_;d.]
(AS. Laws)
The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt.
Burril.


word: Cortege
definition:
Cortege

cortege

cortege, &VerbarCor`tége"
(kôr`ta̝zh")
n.
[F., fr. It. corteggio train, fr. corte court. See Court.]
A train of attendants; a group following and attending to some important person.

Syn. -- retinue, suite, entourage.

2.
a procession, especially a funeral procession following the casket carrying a dead person.


word: Cortes
definition:
Cortes

Cor"tes
(kôr"tĕs)
n. pl.
[Sp. & Pg., fr. corte court.]
The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.


word: Cortex
definition:
Cortex

Cor"tex
(kôr"tĕks)
n.
pl. Cortices (-t_;-s_;z).
[L., bark. Cf. Cork.]
1.
Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.

2.
(Med.)
Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.

3.
(Anat.)
The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.


word: Cortical
definition:
Cortical

Cor"ti*cal
(k?r"t?-kal)
a.
[L. cortex bark: cf. F. cortical.]
Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.


word: Corticated
definition:
Corticated

Corticate

{ Cor"ti*cate (k?r"t?-k?t), Cor"ti*ca`ted (-k?`t?d), }
a.
[L. corticatus.]
Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.


word: Corticifer
definition:
Corticifer

Cor*tic"i*fer
(k?r-t?s"?-f?r)
n.
(Zool.)
One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.


word: Corticiferous
definition:
Corticiferous

Cor`ti*cif"er*ous
(k?r`t?-s?f"?r-?s)
a.
[L. cortex, corticis, bark -- -ferous: cf. F. corticif_;re.]
1.
Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

2.
(Zool.)
Having a barklike c_;nenchyms.


word: Corticiform
definition:
Corticiform

Cor*tic"i*form
(k?r-t?s"?-f?rm)
a.
[L. cortex, corticis, bark + -form: cf. F.  corticiforme.]
Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.


word: Corticine
definition:
Corticine

Cor"ti*cine
(k?r"t?-s?n)
n.
[F., fr. L. cortex, corticis, bark.]
A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.


word: corticoafferent
definition:
corticoafferent

corticoafferent
adj.
(Med.)
passing toward the cerebral cortex; -- of nerves and nerve impulses.

Syn. -- corticipetal.


word: corticoefferent
definition:
corticoefferent

corticoefferent
adj.
(Med.)
directed from the cerebral cortex; -- of nerves and nerve impulses.

Syn. -- corticofugal, corticifugal.


word: corticofugal
definition:
corticofugal

corticofugal
adj.
same as corticoefferent; as, corticofugal discharges.

Syn. -- corticoefferent, corticifugal.


word: corticoid
definition:
corticoid

corticoid
n.
a steroid compound produced by the adrenal cortex, or a synthetic analog of such a compound.

Syn. -- corticosteroid.


word: corticosteroid
definition:
corticosteroid

corticosteroid
n.
a steroid compound produced by the adrenal cortex, or a synthetic analog of such a compound.

Syn. -- corticoid.


word: corticosterone
definition:
corticosterone

corticosterone
n.
any of several steroid compounds secreted by the adrenal cortex; they are involved in regulating water and electrolyte balance in the body.


word: corticotropin
definition:
corticotropin

corticotrophin

corticotrophin, corticotropin
n.
a growth hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; it stimulates the adrenal cortex; -- called also adrenocorticotropin and abbreviated ACTH.

Syn. -- adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, ACTH.


word: Cortile
definition:
Cortile

Cor"tile
(k?r"t?l; It. k?r-t?"l?)
n.
[It., fr. corte court.]
An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.


word: cortina
definition:
cortina

cor*ti"na
(kôr*tī"nȧ or kôr*tē"nȧ)
n.
pl. cortinae (kôr*tē"nē).
(Biology)
a cobwebby remnant of the partial veil which in some mature mushrooms hang from the edges of the cap.


word: Cortinaria
definition:
Cortinaria

Cortinaria
n.
a large genus of rusty-spored agarics having prominent cortinae.

Syn. -- genus Cortinaria.


word: cortisol
definition:
cortisol

cortisol
n.
a steroid hormone (C21H30O5) active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism; -- called also hydrocortisone.  It is used in medicine as an antiinflammatory agent

Syn. -- hydrocortisone.


word: cortisone
definition:
cortisone

cortisone
n.
(Chem.)
a corticosteroid hormone (C21H28O5) produced by the adrenal cortex.  It is used in medicine as an antiinflammatory agent.


word: corundom
definition:
corundom

corundom
n.
a very hard mineral used as an abrasive; same as corundun.

Syn. -- corundum.


word: Corundum
definition:
Corundum

Co*run"dum
(ko̝*rŭn"dŭm)
n.
pl. Corundums (ko̝*rŭn"dŭmz).
corindon
[From Hind. kurand corundum stone.]
(Min.)
The mineral alumina (Al2O3), as found native in a crystalline state.  Transparent varieties are used as gemstones, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.

&hand_; The name corundum is sometimes restricted to the non-transparent or coarser kinds. Emery is a dark-colored granular variety, usually admixed with magnetic iron ore.


word: Coruscant
definition:
Coruscant

Co*rus"cant
(k?-r?s"kant)
a.
[L. coruscans, p. pr. See Coruscate.]
Glittering in flashes; flashing.
Howell.


word: Coruscate
definition:
Coruscate

Cor"us*cate
(k?r"?s-k?t or k?-r?s"k?r)
v. i.
[L. coruscare to flash, vibrate.]
To glitter in flashes; to flash.


word: Coruscation
definition:
Coruscation

Cor`us*ca"tion
(k?r`?s-k?"sh?n)
n.
[L. coruscatio: cf. F. coruscattion.]
1.
A sudden flash or play of light.

