Coffers
The famed sorcerous vault beneath the Library of Sauglish , housing the legendary treasury of the School of Sohonc . It was destroyed together with the Library of Sauglish in the First Apocalypse . The entrance to the Coffers is a great sorcerous lock formed by Quya magic and known as the Great Gate of Wheels.

Coithus
"Coithus Saubon" Coithus Saubon is the seventh son of King Coithus Eryeat of Galeoth and titular leader of the Galeoth contingent of the Holy War .

Appearance

Saubon is strong-jawed and bard-handsome. He has short-cropped, reddish-blond hair. He is not quite as tall as Anasûrimbor Kellhus , but stockier.

Personality

Saubon is highly insecure; he is obsessed with what other people think of him.

What came before

Saubon commanded the army his father sent against the Nansurium several years prior to the Holy War . He managed several success until Ikurei Conphas was appointed Exalt-General, at which time Conphas defeated and humiliated him.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Galeoth troops under Coithus Saubon raid and cut down the inhabitants of a village near Pasna in retaliation for the Emperor's refusal to provision the Holy War. When the Great Names gather before the Emperor to settle the issue of who will lead the host of the Holy War, Saubon sides with Nersei Proyas in choosing the Scylvendi Cnaiür urs Skiötha over Ikurei Conphas.

The Warrior-Prophet

Saubon seeks Kellhus' council about whether to march on Gedea or wait for the Ainoni host and the Scarlet Spires . Kellhus tells him to march and that the Whore will be kind to him so long as the Shrial Knights are punished. Saubon splits from the rest of Holy War along with Hoga Gothyelk 's Tydonni , the Thunyeri , and the Shrial Knights. Gothyelk's recklessness soon enfuriates Saubon, and the two men nearly come to blows. The Tydonni and Thunyeri follow Gothyelk as he splits from Saubon's host. As Saubon draws near Gedea, he laments that his forces are outnumbered and poorly prepared for the battle ahead. He inwardly rails that no one knows him and curses the various circumstances that led him to this moment. He starts to doubt Kellhus's legitimacy and wonders at the Dunyain's message to "punish" the Shrial Knights. He asks his groom Kussalt about how sacrifice is perceived in The Tractate , but is offended by Kussalt's blunt response. Saubon eventually realizes that Gothyelk's men are close by, and the Kianene are trying to prevent them from joining forces. Saubon and Gothyelk reunite and attack the Kianene at Gedea in the Fifth Battle of Mengedda . Saubon then defeats the Fanim host just as Kellhus predicted. When the Holy War reaches Caraskand , Saubon asks Proyas to support his bid to become King of Caraskand in case he delivers the city to the Inrithi . The Holy War sacks the city and Saubon becomes the titular King of Caraskand.

The Thousandfold Thought

The Holy War departs from Caraskand, but Saubon, as King, stays behind.

The Judging Eye

Coithus Saubon leads the Great Ordeal as one of its two Exalt-Generals.

The White-Luck Warrior

At the Eleventh Council of Potentates, Anasûrimbor Kellhus declares the breaking of the Great Ordeal and King Saubon is charged with leading the Ketyai of the West.

The Great Ordeal

As one of the Exalt Generals, Saubon meets often with Anasûrimbor Kellhus alone like Proyas. Saubon counsels Proyas as he lost certainty in the righteousness of Anasûrimbor Kellhus as a holy prophet to not despair that yes, the great ordeal is just a calculation to the Dunyain and he is testing them, preparing them for a crisis. That everything is theatre but to trust in Kellhus's power and intellect to lead them to victory. Saubon was extremely disturbed to learn of the buggering and that Kellhus admitted he was mad. It seemed to both Saubon and Proyas that this was Saubon's test since as a Galeoth, they abhor sodomy. Saubon blames it on eating the Sranc meat and states they must continue to act even without belief. Saubon leads the Company of the Raft to protect Kellhus at Dagliash from the Horde. When he sees the overwhelming Sranc and enemies, he fathoms the enormity of the gift of death. He then realizes he does believe in the Holy Aspect-Emperor and implores his men to praise him as they are overwhelmed on the tower at Kurwachal.

Coithus Saubon

Title(s): Prince King Exalt-General
Aliases: The Blond Beast
Lived: 4069 - 4132
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Prince of Galeoth King of Caraskand Exalt-General of the Great Ordeal
Relatives: Eryeat (father) Narnol (brother) Asilda (sister) Athjeäri (nephew) Miramis (niece) Agabon (nephew) Xinemus (great-nephew) Thaila (great-niece)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye

Coithus Saubon

Coithus Agabon
Ordealman, youngest son of Coithus Narnol.

Coithus Asilda
Daughter of Coithus Eryeat, sister to Narnol and Saubon and mother of Athjeäri.

Coithus Athjeari
Coithus Athjeäri is the Galeoth Earl of Gaenri , and nephew to Coithus Saubon . Considered the eyes of the Holy War, he would ride out ahead with his men and report back against the Fanim .

The Thousandfold Thought

As the Holy War was slowly approaching Shimeh , Fanayal ab Kascamandri took to the field with his Coyauri and hand-pick Grandees to hunt down that who they called Hurall’arkeet. Cinganjehoi ab Sakjal was ordered to ride with his Eumarnans south in an attempt to try and intercept and ambush Athjeäri and his raiding forces.

The Battle at Madas

Lying in ambush with his forces, Cinganjehoi engaged the Gaenri. Though outnumbered 10 to 1 they met Cinganjehoi’s men in battle. During the fight the son of Seleukaran Grandee stabbed Athjeäri in his face, delivering a fatal blow. At great cost his body is recovered by his men.

Coithus Athjeäri

Title(s): Earl of Gaenri
Aliases: Hurall’arkeet Wind Has Teeth
Lived: 4089 - 4112
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Gaenri
Relatives: Eryeat (grandfather) Narnol (uncle) Saubon (uncle) Asilda (mother) Agabon (cousin)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought

Coithus Athjeäri

Coithus Athjeäri
Coithus Athjeäri is the Galeoth Earl of Gaenri , and nephew to Coithus Saubon . Considered the eyes of the Holy War, he would ride out ahead with his men and report back against the Fanim .

The Thousandfold Thought

The Battle at Madas

Coithus Athjeäri

Coithus Eryeat
Coithus Eryeat is the King of Galeoth , and father of Coithus Saubon .

Coithus Eryeat

Title(s): King
Lived: 4038 - 4116
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: King of Galeoth
Relatives: Narnol (son) Saubon (son) Asilda (daughter) Athjeäri (grandson) Miramis (granddaughter) Agabon (grandson) Xinemus (great-grandson) Thaila (great-granddaughter)

Coithus Eryeat

Coithus Narnol
Ordealman, Believer-King of Galeoth, eldest surviving son of Eryeat, brother to Saubon and Asilda.

Coithus Saubon
Coithus Saubon is the seventh son of King Coithus Eryeat of Galeoth and titular leader of the Galeoth contingent of the Holy War .

Appearance

Saubon is strong-jawed and bard-handsome. He has short-cropped, reddish-blond hair. He is not quite as tall as Anasûrimbor Kellhus , but stockier.

Personality

Saubon is highly insecure; he is obsessed with what other people think of him.

What came before

The Darkness That Comes Before

The Warrior-Prophet

The Thousandfold Thought

The Holy War departs from Caraskand, but Saubon, as King, stays behind.

The Judging Eye

Coithus Saubon leads the Great Ordeal as one of its two Exalt-Generals.

The White-Luck Warrior

At the Eleventh Council of Potentates, Anasûrimbor Kellhus declares the breaking of the Great Ordeal and King Saubon is charged with leading the Ketyai of the West.

The Great Ordeal

Coithus Saubon

Cojirani
"Cojirani ab Houk" Cojirani ab Houk is the Grandee of Mizrai , famed for his enormous strength and size, slain by Prince Nersei Proyas at the Battle of Caraskand .

Cojirani ab Houk

Title(s): Grandee
Lived: 4078 - 4112
Race: Men
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Male
Occupation: Grandee of Mizrai
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Cojirani ab Houk

Title(s): Grandee
Lived: 4078 - 4112
Race: Men
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Male
Occupation: Grandee of Mizrai
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Cojirani ab Houk
Cojirani ab Houk is the Grandee of Mizrai , famed for his enormous strength and size, slain by Prince Nersei Proyas at the Battle of Caraskand .

Cojirani ab Houk

Title(s): Grandee
Lived: 4078 - 4112
Race: Men
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Male
Occupation: Grandee of Mizrai
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Cojirani ab Houk

Title(s): Grandee
Lived: 4078 - 4112
Race: Men
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Male
Occupation: Grandee of Mizrai
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Collar
"Agonic Collar" An Agonic Collar is a sorcerous artifact of the Ancient North , reputedly crafted by the Mihtrûlic Gnostic School . According to Mandate scholars, the purpose of the Agonic Collar was analogous to that of the Uroborian Circle utilized by the Anagogic Schools of the Three Seas ; namely, to inflict excruciating pain on the wearer should he attempt to utter any sorcerous incantation.

Column
"Selial Column" The Selial Column is a division of the Imperial Nansur Army, traditionally stationed on the Kianene frontier.

Members

- Baxatas
- Fustaras
- Praxum Bogras

Comes
"Darkness That Comes Before" The Darkness That Comes Before is the first novel in both The Prince of Nothing trilogy and The Second Apocalypse series. It was R. Scott Bakker ’s debut novel and was published in 2003.

Publisher’s Summary

Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in R. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole cloth—its language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals—the kind of all—embracing universe Tolkien and Herbert created unforgettably in the epic fantasies The Lord of the Rings and Dune. It’s a world scarred by an apocalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future, as untold thousands gather for a crusade. Among them, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveller, Anasûrimbor Kellhus—part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presence—from lands long thought dead. The Darkness That Comes Before is a history of this great Holy War, and like all histories, the survivours write its conclusion.

The Holy War

The Holy War is the name of the great host called by Maithanet , the Shriah of the Thousand Temples , to liberate Shimeh from the heathen Fanim of Kian . Word of Maithanet’s call spreads across the Three Seas , and faithful from all the great Inrithi nations— Galeoth , Thunyerus , Ce Tydonn , Conriya , High Ainon , and their tributaries—travel to the city of Momemn , the capital of the Nansur Empire , to become Men of the Tusk . Almost from the outset, the gathering host is mired in politics and controversy. First, Maithanet somehow convinces the Scarlet Spires , the most powerful of the sorcerous Schools , to join his Holy War. Despite the outrage this provokes— sorcery is anathema to the Inrithi—the Men of the Tusk realize they need the Scarlet Spires to counter the heathen Cishaurim , the sorcerer -priests of the Fanim. The Holy War would be doomed without one of the Major Schools. The question is one of why the Scarlet Schoolmen would agree to such a perilous arrangement. Unknown to most, Hanamanu Eleäzaras , the Grandmaster of the Scarlet Spires, has waged a long and secret war against the Cishaurim, who for no apparent reason assassinated his predecessor, Sasheoka , some ten years previously. Second, Ikurei Xerius III , the Emperor of Nansur, hatches an intricate plot to usurp the Holy War for his own ends. Much of what is now heathen Kian once belonged to the Nansur, and Xerius has made recovering the Empire’s lost provinces his heart’s most fervent desire. Since the Holy War gathers in the Nansur Empire, it can march only if provisioned by the Emperor, something he refuses to do until every leader of the Holy War signs his Indenture , a written oath to cede all lands conquered to him. Of course, the first caste -nobles to arrive repudiate the Indenture, and a stalemate ensues. As the Holy War’s numbers swell into the hundreds of thousands, however, the titular leaders of the host begin to grow restless. Since they war in the God ’s name, they think themselves invincible, and as a result see little reason to share the glory with those yet to arrive. A Conriyan noble named Nersei Calmemunis comes to an accommodation with the Emperor, and convinces his fellows to sign the Imperial Indenture. Once provisioned, most of those gathered march, even though their lords and a greater part of the Holy War have yet to arrive. Because the host consists primarily of lordless rabble, it comes to be called the Vulgar Holy War . Despite Maithanet’s attempts to bring the makeshift host to heel, it continues marching southward, and passes into heathen lands, where—precisely as the Emperor had planned—the Fanim destroy it utterly. Xerius knows that in military terms, the loss of the Vulgar Holy War is insignificant, since the rabble that largely constituted it would have proven more a liability than an advantage in battle. In political terms, however, the Vulgar Holy War’s destruction is invaluable, since it has shown Maithanet and the Men of the Tusk the true mettle of their adversary. The Fanim, as the Nansur well know, are not to be trifled with, even with the God’s favour. Only an outstanding general, Xerius claims, can assure the Holy War’s victory—a man like his nephew, Ikurei Conphas , who, after his recent victory over the dread Scylvendi at the Battle of Kiyuth , has been hailed as the greatest tactician of his age. The leaders of the Holy War need only sign the Imperial Indenture, and Conphas’s preternatural skill and insight will be theirs. Maithanet, it seems, now finds himself in a dilemma. As Shriah, he can compel the Emperor to provision the Holy War, but he cannot compel him to send Ikurei Conphas, his only living heir. The first truly great Inrithi potentates of the Holy War—Prince Nersei Proyas of Conriya, Prince Coithus Saubon of Galeoth, Earl Hoga Gothyelk of Ce Tydonn, King-Regent Chepheramunni of High Ainon—arrive in the midst of this controversy, and the Holy War amasses new strength, though it remains a hostage in effect, bound by the scarcity of food to the walls of Momemn and the Emperor’s granaries. To a man, the caste-nobles repudiate Xerius’s Indenture and demand that he provision them. The Men of the Tusk begin raiding the surrounding countryside. In retaliation, the Emperor calls in elements of the Imperial Army. Pitched battles are fought. In an effort to forestall disaster, Maithanet calls a Council of Great and Lesser Names, and all the leaders of the Holy War gather in the Emperor’s palace, the Andiamine Heights , to make their arguments. Here Nersei Proyas shocks the assembly by offering a many-scarred Scylvendi Chieftain, a veteran of past wars against the Fanim, as a surrogate for the famed Ikurei Conphas. The Scylvendi, Cnaiür urs Skiötha , shares hard words with both the Emperor and his nephew, and the leaders of the Holy War are impressed. The Shriah’s Envoy, however, remains undecided: the Scylvendi are as apostate as the Fanim, after all. Only the wise words of Prince Anasûrimbor Kellhus of Atrithau settle the matter. The Envoy reads the decree demanding that the Emperor, under pain of Shrial Censure, provision the Men of the Tusk. The Holy War will march.

Drusas Achamian

Drusas Achamian is a sorcerer sent by the School of Mandate to investigate Maithanet and his Holy War. Though he no longer believes in his School’s ancient mission, he travels to Sumna , where the Thousand Temples is based, in the hope of learning more about the mysterious Shriah, whom the Mandate fears could be an agent of the Consult . In the course of his probe, he resumes an old love affair with a harlot named Esmenet , and despite his misgivings, he recruits a former student of his, a Shrial Priest named Paro Inrau , to report on Maithanet’s activities. During this time, his nightmares of the Apocalypse intensify, particularly those involving the so-called “ Celmomian Prophecy ,” which foretells the return of a descendant of Anasûrimbor Celmomas II before the Second Apocalypse. Then Inrau dies under mysterious circumstances. Overcome by guilt, and heartbroken by Esmenet’s refusal to cease taking custom, Achamian flees Sumna and travels to Momemn, where the Holy War gathers under the Emperor’s covetous and uneasy eyes. A powerful rival of the Mandate, a School called the Scarlet Spires, has joined the Holy War to prosecute its long contest with the sorcerer-priests of the Cishaurim, who reside in Shimeh. Seidru Nautzera , Achamian’s Mandate handler, has ordered him to observe them and the Holy War. When he reaches the encampment, Achamian joins the fire of Krijates Xinemus , an old friend of his from Conriya. Pursuing his investigation of Inrau’s death, Achamian convinces Xinemus to take him to see another old student of his, Prince Nersei Proyas of Conriya, who’s become a confidant of the enigmatic Shriah. When Proyas scoffs at his suspicions and repudiates him as a blasphemer, Achamian implores him to write Maithanet regarding the circumstances of Inrau’s death. Embittered, Achamian leaves his old student’s pavilion certain his meagre request will go unfulfilled. Then a man hailing from the distant north arrives—a man calling himself Anasûrimbor Kellhus. Battered by his recurrent dreams of the Apocalypse, Achamian finds himself fearing the worst: the Second Apocalypse. Is Kellhus’s arrival a mere coincidence, or is he the Harbinger foretold in the Celmomian Prophecy? Achamian questions the man, only to find himself utterly disarmed by his humour, honesty, and intellect. They talk history and philosophy long into the night, and before retiring, Kellhus asks Achamian to be his teacher. Inexplicably awed and affected by the stranger, Achamian agrees … But he finds himself in a dilemma. The reappearance of an Anasûrimbor is something the School of Mandate simply has to know—few discoveries could be more significant. But he fears what his brother Schoolmen will do: a lifetime of dreaming horrors, he knows, has made them cruel and pitiless. And he blames them, moreover, for the death of Inrau. Before he can resolve this dilemma, Achamian is summoned by the Emperor’s nephew, Ikurei Conphas, to the Imperial Palace in Momemn, where the Emperor wants him to assess a highly placed adviser of his—an old man called Skeaös —for the Mark of sorcery. The Emperor himself, Ikurei Xerius III, brings Achamian to Skeaös, demanding to know whether the old man bears the blasphemous taint of sorcery. Achamian sees nothing amiss. Skeaös, however, sees something in Achamian. He begins writhing against his chains, speaking a tongue from Achamian’s ancient dreams. Impossibly, the old man breaks free, killing several before being burned by the Emperor’s sorcerers. Dumbfounded, Achamian confronts the howling Skeaös, only to watch horrified as his face peels apart and opens into scorched limbs … The abomination before him, he realizes, is a Consult spy, one that can mimic and replace others without bearing sorcery’s telltale Mark. A skin-spy . Achamian flees the palace without warning the Emperor and his court, knowing they would think his conviction nonsense. For them, Skeaös can only be an artifact of the heathen Cishaurim, whose art also bears no Mark. Senseless to his surroundings, Achamian wanders back to Xinemus’s camp, so absorbed by his horror that he fails to see or hear Esmenet, who has come to rejoin him at long last. The mysteries surrounding Maithanet. The coming of Anasûrimbor Kellhus. The discovery of the first Consult spy in generations … How can he doubt it any longer? The Second Apocalypse is about to begin. Alone in his humble tent, he weeps, overcome by loneliness, dread, and remorse.

Esmenet

Esmenet is a Sumni prostitute who mourns both her life and her dead daughter . When Achamian arrives on his mission to learn more about Maithanet, she readily takes him in. During this time, she continues to take and service her customers, knowing full well the pain this causes Achamian. But she really has no choice: sooner or later, she realizes, Achamian will be called away. And yet she falls ever deeper in love with the hapless sorcerer, in part because of the respect he accords her, and in part because of the worldly nature of his work. Though her sex has condemned her to sit half-naked in her window, the world beyond has always been her passion. The intrigues of the Great Factions, the machinations of the Consult: these are the things that quicken her soul. Then disaster strikes: Achamian’s informant, Inrau, is murdered, and the bereaved Schoolman is forced to travel to Momemn. Esmenet begs him to take her with him, but he refuses, and she finds herself once again marooned in her old life. Not long after, a threatening stranger comes to her room, demanding to know everything about Achamian. Twisting her desire against her, the man ravishes her, and Esmenet finds herself answering all his questions. Come morning he vanishes as suddenly as he appears, leaving only pools of black seed to mark his passing. Horrified, Esmenet flees Sumna, determined to find Achamian and tell him what happened. In her bones, she knows the stranger is somehow connected to the Consult. On her way to Momemn, she pauses in a village, hoping to find someone to repair her broken sandal. When the villagers recognize the whore’s tattoo on her hand, they begin stoning her—the punishment the Tusk demands of prostitutes. Only the sudden appearance of a Shrial Knight named Cutias Sarcellus saves her, and she has the satisfaction of watching her tormentors humbled. Sarcellus takes her the rest of the way to Momemn, and Esmenet finds herself growing more and more infatuated with his wealth and aristocratic manner. He seems so free of the melancholy and indecision that plague Achamian. Once they reach the Holy War, Esmenet stays with Sarcellus, even though she knows Achamian is only miles away. As the Shrial Knight continually reminds her, Schoolmen such as Achamian are forbidden to take wives. If she were to run to him, he says, it would be only a matter of time before he abandoned her again. Weeks pass, and she finds herself esteeming Sarcellus less and pining for Achamian more and more. Finally, on the night before the Holy War is to march, she sets off in search of the portly sorcerer, determined to tell him everything that has happened. After a harrowing search, she finally locates Xinemus’s camp, only to find herself too ashamed to make her presence known. She hides in the darkness instead, waiting for Achamian to appear, and wondering at the strange collection of men and women about the fire. When dawn arrives without any sign of Achamian, Esmenet wanders across the abandoned site, only to see him trudging toward her. She holds out her arms to him, weeping with joy and sorrow … And he simply walks past her as though she were a stranger. Heartbroken, she flees, determined to make her own way in the Holy War.

Cnaiür urs Skiötha

Cnaiür urs Skiötha is a Chieftain of the Utemot , a tribe of Scylvendi, who are feared across the Three Seas for their skill and ferocity in war. Because of the events surrounding the death of his father, Skiötha urs Hannut , some thirty years previously, Cnaiür is despised by his own people, though none dare challenge him because of his savage strength and his cunning in war. Word arrives that the Emperor’s nephew, Ikurei Conphas, has invaded the Holy Steppe , and Cnaiür rides with the Utemot to join the Scylvendi horde on the distant Imperial frontier. Knowing Conphas’s reputation, Cnaiür senses a trap, but his warnings go unheeded by Xunnurit , the chieftain elected King-of-Tribes for the coming battle. Cnaiür can only watch as the disaster unfolds. Escaping the horde’s destruction, Cnaiür returns to the pastures of the Utemot more anguished than ever. He flees the whispers and the looks of his fellow tribesmen and rides to the graves of his ancestors, where he finds a grievously wounded man sitting upon his dead father’s barrow, surrounded by circles of dead Sranc . Warily approaching, Cnaiür nightmarishly realizes that he recognizes the man—or almost recognizes him. He resembles Anasûrimbor Moënghus in almost every respect, save that he is too young … Moënghus had been captured thirty years previous, when Cnaiür was little more than a stripling, and given to Cnaiür’s father as a slave. He claimed to be Dûnyain , a people possessed of an extraordinary wisdom, and Cnaiür spent many hours with him, speaking of things forbidden to Scylvendi warriors. What happened afterward—the seduction, the murder of Skiötha, and Moënghus’s subsequent escape—has tormented Cnaiür ever since. Though he once loved the man, he now hates him with a deranged intensity. If only he could kill Moënghus, he believes, his heart could be made whole. Now, impossibly, this double has come to him, travelling the same path as the original. Realizing the stranger could make possible his vengeance, Cnaiür takes him captive. The man, who calls himself Anasûrimbor Kellhus, claims to be Moënghus’s son. The Dûnyain, he says, have sent him to assassinate his father in a faraway city called Shimeh. But as much as Cnaiür wants to believe this story, he’s wary and troubled. After years of obsessively pondering Moënghus, he’s come to realize that the Dûnyain are gifted with preternatural skills and intelligence. Their sole purpose, he now knows, is domination, though where others use force and fear, they use deceit and love. The story Kellhus has told him, Cnaiür realizes, is precisely the story a Dûnyain seeking escape and safe passage across Scylvendi lands would tell. Nevertheless, he makes a bargain with the man, agreeing to accompany him on his quest. The two of them strike out across the Steppe, locked in a shadowy war of word and passion. Time and again, Cnaiür finds himself drawn into Kellhus’s insidious nets, only to recall himself at the last moment. Only his hatred of Moënghus and knowledge of the Dûnyain preserve him. Near the Imperial frontier they encounter a party of hostile Scylvendi raiders. Kellhus’s unearthly skill in battle both astounds and terrifies Cnaiür. In the battle’s aftermath they find a captive concubine, a woman named Serwë , cowering among the raiders’ chattel. Struck by her beauty, Cnaiür takes her as his prize, and through her he learns of Maithanet’s Holy War for Shimeh, the city where Moënghus supposedly dwells … Can this be a coincidence? Coincidence or not, the Holy War forces Cnaiür to reconsider his original plan to travel around the Empire, where his Scylvendi heritage will mean almost certain death. With the Fanim rulers of Shimeh girding for war, the only possible way they can reach the holy city is to become Men of the Tusk. They have no choice, he realizes, but to join the Holy War, which, according to Serwë, gathers about the city of Momemn in the heart of the Empire—the one place he cannot go. Now that they have safely crossed the Steppe, Cnaiür is convinced Kellhus will kill him: the Dûnyain brook no liabilities. Descending the mountains into the Empire, Cnaiür confronts Kellhus, who claims he has use of him still. While Serwë watches in horror, the two men battle on the mountainous heights, and though Cnaiür is able to surprise Kellhus, the man easily overpowers him, holding him by the throat over a precipice. To prove his intent to keep their bargain, he spares Cnaiür’s life. After so many years among worldborn men, Kellhus claims, Moënghus will be far too powerful for him to face alone. They will need an army, he says, and unlike Cnaiür he knows nothing of war. Despite his misgivings, Cnaiür believes him, and they resume their journey. As the days pass, Cnaiür watches Serwë become more and more infatuated with Kellhus. Though troubled by this, he refuses to admit as much, reminding himself that warriors care nothing for women, particularly those taken as the spoils of battle. What does it matter that she belongs to Kellhus during the day? She is Cnaiür’s at night. After a desperate journey and pursuit through the heart of the Empire, they at last find their way to Momemn and the Holy War, where they are taken before one of the Holy War’s leaders, a Conriyan Prince named Nersei Proyas. In keeping with their plan, Cnaiür claims to be the last of the Utemot, travelling with Anasûrimbor Kellhus, a Prince of the northern city of Atrithau, who has dreamed of the Holy War from afar. Proyas, however, is far more interested in Cnaiür’s knowledge of the Fanim and their way of battle. Obviously impressed by what he has to say, the Conriyan Prince takes Cnaiür and his companions under his protection. Soon afterward, Proyas takes Cnaiür and Kellhus to a meeting of the Holy War’s leaders and the Emperor, where the fate of the Holy War is to be decided. Ikurei Xerius III has refused to provision the Men of the Tusk unless they swear to return all the lands they wrest from the Fanim to the Empire. The Shriah, Maithanet, can force the Emperor to provision them, but he fears the Holy War lacks the leadership to overcome the Fanim. The Emperor offers his brilliant nephew, Ikurei Conphas, flush from his spectacular victory over the Scylvendi at Kiyuth, but only—once again—if the leaders of the Holy War pledge to surrender their future conquests. In a daring gambit, Proyas offers Cnaiür in Conphas’s stead. A vicious war of words ensues, and Cnaiür manages to best the precocious Imperial Nephew. The Shriah’s representative orders the Emperor to provision the Men of the Tusk. The Holy War will march. In a mere matter of days, Cnaiür has gone from a fugitive to a leader of the greatest host ever assembled in the Three Seas. What does it mean for a Scylvendi to treat with outland princes, with peoples he is sworn to destroy? What must he surrender to see his vengeance through? That night, he watches Serwë surrender to Kellhus body and soul, and he wonders at the horror he has delivered to the Holy War. What will Anasûrimbor Kellhus—a Dûnyain—make of these Men of the Tusk? No matter, he tells himself, the Holy War marches to distant Shimeh—to Moënghus and the promise of blood.

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Anasûrimbor Kellhus is a monk sent by his order, the Dûnyain, to search for his father, Anasûrimbor Moënghus. Since discovering the secret redoubt of the Kûniüric High Kings during the Apocalypse some two thousand years previous, the Dûnyain have concealed themselves, breeding for reflex and intellect, and continually training in the ways of limb, thought, and face—all for the sake of reason, the sacred Logos . In the effort to transform themselves into the perfect expression of the Logos, the Dûnyain have bent their entire existence to mastering the irrationalities that determine human thought: history, custom, and passion. In this way, they believe, they will eventually grasp what they call the Absolute , and so become true self-moving souls. But their glorious isolation is at an end. After thirty years of exile, one of their number, Anasûrimbor Moënghus, has reappeared in their dreams, demanding they send to him his son. Knowing only that his father dwells in a distant city called Shimeh, Kellhus undertakes an arduous journey through lands long abandoned by men. While wintering with a trapper named Leweth , he discovers he can read the man’s thoughts through the nuances of his expression. Worldborn men, he realizes, are little more than children in comparison with the Dûnyain. Experimenting, he finds that he can exact anything from Leweth—any love, any sacrifice—with mere words. So what of his father, who has spent thirty years among such men? What is the extent of Anasûrimbor Moënghus’s power? When a band of inhuman Sranc discovers Leweth’s steading, the two men are forced to flee. Leweth is wounded, and Kellhus leaves him for the Sranc, feeling no remorse. The Sranc overtake him, and after driving them away, he battles their leader , a deranged Nonman , who nearly undoes him with sorcery. Kellhus flees, racked by questions without answers: Sorcery, he’d been taught, was nothing more than superstition. Could the Dûnyain have been wrong? What other facts had they overlooked or suppressed? Eventually he finds refuge in the ancient city of Atrithau, where, using his Dûnyain abilities, he assembles an expedition to cross the Sranc-infested plains of Suskara . After a harrowing trek, he crosses the frontier, only to be captured by a mad Scylvendi Chieftain named Cnaiür urs Skiötha—a man who both knows and hates his father, Moënghus. Though his knowledge of the Dûnyain renders Cnaiür immune to direct manipulation, Kellhus quickly realizes he can turn the man’s thirst for vengeance to his advantage. Claiming to be an assassin sent to murder Moënghus, he asks the Scylvendi to join him on his quest. Overpowered by his hatred, Cnaiür reluctantly agrees, and the two men set out across the Jiünati Steppe. Time and again, Kellhus tries to secure the trust he needs to possess the man, but the barbarian continually rebuffs him. His hatred and his penetration are too great. Then, near the Imperial frontier, they find a concubine named Serwë, who informs them of a Holy War gathering about Momemn—a Holy War for Shimeh. The fact that his father has summoned him to Shimeh at the same time, Kellhus realizes, can be no coincidence. But what could Moënghus be planning? They cross the mountains into the Empire, and Kellhus watches Cnaiür struggle with the growing conviction that he’s outlived his usefulness. Thinking that murdering Kellhus is as close as he’ll ever come to murdering Moënghus, Cnaiür attacks him, only to be defeated. To prove that he still needs him, Kellhus spares his life. He must, Kellhus knows, dominate the Holy War, but he as yet knows nothing of warfare. The variables are too many. Though Cnaiür’s knowledge of Moënghus and the Dûnyain renders him a liability, his skill in war makes him invaluable. To secure this knowledge, Kellhus starts seducing Serwë, using her and her beauty as detours to the barbarian’s tormented heart. Once in the Empire, they stumble across a patrol of Imperial cavalrymen; their journey to Momemn quickly becomes a desperate race. When they finally reach the encamped Holy War, they find themselves before Nersei Proyas, the Crown Prince of Conriya. To secure a position of honour among the Men of the Tusk, Kellhus lies, and claims to be a Prince of Atrithau. To lay the groundwork for his future domination, he claims to have suffered dreams of the Holy War—implying, without saying as much, that they were godsent. Since Proyas is more concerned with Cnaiür and how he can use the barbarian’s knowledge of battle to thwart the Emperor, these claims are accepted without any real scrutiny. Only the Mandate Schoolman accompanying Proyas, Drusas Achamian, seems troubled by him—especially by his name. The following evening, Kellhus dines with the sorcerer, disarming him with humour, flattering him with questions. He learns of the Apocalypse and the Consult and many other sundry things, and though he knows Achamian harbours some terror regarding the name Anasûrimbor , he asks the melancholy man to become his teacher. The Dûnyain, Kellhus has come to realize, have been mistaken about many things, the existence of sorcery among them. There is so much he must know before he confronts his father … A final gathering is called to settle the issue between the Lords of the Holy War, who want to march, and the Emperor, who refuses to provision them. With Cnaiür at his side, Kellhus charts the souls of all those present, calculating the ways he might bring them under his thrall. Among the Emperor’s advisers, however, he observes an expression he cannot read. The man, he realizes, possesses a false face. While Ikurei Conphas and the Inrithi caste-nobles bicker, Kellhus studies the man, and determines that his name is Skeaös by reading the lips of his interlocutors. Could this Skeaös be an agent of his father? Before he can draw any conclusions, however, his scrutiny is noticed by the Emperor himself, who has the adviser seized. Though the entire Holy War celebrates the Emperor’s defeat, Kellhus is more perplexed than ever. Never has he undertaken a study so deep. That night he consummates his relationship with Serwë, continuing the patient work of undoing Cnaiür—as all Men of the Tusk must be undone. Somewhere, a shadowy faction lurks behind faces of false skin. Far to the south in Shimeh, Anasûrimbor Moënghus awaits the coming storm.

Point of View Characters

Each chapter in the book is divided into sections of limited third person point of views of alternating characters. Some chapters include an omniscient third person point of view. The numbers in brackets indicate how many sections the character has in the novel. - Anasûrimbor Kellhus (26)
- Cnaiür urs Skiötha (18)
- Drusas Achamian (25)
- Esmenet (11)
- Geshrunni (2)
- Hanamanu Eleäzaras (1)
- Ikurei Conphas (5)
- Ikurei Xerius III (7)
- Leweth (3)
- Nersei Proyas (4)
- Omniscient (8)
- Paro Inrau (2)
- Seidru Nautzera (1)
- Serwë (10)
- The-Thing-Called- Sarcellus ( Maëngi ) (1)
- Yursalka (1)

The Darkness That Comes Before

Series: The Prince of Nothing #1 The Second Apocalypse #1
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Publisher: Penguin (Canada) Overlook (USA) Orbit (UK)
Released: 2003

The Darkness That Comes Before

Series: The Prince of Nothing #1 The Second Apocalypse #1
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Publisher: Penguin (Canada) Overlook (USA) Orbit (UK)
Released: 2003

Commerce
"Commerce of Souls" The Commerce of Souls is a classic treatise on politics by the famed philosopher Ajencis .

Commerce of Souls
The Commerce of Souls is a classic treatise on politics by the famed philosopher Ajencis .

Compact
"Swayal Compact" The Swayal Compact is the first and only School for witches in Eärwa . It was founded following Anasûrimbor Kellhus ’ unification of the Three Seas into the New Empire . The school for female sorcerers is located in Iothiah , and its current Grandmistress is Anasûrimbor Serwa . After the Holy War , the ruins of the nonman mansion Illisserû were reoccupied by the witches of the Swayal Compact , who took it as their stronghold and headquarters, renaming it "Orovelai". The Swayal Witches accompany Anasûrimbor Kellhus’s Great Ordeal on its march to Golgotterath . When Kellhus declared the Breaking of the Great Ordeal at the Eleventh Council of Potentates, the Swayal Sisterhood was ordered to join the Men of the Middle-North under the command of Prince Anasûrimbor Kayûtas .

Known Members

- Anasûrimbor Serwa (Grandmistress)
- Gwanwë
- Herea
- Hûtta-mimot
- Kima
- Mipharal
- Mirûnwe
- Sapharal
- Valsarta

Company
"Company of Scions" The Company of Scions was a Kidruhil company in the Great Ordeal consisting solely of treaty hostages (male heirs of nations obligated to the New Empire ) . It was the smallest of all Kidruhil companies, only having about a hundred members . The captain of the Scions was Xarotas Harnilas .

Known Members

- Baribul
- Charampa
- Tinurit
- Tzing
- Varalt Sorweel
- Zsoronga ut Nganka'kull

Company of Scions
The Company of Scions was a Kidruhil company in the Great Ordeal consisting solely of treaty hostages (male heirs of nations obligated to the New Empire ) . It was the smallest of all Kidruhil companies, only having about a hundred members . The captain of the Scions was Xarotas Harnilas .

Known Members

- Baribul
- Charampa
- Tinurit
- Tzing
- Varalt Sorweel
- Zsoronga ut Nganka'kull

Compendium
"Compendium of First Holy War" The Compendium of the First Holy War is a work written by Drusas Achamian during the time between the end of The Thousandfold Thought (c. 4112) and the beginning of The Judging Eye (c. 4131), detailing the events of the Holy War . It has been banned by Anasûrimbor Kellhus .

Excerpts

"The author has often observed that in the genesis of great events, men generally possess no inkling of what their actions portend. The problem is not, as one might suppose, a result of men's blindness to the consequences of their actions. Rather it is a result of the mad way the dreadful turns on the trivial when the ends of one man cross the ends of another. The Schoolmen of the Scarlet Spires have an old saying: "When one man chases a hare, he finds a hare. But when many men chase a hare, they find a dragon ." In the prosecution of competing human interests, the result is always unknown, and all too often terrifying." "But despite stories of Fanim atrocities, the fact of the matter is that the Kianene, heathen or no, were suprisingly tolerant of Inrithi pilgrimages to Shimeh -- before the Holy War , that is. Why would a people devoted to the destruction of the Tusk extend this courtesy to "idolaters"? Perhaps they were partially motivated by the prospect of trade, as others have suggested. But the fundamental motive lies in their desert heritage. The Kianene word for a holy place is si'ihkhalis , which means, literally, "great oasis". On the open desert it is their strict custom to never begrudge travellers water, even if they be enemies." "What the Men of the Tusk never understand was that the Nansur and the Kianene were old enemies . When two civilized peoples find themselves at war for centuries, any number of common interests will arise in the midst of the pursuit of their greater antagonism. Ancestral foes share many things: mutual respect, a common history, triumph in stalemate, and a plethora of unspoken truces. The Men of the Tusk were interlopers, an impertinent flood that threatened to wash away the observed channels of a far older enmity." "...and in Old Sheyic, the language of the ruling and religious castes of the Nansurium, skilvenas means "catastrophe" or "apocalypse", as though the Scylvendi have somehow transcended the role of peoples in history and become a principle." "How shall one describe the terrible majesty of the Holy War? Even then, still unblooded, it was both frightening and wondrous to behold, a great beast whose limbs were comprised of entire nations -- Galeoth , Thunyerus , Ce Tydonn , Conriya , High Ainon , and the Nansurium -- and with the Scarlet Spires as the dragon's maw, no less. Not since the days of the Ceneian Empire or the Ancient North has the world witnessed such an assembly. Even diseased by politics, it was a thing of awe." "I have explained how Maithanet yoked the vast resources of the Thousand Temples to ensure the viability of the Holy War. I have described, in detail, the first steps taken by the Emperor to bind the Holy War to his imperial ambitions. I have attempted to reconstruct the initial reaction of the Cishaurim in Shimeh from their correspondence with the Padirajah in Nenciphon . And I have even mentioned the hated Consult , of whom I can at long last speak without ridicule. I have spoken, in other words, almost exclusively of powerful factions and their impersonal ends. What of vengeance? What of hope? Against the frame of competing nations and warring faiths, how did these small passions come to rule the Holy War?" "So who were the heroes and the cravens of the Holy War? There are already songs enough to answer that question. Needless to say, the Holy War provided further violent proof of Ajencis 's old proverb, "Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying."" "Many have condemned those who joined the Holy War for mercenary reasons, and doubtless, should this humble history find its way into their idle libraries, they will blast me as well. Admittedly, my reasons for joining the Holy War were "mercenary", if by that one means I joined in order to procure ends outside the destruction of the heathen and the reconquest of Shimeh. But there were a great many mercenaries such as myself, and like myself, they inadvertently furthered the Holy War by killing their fair share of heathen. The failure of the Holy War had nothing to do with us. Did I say failure? Perhaps "transformation" would be a better word." "Those of us who survived will always be bewildered when we recall his arrival. And not just because he was so different then. In a strange sense he never changed. We changed. If he seems so different to us now, it is because he was the figure that transformed the ground." "The event was unprecedented: not since the fall of Cenei to the Scylvendi hordes had so many potentates gathered in one place. But few knew Mankind itself lay upon the balance. And who could guess that a brief exchange of glances, not the Shriah's edict, would tip that balance? But is this not the very enigma of history? When one peers deep enough, one always finds that catastrophe and triumph, the proper objects of the historian's scrutiny, inevitably turn upon the small, the trivial, the nightmarishly accidental. When I reflect overmuch on this fact, I do not fear that we are "drunks at the sacred dance", as Protathis writes, but that there is no dance at all." "The Emperor, the consensus seems to be, was an excessively suspicious man. Fear has many forms, but it is never so dangerous as when it is combined with power and perpetual uncertainty." "...even though the skin-spies were exposed relatively early in the course of the Holy War, most believed the Cishaurim rather than the Consult to be responsible. This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late." "The days and weeks before battle are a strange thing. All the contingents, the Conriyans, the Galeoth, the Nansur, the Thunyeri, the Tydonni, the Ainoni, and the Scarlet Spires, marched to the fortress of Asgilioch , to the Southron Gates and the heathen frontier. And though many bent their thoughts to Skauras , the heathen Sapatishah who would contest us, he was still woven of the same cloth as a thousand other abstract concerns. One could still confuse war with everyday living..." "It seems a strange thing to recall these events, like waking to find I had narrowly missed a fatal fall in the darkness. Whenever I think back, I'm filled with wonder that I still live, and horror that I still travel by night." "One sorcerer , the ancients say, is worth a thousand warriors in battle and ten thousand sinners in Hell." "If one doubts that passion and unreason govern the fate of nations, one need only look to meetings between the Great. Kings and emperors are unused to treating with equals, and are often excessively relieved or repelled as a result. The Nilnameshi have a saying, "When princes meet, they find either brothers or themselves", which is to say, either peace or war. "The arrogance of the Inrithi waxed bright in the days following Anwurat . Though the sober-minded demanded they press the attack, the great majority clamored for respite. They though the Fanim doomed, just as they thought them doomed after Mengedda . But while the Men of the Tusk tarried the Padirajah plotted. He would make the world his shield." "For men, no circle is ever closed. We walk ever in spirals." "My heart shrivels even as my intellect bristles. Reasons -- I find myself desperate for reasons. Sometimes I think every word written is written for shame." "To merely recall the Apocalypse is to have survived it. This is what makes The Sagas , for all their cramped beauty, so monstrous. Despite their presentations, the poets who authored them do not tremble, even less do they grieve. They celebrate." "Some say I learned dread knowledge that night. But of this, as with so many other matters, I cannot write for fear of summary execution." "Ajencis, in the end, argued that ignorance was the only absolute. According to Parcis , he would tell his students that he knew only that he knew more than when he was an infant. This comparative assertion was the only nail, he would say, to which one could tie the carpenter-string of knowledge. This has come down to us as the famed "Ajencian Nail", and it is the only thing that prevented the Great Kyranean from falling into the tail-chasing scepticism of Nirsolfa , or the embarrassing dogmatism of well-nigh every philosopher and theologian who ever dared scratch ink across parchment. But even this metaphor, "nail", is faulty, a result of what happens when we confuse our notation with what is noted. Like the numeral "zero" used by the Nilnameshi mathematicians to work such wonders, ignorance is the occluded frame of all discourse, the unseen circumference of our every contention. Men are forever looking for the one point, the singular fulcrum they can use to dislodge all competing claims. Ignorance does not give us this. What it provides, rather, is the possibility of comparison, the assurance that not all claims are equal. And this, Ajencis would argue, is all that we need. For so long as we admit our ignorance, we can hope to improve our claims, and so long as we can improve our claims, we can aspire to the Truth, even if only in rank approximation. And this is why I mourn my love of the Great Kyranean. For despite the pull of his wisdom, there re many things of which I am absolutely certain, things that feed the hate which drives this very quill."

Compendium of First Holy War
The Compendium of the First Holy War is a work written by Drusas Achamian during the time between the end of The Thousandfold Thought (c. 4112) and the beginning of The Judging Eye (c. 4131), detailing the events of the Holy War . It has been banned by Anasûrimbor Kellhus .

Excerpts

Compensatory
"Compensatory Gods" The Compensatory Gods are those Gods among the Hundred who reward devotion in life with paradise in the afterlife. In contrast, the Bellicose Gods favor those who strive against them over sycophants and worshipers, while the Punitive Gods command sacrifices through threat and the imposition of suffering.

Known Compensatory Gods

- Anagkë
- Gilgaöl
- Husyelt
- Gierra
- Onkis
- Yatwer

Compensatory Gods
The Compensatory Gods are those Gods among the Hundred who reward devotion in life with paradise in the afterlife. In contrast, the Bellicose Gods favor those who strive against them over sycophants and worshipers, while the Punitive Gods command sacrifices through threat and the imposition of suffering.

Known Compensatory Gods

- Anagkë
- Gilgaöl
- Husyelt
- Gierra
- Onkis
- Yatwer

Compulsion
"Cants of Compulsion" The Cants of Compulsion are the family of incantations that control the movements of an individual's soul. Typically these include the so-called Cants of Torment (the Agonies ), though not always. An insidious aspect of these Cants is that their subject often has no way of distinguishing sorcerously compelled thoughts from his own thoughts. This has spawned a whole literature on the very notion of "will". If the compelled soul feels every bit as uncompelled as the free soul, then how can anyone truly know himself to be free? .

Cond
The Cond were a group of Norsirai pastoralists of the Near Istyuli Plains .

Condic
Language group of ancient pastoralists of the Near Istyuli Plains . Derived from Nirsodic . One of the Norsirai languages .

Languages derived from Condic

- Eämnoric : Lost language of ancient Eämnor .

Conditioning
The Conditioning is specifically, the arduous physical, emotional, and intellectual training undergone by Dûnyain monks, though the term has more general and far-reaching connotations as well. The Dûnyain believe that everything is conditioned in some way, but they draw a principled distinction between the arbitrary conditioning of the world and the rational conditioning of Men . Conditioning in the light of the Logos , they believe, allows more such conditioning, which in turn leverages more such conditioning, and so on. This virtuous circle, they believe, finds its apotheosis in the Absolute : the Dûnyain believe that, using reason, they can condition themselves to the point of becoming unconditioned, a perfect, self-moving soul.

Conger
A member of the Skin Eaters.

Congregate
"Houses of Congregate" The Houses of the Congregate are a quasi-legislative assembly consisting of the primary landholding families of the Nansur Empire .

Known Houses of the Congregate

- House Biaxi
- House Cutias
- House Daskas
- House Gaunum
- House Ikurei
- House Israti
- House Kiskei
- House Ligesseras
- House Sorgis (former)
- House Surmante (former)
- House Thallei
- House Trimus
- House Zerxei (former)

Conphas
"Ikurei Conphas" Ikurei Conphas is the nephew of Emperor Ikurei Xerius III and heir apparent to the Imperial Mantle.

Personality

Conphas is exceptionally conceited, to the point he becomes convinced of his own divinity.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Conphas is charged with attacking the Scylvendi to ensure that the Nansur-Scylvendi border is safe during the Holy War . Conphas studies military history and realizes that their tactics can be predicted. Through a number of cunning maneuvers, he baits the Scylvendi horde into attacking and annihilates their Chorae -archers, allowing the Imperial Saik to emerge and obliterate the Scylvendi host. Upon arriving back at the Andiamine Heights for his triumph, he impulsively ponders assassinating his uncle Xerius, but backs down when he learns that the soldiers lining the parade ground are Xerius's men, not his own. When Xerius's plans to bend the Great Names into signing his indenture hit a rough patch, he adds Conphas's proven military genius as an incentive to sign. In the camps of the arriving Holy War at Momemn , Conphas meets with Nersei Proyas and humiliates the prince in their verbal jousting.

The Thousandfold Thought

Anasûrimbor Kellhus expels Conphas from Caraskand , ordering him to return to Nansur and sending Cnaiür urs Skiötha to watch over him. Cnaiür, who has been secret orders to assassinate Conphas, rapes him but does not kill him. Conphas subsequently escapes Joktha , joins with reinforcements from Nansur, and attacks the city from without, killing all those loyal to Kellhus save for Cnaiür. Cnaiür is imprisoned, but promptly escapes with the aid of a skin-spy impersonating Biaxi Sompas . Upon receiving news of the death of Xerius, Conphas proclaims himself Emperor of Nansur. Conphas joins the battle in defense of Shimeh , but his forces are decimated by Drusas Achamian , and he is subsequently slain by Coithus Saubon as his Galeoth forces arrive.

Ikurei Conphas

Title(s): Exalt-General Shield-of-the-Tusk Emperor God-of-Men
Aliases: The Lion of Kiyuth
Lived: 4084 - 4112
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Exalt-General Emperor of Nansur
Relatives: Anphairas (great-grandfather) Unnamed grandfather Ikurei Istriya (grandmother) Unnamed father Ikurei Xerius III (uncle) Unnamed half-sister
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought The Judging Eye (mentioned) The Great Ordeal (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Ikurei Conphas

Conphas'
"Ikurei Conphas' half-sister" This unnamed character was the half-sister of Ikurei Conphas and wife to Ikurei Xerius III . It is unknown whether she was Conphas' paternal or maternal half-sister.

The Darkness That Comes Before

As the Imperial Family sails through the River Phayus , Conphas asks Xerius about his half-sister . Xerius replies that she is a "satisfactory wife", with Istriya remarking that "her womb remains closed" nonetheless .

Later Events

It is not known if this character survived the events of The Prince of Nothing .

Ikurei Conphas' half-sister

Title(s): Empress
Lived: ? - present?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Female
Occupation: Empress of Nansur
Relatives: Istriya (mother-in-law, possibly grandmother) Conphas (half-brother) Xerius (husband, possibly uncle)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before (mentioned)

Ikurei Conphas' half-sister

Conriya
Conriya is a pre-eminent Ketyai nation of the eastern Three Seas , located south of Ce Tydonn and north of High Ainon , founded in 3374 (after the collapse of the Eastern Ceneian Empire ) around Aöknyssus , the ancient capital of Shir . Of the four successor nations to the Shiradi Empire ( Cengemis , Conriya, Ainon, and Sansor ), none has worked so hard to reclaim and preserve its ancient traditions. Nowhere are the caste divisions more rigidly observed, and nowhere are the codes governing caste-noble behaviour more strict. Though many, particularly the Ainoni, scoff at what they consider the affectation of antique ways, there can be little doubt that the resulting social discipline has served the Conriyans well. Since gaining its independence, Conriya has successfully weathered innumerable incursions, invasions, blockades, and embargoes, almost all of them due to the machinations of High Ainon.

Palatinates

- Aderot
- Ankirioth
- Annand
- Anplei
- Hirhamet
- Kanampurea
- Kethantei

Cities

- Anplei
- Aöknyssus

Structures

- Attrempus

Conriyan
Language of Conriya . Derived from Sheyo-Kheremic . One of the Ketyai languages .

Consult
"Unholy Consult" The Unholy Consult is the fourth and final novel in the Aspect-Emperor series and the seventh in The Second Apocalypse cycle. The book was published on July 25, 2016 in the US. R. Scott Bakker finished the final manuscript and delivered it to his publishers in January of 2015. Originally, The Unholy Consult was intended to be the third and final novel in the Aspect-Emperor trilogy, however, due to the manuscripts length the book was split into two volumes—the first being The Great Ordeal and the second The Unholy Consult . As well as the text of the novel, the book also contains a second "Encyclopedic Glossary", an updated and expanded version of the glossary published as part of The Thousandfold Thought . The book also included two short stories, The False Sun and The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin , in this volume renamed simply as Four Revelations .