A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call _;t a little coruscation.
Boyle.

2.
A flash of intellectual brilliancy.

He might have illuminated his times with the incessant cor_;_;cations of his genius.
I. Taylor.


word: Corvee
definition:
Corvee

Cor`vee"
(k?r`v" or -v?")
n.
[F. corvée, fr. LL. corvada, corrogata, fr. L.  corrogare to entreat together; cor- + rogare to ask.]
(Feudal Law)
An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.


word: Corvette
definition:
Corvette

Corvet

{ Cor"vet (k?r"v?t), Cor*vette" (k?r-v?r"), }
n.
[F. corvette, fr. Pg. corveta or Sp. corbeta, fr. L.  corbita a slow-sailing ship of burden, fr, corbis basket. Cf. Corbeil.]
(Naut.)
A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.


word: Corvine
definition:
Corvine

Cor"vine
(k?r"v?n)
a.
[L. corvinus, fr. corvus crow.]
Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.


word: Coryanthes
definition:
Coryanthes

Coryanthes
n.
a small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids.

Syn. -- genus Coryanthes.


word: Corybant
definition:
Corybant

Cor"y*bant
(k?r"?-b?nt)
n.
pl. E. Corybants (-b_;nts), oftener L. Corybantes (-b_;n"t_;z).
[L. Corybas, Gr. Kory`bas.]
One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.


word: Corybantiasm
definition:
Corybantiasm

Cor`y*ban"ti*asm
(-b?n"t?-?z'm)
n.
[Gr. Korybantiasmo`s a corybantic frenzy.]
(Med.)
A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.
Dunglison.


word: corybantic
definition:
corybantic

cor`y*ban"tic
(k?r`?-b?n"t?k)
a.
[Gr. Korybantiko`s, fr. Kory`bas a Corybant.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.


word: Corydalidae
definition:
Corydalidae

Corydalidae
prop. n.
A natural family of insects including the dobsonflies.

Syn. -- family Corydalidae.


word: corydalis
definition:
corydalis

corydalis
n.
a plant of the genus Corydalis, with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers.


word: Corydalus
definition:
Corydalus

Corydalus
prop. n.
The type genus of the Corydalidae.  It includes the dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus), whose aquatic larva, the hellgrammite, is used as bait in fishing.

Syn. -- genus Corydalus, genus Corydalis.


word: Corylaceae
definition:
Corylaceae

Corylaceae
prop. n.
A natural family of shrubs or small trees, used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus.

Syn. -- subfamily Corylaceae, family Corylaceae.


word: Corylopsis
definition:
Corylopsis

Corylopsis
n.
small genus of deciduous shrubs of temperate regions of Asia.

Syn. -- genus Corylopsis.


word: Corylus
definition:
Corylus

Corylus
n.
a genus of deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs or small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae.

Syn. -- genus Corylus.


word: Corymb
definition:
Corymb

Cor"ymb
(k?r"?mb or -?m; 220)
n.
[L. corymbus cluster of flowers, Gr. ko`rymbos.]
(Bot.)
(a)
A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.
(b)
Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.


word: Corymbiferous
definition:
Corymbiferous

Cor`ym*bif"er*ous
(k?r`?m-b?f"?r-?s)
a.
[L.  corymbifer; corymbus a cluster of flowers + ferre to bear; cf. F. corimbifère.]
(Bot.)
Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.


word: Corymbose
definition:
Corymbose

Co*rym"bose
(k?-r?m"b?s or k?r"?m-b?s`)
a.
(Bot.)
Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.
[Written also corymbous.]


word: corynebacterium
definition:
corynebacterium

co`ry*ne`bac*ter"i*um
(?)
n.
(MIcrobiol.)
Any member of the genus Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.


word: Coryphaenoid
definition:
Coryphaenoid

Cor`y*phæ"noid
(k&obreve_;r`ĭ*fē"noid)
a.
[NL.  coryphaena + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphæna. See Dolphin.


word: Coryphene
definition:
Coryphene

Cor"y*phene`
(k?r"?-f?n`)
n.
[NL. coryphena, fr. Gr. koryfh` head, summit, peak: cf. F. coryphène.]
(Zool.)
A fish of the genus Coryphæna. See Dolphin. (2)


word: Corypheus
definition:
Corypheus

Cor`y*phe"us
(k?r`?-f?"?s)
n.
pl. E. Corypheuses (-ĕz), L. Coryphei (-f_;"_;).
[L. coryphaeus, fr. Gr. _;_;_;, fr. koryfh` head.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.

That noted corypheus [Dr. John Owen] of the Independent faction.
South.


word: Coryphodon
definition:
Coryphodon

Co*ryph"o*don
(k?-r?f"?-d?n)
n.
[Gr. koryfh` head, peak + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, tooth.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.


word: Coryphodont
definition:
Coryphodont

Co*ryph"o*dont
(-d?nt)
a.
(Paleon.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.


word: Coscinomancy
definition:
Coscinomancy

Cos*cin"o*man`cy
(k?s-s?n"?-m?n`s? or k?s"s?-n?-)
n.
[Gr. ko`skinon sieve + -mancy.]
Divination by means of a suspended sieve.


word: Coscoroba
definition:
Coscoroba

Cos`co*ro"ba
(k?s`k?-r?"b?)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan.


word: Cosecant
definition:
Cosecant

Co*se"cant
(k?-s?"k?nt)
n.
[For co. secans, an abbrev. of L. complementi secans.]
(Trig.)
The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.


word: Cosening
definition:
Cosening

Cos"en*ing
n.
(O. Eng. Law)
Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.
Burrill.


word: cosh
definition:
cosh

cosh
n.
a piece of leather-covered metal with a flexible handle; used for hitting people.
[slang]

Syn. -- blackjack, sap.


word: Cosher
definition:
Cosher

Cosh"er
(k?sh"?r)
v. t.
[Ir. cosair a feast, a banquet? or cf. F. coucher to lie. Cf. Couch, Coshering.]
1.
(Old Law)
To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.

2.
To treat with hospitality; to pet.
[Ireland]


word: Coshering
definition:
Coshering

Cosh"er*ing
n.
(Old Law)
A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
Burrill.

Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful lord.
Macaulay.


word: Cosier
definition:
Cosier

Co"sier
(k?"zh?r)
n.
[Cf. OF. coussier maker of mattresses; or couseor tailor, fr. OF. & F. coudre, p. p. cousu to sew, fr. L. consuere to sew together; con- + seure to sew. See Sew to stitch.]
A tailor who botches his work.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Cosignificative
definition:
Cosignificative

Co`sig*nif"i*ca*tive
(k_;`s_;g-n_;f"_;-k_;-t_;v)
a.
Having the same signification.
Cockerham.


word: Cosignitary
definition:
Cosignitary

Co*sig"ni*ta*ry
(k?-s?g"n?-t?-r?)
a.
[Pref. co- + sign. Cf. Signatory.]
Signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers.


word: Cosignitary₂
definition:
Cosignitary

Co*sig"ni*ta*ry
n.
pl. Cosignitaries (-r_;z).
One who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of Berlin.


word: Cosinage
definition:
Cosinage

Cos"in*age
(k?s"'n-?j)
n.
[See Cousinage.]
(Law)
(a)
Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
Burrill.
(b)
A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.
Blackstone.


word: Cosine
definition:
Cosine

Co"sine
(k?"s?n)
n.
[For co. sinus, an abbrev. of L. complementi sinus.]
(Trig.)
The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.


word: Cosmetical
definition:
Cosmetical

Cosmetic

{ Cos*met"ic (k?z-m?t"?k), Cos*met"ic*al (-?-kal), }
a.
[Gr. kosmitiko`s skilled in decorating, fr. ko`smos order, ornament: cf. F. cosmétique. See Cosmos.]
Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation.

First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores,
With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers.
Pope.


word: Cosmical
definition:
Cosmical

Cosmic

{ Cos"mic (k?z"m?k), Cos"mic*al (-m?-kal), }
a.
[Gr. kosmiko`s of the world, fr. ko`smos: cf. F.  cosmique. See Cosmos.]
1.
Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.

2.
Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone.

3.
Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed.
Cosmic
Tyndall.

4.
(Astron.)
Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.

5.
of unsurpassed size, extent, or significance; vast; as, of cosmic proportions; of cosmic importance.


word: Cosmically
definition:
Cosmically

Cos"mic*al*ly
adv.
1.
With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.

2.
Universally.
[R.]
Emerson.


word: Cosmogonical
definition:
Cosmogonical

Cosmogonic

Cosmogonal

{ Cos*mog"o*nal (k?z-m?g"?-nal), Cos`mo*gon"ic (k?z`m?-g?n"?k), Cos`mo*gon"ic*al (-g?n"?-kal), }
a.
Belonging to cosmogony.
B. Powell. Gladstone.


word: Cosmogonist
definition:
Cosmogonist

Cos*mog"o*nist
(k?z-m?g"?-n?st)
n.
One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.


word: Cosmogony
definition:
Cosmogony

Cos*mog"o*ny
(-n?)
n.
pl. Cosmogonies (-n_;z).
[Gr. kosmogoni`a; ko`smos the world + root of gi`gnesthai to be born: cf. F. cosmogonie.]
The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato.

The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages.
Goldsmith.


word: Cosmographer
definition:
Cosmographer

Cos*mog"ra*pher
(-r?-f?r)
n.
One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.

The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers.
Robynson (More's Utopia).


word: Cosmographical
definition:
Cosmographical

Cosmographic

{ Cos`mo*graph"ic (k?z`m?-gr?f"?k), Cos`mo*graph"ic*al (-?-kal), }
a.
[Cf. F. cosmographique.]
Of or pertaining to cosmography.


word: Cosmographically
definition:
Cosmographically

Cos`mo*graph"ic*al*ly
adv.
In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.


word: Cosmography
definition:
Cosmography

Cos*mog"ra*phy
(k?z-m?g"r?-f?)
n.
pl. Cosmographies (-f_;z).
[Gr. kosmografi`a; ko`smos the world + gra`fein to write: cf. F. cosmographie.]
A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.


word: Cosmolabe
definition:
Cosmolabe

Cos"mo*labe
(k?z"m?-l?b)
n.
[Gr. ko`smos the world + lamba`nein to take: cf. F. cosmolade.]
An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.


word: Cosmolatry
definition:
Cosmolatry

Cos*mol"a*try
(k?z-m?l"?-tr?)
n.
[Gr. ko`smos the world + latre`yein to worship.]
Worship paid to the world.
Cudworth.


word: Cosmoline
definition:
Cosmoline

Cos"mo*line
(k?z"m?-l?n)
n.
[Prob. fr. cosmetic + L. oleum oil.]
(Chem.)
A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.


word: Cosmologist
definition:
Cosmologist

Cos*mol"o*gist
(k?z-m?l"?-j?st)
n.
One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.


word: cosmology
definition:
cosmology

cos*mol"o*gy
(k&obreve_;z*m&obreve_;l"o̝*j&ybreve_;)
n.
[Gr. ko`smos the world + -logy: cf. F. cosmologie.]
1.
The branch of science or philosophy dealing with the origin and nature of the universe as a whole.
specifically
(a)
(Philosophy)
the branch of metaphysics speculating on the structure and nature of the most fundamental parts of the system of creation, such as space and time, the elements of bodies, the structure of the universe, the modifications of material things, causality, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
(b)
(Astronomy)
the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and structure of the universe, including the evolution of its present observable structure, using the methods of observational astronomy as well as mathematical physics.