Publisher’s Summary

In this much anticipated, shattering conclusion to The Aspect-Emperor books, praised for their “sweeping epic scale and detailed historical world-building” (Grimdark Magazine), R. Scott Bakker delivers the series’ feverishly harrowing and long-awaited finish to a story cycle that has stretched across seven books in two series. In The Unholy Consult , the Men of the Great Ordeal have been abandoned by Anasûrimbor Kellhus , and the grand crusade has devolved into cannibalism and chaos. When Exalt-General Proyas , with Prince-Imperial Kayûtas at his side, attempts to gain control of the lost Men and continue their march to Golgotterath , it rapidly becomes clear that the lost Lord-and-Prophet is not so easily shaken from the mission. When Sorweel , Believer-King of Sakarpus , and Serwa , daughter of the Aspect-Emperor, join the Great Ordeal they discover that the Shortest Path is not always the most obvious, or the safest. Souls, morality, and relationships are called into question when no one can be trusted, and the price for their sins is greater than they imagined

Dedication

To Chris Lotts For floating from the same string

Acknowledgements

What a journey it has been. Each life is a caravan, and the same could be said of every book as well. Now, seven volumes in, the journey has become nothing if not migratory , a project turning on a great many people in countless ways. My family, of course, makes the whole thing possible. Sharron and Ruby are my binary star system—the reason for life on my planet. I need to thank my Agent, Chris Lotts, along with everyone who makes him possible. I need to thank Tracy Carns, Michael Mah, and the crews at Overlook and Orbit. My beta readers, Mike Hillcoat, Zach Rice, Andy Tressler, Jason Deem, Ken Thorpe, Bryan Bakker, and Roger Eichorn deserve special mention, as does Mike Roy. I want to thank everyone who participates at the Second Apocalypse forum and at Three Pound Brain. I would also like to give a shout-out to all those who have joined this mad trek, all my fellow scalpers on the Slog. This series is unlikely in so many ways that only you, ultimately, could make it possible. An epic fantasy series with a companion piece in The Journal of Consciousness Studies ! That would be some crazy shit, as the saying goes. I have to thank you, gentle reader, for suffering this old Schoolman for a span, and listening to his apocalyptic tales, both real and imagined.

Plot Summary

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Trivia

For R. Scott Bakker himself this book marks the conclusion of a "33-year narrative obsession", along with the "20-year theoretical goal with the publication" of his essay: " On Alien Philosophy " in the The Journal of Consciousness Studies .

External links

- On Alien Philosophy for free download in academia.edu

The Unholy Consult

Series: Aspect-Emperor #4 The Second Apocalypse #7
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Publisher: Overlook (USA) Orbit (UK)
Released: July 6, 2017 (UK) July 25, 2017 (USA/Canada)
Pages: 630 (Hardcover, Overlook) 640 (Trade paperback, Orbit)
ISBN: ISBN 978-1-4683-1486-1 (Hardcover, Overlook) ISBN 978-1-4683-1694-0 (Trade paperback, Orbit)

The Unholy Consult

Consult/Chapter
"Unholy Consult/Chapter 1"

Plot

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The Western Three Seas

Number: 1
Location: Western Three Seas
Date: Mid-Autumn, 20 New Imperial Year (4132, Year-of-the-Tusk )

The Western Three Seas

Number: 1
Location: Western Three Seas
Date: Mid-Autumn, 20 New Imperial Year (4132, Year-of-the-Tusk )

Contrivances
"Sublime Contrivances" The Sublime Contrivances are the masterworks of the Artisan, Emilidis , the greatest Nonmen forger-of-artefacts known to history.

Known Contrivances

The known Contrivances of the Artisan are as follows: - The Day Lantern .
- The Barricades .
- The Immaculate Rim .
- The Amiolas .
The Contrivances are noted for their way of twisting reality in a manner that defies explanation, even by the Artisan's peers.

Coronsas
"Biaxi Coronsas" Patridomos of House Biaxi during the events of The Prince of Nothing.

Council
"Mikka Council" The Mikka Council was a minor Anagogic School in ancient Cironj . In 3804, during the Scholastic Wars , it combined with the Oaranat and the Nilitar Compact to become the Mysunsai .

Couras
"Couras Nantilla" Earl of Pikka, General of the Cengemi in the Great Ordeal.

Couras Nantilla
Earl of Pikka, General of the Cengemi in the Great Ordeal.

Coyauri
The Coyauri are the famed elite heavy cavalry of the Kianene Padirajah, first organized by Habal ab Sarouk in 3892 as a response to the Nansur Kidruhil . The White Horse on Yellow is their standard .

Members

- Fanayal ab Kascamandri

co
-
-a form of the prefix com
-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. it is used before vowels and some consonants. see com
-.

co
-allies
-of co
-ally

co
-ally
-a joint ally.

co
-assessor
-a joint assessor.

co
-legatee
-a joint legatee.

co
-lessee
-a partner in a lease taken.

co
-lessor
-a partner in giving a lease.

co
-mate
-a companion.

co
-meddle
-to mix; to mingle, to temper.

co
-regent
-a joint regent or ruler.

co
-relation
-corresponding relation.

co
-religionist
-one of the same religion with another.

co
-respondent
-one who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.

co
-sufferer
-one who suffers with another.

co
-une
-to combine or unite.

co
-unite
-to unite.
-united closely with another.

coacervate
-raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped.
-to heap up; to pile.

coacervation
-a heaping together.

coach
-a large, closed, four
-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
-a special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.
-a cabin on the after part of the quarter
-deck, usually occupied by the captain.
-a first
-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing
-room car, sleeping car, etc. it is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
-to convey in a coach.
-to prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.
-to drive or to ride in a coach;
-- sometimes used with

coachbox
-the seat of a coachman.

coachdog
-one of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the dalmatian dog.

coached
-of coach

coachee
-a coachman

coachfellow
-one of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (fig.), a comrade.

coaching
-of coach

coachman
-a man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
-a tropical fish of the atlantic ocean (dutes auriga);
-- called also charioteer. the name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.

coachmanship
-skill in driving a coach.

coachmen
-of coachman

coachwhip snake
-a large, slender, harmless snake of the southern united states (masticophis flagelliformis).

coact
-to force; to compel; to drive.
-to act together; to work in concert; to unite.

coaction
-force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.

coactive
-serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
-acting in concurrence; united in action.

coactively
-in a coactive manner.

coactivity
-unity of action.

coadaptation
-mutual adaption.

coadapted
-adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth.

coadjument
-mutual help; cooperation.

coadjust
-to adjust by mutual adaptations.

coadjustment
-mutual adjustment.

coadjutant
-mutually assisting or operating; helping.
-an assistant.

coadjuting
-mutually assisting.

coadjutive
-rendering mutual aid; coadjutant.

coadjutor
-one who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.
-the assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.

coadjutorship
-the state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance.

coadjutress
-alt. of coadjutrix

coadjutrix
-a female coadjutor or assistant.

coadjuvancy
-joint help; cooperation.

coadjuvant
-cooperating.
-an adjuvant.

coadunate
-united at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.

coadunation
-union, as in one body or mass; unity.

coadunition
-coadunation.

coadventure
-an adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
-to share in a venture.

coadventurer
-a fellow adventurer.

coafforest
-to convert into, or add to, a forest.

coag
-see coak, a kind of tenon.

coagency
-agency in common; joint agency or agent.

coagent
-an associate in an act; a coworker.

coagment
-to join together.

coagmentation
-the act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union.

coagula
-of coagulum

coagulability
-the quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated.

coagulable
-capable of being coagulated.

coagulant
-that which produces coagulation.

coagulate
-coagulated.
-to cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.
-to undergo coagulation.

coagulated
-of coagulate
-changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled.

coagulating
-of coagulate

coagulation
-the change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.
-the substance or body formed by coagulation.

coagulative
-having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent.

coagulator
-that which causes coagulation.

coagulatory
-serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects.

coagulum
-the thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.

coaita
-the native name of certain south american monkeys of the genus ateles, esp. a. paniscus. the black
-faced coaita is ateles ater. see illustration in appendix.

coak
-see coke, n.
-a kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers.
-a metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave.
-to unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces.

coal
-a thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
-a black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
-to burn to charcoal; to char.
-to mark or delineate with charcoal.
-to supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
-to take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at southampton.

coal tar
-a thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printer's ink, black varnish, etc. it is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series.

coal works
-a place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.

coal
-black
-as black as coal; jet black; very black.

coal
-meter
-a licensed or official coal measurer in london. see meter.

coal
-whipper
-one who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.

coaled
-of coal

coalery
-see colliery.

coalesce
-to grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.
-to unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce.

coalesced
-of coalesce

coalescence
-the act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

coalescent
-growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

coalescing
-of coalesce

coalfish
-the pollock;
-- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. see pollock.
-the beshow or candlefish of alaska.
-the cobia.

coalgoose
-the cormorant;
-- so called from its black color.

coaling
-of coal

coalite
-to unite or coalesce.
-to cause to unite or coalesce.

coalition
-the act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.
-a combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests.

coalitioner
-a coalitionist.

coalitionist
-one who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.

coalmouse
-a small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit.

coalpit
-a pit where coal is dug.
-a place where charcoal is made.

coaltit
-a small european titmouse (parus ater), so named from its black color;
-- called also coalmouse and colemouse.

coaly
-pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.

coamings
-raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore
-and
-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges.

coannex
-to annex with something else.

coaptation
-the adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.

coarct
-alt. of coarctate

coarctate
-to press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.
-to restrain; to confine.
-pressed together; closely connected;
-- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction.

coarctation
-confinement to a narrow space.
-pressure; that which presses.
-a stricture or narrowing, as of a canal, cavity, or orifice.

coarse
-large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough;
-- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.
-not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language.

coarse
-grained
-having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.

coarsely
-in a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.

coarsen
-to make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character.

coarseness
-the quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.

coarticulation
-the union or articulation of bones to form a joint.

coast
-the side of a thing.
-the exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border.
-the seashore, or land near it.
-to draw or keep near; to approach.
-to sail by or near the shore.
-to sail from port to port in the same country.
-to slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice.
-to draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
-to sail by or near; to follow the coast line of.
-to conduct along a coast or river bank.

coastal
-of or pertaining to a coast.

coasted
-of coast

coaster
-a vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.
-one who sails near the shore.

coasting
-of coast
-sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.
-a sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.
-sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice.

coastways
-by way of, or along, the coast.

coastwise
-alt. of coastways

coat
-an outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.
-a petticoat.
-the habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
-an external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.
-a layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.
-same as coat of arms. see below.
-a coat card. see below.
-to cover with a coat or outer garment.
-to cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.

coated
-of coat

coatee
-a coat with short flaps.

coati
-a mammal of tropical america of the genus nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose.

coating
-of coat
-a coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.
-cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.

coatless
-not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.

coax
-to persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.
-a simpleton; a dupe.

coaxation
-the act of croaking.

coaxed
-of coax

coaxer
-one who coaxes.

coaxing
-of coax

coaxingly
-in a coaxing manner; by coaxing.

cob
-the top or head of anything.
-a leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
-the axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
-a spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
-a young herring.
-a fish;
-- also called miller's thumb.
-a short
-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
-a sea mew or gull; esp., the black
-backed gull (larus marinus).
-a lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
-a cobnut; as, kentish cobs. see cobnut.
-clay mixed with straw.
-a punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
-a spanish coin formerly current in ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
-to strike
-to break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
-to punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.

cobaea
-a genus of climbing plants, native of mexico and south america. c. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell
-shaped flowers.

cobalt
-a tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. atomic weight 59.1. symbol co.
-a commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.

cobaltic
-pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt;
-- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide.

cobaltiferous
-containing cobalt.

cobaltine
-alt. of cobaltite

cobaltite
-a mineral of a nearly silver
-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.

cobaltous
-pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt;
-- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence.

cobbed
-of cob

cobbing
-of cob
-haughty; purse
-proud. see cob, n., 2.

cobble
-a fishing boat. see coble.
-a cobblestone.
-cob coal. see under cob.
-to make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
-to make clumsily.
-to pave with cobblestones.

cobbled
-of cobble

cobbler
-a mender of shoes.
-a clumsy workman.
-a beverage. see sherry cobbler, under sherry.

cobblestone
-a large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder;
-- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

cobbling
-of cobble

cobby
-headstrong; obstinate.
-stout; hearty; lively.

cobelligerent
-carrying on war in conjunction with another power.
-a nation or state that carries on war in connection with another.

cobia
-an oceanic fish of large size (elacate canada); the crabeater;
-- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.

cobiron
-an andiron with a knob at the top.

cobishop
-a joint or coadjutant bishop.

coble
-a flat
-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. it was originally used on the stormy coast of yorkshire, england.

cobnut
-a large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.
-a game played by children with nuts.

coboose
-see caboose.

cobourg
-a thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.

cobra
-see copra.
-the cobra de capello.

cobra de capello
-the hooded snake (naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting india.naja
--

cobstone
-cobblestone.

cobswan
-a large swan.

cobwall
-a wall made of clay mixed with straw.

cobweb
-the network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
-a snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.
-that which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.
-the european spotted flycatcher.

cobwebbed
-abounding in cobwebs.

cobwebby
-abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

cobwork
-built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

coca
-the dried leaf of a south american shrub (erythroxylon coca). in med., called erythroxylon.

cocagne
-an imaginary country of idleness and luxury.
-the land of cockneys; cockneydom;
-- a term applied to london and its suburbs.

cocaine
-a powerful alkaloid, c17h21no4, obtained from the leaves of coca. it is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.

cocci
-of coccus

cocciferous
-bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants.

coccinella
-a genus of small beetles of many species. they and their larvae feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. also called ladybirds and ladybugs.

coccobacteria
-of coccobacterium

coccobacterium
-one of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

coccolite
-a granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.

coccolith
-one of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep
-sea mud.

coccosphere
-a small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.

coccosteus
-an extinct genus of devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

cocculus indicus
-the fruit or berry of the anamirta cocculus, a climbing plant of the east indies. it is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.

coccus
-one of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
-a genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (coccus cacti).
-a form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.

coccygeal
-of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebrae.

coccygeous
-coccygeal.

coccyges
-of coccyx

coccyx
-the end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. it is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated.

cochin fowl
-a large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from cochin china (anam).

cochineal
-a dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the coccus cacti, an insect native in mexico, central america, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. opuntia cochinellifera.

cochineal fig
-a plant of central and southern america, of the cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.

cochlea
-an appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. see ear.

cochlear
-of or pertaining to the cochlea.

cochleare
-a spoon.
-a spoonful.

cochleary
-same as cochleate.

cochleate
-alt. of cochleated

cochleated
-having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

cock
-the male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.
-a vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
-a chief man; a leader or master.
-the crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
-a faucet or valve.
-the style of gnomon of a dial.
-the indicator of a balance.
-the bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
-to set erect; to turn up.
-to shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.
-to set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.
-to turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
-to strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
-the act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock.
-the notch of an arrow or crossbow.
-the hammer in the lock of a firearm.
-to draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.
-to draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing.
-a small concial pile of hay.
-to put into cocks or heaps, as hay.
-a small boat.
-a corruption or disguise of the word god, used in oaths.

cock
-a
-hoop
-boastful; defiant; exulting. also used adverbially.

cock
-brained
-giddy; rash.

cock
-padle
-see lumpfish.

cockade
-a badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat;
-- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in england as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer.

cockaded
-wearing a cockade.

cockal
-a game played with sheep's bones instead of dice
-the bone used in playing the game;
-- called also huckle bone.

cockaleekie
-a favorite soup in scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

cockamaroo
-the russian variety of bagatelle.

cockateel
-an australian parrot (calopsitta novae
-hollandiae);
-- so called from its note.

cockatoo
-a bird of the parrot family, of the subfamily cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. there are several genera and many species; as the broad
-crested (plictolophus, / cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur
-crested (p. galeritus), etc. the palm or great black cockatoo of australia is microglossus aterrimus.

cockatrice
-a fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. see basilisk.
-a representation of this serpent. it has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.
-a venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified.
-any venomous or deadly thing.

cockbill
-to tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning.

cockboat
-a small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.

cockchafer
-a beetle of the genus melolontha (esp. m. vulgaris) and allied genera;
-- called also may bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.

cockcrow
-alt. of cockcrowing

cockcrowing
-the time at which cocks first crow; the early morning.

cocked
-of cock

cocker
-to treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
-one given to cockfighting.
-a small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
-a rustic high shoe or half
-boots.

cockered
-of cocker

cockerel
-a young cock.

cockering
-of cocker

cocket
-pert; saucy.
-a customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.
-an office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.
-a measure for bread.

cockeye
-a squinting eye.
-the socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

cockfight
-a match or contest of gamecocks.

cockfighting
-the act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.
-addicted to cockfighting.

cockhead
-the rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.

cockhorse
-a child's rocking
-horse.
-a high or tall horse.
-lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
-lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.

cockieleekie
-same as cockaleekie.

cocking
-of cock
-cockfighting.

cockle
-a bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus cardium, especially c. edule, used in europe for food;
-- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
-a cockleshell.
-the mineral black tourmaline or schorl;
-- so called by the cornish miners.
-the fire chamber of a furnace.
-a hop
-drying kiln; an oast.
-the dome of a heating furnace.
-to cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
-a plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (luchnis githage).
-the lotium, or darnel.

cocklebur
-a coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus xanthium;
-- called also clotbur.

cockled
-of cockle
-inclosed in a shell.
-wrinkled; puckered.

cockler
-one who takes and sells cockles.

cockleshell
-one of the shells or valves of a cockle.
-a light boat.

cockling
-of cockle

cockloft
-an upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.

cockmaster
-one who breeds gamecocks.

cockmatch
-a cockfight.

cockney
-an effeminate person; a spoilt child.
-a native or resident of the city of london;
-- used contemptuously.
-of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

cockneydom
-the region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively.

cockneyfy
-to form with the manners or character of a cockney.

cockneyish
-characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.

cockneyism
-the characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.

cockneys
-of cockney

cockpit
-a pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.
-the privy council room at westminster;
-- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of whitehall palace.
-that part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.
-in yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.

cockroach
-an orthopterous insect of the genus blatta, and allied genera.

cockscomb
-see coxcomb.
-a plant (celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers;
-- sometimes called garden cockscomb. also the pedicularis, or lousewort, the rhinanthus crista
-galli, and the onobrychis crista
-galli.

cockshead
-a leguminous herb (onobrychis caput
-galli), having small spiny
-crested pods.

cockshut
-a kind of net to catch woodcock.

cockshy
-a game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players;
-- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
-an object at which stones are flung.

cockspur
-a variety of crataegus, or hawthorn (c. crus
-galli), having long, straight thorns;
-- called also cockspur thorn.

cocksure
-perfectly safe.
-quite certain.

cockswain
-the steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

cocktail
-a beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
-a horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
-a mean, half
-hearted fellow; a coward.
-a species of rove beetle;
-- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

cockup
-a large, highly esteemed, edible fish of india (lates calcarifer);
-- also called begti.

cockweed
-peppergrass.

cocky
-pert.

cocleariform
-spoon
-shaped.

coco
-alt. of coco palm

coco palm
-see cocoa.

cocoa
-alt. of cocoa palm
-a preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

cocoa palm
-a palm tree producing the cocoanut (cocos nucifera). it grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. the trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.

cocoanut
-the large, hard
-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. it yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

cocobolas
-a very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the west india islands. it is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.

cocobolo
-alt. of cocobolas

cocoon
-an oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. it is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. from these the silk of commerce is prepared.
-the case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.
-the case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.
-the egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.

cocoonery
-a building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.

coctible
-capable of being cooked.

coctile
-made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

coction
-act of boiling.
-digestion.
-the change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.

cocus wood
-a west indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.

cod
-a husk; a pod; as, a peascod.
-a small bag or pouch.
-the scrotum.
-a pillow or cushion.
-an important edible fish (gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of europe and america. it is especially abundant and large on the grand bank of newfoundland. it is salted and dried in large quantities.

cod liver
-the liver of the common cod and allied species.

coda
-a few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

codder
-a gatherer of cods or peas.

codding
-lustful.

coddle
-to parboil, or soften by boiling.
-to treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.

coddled
-of coddle

coddling
-of coddle

coddymoddy
-a gull in the plumage of its first year.

code
-a body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
-any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.

codefendant
-a joint defendant.

codeine
-one of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, c18h21no3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action;
-- called also codeia.

codetta
-a short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda.

codex
-a book; a manuscript.
-a collection or digest of laws; a code.
-an ancient manuscript of the sacred scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the new testament.
-a collection of canons.

codfish
-a kind of fish. same as cod.

codger
-a miser or mean person.
-a singular or odd person;
-- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation.

codical
-relating to a codex, or a code.

codices
-of codex

codicil
-a clause added to a will.

codicillary
-of the nature of a codicil.

codification
-the act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

codified
-of codify

codifier
-one who codifies.

codify
-to reduce to a code, as laws.

codifying
-of codify

codilla
-the coarse tow of flax and hemp.

codille
-a term at omber, signifying that the game is won.

codist
-a codifier; a maker of codes.

codle
-see coddle.

codlin
-alt. of codling

codling
-an apple fit to stew or coddle.
-an immature apple.
-a young cod; also, a hake.

codpiece
-a part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous.

coecilian
-see caecilian.

coeducation
-an educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races.

coefficacy
-joint efficacy.

coefficiency
-joint efficiency; cooperation.

coefficient
-cooperating; acting together to produce an effect.
-that which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect.
-a number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x.
-a number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction.

coehorn
-a small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.

coelacanth
-having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.

coelentera
-alt. of coelenterata

coelenterata
-a comprehensive group of invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the anthozoa, hydrozoa, and ctenophora. the name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. the group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.

coelenterate
-belonging to the coelentera.
-one of the coelentera.

coelia
-a cavity.

coeliac
-alt. of celiac

coelodont
-having hollow teeth;
-- said of a group lizards.
-one of a group of lizards having hollow teeth.

coelospermous
-hollow
-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed.

coelum
-see body cavity, under body.

coemption
-the act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity.

coendoo
-the brazilian porcupine (cercolades, / sphingurus, prehensiles), remarkable for its prehensile tail.

coenenchym
-alt. of coenenchyma

coenenchyma
-the common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. it may be soft or more or less ossified. see coral.

coenesthesis
-common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. it is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

coenobite
-see cenobite.

coenoecium
-the common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.

coenogamy
-the state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members;
-- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies.

coenosarc
-the common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. see hydroidea.

coenurus
-the larval stage of a tapeworm (taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

coequal
-being on an equality in rank or power.
-one who is on an equality with another.

coequality
-the state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.

coequally
-with coequality.

coerce
-to restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
-to compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.
-to compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.

coerced
-of coerce

coercible
-capable of being coerced.

coercing
-of coerce

coercion
-the act or process of coercing.
-the application to another of either physical or moral force. when the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. when the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. at the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "coactus volui" (i consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.

coercitive
-coercive.

coercive
-serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain.

coerulignone
-a bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. it is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl;
-- called also cedriret.

coessential
-partaking of the same essence.

coessentiality
-participation of the same essence.

coestablishment
-joint establishment.

coestate
-joint estate.

coetanean
-a person coetaneous with another; a contemporary.

coetaneous
-of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous.

coeternal
-equally eternal.

coeternity
-existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.

coeval
-of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote;
-- usually followed by with.
-one of the same age; a contemporary.

coevous
-coeval

coexecutor
-a joint executor.

coexecutrix
-a joint executrix.

coexist
-to exist at the same time;
-- sometimes followed by with.

coexisted
-of coexist

coexistence
-existence at the same time with another;
-- contemporary existence.

coexistent
-existing at the same time with another.
-that which coexists with another.

coexisting
-of coexist
-coexistent.

coextend
-to extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree.

coextended
-of coextend

coextending
-of coextend

coextension
-the act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.

coextensive
-equally extensive; having equal extent; as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive.

coffee
-the "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus coffea, growing in abyssinia, arabia, persia, and other warm regions of asia and africa, and also in tropical america.
-the coffee tree.
-the beverage made from the roasted and ground berry.

coffeehouse
-a house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation.

coffeeman
-one who keeps a coffeehouse.

coffeepot
-a covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking.

coffeeroom
-a public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained.

coffer
-a casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
-fig.: treasure or funds;
-- usually in the plural.
-a panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
-a trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
-the chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
-to put into a coffer.
-to secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
-to form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

cofferdam
-a water
-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.

cofferer
-one who keeps treasures in a coffer.

cofferwork
-rubblework faced with stone.

coffin
-the case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
-a basket.
-a casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
-a conical paper bag, used by grocers.
-the hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
-to inclose in, or as in, a coffin.

coffined
-of coffin

coffining
-of coffin

coffinless
-having no coffin.

coffle
-a gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

cog
-to seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
-to obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.
-to deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
-a trick or deception; a falsehood.
-a tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.
-a kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.
-a tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
-one of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
-to furnish with a cog or cogs.
-a small fishing boat.

cogency
-the quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.

cogenial
-congenial.

cogent
-compelling, in a physical sense; powerful.
-having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.

cogently
-in a cogent manner; forcibly; convincingly; conclusively.

cogged
-of cog

cogger
-a flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.

coggery
-trick; deception.

cogging
-of cog

coggle
-a small fishing boat.
-a cobblestone.

cogitability
-the quality of being cogitable; conceivableness.

cogitable
-capable of being brought before the mind as a thought or idea; conceivable; thinkable.

cogitabund
-full of thought; thoughtful.

cogitate
-to engage in continuous thought; to think.
-to think over; to plan.

cogitated
-of cogitate

cogitating
-of cogitate

cogitation
-the act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.

cogitative
-possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating.
-given to thought or contemplation.

cogman
-a dealer in cogware or coarse cloth.

cognac
-a kind of french brandy, so called from the town of cognac.

cognate
-allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law), related on the mother's side.
-of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.
-one who is related to another on the female side.
-one of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.

cognateness
-the state of being cognate.

cognati
-relatives by the mother's side.

cognation
-relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.
-participation of the same nature.
-that tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother;
-- used in distinction from agnation.

cognatus
-a person connected through cognation.

cognisee
-see cognizor, cognizee.

cognisor
-alt. of cognisee

cognition
-the act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
-that which is known.

cognitive
-knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power.

cognizable
-capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes.
-fitted to be a subject of judicial investigation; capable of being judicially heard and determined.

cognizably
-in a cognizable manner.

cognizance
-apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.
-recollection; recognition.
-jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.
-the hearing a matter judicially.
-an acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.
-a form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another.
-the distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known.

cognizant
-having cognizance or knowledge. (of).