2.
a treatise dealing with the original and structure of the universe.


word: Cosmometry
definition:
Cosmometry

Cos*mom"e*try
(k?z-m?m"?-tr?)
n.
[Gr. ko`smos the world + -metry.]
The art of measuring the world or the universe.
Blount.


word: cosmonaut
definition:
cosmonaut

cosmonaut
n.
[Russ. kosmonavt from kosmos universe.]
an astronaut; -- a term used by the Soviets and Russians.

Syn. -- astronaut, spaceman.


word: Cosmoplastic
definition:
Cosmoplastic

Cos`mo*plas"tic
(k?z`m?-pl?s"t?k)
a.
[Gr. ko`smos the world + pla`ssein to form.]
Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.
Cosmoplastic
Gudworth.


word: Cosmopolite
definition:
Cosmopolite

Cosmopolitan

{ Cos`mo*pol"i*tan (-p?l"?-tan), Cos*mop"o*lite (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), }
n.
[Gr. kosmopoli`ths; ko`smos the world + poli`ths citizen, po`lis city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.]
One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.


word: Cosmopolite₂
definition:
Cosmopolite

Cosmopolitan

{ Cos`mo*pol"i*tan, Cos*mop"o*lite, }
a.
1.
Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.

In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite.
Sir W. Hamilton.

2.
Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.

The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan.
R. Owen.


word: Cosmopolitanism
definition:
Cosmopolitanism

Cos`mo*pol"i*tan*ism
(k?z`m?-p?l"?-tan-?z'm)
n.
The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.


word: Cosmopolitical
definition:
Cosmopolitical

Cos`mo*po*lit"ic*al
(k?z`m?-p?-l?t"?-kal)
a.
Having the character of a cosmopolite.
[R.]
Hackluyt.


word: Cosmopolitism
definition:
Cosmopolitism

Cos*mop"o*li*tism
(k?z-m?p"?-l?-t?z'm)
n.
The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.


word: Cosmorama
definition:
Cosmorama

Cos`mo*ra"ma
(k?z`m?-r?"m? or -r?"m?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ko`smos the world + "o`rama a sight, spectacle, fr. "ora^n to see.]
An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality.


word: Cosmos
definition:
Cosmos

Cos"mos
(k&obreve_;z"m&obreve_;s)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ko`smos order, harmony, the world (from its perfect order and arrangement); akin to Skr. çad to distinguish one's self.]

1.
The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.

2.
The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.
Humboldt.


word: Cosmos₂
definition:
Cosmos

Cos"mos
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens, usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays.  They are natives of the warmer parts of America, and many species are cultivated.  Cosmos bipinnatus and Cosmos diversifolius are among the best-known species; Cosmos caudatus, of the West Indies, is widely naturalized.


word: Cosmosphere
definition:
Cosmosphere

Cos"mo*sphere
(k&obreve_;z"m?-sf?r)
n.
[Gr. ko`smos the world + E. sphere.]
An apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.


word: Cosmotheism
definition:
Cosmotheism

Cos"mo*the`ism
(k?z"m?-th?`?z'm)
n.
[Gr. ko`smos the world + _;_;_; god.]
Same as Pantheism.
[R.]


word: Cosmothetic
definition:
Cosmothetic

Cos`mo*thet"ic
(k?z`m?-th?t"?k)
a.
[Gr. ko`smos universe + _;_;_; to place or arrange.]
(Metaph.)
Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.

Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance.

The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Coss
definition:
Coss

Coss
(k&obreve_;s)
n.
[Cf. Pers. k&omacrs a road measure of about two miles; or Skr. kr&omacrça.]
A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.
Whitworth.


word: Coss₂
definition:
Coss

Coss
n.
[It. cosa.]
A thing (only in phrase below).

Rule of Coss, an old name for Algebra. [It. regola di cosa rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the cosa, or the thing.]


word: Cossack
definition:
Cossack

Cos"sack
(k?s"s?k)
n.
[Russ. kozak', kazak': cf. Turk. kazāk.]
One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.


word: Cossack post
definition:
Cossack post

Cos"sack post
(Mil.)
An outpost consisting of four men, forming one of a single line of posts substituted for the more formal line of sentinels and line of pickets.


word: Cosset
definition:
Cosset

Cos"set
(k?s"s?t)
n.
[Cf. AS.  cotsetla cottager, G. kossat, kothsasse, fr. kot, koth E. (cot) hut, and cf. also E. cade, a., cot a cade lamb.]
A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.


word: Cosset₂
definition:
Cosset

Cos"set
v. t.
To treat as a pet; to fondle.

She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of.
O. W. Holmes.


word: Cossette
definition:
Cossette

Cos*sette"
(?)
n.
[F.]
One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.


word: Cossical
definition:
Cossical

Cossic

{ Cos"sic (k?s"s?k), Cos"sic*al (-s?-kal), }
a.
[It. cossico. See 2d Coss.]
Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art.
[Obs.]
cossical
Digges (1579).


word: Cost
definition:
Cost

Cost
(k&obreve_;st; 115)
n.
[L. costa rib. See Coast.]
1.
A rib; a side; a region or coast.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.

Betwixt the costs of a ship.
B. Jonson.

2.
(Her.)
See Cottise.


word: Cost₂
definition:
Cost

Cost
(k&obreve_;st; 115)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cost; p. pr. & vb. n. Costing.]
[OF. coster, couster, F.  coûter, fr. L. constare to stand at, to cost; con- + stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constant.]
1.
To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.

A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats.
Shak.

Though it cost me ten nights' watchings.
Shak.

2.
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.
Milton.

To cost dear, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.


word: Cost₃
definition:
Cost

Cost
n.
[OF. cost, F. coût. See Cost, v. t. ]
1.
The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.

One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you,
Here at my house, and at my proper cost.
Shak.

At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion.
Prescott.

2.
Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

I know thy trains,
Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils.
Milton.

3.
pl.
(Law)
Expenses incurred in litigation.

&hand_; Costs in actions or suits are either between attorney and client, being what are payable in every case to the attorney or counsel by his client whether he ultimately succeed or not, or between party and party, being those which the law gives, or the court in its discretion decrees, to the prevailing, against the losing, party.

Bill of costs. See under Bill. -- Cost free, without outlay or expense. “Her duties being to talk French, and her privileges to live cost free and to gather scraps of knowledge.”  Thackeray.


word: Costa
definition:
Costa

Cos"ta
(k&obreve_;s"tȧ)
n.
[L., rib. See Coast.]
1.
(Anat.)
A rib of an animal or a human being.

2.
(Bot.)
A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.

3.
(Zool.)
(a)
The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
(b)
One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.


word: Costal
definition:
Costal

Cos"tal
(k?s"tal)
a.
[Cf. F. costal. See Costa.]
1.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.

2.
(Bot. & Zool.)
Relating to a costa, or rib.

Costal cartilage. See Cartilage, and Illust. of Thorax.


word: Costal-nerved
definition:
Costal-nerved

Cos"tal-nerved`
(k?s"tal-n?rvd`)
a.
(Bot.)
Having the nerves spring from the midrib.


word: co-star
definition:
co-star

co-star
v. t.
to feature as the co-star in a performance; as, the film co-starred Robin Williams as the psychiatrist.


word: co-star₂
definition:
co-star

co-star
v. i.
to be the co-star in a performance; as, Robin Williams co-starred in the film.


word: Costard
definition:
Costard

Cos"tard
(k?s"t?rd)
n.
[Prob. fr. OF. coste rib, side, F. côte, and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its sides. See Coast.]
1.
An apple, large and round like the head.

Some [apples] consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters.
Muffett.

2.
The head; -- used contemptuously.

Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder.
Shak.


word: Costated
definition:
Costated

Costate

{ Cos"tate (k?s"t?t), Cos"ta*ted (-t?-t?d), }
a.
[L. costatus, fr. costa rib.]
Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.


word: Costean
definition:
Costean

Cos"tean`
(k?s"t?n`)
v. i.
[Cornish cothas dropped + stean tin.]
To search after lodes. See Costeaning.


word: Costeaning
definition:
Costeaning

Cos"tean`ing
n.
The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.


word: Coster
definition:
Coster

Cos"ter
(k?s"t?r)
n.
[Abbrev. of costermonger.]
One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.


word: Costermonger
definition:
Costermonger

Cos"ter*mon`ger
(k?s"t?r-m?n`g?r)
n.
[See Costard.]
An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.
[Written also costardmonger.]


word: Costiferous
definition:
Costiferous

Cos*tif"er*ous
(k?s-t?f"?r-?s)
a.
[Costa + -ferous.]
(Anat.)
Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebræ.


word: Costive
definition:
Costive

Cos"tive
(k?s"t?v)
a.
[OF. costevé, p. p. of costever, F.  constiper, L. constipare to press closely together, to cram; con- + stipare to press together, cram. See Stipulate, Stiff, and cf. Constipate.]
1.
Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

2.
Reserved; formal; close; cold.
[Obs.]
costive
Prior.
Costive
B. Jonson.

You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being costive.
Lord Chesterfield.

3.
Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
[Obs.]

Clay in dry seasons is costive, hardening with the sun and wind.
Mortimer.


word: Costiveness
definition:
Costiveness

Cos"tive*ness
n.
1.
An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

2.
Inability to express one's self; stiffness.
[Obs.]

A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself.
Wakefield.


word: Costly
definition:
Costly

Cost"ly
(k?st"l?; 115)
a.
[From Cost expense.]

1.
Of great cost; expensive; dear.

He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess.
Prescott.

2.
Gorgeous; sumptuous.
[Poetic.]

To show how costly summer was at hand.
Shak.


word: Costmary
definition:
Costmary

Cost"ma*ry
(k?st"m?-r?)
n.
[L. costum an Oriental aromatic plant (Gr. _;_;_;, cf. Ar. kost, kust) + Maria Mary. Cf. Alecost.]
(Bot.)
A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.


word: Coston lights
definition:
Coston lights

Cos"ton lights
(?)
Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.


word: Costotome
definition:
Costotome

Cos"to*tome
(k?s"t?-t?m)
n.
[Costa + Gr. _;_;_;_; to cut.]
An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections.
Knight.


word: cost-plus
definition:
cost-plus

cost-plus
adj.
determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit; as, a cost-plus government contract.


word: Costrel
definition:
Costrel

Cos"trel
(k?s"tr?l)
n.
[CF. W. costrel, OF.  costrel, LL.  costrellum, a liquid measure, costrellus a wine cup.]
A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
[Archaic]

A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore
The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine.
Tennyson.


word: Costume
definition:
Costume

Cos"tume`
(k?s"t?m` or k?s-t?m")
n.
[F. costume, It. costume custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen (not found), for consuetudo custom. See Custom, and cf. Consuetude.]
1.
Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.