cognize
-to know or perceive; to recognize.

cognizee
-one to whom a fine of land was acknowledged.

cognizor
-one who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant.

cognomen
-the last of the three names of a person among the ancient romans, denoting his house or family.
-a surname.

cognominal
-of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.
-one bearing the same name; a namesake.

cognomination
-a cognomen or surname.

cognoscence
-cognizance.

cognoscente
-a connoisseur.

cognoscenti
-of cognoscente

cognoscibility
-the quality of being cognoscible.

cognoscible
-capable of being known.
-liable to judicial investigation.

cognoscitive
-having the power of knowing.

cognovit
-an instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.

coguardian
-a joint guardian.

cogue
-a small wooden vessel; a pail.

cogware
-a coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century.

cogwheel
-a wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. see illust. of gearing.

cohabit
-to inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.
-to dwell or live together as husband and wife.

cohabitant
-one who dwells with another, or in the same place or country.

cohabitation
-the act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.
-the living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship.

cohabited
-of cohabit

cohabiter
-a cohabitant.

cohabiting
-of cohabit

coheir
-a joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.

coheiress
-a female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.

coheirship
-the state of being a coheir.

coherald
-a joint herald.

cohere
-to stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
-to be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.
-to suit; to agree; to fit.

cohered
-of cohere

coherence
-alt. of coherency

coherency
-a sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
-connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness.

coherent
-sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.
-composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.
-logically consistent;
-- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker.
-suitable or suited; adapted; accordant.

coherently
-in a coherent manner.

cohering
-of cohere

cohesibility
-the state of being cohesible.

cohesible
-capable of cohesion.

cohesion
-the act or state of sticking together; close union.
-that from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike;
-- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.
-logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.

cohesive
-holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.
-cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.

cohibit
-to restrain.

cohibited
-of cohibit

cohibiting
-of cohibit

cohibition
-hindrance; restraint.

cohobate
-to repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel.

cohobated
-of cohobate

cohobating
-of cohobate

cohobation
-the process of cohobating.

cohorn
-see coehorn.

cohort
-a body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.
-any band or body of warriors.
-a natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.

cohosh
-a perennial american herb (caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine;
-- also called pappoose root. the name is sometimes also given to the cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of actaea, plants of the crowfoot family.

coif
-a cap.
-a close
-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a small hood without a cape.
-an official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in england.
-to cover or dress with, or as with, a coif.

coifed
-wearing a coif.

coiffure
-a headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.

coigne
-a quoin.
-alt. of coigny

coigny
-the practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.

coil
-to wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
-to encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
-to wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind;
-- often with about or around.
-a ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.
-fig.: entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
-a series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.
-a noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.

coiled
-of coil

coiling
-of coil

coilon
-a testicle.

coin
-a quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. see coigne, and quoin.
-a piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money;
-- much used in a collective sense.
-that which serves for payment or recompense.
-to make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.
-to make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.
-to acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
-to manufacture counterfeit money.

coinage
-the act or process of converting metal into money.
-coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
-the cost or expense of coining money.
-the act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.

coincibency
-coincidence.

coincide
-to occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.
-to occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of granada coincided with the discovery of america.
-to correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide.

coincided
-of coincide

coincidence
-the condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc.
-the condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of john adams and thomas jefferson.
-exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement.

coincident
-having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent;
-- followed by with.
-one of two or more coincident events; a coincidence.

coincidental
-coincident.

coincidently
-with coincidence.

coincider
-one who coincides with another in an opinion.

coinciding
-of coincide

coindication
-one of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.

coined
-of coin

coiner
-one who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money;
-- usually, a maker of counterfeit money.
-an inventor or maker, as of words.

coinhabitant
-one who dwells with another, or with others.

coinhere
-to inhere or exist together, as in one substance.

coinheritance
-joint inheritance.

coinheritor
-a coheir.

coining
-of coin

coinitial
-having a common beginning.

coinquinate
-to pollute.

coinquination
-defilement.

coinstantaneous
-happening at the same instant.

cointense
-equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense.

cointension
-the condition of being of equal in intensity;
-- applied to relations; as, 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension.

coir
-a material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut.
-cordage or cables, made of this material.

coistril
-an inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries.
-a mean, paltry fellow; a coward.

coit
-a quoit.
-to throw, as a stone. [obs.] see quoit.

coition
-a coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation.

cojoin
-to join; to conjoin.

cojuror
-one who swears to another's credibility.

coke
-mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. it is lagerly used where / smokeless fire is required.
-to convert into coke.

cokenay
-a cockney.

cokernut
-the cocoanut.

cokes
-a simpleton; a gull; a dupe.

cokewold
-cuckold.

col
-a short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.

col
-
-a prefix signifying with, together. see com
-.

colaborer
-one who labors with another; an associate in labor.

colander
-a utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like.

colation
-the act or process of straining or filtering.

colatitude
-the complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.

colature
-the process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer.

colbertine
-a kind of lace.

colchicine
-a powerful vegetable alkaloid, c17h19no5, extracted from the colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste;
-- called also colchicia.

colchicum
-a genus of bulbous
-rooted plants found in many parts of europe, including the meadow saffron.

colcothar
-polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment;
-- called also crocus martis.

cold
-deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
-lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
-not pungent or acrid.
-wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
-unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
-wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
-affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
-not sensitive; not acute.
-distant;
-- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
-having a bluish effect. cf. warm, 8.
-the relative absence of heat or warmth.
-the sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
-a morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
-to become cold.

cold
-blooded
-having cold blood;
-- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
-deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard
-hearted.
-not thoroughbred;
-- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.

cold
-hearted
-wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.

cold
-short
-brittle when cold; as, cold
-short iron.

cold
-shut
-closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded;
-- said of a forging or casting.
-an imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.

coldfinch
-a british wagtail.

coldish
-somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

coldly
-in a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.

coldness
-the state or quality of being cold.

cole
-a plant of the brassica or cabbage genus; esp. that form of b. oleracea called rape and coleseed.

colegoose
-see coalgoose.

colemanite
-a hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in southern california.

colemouse
-see coletit.

coleopter
-one of the coleoptera.

coleoptera
-an order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. the mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. most of the coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.

coleopteral
-alt. of coleopterous

coleopteran
-one of the order of coleoptera.

coleopterist
-one versed in the study of the coleoptera.

coleopterous
-having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the coleoptera.

coleorhiza
-a sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle.

coleperch
-a kind of small black perch.

colera
-bile; choler.

coleridgian
-pertaining to samuel taylor coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.

coleseed
-the common rape or cole.

coleslaw
-a salad made of sliced cabbage.

colestaff
-see colstaff.

colet
-alt. of collet

coletit
-alt. of coaltit

coleus
-a plant of several species of the mint family, cultivated for its bright
-colored or variegated leaves.

colewort
-a variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.
-any white cabbage before the head has become firm.

colfox
-a crafty fox.

colic
-a severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.
-of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.
-of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.

colical
-of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic.

colicky
-pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.

colicroot
-a bitter american herb of the bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (aletris farinosa and a. aurea). called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.

colies
-of coly

colin
-the american quail or bobwhite. the name is also applied to other related species. see bobwhite.

coliseum
-the amphitheater of vespasian at rome, the largest in the world.

colitis
-an inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.

coll
-to embrace.

colla
-of collum

collaborateur
-see collaborator.

collaboration
-the act of working together; united labor.

collaborator
-an associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.

collagen
-the chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. on being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

collagenous
-containing or resembling collagen.

collapse
-to fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.
-to fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, maximilian's government collapsed soon after the french army left mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.
-a falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
-a sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
-extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.

collapsed
-of collapse

collapsing
-of collapse

collapsion
-collapse.

collar
-something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog.
-a ring or cincture.
-a collar beam.
-the neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
-an ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.
-a ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.
-a colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
-a ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. the flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars.
-an eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead
-eyes, are secured.
-a curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
-to seize by the collar.
-to put a collar on.

collar bone
-the clavicle.

collards
-young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.

collared
-of collar
-wearing a collar.
-wearing a collar;
-- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.
-rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. see to collar beef, under collar, v. t.

collaring
-of collar

collatable
-capable of being collated.

collate
-to compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.
-to gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
-to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary;
-- followed by to.
-to bestow or confer.
-to place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.

collated
-of collate

collateral
-coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.
-acting in an indirect way.
-related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues.
-tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence.
-descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other;
-- opposed to lineal.
-a collateral relative.
-collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.

collaterally
-side by side; by the side.
-in an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.
-in collateral relation; not lineally.

collateralness
-the state of being collateral.

collating
-of collate

collation
-the act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general.
-the gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
-the act of conferring or bestowing.
-a conference.
-the presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
-the act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
-the report of the act made by the proper officers.
-the right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
-a collection of the lives of the fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
-a light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation;
-- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries.
-to partake of a collation.

collationer
-one who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc.

collatitious
-brought together; contributed; done by contributions.

collative
-passing or held by collation;
-- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

collator
-one who collates manuscripts, books, etc.
-one who collates to a benefice.
-one who confers any benefit.

collaud
-to join in praising.

colleague
-a partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. it is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.
-to unite or associate with another or with others.

colleagueship
-partnership in office.

collect
-to gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
-to demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
-to infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
-to assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
-to infer; to conclude.
-a short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

collectanea
-passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.

collected
-of collect
-gathered together.
-self
-possessed; calm; composed.

collectedly
-composedly; coolly.

collectedness
-a collected state of the mind; self
-possession.

collectible
-capable of being collected.

collecting
-of collect

collection
-the act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
-that which is collected
-a gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
-a gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
-that which is obtained in payment of demands.
-an accumulation of any substance.
-the act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
-the jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

collectional
-of or pertaining to collecting.

collective
-formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
-deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
-expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
-tending to collect; forming a collection.
-having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
-a collective noun or name.

collectively
-in a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.

collectiveness
-a state of union; mass.

collectivism
-the doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.

collectivist
-an advocate of collectivism.
-relating to, or characteristic of, collectivism.

collector
-one who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
-a compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
-an officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
-one authorized to collect debts.
-a bachelor of arts in oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in lent.

collectorate
-the district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

collectorship
-the office of a collector of customs or of taxes.

collegatary
-a joint legatee.

college
-a collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
-a society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of oxford and cambridge universities, and many american colleges.
-a building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
-fig.: a community.

collegial
-collegiate.

collegian
-a member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.

collegiate
-of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.
-a member of a college.

collembola
-the division of thysanura which includes podura, and allied forms.

collenchyma
-a tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

collet
-an inferior church servant. [obs.] see acolyte.
-a small collar or neckband.
-a small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.
-the part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.
-the flat table at the base of a brilliant. see illust. of brilliant.

colleterial
-of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects.

colleterium
-an organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.

colletic
-agglutinant.
-an agglutinant.

colley
-see collie.

collide
-to strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
-to strike or dash against.

collidine
-one of a class of organic bases, c8h11n, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

collie
-the scotch shepherd dog. there are two breeds, the rough
-haired and smooth
-haired. it is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks.

collied
-darkened. see colly, v. t.
-of colly

collier
-one engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
-a vessel employed in the coal trade.

collieries
-of colliery

colliery
-the place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
-the coal trade.

colliflower
-see cauliflower.

colligate
-to tie or bind together.
-to bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition.
-bound together.

colligated
-of colligate

colligating
-of colligate

colligation
-a binding together.
-that process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet mars were points in an ellipse.

collimate
-to render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.

collimated
-of collimate

collimating
-of collimate

collimation
-the act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.

collimator
-a telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal.
-a tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.

collin
-a very pure form of gelatin.

colline
-a small hill or mount.

collineation
-the act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object.

colling
-an embrace; dalliance.

collingly
-with embraces.

collingual
-having, or pertaining to, the same language.

colliquable
-liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.

colliquament
-the first rudiments of an embryo in generation.

colliquate
-to change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt.

colliquated
-of colliquate

colliquating
-of colliquate

colliquation
-a melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
-a processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.

colliquative
-causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, colliquative sweats.

colliquefaction
-a melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.

collish
-a tool to polish the edge of a sole.

collision
-the act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
-a state of opposition; antagonism; interference.

collisive
-colliding; clashing.

collitigant
-disputing or wrangling.
-one who litigates or wrangles.

collocate
-set; placed.
-to set or place; to set; to station.

collocated
-of collocate

collocating
-of collocate

collocation
-the act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

collocution
-a speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.

collocutor
-one of the speakers in a dialogue.

collodion
-a solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. it is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.

collodionize
-to prepare or treat with collodion.

collodiotype
-a picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.

collodium
-see collodion.

collogue
-to talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.

colloid
-resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.
-a substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do;
-- opposed to crystalloid.
-a gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.

colloidal
-pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.

colloidality
-the state or quality of being colloidal.

collop
-a small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.
-a part or piece of anything; a portion.

colloped
-having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.

collophore
-a suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the collembola.
-an adhesive marginal organ of the lucernariae.

colloquial
-pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.

colloquialism
-a colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

colloquialize
-to make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.

colloquies
-of colloquy

colloquist
-a speaker in a colloquy or dialogue.

colloquy
-mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.
-in some american colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.

collow
-soot; smut. see 1st colly.

colluctancy
-a struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.

colluctation
-a struggling; a contention.

collude
-to have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.

colluded
-of collude

colluder
-one who conspires in a fraud.

colluding
-of collude

collum
-a neck or cervix.
-same as collar.

collusion
-a secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.
-an agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.

collusive
-characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion.
-acting in collusion.

collusory
-collusive.

collutory
-a medicated wash for the mouth.

colly
-the black grime or soot of coal.
-to render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime.
-a kind of dog. see collie.

collybist
-a money changer.

collying
-of colly

collyria
-of collyrium

collyrium
-an application to the eye, usually an eyewater.

collyriums
-of collyrium

colocolo
-a south american wild cat (felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

colocynth
-the light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (citrullus, / cucumis, colocynthis), an asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. it comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

colocynthin
-the active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.

cologne
-a perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet;
-- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

cologne earth
-an earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

colombier
-a large size of paper for drawings. see under paper.

colombin
-see calumbin.

colombo
-see calumba.

colon
-that part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [see illust of digestion.]
-a point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.

colonel
-the chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

colonelcy
-the office, rank, or commission of a colonel.

colonelship
-colonelcy.

coloner
-a colonist.

colonial
-of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

colonical
-of or pertaining to husbandmen.

colonies
-of colony

colonist
-a member or inhabitant of a colony.

colonitis
-see colitis.

colonization
-the act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.

colonizationist
-a friend to colonization, esp. (u. s. hist) to the colonization of africa by emigrants from the colored population of the united states.

colonize
-to plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
-to remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony.

colonized
-of colonize

colonizer
-one who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.

colonizing
-of colonize

colonnade
-a series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

colony
-a company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the british colonies in america.
-the district or country colonized; a settlement.
-a company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the american colony in paris.
-a number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

colophany
-see colophony.

colophene
-a colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. it is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. called also diterebene.

colophon
-an inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book.

colophonite
-a coarsely granular variety of garnet.

colophony
-rosin.

coloquintida
-see colocynth.

color
-a property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
-any hue distinguished from white or black.
-the hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
-that which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
-that which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
-shade or variety of character; kind; species.
-a distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
-an apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.
-to change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.
-to change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.
-to hide.
-to acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.

color sergeant
-see under sergeant.

color
-blind
-affected with color blindness. see color blindness, under color, n.

colorable
-specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.

colorado beetle
-a yellowish beetle (doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. it has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant;
-- called also potato beetle and potato bug. see potato beetle.

colorado group
-a subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western north america, especially developed in colorado and the upper missouri region.

coloradoite
-mercury telluride, an iron
-black metallic mineral, found in colorado.

colorate
-colored.

coloration
-the act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.

colorature
-vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.

colored
-of color
-having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
-specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.
-of some other color than black or white.
-of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
-of some other color than green.

colorific
-capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.

colorimeter
-an instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

coloring
-of color
-the act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.
-change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation.

colorist
-one who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.

colorless
-without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
-free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.

colorman
-a vender of paints, etc.

colormen
-of colorman

colossal
-of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
-of a size larger than heroic. see heroic.

colossean
-colossal.

colosseum
-the amphitheater of vespasian in rome.

colossi
-of colossus

colossus
-a statue of gigantic size. the name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the colossus of nero in rome, the colossus of apollo at rhodes.
-any man or beast of gigantic size.

colossuses
-of colossus

colostrum
-the first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.
-a mixture of turpentine and the yolk of an egg, formerly used as an emulsion.

colotomy
-an operation for opening the colon

colour
-see color.

colp
-see collop.

colportage
-the distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.

colporter
-same as colporteur.

colporteur
-a hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

colstaff
-a staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders.

colt
-the young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals;
-- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. cf. foal.
-a young, foolish fellow.
-a short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy.
-to frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
-to horse; to get with young.
-to befool.

colt's tooth
-see under colt.

colter
-a knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.

coltish
-like a colt; wanton; frisky.

coltsfoot
-a perennial herb (tussilago farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.

coluber
-a genus of harmless serpents.

colubrine
-like or related to snakes of the genus coluber.
-like a snake; cunning; crafty.

colugo
-a peculiar east indian mammal (galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel;
-- called also flying lemur.

columba
-see calumba.

columbae
-an order of birds, including the pigeons.

columbaria
-of columbarium

columbaries
-of columbary

columbarium
-a dovecote or pigeon house.
-a sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.

columbary
-a dovecote; a pigeon house.

columbate
-a salt of columbic acid; a niobate. see columbium.

columbatz fly
-see buffalo fly, under buffalo.

columbella
-a genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. some species, as columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.

columbia
-america; the united states;
-- a poetical appellation given in honor of columbus, the discoverer.

columbiad
-a form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.

columbian
-of or pertaining to the united states, or to america.

columbic
-pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic.
-pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root.

columbier
-see colombier.

columbiferous
-producing or containing columbium.

columbin
-a white, crystalline, bitter substance. see calumbin.

columbine
-of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove
-colored.
-a plant of several species of the genus aquilegia; as, a. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; a. canadensis, the wild red columbine of north america.
-the mistress or sweetheart of harlequin in pantomimes.

columbite
-a mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. it is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron;
-- first found in new england.

columbium
-a rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in connecticut, probably at haddam. atomic weight 94.2. symbol cb or nb. now more commonly called niobium.

columbo
-see calumba.

columella
-an axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.
-a columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses.
-a term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.
-the upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells.
-the central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals.

columelliform
-shaped like a little column, or columella.

column
-a kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. see order.
-anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the column vendome; the spinal column.
-a body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other;
-- contradistinguished from line. compare ploy, and deploy.
-a small army.
-a number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons;
-- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.
-a perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.
-a perpendicular line of figures.
-the body formed by the union of the stamens in the mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.

columnar
-formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.

columnarity
-the state or quality of being columnar.

columnated
-having columns; as, columnated temples.

columned
-having columns.

columniation
-the employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.

colure
-one of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. one of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure.

colures
-of colure

coly
-any bird of the genus colius and allied genera. they inhabit africa.

colza
-a variety of cabbage (brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

com
-
-a prefix from the latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. it is used in the form com
- before b, m, p, and sometimes f, and by assimilation becomes col
- before l, cor
- before r, and con
- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r, and w. before a vowel com
- becomes co
-; also before h, w, and sometimes before other consonants.

coma
-a state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. see carus.
-the envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.
-a tuft or bunch,
-- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

comanches
-a warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the shoshone family of indians, inhabiting mexico and the adjacent parts of the united states;
-- called also paducahs. they are noted for plundering and cruelty.

comart
-a covenant.

comate
-encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

comatose
-relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

comatous
-comatose.

comatula
-a crinoid of the genus antedon and related genera. when young they are fixed by a stem. when adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri;
-- called also feather stars.

comatulid
-any crinoid of the genus antedon or allied genera.

comb
-an instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
-an instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
-a toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
-the serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
-a former, commonly cone
-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
-a tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
-the notched scale of a wire micrometer.
-the collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
-the naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. it is usually red.
-one of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
-the curling crest of a wave.
-the waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
-the thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
-to disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. see under combing.
-to roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
-alt. of combe
-a dry measure. see coomb.

comb
-shaped
-pectinate.

combat
-to struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
-to fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
-a fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
-an engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

combatable
-such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.

combatant
-contending; disposed to contend.
-one who engages in combat.

combated
-of combat

combater
-one who combats.

combating
-of combat

combative
-disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

combativeness
-the quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
-a cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.

combattant
-in the position of fighting;
-- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.

combbroach
-a tooth of a wool comb.

combe
-that unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.
-see comb.

combed
-of comb

comber
-one who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
-a long, curling wave.
-to cumber.
-encumbrance.
-the cabrilla. also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.

combinable
-capable of combining; consistent with.

combinate
-united; joined; betrothed.

combination
-the act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
-the result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose;
-- usually in a bad sense.
-the act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.
-the different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.

combine
-to unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union.
-to bind; to hold by a moral tie.
-to form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.
-to unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.
-in the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.

combined
-of combine
-united closely; confederated; chemically united.

combinedly
-; jointly.

combiner
-one who, or that which, combines.

combing
-of comb
-the act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool.
-that which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair.
-hair arranged to be worn on the head.
-see coamings.

combining
-of combine

combless
-without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock.

comboloio
-a mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety
-nine beads.

combust
-burnt; consumed.
-so near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun.

combustibility
-the quality of being combustible.

combustible
-capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.
-easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
-a substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn.

combustibleness
-combustibility.

combustion
-the state of burning.
-the combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.
-violent agitation; confusion; tumult.

combustious
-inflammable.

come
-of come
-to move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated;
-- opposed to go.
-to complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
-to approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance.
-to approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another.
-to arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
-to get to be, as the result of change or progress;
-- with a predicate; as, to come untied.
-to carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here.
-coming.

come
-outer
-one who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer.

comedian
-an actor or player in comedy.
-a writer of comedy.

comedienne
-a women who plays in comedy.

comedies
-of comedy

comedietta
-a dramatic sketch; a brief comedy.

comedo
-a small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

comedones
-of comedo

comedown
-a downfall; an humiliation.

comedy
-a dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy;
-- opposed to tragedy.

comelily
-in a suitable or becoming manner.

comeliness
-the quality or state of being comely.

comely
-pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well
-proportioned; good
-looking; handsome.
-suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable.
-in a becoming manner.

comer
-one who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.

comes
-the answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.

comessation
-a reveling; a rioting.

comestible
-suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.
-something suitable to be eaten;
-- commonly in the plural.

comet
-a member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. a comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. see illustration in appendix.

comet
- seeker
-a telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.

comet
-finder
-alt. of comet
- seeker

cometarium
-an instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun.

cometary
-pertaining to, or resembling, a comet.

cometic
-relating to a comet.

cometographer
-one who describes or writes about comets.

cometography
-a description of, or a treatise concerning, comets.

cometology
-the department of astronomy relating to comets.

comfit
-a dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
-to preserve dry with sugar.

comfiture
-see comfit, n.

comfort
-to make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
-to assist or help; to aid.
-to impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer.
-assistance; relief; support.
-encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation.
-a state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition.
-a wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.
-unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

comfortable
-strong; vigorous; valiant.
-serviceable; helpful.
-affording or imparting comfort or consolation; able to comfort; cheering; as, a comfortable hope.
-in a condition of comfort; having comforts; not suffering or anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life.
-free, or comparatively free, from pain or distress;
-- used of a sick person.
-a stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort.

comfortableness
-state of being comfortable.

comfortably
-in a comfortable or comforting manner.

comforted
-of comfort

comforter
-one who administers comfort or consolation.
-the holy spirit,
-- referring to his office of comforting believers.
-a knit woolen tippet, long and narrow.
-a wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.

comforting.
-of comfort

comfortless
-without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.

comfortment
-act or process of administering comfort.

comfortress
-a woman who comforts.

comfrey
-a rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus symphytum.

comic
-relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
-causing mirth; ludicrous.
-a comedian.

comical
-relating to comedy.
-exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story.

comicalities
-of comicality

comicality
-the quality of being comical; something comical.

comicry
-the power of exciting mirth; comicalness.

coming
-of come
-approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.
-ready to come; complaisant; fond.
-approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.
-specifically: the second advent of christ.

comitia
-a public assembly of the roman people for electing officers or passing laws.

comitial
-relating to the comitia, or popular assemblies of the romans for electing officers and passing laws.

comities
-of comity

comity
-mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of states.

comma
-a character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
-a small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.

command
-to order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
-to exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.
-to have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.
-to have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.
-to direct to come; to bestow.
-to have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.
-to have a view, as from a superior position.
-an authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
-the possession or exercise of authority.
-authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.
-power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.
-control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.
-a body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.

commandable
-capable of being commanded.

commandant
-a commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy
-yard.

commandatory
-mandatory; as, commandatory authority.

commanded
-of command

commander
-a chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.
-an officer who ranks next below a captain,
-- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.
-the chief officer of a commandery.
-a heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.

commanderies
-of commandery

commandership
-the office of a commander.

commandery
-the office or rank of a commander.
-a district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander;
-- called also a preceptory.
-an assembly or lodge of knights templars (so called) among the freemasons.
-a district under the administration of a military commander or governor.

commanding
-of command
-exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
-fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
-exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.

commandingly
-in a commanding manner.

commandment
-an order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.
-one of the ten laws or precepts given by god to the israelites at mount sinai.
-the act of commanding; exercise of authority.
-the offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

commandress
-a woman invested with authority to command.

commandry
-see commandery.

commark
-the frontier of a country; confines.

commaterial
-consisting of the same material.

commatic
-having short clauses or sentences; brief; concise.

commatism
-conciseness in writing.

commeasurable
-having the same measure; commensurate; proportional.

commeasure
-to be commensurate with; to equal.

commemorable
-worthy to be commemorated.

commemorate
-to call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our savior by the sacrament of the lord's supper; to commemorate the declaration of independence by the observance of the fourth of july.

commemorated
-of commemorate

commemorating
-of commemorate

commemoration
-the act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event.
-whatever serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.

commemorative
-tending or intended to commemorate.

commemorator
-one who commemorates.

commemoratory
-serving to commemorate; commemorative.

commence
-to have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.
-to begin to be, or to act as.
-to take a degree at a university.
-to enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.

commenced
-of commence

commencement
-the first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
-the day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.

commencing
-of commence

commend
-to commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation.
-to recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention.
-to mention with approbation; to praise; as, to commend a person or an act.
-to mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will.
-commendation; praise.
-compliments; greetings.

commendable
-worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy.

commendam
-a vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. a living so held was said to be held in commendam. the practice was abolished by law in 1836.

commendatary
-one who holds a living in commendam.

commendation
-the act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation.
-that which is the ground of approbation or praise.
-a message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting.

commendator
-one who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary.

commendatory
-serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising.
-holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop.
-a commendation; eulogy.

commended
-of commend

commender
-one who commends or praises.

commending
-of commend

commensal
-one who eats at the same table.
-an animal, not truly parasitic, which lives in, with, or on, another, partaking usually of the same food. both species may be benefited by the association.
-having the character of a commensal.

commensalism
-the act of eating together; table fellowship.

commensality
-fellowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table.

commensation
-commensality.

commensurability
-the quality of being commensurable.

commensurable
-having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.

commensurably
-in a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.

commensurate
-to reduce to a common measure.
-to proportionate; to adjust.
-having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.
-equal in measure or extent; proportionate.

commensurated
-of commensurate

commensurately
-in a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.
-with equal measure or extent.

commensurateness
-the state or quality of being commensurate.

commensurating
-of commensurate

commensuration
-the act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.

comment
-to make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations;
-- often followed by on or upon.
-to comment on.
-a remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk.
-a note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition.

commentaries
-of commentary

commentary
-a series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the scriptures or of some other work.
-a brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum;
-- usually in the plural; as, caesar's commentaries on the gallic war.

commentate
-to write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

commentation
-the act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition.
-the result of the labors of a commentator.

commentator
-one who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator.

commentatorial
-pertaining to the making of commentaries.

commentatorship
-the office or occupation of a commentator.

commented
-of comment

commenter
-one who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.

commenting
-of comment

commentitious
-fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion.

commerce
-the exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
-social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
-sexual intercourse.
-a round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
-to carry on trade; to traffic.
-to hold intercourse; to commune.

commerced
-of commerce

commercial
-of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.

commercialism
-the commercial spirit or method.

commercially
-in a commercial manner.

commercing
-of commerce

commigrate
-to migrate together.

commigration
-migration together.

commination
-a threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.
-an office in the liturgy of the church of england, used on ash wednesday, containing a recital of god's anger and judgments against sinners.

comminatory
-threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms.

commingle
-to mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.

commingled
-of commingle

commingling
-of commingle

comminute
-to reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.

comminuted
-of comminute

comminuting
-of comminute

comminution
-the act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.
-fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.
-gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away.

commiserable
-pitiable.

commiserate
-to feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.

commiserated
-of commiserate

commiserating
-of commiserate

commiseration
-the act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.

commiserative
-feeling or expressing commiseration.

commiserator
-one who pities.

commissarial
-of or pertaining to a commissary.

commissariat
-the organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.
-the body of officers charged with such service.

commissaries
-of commissary

commissary
-one to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
-an officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
-an officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters.
-an officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post;
-- officially called commissary of subsistence.

commissaryship
-the office or employment of a commissary.

commission
-the act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
-the act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
-the duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
-a formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
-a certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.
-a company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
-the acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
-the thing to be done as agent for another; as, i have three commissions for the city.
-the brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. see del credere.
-to give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
-to send out with a charge or commission.

commissional
-alt. of commissionary

commissionary
-of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.

commissionate
-to commission

commissioned
-of commission

commissioner
-a person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims.
-an officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.

commissioning
-of commission

commissionnaire
-an agent or factor; a commission merchant.
-one of a class of attendants, in some european cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

commissionship
-the office of commissioner.

commissive
-relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission.

commissural
-of or pertaining to a commissure.

commissure
-a joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.
-the point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.
-a collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
-the line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.

commit
-to give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign;
-- used with to, unto.
-to put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
-to do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
-to join for a contest; to match;
-- followed by with.
-to pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step;
-- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
-to confound.
-to sin; esp., to be incontinent.

commitment
-the act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
-a warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person;
-- more frequently termed a mittimus.
-the act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
-a doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
-the act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.

committable
-capable of being committed.

committal
-the act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.

committed
-of commit

committee
-one or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.
-one to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.

committeeman
-a member of a committee.

committer
-one who commits; one who does or perpetrates.
-a fornicator.

committible
-capable of being committed; liable to be committed.

committing
-of commit

commix
-to mix or mingle together; to blend.

commixed
-of commix

commixing
-of commix

commixion
-commixture.

commixtion
-commixture; mingling.

commixture
-the act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.
-the mass formed by mingling different things; a compound; a mixture.

commodate
-a gratuitous loan.

commode
-a kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
-a piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion
-a chest of drawers or a bureau.
-a night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel.
-a kind of close stool.
-a movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet.

commodious
-adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house.

commodiously
-in a commodious manner.

commodiousness
-state of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convenience; roominess.

commodities
-of commodity

commodity
-convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.
-that which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals),
-- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.
-a parcel or quantity of goods.

commodore
-an officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. the rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.
-a captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.
-a title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.
-a familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet.

common
-belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and i have a common interest in the property.
-belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the book of common prayer.
-often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
-not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian;
-- often in a depreciatory sense.
-profane; polluted.
-given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
-the people; the community.
-an inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.
-the right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons;
-- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
-to converse together; to discourse; to confer.
-to participate.
-to have a joint right with others in common ground.
-to board together; to eat at a table in common.

common sense
-see common sense, under sense.

commonable
-held in common.
-allowed to pasture on public commons.

commonage
-the right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.

commonalties
-of commonalty

commonalty
-the common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.
-the majority or bulk of mankind.

commoner
-one of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
-a member of the house of commons.
-one who has a joint right in common ground.
-one sharing with another in anything.
-a student in the university of oxford, eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges;
-
- at cambridge called a pensioner.
-a prostitute.

commonish
-somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.

commonition
-advice; warning; instruction.

commonitive
-monitory.

commonitory
-calling to mind; giving admonition.

commonly
-usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.
-in common; familiarly.

commonness
-state or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.
-triteness; meanness.

commonplace
-common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
-an idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
-a memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
-to enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
-to utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

commonplaceness
-the quality of being commonplace; commonness.

commons
-the mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
-the house of commons, or lower house of the british parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.
-provisions; food; fare,
-- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities.
-a club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.
-a common; public pasture ground.

commonty
-a common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right.

commonweal
-commonwealth.

commonwealth
-a state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.
-the whole body of people in a state; the public.
-specifically, the form of government established on the death of charles i., in 1649, which existed under oliver cromwell and his son richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

commorance
-see commorancy.

commorancy
-a dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation.
-residence temporarily, or for a short time.

commorant
-ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
-inhabiting or occupying temporarily.
-a resident.

commoration
-the act of staying or residing in a place.

commorient
-dying together or at the same time.

commorse
-remorse.

commote
-to commove; to disturb; to stir up.

commotion
-disturbed or violent motion; agitation.
-a popular tumult; public disturbance; riot.
-agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.

commove
-to urge; to persuade; to incite.
-to put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle.

commoved
-of commove

commoving
-of commove

communal
-pertaining to a commune.

communalism
-a french theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. it is advocated by advanced french republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.

communalist
-an advocate of communalism.

communalistic
-pertaining to communalism.

commune
-to converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
-to receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or lord's supper.
-communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.
-the commonalty; the common people.
-a small territorial district in france under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. see arrondissement.
-absolute municipal self
-government.

communed
-of commune

communicability
-the quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.

communicable
-capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
-communicative; free
-speaking.

communicant
-one who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the lord's supper; a church member.
-one who communicates.
-communicating.

communicate
-to share in common; to participate in.
-to impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.
-to make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
-to administer the communion to.
-to share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
-to give alms, sympathy, or aid.
-to have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.
-to partake of the lord's supper; to commune.

communicated
-of communicate

communicating
-of communicate

communication
-the act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
-intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence.
-association; company.
-means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.
-that which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.
-participation in the lord's supper.
-a trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of i or you.

communicative
-inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.

communicativeness
-the quality of being communicative.

communicator
-one who communicates.

communicatory
-imparting knowledge or information.

communing
-of commune

communion
-the act of sharing; community; participation.
-intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints.
-a body of christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the presbyterian communion.
-the sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion.

communism
-a scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.

communist
-an advocate for the theory or practice of communism.
-a supporter of the commune of paris.

communistic
-of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories.
-living or having their nests in common, as certain birds.

communities
-of community

community
-common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
-a body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests.
-society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.
-common character; likeness.
-commonness; frequency.

commutability
-the quality of being commutable.

commutable
-capable of being commuted or interchanged.

commutableness
-the quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.

commutation
-a passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
-the act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
-the change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the state; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment.
-a substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations.

commutative
-relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.

commutator
-a piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.

commute
-to exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.
-to obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
-to pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

commuted
-of commute

commuter
-one who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

commuting
-of commute

commutual
-mutual; reciprocal; united.

comose
-bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.

compact
-joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
-composed or made;
-- with of.
-closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
-brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.
-to thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close;
-- as the parts which compose a body.
-to unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
-an agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

compacted
-of compact
-compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.

compactedly
-in a compact manner.

compactedness
-a state of being compact.

compacter
-one who makes a compact.

compactible
-that may be compacted.

compacting
-of compact

compaction
-the act of making compact, or the state of being compact.

compactly
-in a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.

compactness
-the state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.

compacture
-close union or connection of parts; manner of joining; construction.

compages
-a system or structure of many parts united.

compaginate
-to unite or hold together; as, the side pieces compaginate the frame.

compagination
-union of parts; structure.

companable
-companionable; sociable.

companator
-same as impanator.

companiable
-companionable; sociable.

companied
-of company

companies
-of company

companion
-one who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.
-a knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the bath.
-a fellow;
-- in contempt.
-a skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
-a wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.
-to be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
-to qualify as a companion; to make equal.

companionable
-fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable.

companionless
-without a companion.

companionship
-fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.

company
-the state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.
-a companion or companions.
-an assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient.
-guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.
-society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.
-an association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the east india company; an insurance company; a joint
-stock company.
-partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title;
-- often abbreviated in writing; as, hottinguer & co.
-a subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the united states (full strength) 100 men.
-the crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.
-the body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.
-to accompany or go with; to be companion to.
-to associate.
-to be a gay companion.
-to have sexual commerce.

companying
-of company

comparable
-capable of being compared; worthy of comparison.

comparate
-one of two things compared together.

comparation
-a making ready; provision.

comparative
-of or pertaining to comparison.
-proceeding from, or by the method of, comparison; as, the comparative sciences; the comparative anatomy.
-estimated by comparison; relative; not positive or absolute, as compared with another thing or state.
-expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. the comparative degree is formed from the positive by the use of
-er, more, or less; as, brighter, more bright, or less bright.
-the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, the form by which the comparative degree is expressed; as, stronger, wiser, weaker, more stormy, less windy, are all comparatives.
-an equal; a rival; a compeer.
-one who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.

comparatively
-according to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely.

comparator
-an instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure;
-- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

compare
-to examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.
-to represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.
-to inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "
- er" and "
-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.
-to be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
-to vie; to assume a likeness or equality.
-comparison.
-illustration by comparison; simile.
-to get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire

compared
-of compare

comparer
-one who compares.

comparing
-of compare

comparison
-the act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
-the state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.
-that to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
-the modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.
-a figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.
-the faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
-to compare.

compart
-to divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions.

comparted
-of compart

comparting
-of compart

compartition
-the act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment.

compartment
-one of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden.
-one of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water
-tight bulkheads.

compartner
-see copartner.

compass
-a passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
-an inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.
-an inclosed space; an area; extent.
-extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.
-moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits;
-- used with within.
-the range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.
-an instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.
-a pair of compasses.
-a circle; a continent.
-to go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.
-to inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege;
-- used with about, round, around, and round about.
-to reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.
-to curve; to bend into a circular form.
-to purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.

compassable
-capable of being compassed or accomplished.

compassed
-of compass
-rounded; arched.

compasses
-an instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.

compassing
-of compass
-curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.

compassion
-literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.
-to pity.

compassionable
-deserving compassion or pity; pitiable.

compassionate
-having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.
-complaining; inviting pity; pitiable.
-to have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.

compassionated
-of compassionate

compassionately
-in a compassionate manner; mercifully.

compassionateness
-the quality or state of being compassionate.

compassionating
-of compassionate

compassless
-having no compass.

compaternity
-the relation of a godfather to a person.

compatibility
-the quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.

compatible
-capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant;
-- usually followed by with.

compatibleness
-compatibility; consistency; fitness; agreement.

compatibly
-in a compatible manner.

compatient
-suffering or enduring together.

compatriot
-one of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.
-of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.

compatriotism
-the condition of being compatriots.

compear
-to appear.
-to appear in court personally or by attorney.

compeer
-an equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate.
-to be equal with; to match.
-alt. of compeir

compeir
-see compear.

compel
-to drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
-to take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.
-to force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
-to gather or unite in a crowd or company.
-to call forth; to summon.
-to make one yield or submit.

compellable
-capable of being compelled or constrained.

compellably
-by compulsion.

compellation
-style of address or salutation; an appellation.

compellative
-the name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

compellatory
-serving to compel; compulsory.

compelled
-of compel

compeller
-one who compels or constrains.

compelling
-of compel

compend
-a compendium; an epitome; a summary.

compendia
-of compendium

compendiarious
-short; compendious.

compendiate
-to sum or collect together.

compendious
-containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.

compendiously
-in a compendious manner.

compendiousness
-the state or quality of being compendious.

compendium
-a brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.

compendiums
-of compendium

compensate
-to make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
-to be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
-to make amends; to supply an equivalent;
-- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

compensated
-of compensate

compensating
-of compensate

compensation
-the act or principle of compensating.
-that which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
-the extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set
-off.
-a recompense or reward for some loss or service.
-an equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.

compensative
-affording compensation.
-compensation.

compensator
-one who, or that which, compensates;
-- a name applied to various mechanical devices.
-an iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.

compensatory
-serving for compensation; making amends.

compense
-to compensate.

comperendinate
-to delay.

compesce
-to hold in check; to restrain.

compete
-to contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.

competed
-of compete

competence
-alt. of competency

competency
-the state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.
-property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
-legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.
-right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.

competent
-answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
-rightfully or properly belonging; incident;
-- followed by to.

competently
-in a competent manner; adequately; suitably.

competible
-compatible; suitable; consistent.

competing
-of compete

competition
-the act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage;
-- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.

competitive
-of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.

competitor
-one who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.
-an associate; a confederate.

competitory
-acting in competition; competing; rival.

competitress
-a woman who competes.

competitrix
-a competitress.

compilation
-the act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
-that which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.

compilator
-compiler.

compile
-to put together; to construct; to build.
-to contain or comprise.
-to put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents.
-to write; to compose.

compiled
-of compile

compilement
-compilation.

compiler
-one who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.

compiling
-of compile

compinge
-to compress; to shut up.

complacence
-alt. of complacency

complacency
-calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification.
-the cause of pleasure or joy.
-the manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.

complacent
-self
-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.

complacential
-marked by, or causing, complacence.

complacently
-in a complacent manner.

complain
-to give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault;
-- commonly used with of. also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
-to make a formal accusation; to make a charge.
-to lament; to bewail.

complainable
-that may be complained of.

complainant
-one who makes complaint.
-one who commences a legal process by a complaint.
-the party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law.

complained
-of complain

complainer
-one who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.

complaining
-of complain

complaint
-expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault
-finding.
-cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
-an ailment or disease of the body.
-a formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.

complaintful
-full of complaint.

complaisance
-disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility.

complaisant
-desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman.

complanar
-see coplanar.

complanate
-flattened to a level surface.
-to make level.

complected
-complexioned.

complement
-that which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
-that which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.
-full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.
-a second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
-something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
-the whole working force of a vessel.
-the interval wanting to complete the octave;
-- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
-a compliment.
-to supply a lack; to supplement.
-to compliment.

complemental
-supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.
-complimentary; courteous.

complementary
-serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers.
-one skilled in compliments.

complete
-filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.
-finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.
-having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.
-to bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.

completed
-of complete

completely
-in a complete manner; fully.

completement
-act of completing or perfecting; completion.

completeness
-the state of being complete.

completing
-of complete

completion
-the act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.
-state of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization.

completive
-making complete.

completory
-serving to fulfill.
-same as compline.

complex
-composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.
-involving many parts; complicated; intricate.
-assemblage of related things; collection; complication.

complexed
-complex, complicated.

complexedness
-the quality or state of being complex or involved; complication.

complexion
-the state of being complex; complexity.
-a combination; a complex.
-the bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature.
-the color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face.
-the general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.

complexional
-of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.

complexionally
-constitutionally.

complexionary
-pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it.

complexioned
-having (such) a complexion;
-- used in composition; as, a dark
-complexioned or a ruddy
-complexioned person.

complexities
-of complexity

complexity
-the state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
-that which is complex; intricacy; complication.

complexly
-in a complex manner; not simply.

complexness
-the state of being complex; complexity.

complexus
-a complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.

compliable
-capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant.

compliance
-the act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.
-a disposition to yield to others; complaisance.

compliancy
-compliance; disposition to yield to others.

compliant
-yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.

compliantly
-in a compliant manner.

complicacy
-a state of being complicate or intricate.

complicant
-overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.

complicate
-composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
-folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.
-to fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.

complicated
-of complicate

complicately
-in a complex manner.

complicateness
-complexity.

complicating
-of complicate

complication
-the act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
-a disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.

complice
-an accomplice.

complices
-of complice

complicities
-of complicity

complicity
-the state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.

complied
-of comply

complier
-one who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper.

compliment
-an expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend.
-to praise, flatter, or gratify, by expressions of approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to.
-to pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.

complimental
-complimentary.

complimentary
-expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket.

complimentative
-complimentary.

complimenter
-one who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer.

complin
-the last division of the roman catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.

compline
-alt. of complin

complot
-a plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.
-to plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.

complotment
-a plotting together.

complotted
-of complot

complotter
-one joined in a plot.

complotting
-of complot

complutensian
-of or pertaining to complutum (now alcala de henares) a city near madrid; as, the complutensian bible.

compluvium
-a space left unroofed over the court of a roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.

comply
-to yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform;
-- usually followed by with.
-to be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
-to fulfill; to accomplish.
-to infold; to embrace.

complying
-of comply

compone
-to compose; to settle; to arrange.
-see compony.
-divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row;
-- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. if there are two rows it is called counter
-compony.

component
-serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
-a constituent part; an ingredient.

compony
-alt. of compone

comport
-to bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
-to agree; to accord; to suit;
-- sometimes followed by with.
-to bear; to endure; to brook; to put with.
-to carry; to conduct;
-- with a reflexive pronoun.
-manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.

comportable
-suitable; consistent.

comportance
-behavior; comport.

comportation
-a bringing together.

comported
-of comport

comporting
-of comport

comportment
-manner of acting; behavior; bearing.

compose
-to form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
-to form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.
-to construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture.
-to dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.
-to free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
-to arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
-to come to terms.

composed
-of compose
-free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self
-possessed.

composer
-one who composes; an author. specifically, an author of a piece of music.
-one who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.

composing
-of compose
-tending to compose or soothe.
-pertaining to, or used in, composition.

compositae
-a large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. the daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.

composite
-made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
-belonging to a certain order which is composed of the ionic order grafted upon the corinthian. it is called also the roman or the italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the italian writers of the sixteenth century. see capital.
-belonging to the order compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
-that which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.

composition
-the act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.
-the invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music.
-the art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. see 4, below.
-the act of writing for practice in a language, as english, latin, german, etc.
-the setting up of type and arranging it for printing.
-the state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment.
-a mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition.
-a literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement;
-- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.
-consistency; accord; congruity.
-mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement.
-the adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment.
-synthesis as opposed to analysis.

compositive
-having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.

compositor
-one who composes or sets in order.
-one who sets type and arranges it for use.

compositous
-belonging to the compositae; composite.

compossible
-able to exist with another thing; consistent.

compost
-a mixture; a compound.
-a mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap.
-to manure with compost.
-to mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.

composture
-manure; compost.

composure
-the act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
-orderly adjustment; disposition.
-frame; make; temperament.
-a settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose.
-a combination; a union; a bond.

compotation
-the act of drinking or tippling together.

compotator
-one who drinks with another.

compote
-a preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears.

compound
-in the east indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
-to form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.
-to put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
-to modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
-to compose; to constitute.
-to settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.
-to effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise;
-- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.
-composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.
-that which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.
-a union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.

compoundable
-that may be compounded.

compounded
-of compound

compounder
-one who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.
-one who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises.
-one who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
-one at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
-a jacobite who favored the restoration of james ii, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

compounding
-of compound

comprador
-a kind of steward or agent.

comprecation
-a praying together.

comprehend
-to contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the austrian empire.
-to take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.
-to take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.

comprehended
-of comprehend

comprehending
-of comprehend

comprehensibility
-the quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.

comprehensible
-capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
-capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.

comprehensibleness
-the quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.

comprehensibly
-with great extent of signification; comprehensively.
-intelligibly; in a manner to be comprehended or understood.

comprehension
-the act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.
-that which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.
-the capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.
-the complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.
-a figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.

comprehensive
-including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
-having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
-possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.

comprehensively
-in a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.

comprehensiveness
-the quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope.

comprehensor
-one who comprehends; one who has attained to a full knowledge.

compress
-to press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
-to embrace sexually.
-a folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

compressed
-of compress
-pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.
-flattened lengthwise.

compressibility
-the quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.

compressible
-capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

compressibleness
-the quality of being compressible; compressibility.

compressing
-of compress

compression
-the act of compressing, or state of being compressed.

compressive
-compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.

compressor
-anything which serves to compress
-a muscle that compresses certain parts.
-an instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part.
-an apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope;
-- called also compressorium.
-a machine for compressing gases; especially, an air compressor.

compressure
-compression.

comprint
-to print together.
-to print surreptitiously a work belonging to another.
-the surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed.

comprisal
-the act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome.

comprise
-to comprehend; to include.

comprised
-of comprise

comprising
-of comprise

comprobate
-to agree; to concur.

comprobation
-joint attestation; proof.
-approbation.

compromise
-a mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators.
-a settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement.
-a committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right.
-to bind by mutual agreement; to agree.
-to adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
-to pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
-to agree; to accord.
-to make concession for conciliation and peace.

compromised
-of compromise

compromiser
-one who compromises.

compromising
-of compromise

compromissorial
-relating to compromise.

compromit
-to pledge by some act or declaration; to promise.
-to put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation.

compromitted
-of compromit

compromitting
-of compromit

comprovincial
-belonging to, or associated in, the same province.
-one who belongs to the same province.

compsognathus
-a genus of dinosauria found in the jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features.

compt
-account; reckoning; computation.
-to compute; to count.
-neat; spruce.

compte rendu
-a report of an officer or agent.

compter
-a counter.

comptible
-accountable; responsible; sensitive.

comptly
-neatly.

comptrol
-see control.

comptroler
-a controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts.

compulsative
-compulsatory.

compulsatively
-by compulsion.

compulsatory
-operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion.

compulsion
-the act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.

compulsive
-having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

compulsively
-by compulsion; by force.

compulsorily
-in a compulsory manner; by force or constraint.

compulsory
-having the power of compulsion; constraining.
-obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion.

compunct
-affected with compunction; conscience
-stricken.

compunction
-a pricking; stimulation.
-a picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.

compunctionless
-without compunction.

compunctious
-of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.

compunctiously
-with compunction.

compunctive
-sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious.

compurgation
-the act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others;
-- called also wager of law. see purgation; also wager of law, under wager.
-exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence.

compurgator
-one who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. see purgation; also wager of law, under wager.

compurgatorial
-relating to a compurgator or to compurgation.

computable
-capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned.

computation
-the act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
-the result of computation; the amount computed.

compute
-to determine calculation; to reckon; to count.
-computation.

computed
-of compute

computer
-one who computes.

computing
-of compute

computist
-a computer.

comrade
-a mate, companion, or associate.

comradery
-the spirit of comradeship; comradeship.

comradeship
-the state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship.

comrogue
-a fellow rogue.

comtism
-positivism; the positive philosophy. see positivism.

comtist
-a disciple of comte; a positivist.

con
-against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side;
-- the antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. see pro.
-to know; to understand; to acknowledge.
-to study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.
-to conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.

con
-
-a prefix, fr. l. cum, signifying with, together, etc. see com
-.

conacre
-to underlet a portion of, for a single crop;
-- said of a farm.
-a system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop.
-also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle.

conarium
-the pineal gland.

conation
-the power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

conative
-of or pertaining to conation.

conatus
-a natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort.

concamerate
-to arch over; to vault.
-to divide into chambers or cells.

concameration
-an arch or vault.
-a chamber of a multilocular shell.

concatenate
-to link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.

concatenated
-of concatenate

concatenating
-of concatenate

concatenation
-a series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

concause
-a joint cause.

concavation
-the act of making concave.

concave
-hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted;
-- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.
-hollow; void of contents.
-a hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
-a curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.
-to make hollow or concave.

concaved
-of concave
-bowed in the form of an arch;
-- called also arched.

concaveness
-hollowness; concavity.

concaving
-of concave

concavities
-of concavity

concavity
-a concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

concavo
-concave
-concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.