2.
Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.

I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable.
Sir J. Mackintosh.

3.
A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.


word: Costumer
definition:
Costumer

Cos"tum`er
(-t?m`?r)
n.
One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.


word: costusroot
definition:
costusroot

costusroot
n.
an annual herb (Saussurea costus) of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs.

Syn. -- Saussurea costus, Saussurea lappa.


word: Cot
definition:
Cot

Cot
(k&obreve_;t)
n.
[OE. cot, cote, AS. cot, cote, cottage; akin to D. & Icel. kot, G.  koth, kot, kothe. Cf. Coat.]
1.
A small house; a cottage or hut.

The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm.
Goldsmith.

2.
A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.

3.
A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.  See also finger cot.

4.
[Cf. Ir. cot.]
A small, rudely-formed boat.

Bell cot. (Arch.) See under Bell.


word: Cot₂
definition:
Cot

Cot
(k&obreve_;t)
n.
[AS. cot cottage, bedchamber; or cf. OF. coite, F. couette (E. quilt), LL. cottum, cottus, mattress. See Cot a cottage.]
A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.
[Written also cott.]


word: Cotangent
definition:
Cotangent

Co*tan"gent
(k?-t?n"jent)
n.
[For co. tangens, an abbrev. of L. complementi tangens. See Tangent.]
(Trig.)
The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.


word: Cotarnine
definition:
Cotarnine

Co*tar"nine
(k?-t?r"n?n or -n?n)
n.
[F., fr. narcotine, by transposition of letters.]
(Chem.)
A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.


word: Cote
definition:
Cote

Cote
(k&omacrt)
n.
[See 1st Cot.]
1.
A cottage or hut.
[Obs.]

2.
A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves.

Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve,
In hurdled cotes.
Milton.


word: Cote₂
definition:
Cote

Cote
v. t.
[Prob. from F. côté side, OF. costet, LL. costatus, costatum, fr. L. costu rib, side: cf. F. côtoyer to go or keep at the side of. See Coast.]
To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare.
[Obs.]
Drayton.

We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
Shak.


word: Coteau
definition:
Coteau

Co`teau"
(?)
n.
pl. Coteaux (#)
[F., a hill.]
[Canada & U. S.]
1.
A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide.

2.
The side of a valley.


word: Cotemporaneous
definition:
Cotemporaneous

Co*tem`po*ra"ne*ous
(k?-t?m`p?-r?"n?-?s)
a.
[See Contemporaneous.]
Living or being at the same time; contemporaneous.
Co*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Co*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.


word: Cotemporary₂
definition:
Cotemporary

Co*tem"po*ra*ry
n.
pl. Cotemporaries (-rĭz).
One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.


word: Coterie
definition:
Coterie

Co`te*rie"
(k?`te-r?"; 277)
n.
[F., prob. from OF. coterie servile tenure, fr. colier cotter; of German origin. See 1st Cot.]
A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique.
coterie
Thackeray.


word: Coterminous
definition:
Coterminous

Co*ter"mi*nous
(k?-t?r"m?-n?s)
a.
[Cf.  Conterminous.]
Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.


word: Cothurn
definition:
Cothurn

Co"thurn
(k?"th?rn)
n.
[L. cothurnus, Gr. _;_;_;_;. Cf.  Cothurnus.]
A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general.

The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might be assumed with effect.
Motley.


word: Cothurnated
definition:
Cothurnated

Cothurnate

{ Co*thur"nate (k?-th?r"n?t), Co*thur"na*ted (-n?-t?d), }
a.
1.
Wearing a cothurn.

2.
Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.


word: Coticular
definition:
Coticular

Co*tic"u*lar
(k?-t?k"?-l?r)
a.
[L. coticula a small touchstone, dim. cos, cotis, whetstone.]
Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.


word: Cotidal
definition:
Cotidal

Co*tid"al
(k?-t?d"al)
a.
Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.

Cotidal lines (Phys. Geog.), lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.


word: Cotillion
definition:
Cotillion

Cotillon

{ &VerbarCo`til`lon" (ko̝`te̝`yôN" or ko̝`te̝l`-; 277), Co*til"lion (ko̝*tĭl"yŭn), }
n.
[F.  cotillon, fr. OF. cote coat, LL. cotta tunic. See Coat.]
1.
A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

2.
A tune which regulates the dance.

3.
A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.
4.
A formal ball, especially one at which debutantes are first presented to society.


word: Cotinga
definition:
Cotinga

Co*tin"ga
(ko̝*te̝&nsmacr_;"gȧ)
n.
[Native South American name.]
(Zool.)
A bird of the family Cotingidæ, including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.


word: Cotland
definition:
Cotland

Cot"land
(k?t"l?nd)
n.
Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.


word: Cotquean
definition:
Cotquean

Cot"quean`
(k?t"kw?n`)
n.
[Cot a cottage + quean.]

1.
A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women.
Addison.

2.
A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy.
[Obs.]

What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face?
We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures.
B. Jonson.


word: Cotqueanity
definition:
Cotqueanity

Cot*quean"i*ty
(k?t-kw?n"?-t?)
n.
The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Cotswold
definition:
Cotswold

Cots"wold`
(k?ts"w?ld`)
n.
[Cot a cottage or hut + wold an open country.]
An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.

Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.


word: Cotta
definition:
Cotta

Cot"ta
(?)
n.
[LL. See Coat.]
1.
(Eccl.)
A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.

2.
A kind of very coarse woolen blanket.


word: Cottage
definition:
Cottage

Cot"tage
(k?t"t?j; 48)
n.
[From Cot a cottage.]
A small house; a cot; a hut.

&hand_; The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size.

Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [Eng.] -- Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.


word: Cottaged
definition:
Cottaged

Cot"taged
(-t?jd)
a.
Set or covered with cottages.

Even humble Harting's cottaged vale.
Collins.


word: Cottagely
definition:
Cottagely

Cot"tage*ly
(-t?j-l?)
a.
Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Cottager
definition:
Cottager

Cot"ta*ger
(k?t"t?-j?r)
n.
1.
One who lives in a cottage.

2.
(Law)
One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.


word: Cottar
definition:
Cottar

Cotter

{ Cot"ter, Cot"tar  }
(k?t"t?r)
n.
[LL. cotarius, cottarius, coterius. See Cot.]
A cottager; a cottier.
Burns.

Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang
Good morrow to the cotter.
Whittier.


word: Cotter
definition:
Cotter

Cot"ter
(k&obreve_;t"tẽr)
n.
1.
A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.

2.
A toggle.


word: Cottier
definition:
Cottier

Cot"ti*er
(-tĭ*ẽr)
n.
[OF. cotier. See Coterie, and cf. Cotter.]
In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.
[Written also cottar and cotter.]


word: Cottise
definition:
Cottise

Cot"tise
(k&obreve_;t"tĭs)
n.
[Cf. F. côté side, L. costa rib.]
(Her.)
A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.


word: Cottised
definition:
Cottised

Cot"tised
(-t?st)
a.
(Her.)
Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.


word: Cottoid
definition:
Cottoid

Cot"toid
(k?t"toid)
a.
[NL. cottus sculpin + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like a fish of the genus Cottus.
n. A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.


word: Cotton
definition:
Cotton

Cot"ton
(k&obreve_;t"t'n)
n.
[F. coton, Sp. algodon the cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. Acton, Hacqueton.]
1.
A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

2.
The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

3.
Cloth made of cotton.

&hand_; Cotton is used as an adjective before many nouns in a sense which commonly needs no explanation; as, cotton bagging; cotton cloth; cotton goods; cotton industry; cotton mill; cotton spinning; cotton tick.

Cotton cambric. See Cambric, n., 2. -- Cotton flannel, the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it is called swan's-down cotton, or Canton flannel. -- Cotton gin, a machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by Eli Whitney. -- Cotton grass (Bot.), a genus of plants (Eriphorum) of the Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles surrounding the fruit (seedlike achenia), which elongate at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton. -- Cotton mouse (Zool.), a field mouse (Hesperomys gossypinus), injurious to cotton crops. -- Cotton plant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce.  The common species, originally Asiatic, is Gossypium herbaceum. -- Cotton press, a building and machinery in which cotton bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment; a press for baling cotton. -- Cotton rose (Bot.), a genus of composite herbs (Filago), covered with a white substance resembling cotton. -- Cotton scale (Zool.), a species of bark louse (Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to the cotton plant. -- Cotton shrub. Same as Cotton plant. -- Cotton stainer (Zool.), a species of hemipterous insect (Dysdercus suturellus), which seriously damages growing cotton by staining it; -- called also redbug. -- Cotton thistle (Bot.), the Scotch thistle. See under Thistle. -- Cotton velvet, velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk; also, velvet made wholly of cotton. -- Cotton waste, the refuse of cotton mills. -- Cotton wool, cotton in its raw or woolly state. -- Cotton worm (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect (Aletia argillacea), which in the larval state does great damage to the cotton plant by eating the leaves. It also feeds on corn, etc., and hence is often called corn worm, and Southern army worm.


word: Cotton₂
definition:
Cotton

Cot"ton
v. i.
1.
To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
[Obs.]

It cottons well; it can not choose but bear
A pretty nap.
Family of Love.

2.
To go on prosperously; to succeed.
[Obs.]

New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would?
Lyly.

3.
To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
[Colloq.]

A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another.
Swift.

Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion?
Sir W. Scott.

4.
To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
[Slang]


word: Cottonade
definition:
Cottonade

Cot"ton*ade`
(k?t"t'n-?d`)
n.
[F. cottonade.]
A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.


word: Cottonary
definition:
Cottonary

Cot"ton*a*ry
(-?-r?)
a.
Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.
[Obs.]

Cottonary and woolly pillows.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Cotton batting
definition:
Cotton batting

Cot"ton bat"ting
Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.


word: cottonmouth
definition:
cottonmouth

cottonmouth
n.
venomous semiaquatic snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus) of swamps in southern U.S.; -- called also water moccasin, cottonmouth moccasin, and cottonmouth water moccasin.  It grows to a length of about 4 feet.  The name refers to the whiteness of the lips and inside of the mouth.

Syn. -- water moccasin, cottonmouth moccasin, Agkistrodon piscivorus.


word: cottonseed
definition:
cottonseed

cotton seed

{ cotton seed, or , usually collectively, cot"ton*seed`  }
(?)
n.
The seed of the cotton plant.


word: Cottonseed meal
definition:
Cottonseed meal

Cottonseed meal
A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.


word: Cottonseed oil
definition:
Cottonseed oil

Cottonseed oil
A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.


word: Cottontail
definition:
Cottontail

Cot"ton*tail`
(k&obreve_;t"t'n*tāl`)
n.
(Zool.)
The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.


word: cottonwick
definition:
cottonwick

cottonwick
n.
a type of grunt (Haemulon melanurum) of warm Atlantic waters.