concavo
-convex
-concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.
-specifically, having such a combination of concave and convex sides as makes the focal axis the shortest line between them. see illust. under lens.

concavous
-concave.

conceal
-to hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.

concealable
-capable of being concealed.

concealed
-of conceal
-hidden; kept from sight; secreted.

concealer
-one who conceals.

concealing
-of conceal

concealment
-the act of concealing; the state of being concealed.
-a place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation.
-a secret; out of the way knowledge.
-suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known.

concede
-to yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
-to grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
-to admit to be true; to acknowledge.
-to yield or make concession.

conceded
-of concede

conceding
-of concede

conceit
-that which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.
-faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.
-quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
-a fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.
-an overweening idea of one's self; vanity.
-design; pattern.
-to conceive; to imagine.
-to form an idea; to think.

conceited
-endowed with fancy or imagination.
-entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.
-curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.

conceitedly
-in an egotistical manner.
-fancifully; whimsically.

conceitedness
-the state of being conceited; conceit; vanity.

conceitless
-without wit; stupid.

conceivable
-capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood.

conceive
-to receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
-to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
-to apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
-to have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
-to have a conception, idea, or opinion; think;
-- with of.

conceived
-of conceive

conceiver
-one who conceives.

conceiving
-of conceive

concelebrate
-to celebrate together.

concent
-concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes.
-consistency; accordance.

concenter
-alt. of concentre
-alt. of concentre

concentered
-of concentre

concentering
-of concentre

concentrate
-to bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.
-to increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing;
-- opposed to dilute.
-to approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.

concentrated
-of concentrate

concentrating
-of concentrate

concentration
-the act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
-the act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
-the act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.

concentrative
-serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration.

concentrativeness
-the quality of concentrating.
-the faculty or propensity which has to do with concentrating the intellectual the intellectual powers.

concentrator
-an apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.

concentre
-to come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center.
-to draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate.

concentred
-of concentre

concentric
-alt. of concentrical
-that which has a common center with something else.

concentrical
-having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another.

concentrically
-in a concentric manner.

concentricity
-the state of being concentric.

concentring
-of concentre

concentual
-possessing harmony; accordant.

concept
-an abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

conceptacle
-that in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.
-a pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles.
-one of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.

conceptibility
-the quality of being conceivable; conceivableness.

conceptible
-capable of being conceived; conceivable.

conception
-the act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.
-the state of being conceived; beginning.
-the power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.
-the formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension.
-the image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. see concept.
-idea; purpose; design.
-conceit; affected sentiment or thought.

conceptional
-pertaining to conception.

conceptionalist
-a conceptualist.

conceptious
-apt to conceive; fruitful.

conceptive
-capable of conceiving.

conceptual
-pertaining to conception.

conceptualism
-a theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects.

conceptualist
-one who maintains the theory of conceptualism.

concern
-to relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
-to engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
-to be of importance.
-that which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.
-that which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment.
-interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety.
-persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern.

concerned
-of concern
-disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.

concernedly
-in a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.

concerning
-of concern
-pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards.
-important.
-that in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.
-importance; moment; consequence.
-concern; participation; interposition.
-emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety.

concert
-to plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
-to plan; to devise; to arrange.
-to act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
-agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
-musical accordance or harmony; concord.
-a musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.

concertante
-a concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. also adjectively; as, concertante parts.

concertation
-strife; contention.

concertative
-contentious; quarrelsome.

concerted
-of concert
-mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals.

concertina
-a small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. it is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.

concerting
-of concert

concertino
-a piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra;
-- more concise than the concerto.

concertion
-act of concerting; adjustment.

concertmeister
-the head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub
-leader of the orchestra; concert master.

concerto
-a composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.

concertos
-of concerto

concession
-the act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
-a thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal.

concessionist
-one who favors concession.

concessive
-implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction.

concessively
-by way of concession.

concessory
-conceding; permissive.

concetti
-of concetto

concettism
-the use of concetti or affected conceits.

concetto
-affected wit; a conceit.

conch
-a name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus strombus, which are of large size. s. gigas is the large pink west indian conch. the large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus cassis. see cameo.
-in works of art, the shell used by tritons as a trumpet.
-one of the white natives of the bahama islands or one of their descendants in the florida keys;
-- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.
-see concha, n.
-the external ear. see concha, n., 2.

concha
-the plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.
-the external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

conchal
-pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.

conchifer
-one of the conchifera.

conchifera
-that class of mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the lamellibranchiata. see mollusca.

conchiferous
-producing or having shells.

conchiform
-shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell
-shaped.

conchinine
-see quinidine.

conchite
-a fossil or petrified conch or shell.

conchitic
-composed of shells; containing many shells.

concho
-spiral
-a kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells.

conchoid
-a curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the greek geometer, nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.

conchoidal
-having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell;
-- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

conchological
-pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.

conchologist
-one who studies, or is versed in, conchology.

conchology
-the science of mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.

conchometer
-an instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.

conchometry
-the art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.

conchylaceous
-alt. of conchyliaceous

conchyliaceous
-of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions.

conchyliologist
-alt. of conchyliology

conchyliology
-see conchologist, and conchology.

conchyliometry
-same as conchometry.

conchylious
-conchylaceous.

conciator
-the person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.

concierge
-one who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

conciliable
-a small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature.
-capable of being conciliated or reconciled.

conciliabule
-an obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable.

conciliar
-alt. of conciliary

conciliary
-of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council.

conciliate
-to win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

conciliated
-of conciliate

conciliating
-of conciliate

conciliation
-the act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated.

conciliative
-conciliatory.

conciliator
-one who conciliates.

conciliatory
-tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.

concinnate
-to place fitly together; to adapt; to clear.

concinnity
-internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance;
-- used chiefly of style of discourse.

concinnous
-characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant.

concionate
-to preach.

concionator
-an haranguer of the people; a preacher.
-a common councilman.

concionatory
-of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses.

concise
-expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted;
-- used of style in writing or speaking.

concisely
-in a concise manner; briefly.

conciseness
-the quality of being concise.

concision
-a cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction.

concitation
-the act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating.

concite
-to excite or stir up.

conclamation
-an outcry or shout of many together.

conclave
-the set of apartments within which the cardinals of the roman catholic church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
-the body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals.
-a private meeting; a close or secret assembly.

conclavist
-one of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave.

conclude
-to shut up; to inclose.
-to include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
-to reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring;
-- sometimes followed by a dependent clause.
-to make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
-to bring to an end; to close; to finish.
-to bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain.
-to shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;
-- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument.
-to come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate.
-to form a final judgment; to reach a decision.

concluded
-of conclude

concludency
-deduction from premises; inference; conclusion.

concludent
-bringing to a close; decisive; conclusive.

concluder
-one who concludes.

concluding
-of conclude

concludingly
-conclusively.

conclusible
-demonstrable; determinable.

conclusion
-the last part of anything; close; termination; end.
-final decision; determination; result.
-any inference or result of reasoning.
-the inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. see syllogism.
-drawing of inferences.
-an experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
-the end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace," etc.
-an estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

conclusive
-belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision.

conclusively
-in the way of conclusion; decisively; positively.

conclusiveness
-the quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.

conclusory
-conclusive.

concoct
-to digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.
-to purify or refine chemically.
-to prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.
-to digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.
-to mature or perfect; to ripen.

concocted
-of concoct

concocter
-one who concocts.

concocting
-of concoct

concoction
-a change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.
-the act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.
-the act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination.
-abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition.
-the act of perfecting or maturing.

concoctive
-having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive.

concolor
-of the same color; of uniform color.

concolorous
-of the same color throughout.

concomitance
-alt. of concomitancy

concomitancy
-the state of accompanying; accompaniment.
-the doctrine of the existence of the entire body of christ in the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by communicating in one kind only.

concomitant
-accompanying; conjoined; attending.
-one who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment.

concomitantly
-in company with others; unitedly; concurrently.

concord
-a state of agreement; harmony; union.
-agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
-agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
-an agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. see fine.
-an agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
-a variety of american grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
-to agree; to act together.

concordable
-capable of according; agreeing; harmonious.

concordance
-agreement; accordance.
-concord; agreement.
-an alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
-a topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.

concordancy
-agreement.

concordant
-agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant.

concordantly
-in a concordant manner.

concordat
-a compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything.
-an agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between pope pius vii and bonaparte in 1801.

concordist
-the compiler of a concordance.

concorporate
-to unite in one mass or body; to incorporate.
-united in one body; incorporated.

concorporation
-union of things in one mass or body.

concourse
-a moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.
-an assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place.
-the place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.
-an open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.
-concurrence; cooperation.

concreate
-to create at the same time.

concremation
-the act of burning different things together.

concrement
-a growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union.

concrescence
-coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles.

concrescible
-capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state.

concrescive
-growing together, or into union; uniting.

concrete
-united in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
-standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object;
-- opposed to abstract.
-applied to a specific object; special; particular;
-- opposed to general. see abstract, 3.
-a compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.
-a mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.
-a term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
-sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
-to unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
-to form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.
-to cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.

concreted
-of concrete

concretely
-in a concrete manner.

concreteness
-the quality of being concrete.

concreting
-of concrete

concretion
-the process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.
-a mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus.
-a rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay.

concretional
-concretionary.

concretionary
-pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions.

concretive
-promoting concretion.

concretively
-in a concrete manner.

concreture
-a mass formed by concretion.

concrew
-to grow together.

concrimination
-a joint accusation.

concubinacy
-the practice of concubinage.

concubinage
-the cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.
-a plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine.

concubinal
-of or pertaining to concubinage.

concubinarian
-concubinary.

concubinaries
-of concubinary

concubinary
-relating to concubinage; living in concubinage.
-one who lives in concubinage.

concubinate
-concubinage.

concubine
-a woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.
-a wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. such were hagar and keturah, the concubines of abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the roman laws. their children were not heirs of their father.

conculcate
-to tread or trample under foot.

conculcating
-of conculcate

concultated
-of conculcate

concupiscence
-sexual lust; morbid carnal passion.

concupiscent
-having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious.

concupiscential
-relating to concupiscence.

concupiscentious
-concupiscent.

concupiscible
-exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires.
-exciting desire, good or evil.

concupiscibleness
-the state of being concupiscible.

concupy
-concupiscence. [used only in "troilus and cressida"]

concur
-to run together; to meet.
-to meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
-to unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
-to assent; to consent.

concurred
-of concur

concurrence
-the act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination.
-a meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act;
-- implying joint approbation.
-agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; cooperation.
-a common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.

concurrency
-concurrence.

concurrent
-acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; cooperating.
-conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time.
-joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts.
-meeting in one point.
-one who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
-one pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
-one of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty
-two complete weeks;
-- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.

concurrently
-with concurrence; unitedly.

concurrentness
-the state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.

concurring
-of concur
-agreeing.

concuss
-to shake or agitate.
-to force (a person) to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce.

concussation
-a violent shock or agitation.

concussion
-a shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies.
-a condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain.
-the unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.

concussive
-having the power or quality of shaking or agitating.

cond
-to con, as a ship.

condemn
-to pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
-to declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
-to pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom;
-- with to before the penalty.
-to amerce or fine;
-- with in before the penalty.
-to adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
-to doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

condemnable
-worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.

condemnation
-the act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
-the act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
-the state of being condemned.
-the ground or reason of condemning.

condemnatory
-condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.

condemned
-of condemn
-pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
-used for condemned persons.

condemner
-one who condemns or censures.

condemning
-of condemn

condensability
-capability of being condensed.

condensable
-capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable.

condensate
-made dense; condensed.
-to condense.

condensated
-of condensate

condensating
-of condensate

condensation
-the act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
-the act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.
-a rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene.

condensative
-having the property of condensing.

condense
-to make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
-to reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
-to become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
-to combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
-to undergo polymerization.
-condensed; compact; dense.

condensed
-of condense

condenser
-one who, or that which, condenses.
-an instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape.
-an instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate.
-a lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object.
-an apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.
-an apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. see illust. of steam engine.

condensible
-capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.

condensing
-of condense

conder
-one who watches shoals of fish; a balker. see balker.

condescend
-to stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.
-to consent.

condescended
-of condescend

condescendence
-alt. of condescendency

condescendency
-condescension.

condescending
-of condescend

condescendingly
-in a condescending manner.

condescension
-the act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.

condescent
-an act of condescension.

condign
-worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.
-deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.

condignity
-merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence.

condignly
-according to merit.

condignness
-agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.

condiment
-something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning.

condisciple
-a schoolfellow; a fellow
-student.

condite
-preserved; pickled.
-to pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc.

condition
-mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
-essential quality; property; attribute.
-temperament; disposition; character.
-that which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.
-a clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. it is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non
-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.
-to make terms; to stipulate.
-to impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
-to invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
-to contract; to stipulate; to agree.
-to put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.
-to test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
-train; acclimate.

conditional
-containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise.
-expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense.
-a limitation.
-a conditional word, mode, or proposition.

conditionality
-the quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.

conditionally
-in a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively.

conditionate
-conditional.
-to qualify by conditions; to regulate.
-to put under conditions; to render conditional.

conditioned
-of condition
-surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man.
-having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute.

conditioning
-of condition

conditionly
-conditionally.

conditories
-of conditory

conditory
-a repository for holding things; a hinding place.

condog
-to concur; to agree.

condolatory
-expressing condolence.

condole
-to express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy;
-- followed by with.
-to lament or grieve over.

condoled
-of condole

condolement
-condolence.
-sorrow; mourning; lamentation.

condolence
-expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.

condoler
-one who condoles.

condoling
-of condole

condonation
-the act of condoning or pardoning.
-forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated.

condone
-to pardon; to forgive.
-to pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law;
-- said of either the husband or the wife.

condoned
-of condone

condoning
-of condone

condor
-a very large bird of the vulture family (sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the andes.

condottiere
-a military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

condottieri
-of condottiere

conduce
-to lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute;
-- usually followed by to or toward.
-to conduct; to lead; to guide.

conduced
-of conduce

conducent
-conducive; tending.

conducibility
-the state or quality of being conducible; conducibleness.

conducible
-conducive; tending; contributing.

conducibleness
-quality of being conducible.

conducibly
-in a manner to promote.

conducing
-of conduce

conducive
-loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote.

conduciveness
-the quality of conducing.

conduct
-the act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
-skillful guidance or management; generalship.
-convoy; escort; guard; guide.
-that which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
-the manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
-plot; action; construction; manner of development.
-to lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.
-to lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.
-to behave;
-- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.
-to serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
-to direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
-to act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
-to conduct one's self; to behave.

conducted
-of conduct

conductibility
-capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity.
-conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.

conductible
-capable of being conducted.

conducting
-of conduct

conduction
-the act of leading or guiding.
-the act of training up.
-transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity.

conductive
-having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil.

conductivity
-the quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the conductivity of a nerve.

conductor
-one who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.
-one in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.
-the leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
-a substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.
-a grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
-same as leader.

conductory
-having the property of conducting.

conductress
-a woman who leads or directs; a directress.

conduit
-a pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.
-a structure forming a reservoir for water.
-a narrow passage for private communication.

conduplicate
-folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within;
-- said of leaves or petals in vernation or aestivation.

conduplication
-a doubling together or folding; a duplication.

condurango
-see cundurango.

condurrite
-a variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the condurra mine in cornwall, england.

condylar
-of or pertaining to a condyle.

condyle
-a bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface;
-- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface.

condyloid
-shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.

condyloma
-alt. of condylome

condylomata
-of condylome

condylome
-a wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrane.

condylomes
-of condylome

condylopod
-an arthropod.

cone
-a solid of the form described by the revolution of a right
-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle;
-- called also a right cone. more generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
-anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
-the fruit or strobile of the coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. it is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
-a shell of the genus conus, having a conical form.
-to render cone
-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

cone pulley
-a pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

cone
-in
-cone
-consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together;
-- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks.

coneine
-see conine.

conepate
-alt. of conepatl

conepatl
-the skunk.

coney
-a rabbit. see cony.
-a fish. see cony.

confab
-familiar talk or conversation.

confabulate
-to talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

confabulated
-of confabulate

confabulating
-of confabulate

confabulation
-familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.

confabulatory
-of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue.

confalon
-one of a fraternity of seculars, also called penitents.

confarreation
-a form of marriage among the romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.

confated
-fated or decreed with something else.

confect
-to prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of.
-to construct; to form; to mingle or mix.
-a comfit; a confection.

confected
-of confect

confecting
-of confect

confection
-a composition of different materials.
-a preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat.
-a composition of drugs.
-a soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.

confectionary
-a confectioner.
-prepared as a confection.

confectioner
-a compounder.
-one whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.

confectionery
-sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.
-a place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.

confectory
-pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats.

confecture
-same as confiture.

confeder
-to confederate.

confederacies
-of confederacy

confederacy
-a league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
-the persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
-a combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. see conspiracy.

confederate
-united in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
-of or pertaining to the government of the eleven southern states of the united states which (1860
-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the confederate states of america; as, the confederate congress; confederate money.
-one who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.
-a name designating an adherent to the cause of the states which attempted to withdraw from the union (1860
-1865).
-to unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
-to unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.

confederated
-of confederate

confederater
-a confederate.

confederating
-of confederate

confederation
-the act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states.
-the parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.

confederative
-of or pertaining to a confederation.

confederator
-a confederate.

confer
-to bring together for comparison; to compare.
-to grant as a possession; to bestow.
-to contribute; to conduce.
-to have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.

conferee
-one who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the senate.
-one upon whom something is conferred.

conference
-the act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
-the act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
-a meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.
-a meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.
-a stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
-a voluntary association of congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.

conferential
-relating to conference.

conferrable
-capable of being conferred.

conferred
-of confer

conferree
-same as conferee.

conferrer
-one who confers; one who converses.
-one who bestows; a giver.

conferring
-of confer

conferruminate
-alt. of conferruminated

conferruminated
-closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live
-oak acorn.

conferva
-any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh
-water algae. the word is frequently used in a wider sense.

confervaceous
-belonging to the confervae.

confervae
-of conferva

confervoid
-like, or related to, the confervae.

confervous
-pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae.

confess
-to make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
-to acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
-to admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
-to make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution;
-- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
-to hear or receive such confession;
-- said of a priest.
-to disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
-to make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
-to acknowledge; to admit; to concede.

confessant
-one who confesses to a priest.

confessary
-one who makes a confession.

confessed
-of confess

confessedly
-by confession; without denial.

confesser
-one who makes a confession.

confessing
-of confess

confession
-acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
-acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
-the act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.
-a formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
-an admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. a judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted.

confessional
-the recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others.
-pertaining to a confession of faith.

confessionalism
-an exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the christian faith.

confessionalist
-a priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.

confessionary
-a confessional.
-pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany.

confessionist
-one professing a certain faith.

confessor
-one who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of christ and endures persecution for his faith.
-a priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.

confessorship
-the act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith.

confestly
-see cofessedly.

confidant
-alt. of confidante

confidante
-one to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.

confide
-to put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust;
-- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
-to intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping;
-- followed by to.

confided
-of confide

confidence
-the act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief;
-- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.
-that in which faith is put or reliance had.
-the state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self
-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self
-reliance;
-- often with self prefixed.
-private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.
-trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
-having self
-reliance; bold; undaunted.
-having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
-giving occasion for confidence.

confident
-see confidant.

confidential
-enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.
-communicated in confidence; secret.

confidentially
-in confidence; in reliance on secrecy.

confidently
-with confidence; with strong assurance; positively.

confidentness
-the quality of being confident.

confider
-one who confides.

confiding
-of confide
-that confides; trustful; unsuspicious.

configurate
-to take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.

configuration
-form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.
-relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.

configure
-to arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.

configured
-of configure

configuring
-of configure

confinable
-capable of being confined, restricted, or limited.

confine
-to restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
-to have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch;
-- followed by on or with.
-common boundary; border; limit;
-- used chiefly in the plural.
-apartment; place of restraint; prison.

confined
-of confine

confineless
-without limitation or end; boundless.

confinement
-restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
-restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying
-in.

confiner
-one who, or that which, limits or restrains.
-one who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor.

confining
-of confine

confinity
-community of limits; contiguity.

confirm
-to make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
-to strengthen in judgment or purpose.
-to give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
-to render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the senate confirms a treaty.
-to administer the rite of confirmation to. see confirmation, 3.

confirmable
-that may be confirmed.

confirmance
-confirmation.

confirmation
-the act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
-that which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony.
-a rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the roman catholic, the episcopal church, etc.
-a conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable.

confirmative
-tending to confirm or establish.

confirmator
-one who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer.

confirmatory
-serving to confirm; corroborative.
-pertaining to the rite of confirmation.

confirmedly
-with confirmation.

confirmedness
-a fixed state.

confirmee
-one to whom anything is confirmed.

confirmer
-one who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates.

confirming
-of confirm

confirmingly
-in a confirming manner.

confiscable
-capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

confiscate
-seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
-to seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

confiscated
-of confiscate

confiscating
-of confiscate

confiscation
-the act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use.

confiscator
-one who confiscates.

confiscatory
-effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations.

confit
-same as comfit.

confitent
-one who confesses his sins and faults.

confiteor
-a form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

confiture
-composition; preparation, as of a drug, or confection; a sweetmeat.

confix
-to fix; to fasten.

confixed
-of confix

confixure
-act of fastening.

conflagrant
-burning together in a common flame.

conflagration
-a fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

conflate
-to blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

conflated
-of conflate

conflating
-of conflate

conflation
-a blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.

conflict
-a striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
-a strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
-to strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.
-to maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
-to be in opposition; to be contradictory.

conflicted
-of conflict

conflicting
-of conflict
-being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing.

conflictive
-tending to conflict; conflicting.

confluence
-the act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.
-any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.

confluent
-flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.
-blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.
-running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.
-characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox.
-a small steam which flows into a large one.
-the place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.

conflux
-a flowing together; a meeting of currents.
-a large assemblage; a passing multitude.

confluxibility
-the tendency of fluids to run together.

confluxible
-inclined to flow or run together.

confocal
-having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics.

conform
-of the same form; similar in import; conformable.
-to shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with;
-- usually with to or unto.
-to be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit;
-- with to or with.
-to comply with the usages of the established church; to be a conformist.

conformability
-the state of being conformable.
-the parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.

conformable
-corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable;
-- usually followed by to.
-disposed to compliance or obedience; ready to follow direstions; submissive; compliant.
-parallel, or nearly so;
-- said of strata in contact.

conformableness
-the quality of being conformable; conformability.

conformably
-with conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.

conformance
-conformity.

conformate
-having the same form.

conformation
-the act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
-the state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form; arrangement.

conformed
-of conform

conformer
-one who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.

conforming
-of conform

conformist
-one who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the church of england, or to the established church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.

conformities
-of conformity

conformity
-correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity;
-- followed by to, with, or between.
-compliance with the usages of the established church.

confortation
-the act of strengthening.

confound
-to mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
-to mistake for another; to identify falsely.
-to throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.
-to destroy; to ruin; to waste.

confounded
-of confound
-confused; perplexed.
-excessive; extreme; abominable.

confoundedly
-extremely; odiously; detestable.

confoundedness
-the state of being confounded.

confounder
-one who confounds.

confounding
-of confound

confract
-broken in pieces; severed.

confragose
-broken; uneven.

confraternities
-of confraternity

confraternity
-a society of body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.

confrere
-fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate.

confrication
-a rubbing together; friction.

confrier
-a confr/re.

confrmed
-of confirm

confront
-to stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
-to put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
-to set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.

confrontation
-act of confrontating.

confronte
-same as affronte.

confronted
-of confront

confronter
-one who confronts.

confronting
-of confront

confrontment
-the act of confronting; the state of being face to face.
-the act of confronting; the state of being face to face.

confucian
-of, or relating to, confucius, the great chinese philosopher and teacher.
-a confucianist.

confucianism
-the political morality taught by confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the chinese jurisprudence and education. it can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god.

confucianist
-a follower of confucius; a confucian.

confus
-confused, disturbed.

confusability
-capability of being confused.

confusable
-capable of being confused.

confuse
-mixed; confounded.
-to mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.
-to perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self
-possession.

confused
-of confuse

confusedly
-in a confused manner.

confusedness
-a state of confusion.

confusely
-confusedly; obscurely.

confusing
-of confuse

confusion
-the state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.
-the state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self
-possession; perturbation; shame.
-overthrow; defeat; ruin.
-one who confuses; a confounder.

confusive
-confusing; having a tendency to confusion.

confutable
-that may be confuted.

confutant
-one who undertakes to confute.

confutation
-the act or process of confuting; refutation.

confutative
-adapted or designed to confute.

confute
-to overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

confuted
-of confute

confutement
-confutation.

confuter
-one who confutes or disproves.

confuting
-of confute

cong
-an abbreviation of congius.

conge
-the act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.
-the customary act of civility on any occasion; a bow or a courtesy.
-an apophyge.
-to take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.

congeable
-permissible; done lawfully; as, entry congeable.

congeal
-to change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.
-to affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.
-to grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled.

congealable
-capable of being congealed.

congealed
-of congeal

congealedness
-the state of being congealed.

congealing
-of congeal

congealment
-the act or the process of congealing; congeliation.
-that which is formed by congelation; a clot.

congee
-see conge, conge.
-boiled rice; rice gruel.
-a jail; a lockup.

congelation
-the act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.
-the state of being congealed.
-that which is congealed.

congener
-a thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.

congeneracy
-similarity of origin; affinity.

congeneric
-alt. of congenerical

congenerical
-belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action.

congenerous
-allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases.

congenial
-partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.
-naturally adapted; suited to the disposition.

congeniality
-the state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.

congenialize
-to make congenial.

congenially
-in a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.

congenialness
-congeniality.

congenious
-congeneric.

congenital
-existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital deformity. see connate.

congenitally
-in a congenital manner.

congenite
-congenital; connate; inborn. see congenital.

conger
-the conger eel;
-- called also congeree.

congeries
-a collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.

congest
-to collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.
-to cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.

congested
-crowded together.
-containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperaemic;
-- said of any part of the body.

congestion
-the act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
-overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.

congestive
-pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.

congiaries
-of congiary

congiary
-a present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a roman emperor to the soldiers or the people;
-- so called because measured to each in a congius.

congius
-a liquid measure containing about three quarts.
-a gallon, or four quarts.

conglaciate
-to turn to ice; to freeze.

conglaciation
-the act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost.

conglobate
-collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.
-to collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together.

conglobated
-of conglobate

conglobating
-of conglobate

conglobation
-the act or process of forming into a ball.
-a round body.

conglobe
-to gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.
-to collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass.

conglobed
-of conglobe

conglobing
-of conglobe

conglobulate
-to gather into a small round mass.

conglomerate
-gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
-closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.
-composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
-that which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
-a rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone;
-- opposed to agglomerate. see breccia.
-to gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

conglomerated
-of conglomerate

conglomerating
-of conglomerate

conglomeration
-the act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass.

conglutin
-a variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.

conglutinant
-cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.

conglutinate
-glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.
-to glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together.
-to unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.

conglutinated
-of conglutinate

conglutination
-a gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union.

conglutinative
-conglutinant.

congo
-black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. see tea.

congo snake
-an amphibian (amphiuma means) of the order urodela, found in the southern united states. see amphiuma.

congou
-alt. of congo

congratulant
-rejoicing together; congratulatory.

congratulate
-to address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.
-to express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country.

congratulated
-of congratulate

congratulating
-of congratulate

congratulation
-the act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure.

congratulator
-one who offers congratulation.

congratulatory
-expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.

congree
-to agree.

congreet
-to salute mutually.

congregate
-collected; compact; close.
-to collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
-to come together; to assemble; to meet.

congregated
-of congregate

congregating
-of congregate

congregation
-the act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
-a collection or mass of separate things.
-an assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of god, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
-the whole body of the jewish people;
-- called also congregation of the lord.
-a body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the congregation of the propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the roman catholic church.
-a company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
-the assemblage of masters and doctors at oxford or cambrige university, mainly for the granting of degrees.
-the name assumed by the protestant party under john knox. the leaders called themselves (1557) lords of the congregation.

congregational
-of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.
-belonging to the system of congregationalism, or to congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of congregationalism; as, a congregational church.

congregationalism
-that system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.
-the faith and polity of the congregational churches, taken collectively.

congregationalist
-one who belongs to a congregational church or society; one who holds to congregationalism.

congress
-a meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.
-a sudden encounter; a collision; a shock;
-- said of things.
-the coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.
-a gathering or assembly; a conference.
-a formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.
-the collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.
-the lower house of the spanish cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.

congresses
-of congress

congression
-a coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse.

congressional
-of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the congress of the united states; as, congressional debates.

congressive
-encountering, or coming together.

congressman
-a member of the congress of the united states, esp. of the house of representatives.

congressmen
-of congressman

congreve rocket
-see under rocket.

congrue
-to agree; to be suitable.

congruence
-suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.

congruency
-congruence.

congruent
-possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.

congruism
-see congruity.

congruities
-of congruity

congruity
-the state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
-coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.
-that, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for god to bestow on him gifts of grace.

congruous
-suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent.

congruously
-in a congruous manner.

conhydrine
-a vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (conium maculatum). it is a white crystalline substance, c8h17no, easily convertible into conine.

conia
-same as conine.

conic
-alt. of conical
-a conic section.

conical
-having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.
-of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections.

conicality
-conicalness.

conically
-in the form of a cone.

conicalness
-state or quality of being conical.

conico
-
-a combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico
-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico
-hemispherical; conico
-subulate.

conicoid
-same as conoidal.

conics
-that branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.
-conic sections.

conida
-of conidium

conidium
-a peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores.

conifer
-a tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.

coniferin
-a glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.

coniferous
-bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
-pertaining to the order coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.

coniform
-cone
-shaped; conical.

coniine
-see conine.

conimene
-same as olibene.

conine
-a powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, c8h17n, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. it is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. it occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. see conium, 2.

coniroster
-one of the conirostres.

conirostral
-belonging to the conirostres.

conirostres
-a tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.

conisor
-see cognizor.

conistra
-originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. hence, a part of the orchestra of the greek theater.

conite
-a magnesian variety of dolomite.

conium
-a genus of biennial, poisonous, white
-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.
-the common hemlock (conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of europe, asia, and america, cultivated in the united states for medicinal purpose. it is an active poison. the leaves and fruit are used in medicine.

conject
-to throw together, or to throw.
-to conjecture; also, to plan.

conjector
-one who guesses or conjectures.

conjecturable
-capable of being conjectured or guessed.

conjectural
-dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.

conjecturalist
-a conjecturer.

conjecturally
-that which depends upon guess; guesswork.
-in a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture.

conjecture
-an opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
-to arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
-to make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.

conjectured
-of conjecture

conjecturer
-one who conjectures.

conjecturing
-of conjecture

conjoin
-to join together; to unite.
-to unite; to join; to league.

conjoined
-of conjoin
-joined together or touching.

conjoining
-of conjoin

conjoint
-united; connected; associated.

conjointly
-in a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together.

conjointness
-the quality of being conjoint.

conjubilant
-shouting together for joy; rejoicing together.

conjugal
-belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.

conjugality
-the conjugal state; sexual intercourse.

conjugally
-in a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially.

conjugate
-united in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
-in single pairs; coupled.
-containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
-agreeing in derivation and radical signification;
-- said of words.
-presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties;
-- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
-a word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.
-a complex radical supposed to act the part of a single radical.
-to unite in marriage; to join.
-to inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.
-to unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.

conjugated
-of conjugate

conjugating
-of conjugate

conjugation
-the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.
-two things conjoined; a pair; a couple.
-the act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.
-a scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a verb.
-a class of verbs conjugated in the same manner.
-a kind of sexual union;
-- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.

conjugational
-relating to conjugation.

conjugial
-conjugal.

conjugium
-the marriage tie.

conjunct
-united; conjoined; concurrent.
-same as conjoined.

conjunction
-the act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
-the meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of jupiter and saturn. see the note under aspect, n., 6.
-a connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.

conjunctional
-relating to a conjunction.

conjunctiva
-the mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrane.

conjunctival
-joining; connecting.
-of or pertaining to the conjunctiva.

conjunctive
-serving to unite; connecting together.
-closely united.

conjunctively
-in conjunction or union; together.

conjunctiveness
-the state or quality of being conjunctive.

conjunctivitis
-inflammation of the conjunctiva.

conjunctly
-in union; conjointly; unitedly; together.

conjuncture
-the act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination.
-a crisis produced by a combination of circumstances; complication or combination of events or circumstances; plight resulting from various conditions.

conjuration
-the act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.
-the act or process of invoking supernatural aid by the use of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts; incantation; enchantment.
-a league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy.

conjurator
-one who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator.

conjure
-to call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.
-to combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.
-to affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers.
-to practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm.

conjured
-of conjure

conjurement
-serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty.

conjurer
-one who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
-one who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand.
-one who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.

conjuring
-of conjure

conjuror
-one bound by a common oath with others.

conjury
-the practice of magic; enchantment.

conn
-see con, to direct a ship.

connascence
-alt. of connascency

connascency
-the common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together.
-that which is born or produced with another.
-the act of growing together.

connascent
-born together; produced at the same time.

connate
-born with another; being of the same birth.
-congenital; existing from birth.
-congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. see illust. of connate
-perfoliate.

connate
-perfoliate
-connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes;
-- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.

connation
-connection by birth; natural union.

connatural
-connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural.
-partaking of the same nature.

connaturality
-participation of the same nature; natural union or connection.

connaturalize
-to bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt.

connaturally
-by the act of nature; originally; from birth.

connaturalness
-participation of the same nature; natural union.

connature
-participation in a common nature or character.

connect
-to join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
-to associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
-to join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.

connected
-of connect

connectedly
-in a connected manner.

connecting
-of connect

connection
-the act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.
-that which connects or joins together; bond; tie.
-a relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood;
-- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.
-the persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the methodist connection.

connective
-connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.
-that which connects
-a word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition.
-that part of an anther which connects its thecae, lobes, or cells.

connectively
-in connjunction; jointly.

connector
-one who, or that which, connects
-a flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments.
-a device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.

conned
-of con

conner
-a marine european fish (crenilabrus melops); also, the related american cunner. see cunner.

connex
-to connect.

connexion
-connection. see connection.

connexive
-see connective.

conning
-of con

conning tower
-the shot
-proof pilot house of a war vessel.

connivance
-intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation.
-corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it.

connive
-to open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
-to close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it;
-- usually followed by at.
-to shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.

connived
-of connive

connivency
-connivance.

connivent
-forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice.
-brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc.

conniver
-one who connives.

conniving
-of connive

connoisseur
-one well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts.

connoisseurship
-state of being a connoisseur.

connotate
-to connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply.

connotation
-the act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

connotative
-implying something additional; illative.
-implying an attribute. see connote.

connotatively
-in a connotative manner; expressing connotation.

connote
-to mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.
-to imply as an attribute.

connoted
-of connote

connoting
-of connote

connubial
-of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.

connubiality
-the quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.

connumeration
-a reckoning together.

connusance
-see cognizance.

connusant
-see cognizant.

connusor
-see cognizor.

connutritious
-nutritious by force of habit;
-- said of certain kinds of food.

conny
-brave; fine; canny.

conodont
-a peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.

conoid
-anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.
-a solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.;
-- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.
-a surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane.
-resembling a cone; conoidal.

conoidal
-nearly, but not exactly, conical.

conoidic
-alt. of conoidical

conoidical
-pertaining to a conoid; having the form of a conoid.

conominee
-one nominated in conjunction with another; a joint nominee.

conquadrate
-to bring into a square.

conquassate
-to shake; to agitate.

conquer
-to gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish.
-to subdue or overcome by mental or moral power; to surmount; as, to conquer difficulties, temptation, etc.
-to gain or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace.
-to gain the victory; to overcome; to prevail.

conquerable
-capable of being conquered or subdued.

conquered
-of conquer

conqueress
-a woman who conquers.

conquering
-of conquer

conqueror
-one who conquers.

conquest
-the act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory.
-that which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
-the acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
-the act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.

consanguineal
-of the same blood; related by birth.

consanguined
-of kin blood; related.

consanguineous
-of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

consanguinity
-the relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.

consarcination
-a patching together; patchwork.

conscience
-knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.
-the faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.
-the estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
-tenderness of feeling; pity.

conscienced
-having a conscience.

conscienceless
-without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous.

conscient
-conscious.

conscientious
-influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong;
-- said of a person.
-characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience;
-- said of actions.

conscientiously
-in a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.

conscientiousness
-the quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.

conscionable
-governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.

conscionableness
-the quality of being conscionable; reasonableness.

conscionably
-reasonably; justly.

conscious
-possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.
-possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.
-made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt.

consciously
-in a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.

consciousness
-the state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.
-immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. see the note under attention.
-feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence.

conscribe
-to enroll; to enlist.

conscript
-enrolled; written; registered.
-one taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
-to enroll, by compulsion, for military service.

conscription
-an enrolling or registering.
-a compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.
-belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.

consecrate
-consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
-to make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of god; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of god.
-to set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop.
-to canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a roman emperor.
-to render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.

consecrated
-of consecrate

consecrater
-consecrator.

consecrating
-of consecrate

consecration
-the act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

consecrator
-one who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.

consecratory
-of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory.

consectaneous
-following as a matter of course.

consectary
-following by consequence; consequent; deducible.
-that which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary.

consecute
-to follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue.

consecution
-a following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
-a succession or series of any kind.

consecutive
-following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.
-following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
-having similarity of sequence;
-- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden.

consecutively
-in a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively.

consecutiveness
-the state or quality of being consecutive.

consension
-agreement; accord.

consensual
-existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
-excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions.

consensus
-agreement; accord; consent.

consent
-to agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
-to indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply.
-to grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit.
-agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind; accord.
-correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence.
-voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.
-capable, deliberate, and voluntary assent or agreement to, or concurrence in, some act or purpose, implying physical and mental power and free action.
-sympathy. see sympathy, 4.

consentaneity
-mutual agreement.

consentaneous
-consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent.

consentant
-consenting.

consented
-of consent

consenter
-one who consents.

consentient
-agreeing in mind; accordant.

consenting
-of consent

consentingly
-with consent; in a compliant manner.

consequence
-that which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.
-a proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
-chain of causes and effects; consecution.
-importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction.

consequencing
-drawing inference.

consequent
-following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
-following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions.
-that which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
-that which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
-the second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.

consequential
-following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent.
-assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self
-important; as, a consequential man. see consequence, n., 4.

consequentially
-with just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically.
-by remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially.
-in a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously.
-with assumed importance; pompously.

consequentialness
-the quality of being consequential.

consequently
-by consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.

consertion
-junction; adaptation

conservable
-capable of being preserved from decay or injury.

conservancy
-conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use.

conservant
-having the power or quality of conservation.

conservation
-the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

conservational
-tending to conserve; preservative.

conservatism
-the disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.

conservative
-having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
-tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
-of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the conservative party in england;
-- contradistinguished from liberal and radical.
-one who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
-one who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics;
-- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
-a member of the conservative party.

conservativeness
-the quality of being conservative.

conservatoire
-a public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [see conservatory, 3].

conservator
-one who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.
-an officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.
-one who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate.

conservatory
-having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
-that which preserves from injury.
-a place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants.
-a public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.

conservatrix
-a woman who preserves from loss, injury, etc.

conserve
-to keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
-to prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.
-anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection.
-a medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. see confection.
-a conservatory.

conserved
-of conserve

conserver
-one who conserves.

conserving
-of conserve

consider
-to fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.
-to look at attentively; to observe; to examine.
-to have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
-to estimate; to think; to regard; to view.
-to think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
-to hesitate.

considerable
-worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to.
-of some distinction; noteworthy; influential; respectable;
-- said of persons.
-of importance or value.

considerableness
-worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount.

considerably
-in a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much.

considerance
-act of considering; consideration.

considerate
-given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other.
-having respect to; regardful.

consideration
-the act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention.
-attentive respect; appreciative regard;
-- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence.
-thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice.
-claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence.
-the result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession.
-that which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason.
-the cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent.

considerative
-considerate; careful; thoughtful.

considerator
-one who considers.

considered
-of consider

considerer
-one who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker.

considering
-of consider

consideringly
-with consideration or deliberation.

consign
-to give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave.
-to give in charge; to commit; to intrust.
-to send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods.
-to assign; to devote; to set apart.
-to stamp or impress; to affect.
-to submit; to surrender or yield one's self.
-to yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce.

consignatary
-a consignee.

consignation
-the act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state.
-the act of ratifying or establishing, as if by signing; confirmation; ratification.
-a stamp; an indication; a sign.

consignatory
-one of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty.

consignature
-joint signature.

consigne
-a countersign; a watchword.
-one who is orders to keep within certain limits.

consigned
-of consign

consignee
-the person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor;
-- correlative to consignor.

consigner
-one who consigns. see consignor.

consignificant
-having joint or equal signification; synonymous.

consignification
-joint signification.

consignificative
-consignificant; jointly significate.

consignify
-to signify or denote in combination with something else.

consigning
-of consign

consignment
-the act of consigning; consignation.
-the act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.
-that which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance.
-the writing by which anything is consigned.

consignor
-one who consigns something to another;
-- opposed to consignee.

consilience
-act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.

consimilitude
-alt. of consimility

consimility
-common resemblance.

consist
-to stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.
-to be composed or made up;
-- followed by of.
-to have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be;
-- followed by in.
-to be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance;
-- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with.
-to insist;
-- followed by on.

consisted
-of consist

consistence
-alt. of consistency

consistency
-the condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.
-a degree of firmness, density, or spissitude.
-that which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
-firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
-agreement or harmony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character.

consistent
-possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.
-having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not contradictory.
-living or acting in conformity with one's belief or professions.

consistently
-in a consistent manner.

consisting
-of consist

consistorial
-of or pertaining to a consistory.

consistorian
-pertaining to a presbyterian consistory;
-- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.

consistories
-of consistory

consistory
-primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
-the spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
-an assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at rome.
-a church tribunal or governing body.
-a civil court of justice.
-of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.

consociate
-an associate; an accomplice.
-to bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite.
-to unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.
-to be allied, confederated, or associated; to coalescence.
-to form an ecclesiastical consociation.

consociated
-of consociate

consociating
-of consociate

consociation
-intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.
-a voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring congregational churches, for mutual advice and cooperation in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.

consociational
-of or pertaining to a consociation.

consolable
-capable of receiving consolation.

consolate
-to console; to comfort.

consolation
-the act of consoling; the state of being consoled; allevation of misery or distress of mind; refreshment of spirit; comfort; that which consoles or comforts the spirit.

consolato del mare
-a collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at barcelona early in the 14th century. it has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws.

consolator
-one who consoles or comforts.

consolatory
-of a consoling or comforting nature.
-that which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation.

console
-to cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
-a bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.
-any small bracket; also, a console table.

consoled
-of console

consoler
-one who gives consolation.

consolidant
-serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm.

consolidate
-formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.
-to make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
-to unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic.
-to unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound.
-to grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying.

consolidated
-of consolidate
-made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.
-having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus.

consolidating
-of consolidate

consolidation
-the act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
-to organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
-the combination of several actions into one.

consolidative
-tending or having power to consolidate; healing.

consoling
-of console
-adapted to console or comfort; cheering; as, this is consoling news.

consols
-the leading british funded government security.

consomme
-a clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.

consonance
-alt. of consonancy

consonancy
-accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.
-agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness.
-friendship; concord.

consonant
-having agreement; congruous; consistent; according;
-- usually followed by with or to.
-having like sounds.
-harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords.
-of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
-an articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.

consonantal
-of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants.

consonantize
-to change into, or use as, a consonant.

consonantly
-in a consonant, consistent, or congruous manner; agreeably.

consonantness
-the quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent.

consonous
-agreeing in sound; symphonious.

consopiation
-the act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep.

consopite
-lulled to sleep.
-to lull to sleep; to quiet; to compose.

consort
-one who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
-a ship keeping company with another.
-concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.
-an assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
-harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
-to unite or to keep company; to associate;
-- used with with.
-to unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.
-to attend; to accompany.

consortable
-suitable for association or companionship.

consorted
-of consort

consorting
-of consort

consortion
-fellowship; association; companionship.

consortship
-the condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership.

consound
-a name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.

conspecific
-of the same species.

conspectuities
-of conspectuity

conspectuity
-the faculty of seeing; sight; eye.

conspectus
-a general sketch or outline of a subject; a synopsis; an epitome.

conspersion
-the act of sprinkling.

conspicuity
-the state or quality of being clear or bright; brightness; conspicuousness.

conspicuous
-open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye.
-obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault.

conspiracies
-of conspiracy

conspiracy
-a combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
-a concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.
-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.

conspirant
-engaging in a plot to commit a crime; conspiring.

conspiration
-agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

conspirator
-one who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter.

conspire
-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.
-to concur to one end; to agree.
-to plot; to plan; to combine for.

conspired
-of conspire

conspirer
-one who conspires; a conspirator.

conspiring
-of conspire

conspiringly
-in the manner of a conspirator; by conspiracy.

conspissation
-a making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation.

conspurcate
-to pollute; to defile.

conspurcation
-the act of defiling; defilement; pollution.

constable
-a high officer in the monarchical establishments of the middle ages.
-an officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to execute the warrants of judicial officers.

constablery
-the constabulary.
-the district or jurisdiction of a constable.

constableship
-the office or functions of a constable.

constabless
-the wife of a constable.

constablewick
-the district to which a constable's power is limited.

constabulary
-of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.
-the collective body of constables in any town, district, or country.

constabulatory
-a constabulary.

constancy
-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.
-fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity.

constant
-firm; solid; fixed; immovable;
-- opposed to fluid.
-not liable, or given, to change; permanent; regular; continuous; continually recurring; steadfast; faithful; not fickle.
-remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, force, law, etc.
-consistent; logical.
-that which is not subject to change; that which is invariable.
-a quantity that does not change its value;
-- used in countradistinction to variable.

constantia
-a superior wine, white and red, from constantia, in cape colony.

constantly
-with constancy; steadily; continually; perseveringly; without cessation; uniformly.

constat
-a certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.

constate
-to ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.

constellate
-to join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.
-to unite in one luster or radiance, as stars.
-to set or adorn with stars or constellations; as, constellated heavens.

constellation
-a cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision 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.
-an assemblage of splendors or excellences.
-fortune; fate; destiny.

consternation
-amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

constipate
-to crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.
-to stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
-to render costive; to cause constipation in.

constipated
-of constipate

constipating
-of constipate

constipation
-act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
-a state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.

constituencies
-of constituency

constituency
-a body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.

constituent
-serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
-having the power of electing or appointing.
-the person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
-that which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.
-one for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly;
-- correlative to representative.
-a person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.

constitute
-to cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
-to make up; to compose; to form.
-to appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
-an established law.

constituted
-of constitute

constituter
-one who constitutes or appoints.

constituting
-of constitute

constitution
-the act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.
-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 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.
-the aggregate of mental qualities; temperament.
-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.
-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.

constitutional
-belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.
-in accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society; as, constitutional reforms.
-regulated by, dependent on, or secured by, a constitution; as, constitutional government; constitutional rights.
-relating to a constitution, or establishment form of government; as, a constitutional risis.
-for the benefit or one's constitution or health; as, a constitutional walk.
-a walk or other exercise taken for one's health or constitution.

constitutionalism
-the theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherence to a constitution or constitutional government.

constitutionalist
-one who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.

constitutionality
-the quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame.
-the state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions.

constitutionally
-in accordance with the constitution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid.
-in accordance with the constitution or fundamental law; legally; as, he was not constitutionally appointed.

constitutionist
-one who adheres to the constitution of the country.

constitutive
-tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.
-having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining.

constitutively
-in a constitutive manner.

constrain
-to secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
-to bring into a narrow compass; to compress.
-to hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.
-to compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
-to violate; to ravish.
-to produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.

constrainable
-capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint.

constrained
-of constrain
-marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.

constrainedly
-by constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner.

constrainer
-one who constrains.

constraining
-of constrain

constraint
-the act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

constraintive
-constraining; compulsory.

constrict
-to draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

constricted
-of constrict
-drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.
-contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others.

constricting
-of constrict

constriction
-the act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
-the state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.

constrictive
-serving or tending to bind or constrict.

constrictor
-that which constricts, draws together, or contracts.
-a muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter.
-a serpent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it with its folds; as, the boa constrictor.

constringe
-to dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.

constringed
-of constringe

constringent
-having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing.

constringing
-of constringe

construct
-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.
-to devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics.
-formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference.

constructed
-of construct

constructer
-one who, or that which, constructs or frames.

constructing
-of construct

construction
-the process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.
-the form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement.
-the arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement.
-the method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense.

constructional
-pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.

constructionist
-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.

constructive
-having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power.
-derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.

constructively
-in a constructive manner; by construction or inference.

constructiveness
-tendency or ability to form or construct.
-the faculty which enables one to construct, as in mechanical, artistic, or literary matters.

constructor
-a constructer.

constructure
-that which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric.

construe
-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.
-to put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.

construed
-of construe

construing
-of construe

construprated
-of constuprate

constuprate
-to ravish; to debauch.

constuprating
-of constuprate

constupration
-the act of ravishing; violation; defilement.

consubstantial
-of the same kind or nature; having the same substance or essence; coessential.

consubstantialism
-the doctrine of consubstantiation.

consubstantialist
-one who believes in consubstantiation.

consubstantiality
-participation of the same nature; coexistence in the same substance.

consubstantially
-in a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.

consubstantiate
-to cause to unite, or to regard as united, in one common substance or nature.
-to profess or belive the doctrine of consubstantion.
-partaking of the same substance; united; consubstantial.

consubstantiated
-of consubstantiate

consubstantiating
-of consubstantiate

consubstantiation
-an identity or union of substance.
-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.

consuetude
-custom, habit; usage.

consuetudinal
-according to custom; customary; usual.

consuetudinaries
-of cussuetudinary

consuetudinary
-customary.

consul
-one of the two chief magistrates of the republic.
-a senator; a counselor.
-one of the three chief magistrates of france from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul.
-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.

consulage
-a duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their commerce by means of a consul in a foreign place.

consular
-of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.

consulary
-consular.

consulate
-the office of a consul.
-the jurisdiction or residence of a consul.
-consular government; term of office of a consul.

consulship
-the office of a consul; consulate.
-the term of office of a consul.

consult
-to seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
-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.
-to have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
-to deliberate upon; to take for.
-to bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
-the act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.
-a council; a meeting for consultation.
-agreement; concert

consultary
-formed by consultation; resulting from conference.

consultation
-the act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.
-a council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.

consultative
-pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference.

consultatory
-formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.

consulted
-of consult

consulter
-one who consults, or asks counsel or information.

consulting
-of consult
-that consults.

consultive
-determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative.

consumable
-capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent.

consume
-to destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
-to waste away slowly.

consumed
-of consume

consumedly
-excessively.

consumer
-one who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.

consuming
-of consume

consumingly
-in a consuming manner.

consummate
-carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.
-to bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.

consummated
-of consummate

consummately
-in a consummate manner; completely.

consummating
-of consummate

consummation
-the act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).

consummative
-serving to consummate; completing.

consumption
-the act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
-the state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
-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.

consumptive
-of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
-affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
-one affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.

consumptively
-in a way tending to or indication consumption.

consumptiveness
-a state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.