Syn. -- Haemulon melanurum.


word: Cottonwood
definition:
Cottonwood

Cot"ton*wood`
(-wŏd`)
n.
(Bot.)
An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the Populus monilifera and Populus angustifolia of the Western United States.


word: Cottony
definition:
Cottony

Cot"ton*y
(-?)
a.
1.
Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

2.
Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.


word: Cotyle
definition:
Cotyle

Cotyla

{ Cot"y*la (k?t"?-l?), Cot"y*le (k?t"?-l?), }
n.
[Gr. _;_;_; anything hollow, cup of a joint, small meassure: cf. L.  cotyla a measure.]
(Anat.)
A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.


word: Cotyledon
definition:
Cotyledon

Cot`y*le"don
(k?t`?-l?"d?n)
n.
[Gr._;_;_; a cupshaped hollow, fr. _;_;_;. See Cotyle.]
1.
(Anat.)
One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.

2.
(Bot.)
A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

&hand_; Many plants, as the bean and the maple, have two cotyledons, the grasses only one, and pines have several. In one African plant (Welwitschia) the cotyledons are permanent and grow to immense proportions.


word: Cotyledonary
definition:
Cotyledonary

Cot`y*led"on*a*ry
(-?-r?)
a.
Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.


word: Cotyledonous
definition:
Cotyledonous

Cot`y*led"on*ous
(-?s; 277)
a.
Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.


word: Cotyliform
definition:
Cotyliform

Co*tyl"i*form
(k?-t?l"?-f?rm)
a.
[Cotyle + -form.]
(Zool.)
Shaped like a cotyle or a cup.


word: cotyloidal
definition:
cotyloidal

cotyloid

cot"y*loid, cotyloidal
(k?t"?-loid)
a.
[Cotyle + -oid]
(Anat.)
(a)
Shaped like a cup; cup-shaped; as, the cotyloid cavity, the cup-shaped socket which receives the head of the thigh bone.
(b)
Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.

Syn. -- acetabular, cotyloid.


word: Coucal
definition:
Coucal

Cou"cal
(k??"k?l)
n.
[Prob. native name.]
(Zool.)
A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.


word: Couch
definition:
Couch

Couch
(kouch)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Couched (koucht); p. pr. & vb. n. Couching.]
[F. coucher to lay down, lie down, OF. colchier, fr. L.  collocare to lay, put, place; col- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See Locus.]

1.
To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain,
Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
Shak.

2.
To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity.
T. Burnet.

3.
To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.
Bacon.

4.
(Paper Making)
To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

5.
To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory.
L'Estrange.

6.
To arrange; to place; to inlay.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

7.
To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.

A well-couched invective.
Milton.

I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms.
Blackw. Mag.

8.
(Med.)
To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

To couch a spear or To couch a lance, to lower to the position of attack; to place in rest.

He stooped his head, and couched his spear,
And spurred his steed to full career.
Sir W. Scott.

To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. Mortimer.


word: Couch₂
definition:
Couch

Couch
v. i.
1.
To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.

Where souls do couch on flowers, we 'll hand in hand.
Shak.

If I court moe women, you 'll couch with moe men.
Shak.

2.
To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.

We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies.
Shak.

The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture.
I. Taylor.

3.
To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
[Obs.]

An aged squire
That seemed to couch under his shield three-square.
Spenser.


word: Couch₃
definition:
Couch

Couch
n.
[F.  couche, OF. colche, culche, fr. colchier. See Couch, v. t. ]
1.
A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.

Gentle sleep . . . why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch?
Shak.

Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Bryant.

2.
Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

3.
A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

4.
(Painting & Gilding)
A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.


word: Couchant
definition:
Couchant

Couch"ant
(kouch"ant)
a.
[F., p. pr. of coucher. See Couch, v. t.]
1.
Lying down with head erect; squatting.

2.
(Her.)
Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast.

Couchant and levant (Law), rising up and lying down; -- said of beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise up to feed, -- such time being held to include a day and night at the least. Blackstone.


word: Couche
definition:
Couche

Cou`ché"
(k??`sh?")
a.
[F., p. p.  of coucher. See Couch, v. t. ]
(Her.)
(a)
Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.
(b)
Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.


word: Couchee
definition:
Couchee

Cou"chee
(k??"sh?; F. k??"sh?")
n.
[F. couch_;e a sleeping place from coucher. See Couch, v. t. ]
A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince.
[Obs.]
Dryden.
The duke's levees and couchees were so crowded that the antechambers were full.
Bp. Burnet.


word: Coucher
definition:
Coucher

Couch"er
(kouch"?r)
n.
1.
One who couches.

2.
(Paper Manuf.)
One who couches paper.

3.
[Cf. L. collectarius.]
(O. Eng. Law)
(a)
A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.
Blount.
(b)
The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
[Obs.]
Cowell.


word: Couching
definition:
Couching

Couch"ing
n.
1.
(Med.)
The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

2.
Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.


word: Coudee
definition:
Coudee

Cou"dee
(k??"d?; F. k??`d?")
n.
[F. coud_;e, from coude elbow.]
A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.


word: Cougar
definition:
Cougar

Cou"gar
(k??"g?r)
n.
[F.  couguar, from the native name in the South American dialects, cuguacuara, cuguacuarana.]
(Zool.)
An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.