contabescent
-wasting away gradually.

contact
-a close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
-the property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
-the plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

contaction
-act of touching.

contagion
-the transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
-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.
-the act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
-venom; poison.

contagioned
-affected by contagion.

contagionist
-one who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.

contagious
-communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
-conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
-spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.

contagiously
-in a contagious manner.

contagiousness
-quality of being contagious.

contagium
-contagion; contagious matter.

contain
-to hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
-to have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
-to put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
-to restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

containable
-capable of being contained or comprised.

containant
-a container.

contained
-of contain

container
-one who, or that which, contains.

containing
-of contain

containment
-that which is contained; the extent; the substance.

contaminable
-capable of being contaminated.

contaminate
-to soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
-contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.

contaminated
-of contaminate

contaminating
-of contaminate

contamination
-the act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

contamitive
-tending or liable to contaminate.

contango
-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.
-the postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. see backwardation.

contangoes
-of contango

contection
-a covering.

contek
-quarrel; contention; contest.
-contumely; reproach.

contemn
-to view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.

contemned
-of contemn

contemner
-one who contemns; a despiser; a scorner.

contemning
-of contemn

contemningly
-contemptuously.

contemper
-to modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften.

contemperate
-to temper; to moderate.

contemperation
-the act of tempering or moderating.
-proportionate mixture or combination.

contemperature
-the condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature.

contemplance
-contemplation.

contemplant
-given to contemplation; meditative.

contemplate
-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 consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.
-to consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.

contemplated
-of contemplate

contemplating
-of contemplate

contemplation
-the act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
-holy meditation.
-the act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.

contemplatist
-a contemplator.

contemplative
-pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative.
-having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties.
-a religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

contemplatively
-with contemplation; in a contemplative manner.

contemplativeness
-the state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness.

contemplator
-one who contemplates.

contemporaneity
-the state of being contemporaneous.

contemporaneous
-living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.

contemporaneously
-at the same time with some other event.

contemporaries
-of contemporary

contemporariness
-existence at the same time; contemporaneousness.

contemporary
-living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
-of the same age; coeval.
-one who lives at the same time with another; as, petrarch and chaucer were contemporaries.

contempt
-the act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
-the state of being despised; disgrace; shame.
-an act or expression denoting contempt.
-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.

contemptibility
-the quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.

contemptible
-worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.
-despised; scorned; neglected; abject.
-insolent; scornful; contemptuous.

contemptibleness
-the state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.

contemptibly
-in a contemptible manner.

contemptuous
-manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.

contemptuously
-in a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.

contemptuousness
-disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.

contend
-to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
-to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
-to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
-to struggle for; to contest.

contended
-of contend

contendent
-an antagonist; a contestant.

contender
-one who contends; a contestant.

contending
-of contend

contendress
-a female contestant.

contenement
-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.

content
-contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.
-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.
-power of containing; capacity; extent; size.
-area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents.
-to satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.
-to satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
-rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.
-acquiescence without examination.
-that which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
-an expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes "content.".

contentation
-content; satisfaction.

contented
-content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing.

contentful
-full of content.

contention
-a violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.
-strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention.
-vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal.
-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.

contentious
-fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.
-relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention.
-contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.

contentless
-discontented; dissatisfied.

contently
-in a contented manner.

contentment
-the state of being contented or satisfied; content.
-the act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.
-gratification; pleasure; satisfaction.

contents
-of content
-see content, n.

conterminable
-having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous.

conterminal
-conterminous.

conterminant
-having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous.

conterminate
-having the same bounds; conterminous.

conterminous
-having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.

conterranean
-alt. of conterraneous

conterraneous
-of or belonging to the same country.

contertionist
-one who makes or practices contortions.

contesseration
-an assemblage; a collection; harmonious union.

contest
-to make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
-to strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
-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 engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate;
-- followed usually by with.
-earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
-earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.

contestable
-capable of being contested; debatable.

contestant
-one who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

contestation
-the act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.
-proof by witness; attestation; testimony.

contested
-of contest

contesting
-of contest

contestingly
-in a contending manner.

contex
-to context.

context
-knit or woven together; close; firm.
-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.
-to knit or bind together; to unite closely.

contextural
-pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven.

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.

contextured
-formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed.

conticent
-silent.

contignation
-the act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.
-a framework or fabric, as of beams.

contiguate
-contiguous; touching.

contiguity
-the state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.

contiguous
-in actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.

continence
-alt. of continency

continency
-self
-restraint; self
-command.
-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.
-uninterrupted course; continuity.

continent
-serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
-exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
-abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
-not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
-that which contains anything; a receptacle.
-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.

continental
-of or pertaining to a continent.
-of or pertaining to the main land of europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially england; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition.
-of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the revolutionary war; as, continental money.
-a soldier in the continental army, or a piece of the continental currency. see continental, a., 3.

continently
-in a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.

contingence
-see contingency.

contingencies
-of contingency

contingency
-union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
-the quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
-an event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
-an adjunct or accessory.
-a certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.

contingent
-possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
-dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.
-dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate.
-an event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.
-that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.

contingently
-in a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.

contingentness
-the state of being contingent; fortuitousness.

continuable
-capable of being continued

continual
-proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding.
-occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated.

continually
-without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; as, the current flows continually.
-in regular or repeated succession; very often.

continuance
-a holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.
-uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation.
-a holding together; continuity.
-the adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.
-the entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.

continuant
-continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound.
-a continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged.

continuate
-immediately united together; intimately connected.
-uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued.

continuation
-that act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
-that which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story.

continuative
-a term or expression denoting continuance.
-a word that continues the connection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction.

continuator
-one who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer.

continue
-to remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
-to be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.
-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.
-to unite; to connect.
-to protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.
-to carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.
-to retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.

continued
-of continue
-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.

continuedly
-continuously.

continuer
-one who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence.

continuing
-of continue

continuities
-of continuity

continuity
-the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers.

continuo
-basso continuo, or continued bass.

continuous
-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.
-not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

continuously
-in a continuous maner; without interruption.

contline
-the space between the strands on the outside of a rope.
-the space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.

contorniate
-alt. of contorniate
-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.

contorsion
-see contortion.

contort
-to twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.

contorted
-twisted, or twisted together.
-twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.
-arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation.

contortion
-a twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face.

contortive
-expressing contortion.

contortuplicate
-plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning
-glory.

contour
-the outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.
-the outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.

contourne'
-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.

contourniated
-having furrowed edges, as if turned in a lathe.

contra
-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.

contraband
-illegal or prohibited traffic.
-goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
-a negro slave, during the civil war, escaped to, or was brought within, the union lines. such slave was considered contraband of war.
-prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
-to import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
-to declare prohibited; to forbid.

contrabandism
-traffic in contraband goods; smuggling.

contrabandist
-one who traffics illegally; a smuggler.

contrabass
-double bass;
-- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon.

contrabasso
-the largest kind of bass viol. see violone.

contract
-to draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
-to draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
-to bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
-to enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
-to betroth; to affiance.
-to shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
-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.
-to make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
-contracted; as, a contract verb.
-contracted; affianced; betrothed.
-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.
-a formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
-the act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

contracted
-of contract
-drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
-narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
-bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.

contractedness
-the state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.

contractibility
-capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.

contractible
-capable of contraction.

contractibleness
-contractibility.

contractile
-tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.

contractility
-the quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.
-the power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

contracting
-of contract

contraction
-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 tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
-the process of shortening an operation.
-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.
-something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase;
-- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
-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.
-a marriage contract.

contractive
-tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

contractor
-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.

contracture
-a state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.

contradance
-a dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.

contradict
-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.
-to be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
-to oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.

contradictable
-capable of being contradicting.

contradicted
-of contradict

contradicter
-one who contradicts.

contradicting
-of contradict

contradiction
-an assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
-direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.

contradictional
-contradictory; inconsistent; opposing.

contradictions
-filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
-inclined to contradict or cavil

contradictive
-contradictory; inconsistent.

contradictor
-a contradicter.

contradictories
-of contradictory

contradictorily
-in a contradictory manner.

contradictoriness
-the quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency.

contradictory
-affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.
-opposing or opposed; repugnant.
-a proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety.
-propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity.

contradistinct
-distinguished by opposite qualities.

contradistinction
-distinction by contrast.

contradistinctive
-having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.

contradistinguish
-to distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.

contradistinguished
-of contradistinguish

contradistinguishing
-of contradistinguish

contrafagetto
-the double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.

contrafissure
-a fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.

contrahent
-entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties.

contraindicant
-something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed.

contraindicate
-to indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require.

contraindicated
-of contraindicate

contraindicating
-of contraindicate

contraindication
-an indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.

contralto
-the part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
-the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto.
-of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice.

contramure
-an outer wall.

contranatural
-opposed to or against nature; unnatural.

contraposition
-a placing over against; opposite position.
-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.

contrapuntal
-pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.

contrapuntist
-one skilled in counterpoint.

contraremonstrant
-one who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant.

contrariant
-contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory.

contrariantly
-contrarily.

contraries
-propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.
-of contrary

contrarieties
-of contrariety

contrariety
-the state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.
-something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency.

contrarily
-in a contrary manner; in opposition; on the other side; in opposite ways.

contrariness
-state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy.

contrarious
-showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse.

contrariously
-contrarily; oppositely.

contrariwise
-on the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand.
-in a contrary order; conversely.

contrarotation
-circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.

contrarry
-to contradict or oppose; to thwart.

contrary
-opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.
-opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent.
-given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.
-affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions.
-a thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.
-an opponent; an enemy.
-the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. see converse, n., 1.
-see contraries.

contrast
-to stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.
-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.
-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 act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.
-opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.
-the opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.

contrasted
-of contrast

contrastimulant
-counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants.
-an agent which counteracts the effect of a stimulant.

contrasting
-of contrast

contrate
-having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.

contratenor
-counter tenor; contralto.

contravallation
-a trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.

contravene
-to meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.
-to violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law.

contravened
-of contravene

contravener
-one who contravenes.

contravening
-of contravene

contravention
-the act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.

contraversion
-a turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.

contrayerva
-a species of dorstenia (d. contrayerva), a south american plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.

contrecoup
-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.

contretemps
-an unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch.

contributable
-capable of being contributed.

contributary
-contributory.
-tributary; contributing.

contribute
-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.
-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.
-to give or use one's power or influence for any object; to assist.

contributed
-of contribute

contributer
-one who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine.

contributing
-of contribute

contribution
-the act of contributing.
-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.
-an irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
-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.

contributional
-pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.

contributive
-contributing, or tending to contribute.

contributories
-of contributory

contributory
-contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.
-one who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.

contrist
-to make sad.

contristate
-to make sorrowful.

contrite
-thoroughly bruised or broken.
-broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to god; humbly and thoroughly penitent.
-a contrite person.
-in a contrite manner.

contriteness
-deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.

contrition
-the act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.
-the state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to god; humble penitence; through repentance.

contriturate
-to triturate; to pulverize.

contrivance
-the act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
-the thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.

contrivble
-capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.

contrive
-to form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
-to make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

contrived
-of contrive

contrivement
-contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.

contriver
-one who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.

contriving
-of contrive

control
-a duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
-that which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
-power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
-to check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
-to exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

controllability
-capability of being controlled; controllableness.

controllable
-capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.

controllableness
-capability of being controlled.

controlled
-of control

controller
-one who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
-an officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.
-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.

controllership
-the office of a controller.

controlling
-of control

controlment
-the power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.
-opposition; resistance; hostility.

controversal
-turning or looking opposite ways.
-controversial.

controversary
-controversial.

controverse
-controversy.
-to dispute; to controvert.

controverser
-a disputant.

controversial
-relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.

controversialist
-one who carries on a controversy; a disputant.

controversially
-in a controversial manner.

controversies
-of controversy

controversion
-act of controverting; controversy.

controversor
-a controverser.

controversy
-contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.
-quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference.
-a suit in law or equity; a question of right.

controvert
-to make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.

controverted
-of controvert

controverter
-one who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

controvertible
-capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question.

controverting
-of controvert

controvertist
-one skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist.

contubernal
-alt. of contubernial

contubernial
-living or messing together; familiar; in companionship.

contumacies
-of contumacy

contumacious
-exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient.
-willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.

contumacy
-stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
-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.

contumelious
-exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.
-shameful; disgraceful.

contumely
-rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.

contuse
-to beat, pound, or together.
-to bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.

contused
-of contuse

contusing
-of contuse

contusion
-the act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
-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.

conundrum
-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.
-a question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.

conure
-an american parrakeet of the genus conurus. many species are known. see parrakeet.

conus
-a cone.
-a linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. see cone, n., 4.

conusable
-cognizable; liable to be tried or judged.

conusant
-see cognizant.

conusor
-see cognizor.

convalesce
-to recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

convalesced
-of convalesce
-convalescent.

convalescence
-alt. of convalescency

convalescency
-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.

convalescent
-recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength.
-of or pertaining to convalescence.
-one recovering from sickness.

convalescently
-in the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.

convalescing
-of convalesce

convallamarin
-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.

convallaria
-the lily of the valley.

convallarin
-a white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.

convection
-the act or process of conveying or transmitting.
-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.

convective
-caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity.

convectively
-in a convective manner.

convellent
-tending to tear or pull up.

convenable
-capable of being convened or assembled.
-consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies.

convenance
-that which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient.

convene
-to come together; to meet; to unite.
-to come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
-to cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
-to summon judicially to meet or appear.

convened
-of convene

convener
-one who convenes or meets with others.
-one who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.

convenience
-alt. of conveniency

conveniency
-the state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.
-freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation.
-that which is convenient; that which promotes comfort or advantage; that which is suited to one's wants; an accommodation.
-a convenient or fit time; opportunity; as, to do something at one's convenience.

convenient
-fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.
-affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.
-seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion; a convenient season.
-near at hand; easy of access.

conveniently
-in a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.

convenong
-of convene

convent
-a coming together; a meeting.
-an association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
-a house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
-to meet together; to concur.
-to be convenient; to serve.
-to call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.

conventical
-of or from, or pertaining to, a convent.

conventicle
-a small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.
-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.

conventicler
-one who supports or frequents conventicles.

conventicling
-belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.

convention
-the act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
-general agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
-a meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object,
-- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.
-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.
-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.

conventional
-formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
-growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
-based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
-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.

conventionalily
-in a conventional manner.

conventionalism
-that which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
-the principles or practice of conventionalizing. see conventionalize, v. t.

conventionalist
-one who adheres to a convention or treaty.
-one who is governed by conventionalism.

conventionalities
-of conventionality

conventionality
-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.

conventionalization
-the act of making conventional.
-the state of being conventional.

conventionalize
-to make designs in art, according to conventional principles. cf. conventionalize, v. t., 2.

conventionalized
-of conventionalizw

conventionalizing
-of conventionalizw

conventionalizw
-to make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage.
-to represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.
-to represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.

conventionary
-acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants.

conventioner
-one who belongs to a convention or assembly.

conventionist
-one who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.

conventual
-of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.
-one who lives in a convent; a monk or nun; a recluse.

converge
-to tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.
-to cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.

converged
-of converge

convergence
-alt. of convergency

convergency
-the condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point.

convergent
-tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.

converging
-of converge
-tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines.

conversable
-qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse.

conversableness
-the quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.

conversably
-in a conversable manner.

conversance
-the state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy.

conversancy
-conversance

conversant
-having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.
-familiar or acquainted by use or study; well
-informed; versed;
-- generally used with with, sometimes with in.
-concerned; occupied.
-one who converses with another; a convenser.

conversantly
-in a familiar manner.

conversation
-general course of conduct; behavior.
-familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance.
-commerce; intercourse; traffic.
-colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
-sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.

conversational
-pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.

conversationalist
-a conversationist.

conversationed
-acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved.

conversationism
-a word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism.

conversationist
-one who converses much, or who excels in conversation.

conversative
-relating to intercourse with men; social;
-- opposed to contemplative.

conversazi
-one
-a meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects.

conversazioni
-of conversazi
-one

converse
-to keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune;
-- followed by with.
-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.
-to have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study;
-- said of things.
-frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.
-familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
-turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.
-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.
-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.

conversed
-of converse

conversely
-in a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.

converser
-one who engages in conversation.

conversible
-capable of being converted or reversed.

conversing
-of converse

conversion
-the act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
-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.
-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.
-the act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
-a change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.
-a change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
-a change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.
-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.

conversive
-capable of being converted or changed.
-ready to converse; social.

convert
-to cause to turn; to turn.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-to apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
-to exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
-to change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
-to turn into another language; to translate.
-to be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.
-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.
-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.

converted
-of convert

convertend
-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).

converter
-one who converts; one who makes converts.
-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.

convertibility
-the condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness.

convertible
-capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.
-capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.

convertibleness
-the state of being convertible; convertibility.

convertibly
-in a convertible manner.

converting
-of convert

convertite
-a convert.

convex
-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.
-a convex body or surface.

convexed
-made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.

convexedly
-in a convex form; convexly.

convexedness
-convexity.

convexities
-of convexity

convexity
-the state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

convexly
-in a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.

convexness
-the state of being convex; convexity.

convexo
-concave
-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.

convexo
-convex
-convex on both sides; double convex. see under convex, a.

convexo
-plane
-convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano
-convex.

convey
-to carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
-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.
-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.
-to impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.
-to manage with privacy; to carry out.
-to carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
-to accompany; to convoy.
-to play the thief; to steal.

conveyable
-capable of being conveyed or transferred.

conveyance
-the act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.
-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.
-the act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.
-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.
-dishonest management, or artifice.

conveyancer
-one whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc.

conveyancing
-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.

conveyed
-of convey

conveyer
-one who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.
-one given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.

conveying
-of convey

conveyor
-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.

conviciate
-to utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail.

convicinities
-of convicinity

convicinity
-immediate vicinity; neighborhood.

convicious
-expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting.

convict
-proved or found guilty; convicted.
-a person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
-a criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
-to prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
-to prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
-to demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
-to defeat; to doom to destruction.

convict1ible
-capable of being convicted.

convicted
-of convict

convicting
-of convict

conviction
-the act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.
-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.
-the act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.
-the state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.

convictism
-the policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.

convictive
-convincing.

convince
-to overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master.
-to overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof.
-to confute; to prove the fallacy of.
-to prove guilty; to convict.

convinced
-of convince

convincement
-act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction.

convincer
-one who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.

convincible
-capable of being convinced or won over.
-capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable.

convincing
-of convince

convincingly
-in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.

convincingness
-the power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing.

convival
-pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial.

convive
-to feast together; to be convivial.
-a quest at a banquet.

convivial
-of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial.

convivialist
-a person of convivial habits.

convivialities
-of conviviality

conviviality
-the good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.

convivially
-in a convivial manner.

convocate
-to convoke; to call together.

convocated
-of convocate

convocating
-of convocate

convocation
-the act of calling or assembling by summons.
-an assembly or meeting.
-an assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
-an academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.

convocational
-of or pertaining to a convocation.

convocationist
-an advocate or defender of convocation.

convoke
-to call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons.

convoked
-of convoke

convoking
-of convoke

convoluluses
-of convolvulus

convolute
-rolled or wound together, one part upon another;
-- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.

convoluted
-having convolutions.
-folded in tortuous windings.

convolution
-the act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion.
-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.
-an irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. see brain.

convolve
-to roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.

convolved
-of convolve

convolving
-of convolve

convolvulaceous
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning
-glory are common examples.

convolvuli
-of convolvulus

convolvulin
-a glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.

convolvulus
-a large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (c. arwensis), and formerly the morning
-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus ipomaea.

convoy
-to accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.
-the act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.
-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.
-a protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.
-conveyance; means of transportation.
-a drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.

convoyed
-of convoy

convoying
-of convoy

convulse
-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.
-to agitate greatly; to shake violently.

convulsed
-of convulse

convulsing
-of convulse

convulsion
-an unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.
-any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion.

convulsional
-pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary.

convulsionary
-pertaining to convulsion; convulsive.
-a convulsionist.

convulsionist
-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. medard.

convulsive
-producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.

convulsively
-in a convulsive manner.

cony
-a rabbit, esp., the european rabbit (lepus cuniculus)
-the chief hare.
-a simpleton.
-an important edible west indian fish (epinephelus apua); the hind of bermuda.
-a local name of the burbot.

cony
-catch
-to deceive; to cheat; to trick.

cony
-catcher
-a cheat; a sharper; a deceiver.

conylene
-an oily substance, c8h14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

conyrine
-a blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

coo
-to make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.
-to show affection; to act in a loving way. see under bill, v. i.

cooed
-of coo

cooee
-a peculiar whistling sound made by the australian aborigenes as a call or signal.

cooey
-alt. of cooee

cooing
-of coo

cook
-to make the noise of the cuckoo.
-to throw.
-one whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
-a fish, the european striped wrasse.
-to prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
-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.
-to prepare food for the table.

cookbook
-a book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.

cooked
-of cook

cookee
-a female cook.

cookery
-the art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.
-a delicacy; a dainty.

cookey
-alt. of cookie

cookie
-see cooky.

cookies
-of cooky

cooking
-of cook

cookmaid
-a female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

cookroom
-a room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.

cookshop
-an eating house.

cooky
-a small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

cool
-moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
-not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self
-control; self
-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
-not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
-manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
-quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
-applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
-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.
-to make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
-to moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
-to become less hot; to lose heat.
-to lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.

cool
-headed
-having a temper not easily excited; free from passion.

cooled
-of cool

cooler
-that which cools, or abates heat or excitement.
-anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

coolie
-same as cooly.
-an east indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the east indies, china, or japan, for service in some other country.

coolies
-of coolie

cooling
-of cool
-adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.

coolish
-somewhat cool.

coolly
-coolish; cool.
-in a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.

coolness
-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.
-calm impudence; self
-possession.

coolung
-the great gray crane of india (grus cinerea).

cooly
-alt. of coolie

coom
-soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.

coomb
-a dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.
-alt. of coombe

coombe
-a hollow in a hillside. [prov. eng.] see comb, combe.

coon
-a raccoon. see raccoon.

coontie
-a cycadaceous plant of florida and the west indies, the zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.

coop
-a barrel or cask for liquor.
-an inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
-a cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
-to confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp;
-- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.
-to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

cooped
-of coop

coopee
-see coupe.

cooper
-one who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.
-to do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel.
-work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

cooperage
-work done by a cooper.
-the price paid for coopers; work.
-a place where coopers' work is done.

cooperant
-operating together; as, cooperant forces.

cooperate
-to act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect.

cooperated
-of cooperate

cooperating
-of cooperate

cooperation
-the act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.
-the association of a number of persons for their benefit.

cooperative
-operating jointly to the same end.

cooperator
-one who labors jointly with others to promote the same end.

coopered
-of cooper

coopering
-of cooper

coopery
-relating to a cooper; coopered.
-the occupation of a cooper.

cooping
-of coop

coopt
-to choose or elect in concert with another.

cooptate
-to choose; to elect; to coopt.

cooptation
-the act of choosing; selection; choice.

coordain
-to ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

coordinance
-joint ordinance.

coordinate
-equal in rank or order; not subordinate.
-to make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification.
-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.
-a thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.
-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.

coordinated
-of coordinate

coordinately
-in a coordinate manner.

coordinateness
-the state of being coordinate; equality of rank or authority.

coordinating
-of coordinate

coordination
-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.
-the state of being coordinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc.

coordinative
-expressing coordination.

coot
-a wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus fulica.
-the surf duck or scoter. in the united states all the species of (/demia are called coots. see scoter.
-a stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.

cooter
-a fresh
-water tortoise (pseudemus concinna) of florida.
-the box tortoise.

cootfoot
-the phalarope;
-- so called because its toes are like the coot's.

coothay
-a striped satin made in india.

cop
-the top of a thing; the head; a crest.
-a conical or conical
-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
-a tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
-same as merlon.
-a policeman.

cop
-rose
-the red, or corn, poppy.

copaiba
-alt. of copaiva

copaiva
-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 is much used in affections of the mucous membranes;
-- called also balsam of copaiba.

copal
-a resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of zanzibar, madagascar, and south america (trachylobium hornemannianum, t. verrucosum, and hymenaea courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in africa;
-- used chiefly in making varnishes.

coparcenaries
-of coparcenary

coparcenary
-partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.

coparcener
-one who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.

coparceny
-an equal share of an inheritance.

copart
-to share.

copartment
-a compartment.

copartner
-one who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer.

copartneries
-of copartnery

copartnership
-the state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.
-a partnership or firm; as, a. and b. have this day formed a copartnership.

copartnery
-the state of being copartners in any undertaking.

copatain
-having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.

copatriot
-a joint patriot.

cope
-a covering for the head.
-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.
-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.
-an ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in derbyshire, england.
-the top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
-to form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
-to pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
-to exchange or barter.
-to encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
-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.
-to bargain for; to buy.
-to make return for; to requite; to repay.
-to match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

cope
-chisel
-a narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove.

copeck
-a russian copper coin. see kopeck.

coped
-of cope
-clad in a cope.

copelata
-see larvalla.

copeman
-a chapman; a dealer; a merchant.

copepod
-of or pertaining to the copepoda.
-one of the copepoda.

copepoda
-an order of entomostraca, including many minute crustacea, both fresh
-water and marine.

copernican
-pertaining to copernicus, a prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the copernican system.

copesmate
-an associate or companion; a friend; a partner.

copestone
-a stone for coping. see coping.

copied
-of copy

copier
-one who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.
-an imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist.

copies
-of copy

coping
-of cope
-the highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water;
-- sometimes called capping.

copious
-large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.

copiously
-in a copious manner.

copiousness
-the state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style.

copist
-a copier.

copland
-a piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.

coplaner
-situated in one plane.

coplatry
-pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.
-used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects.

coportion
-equal share.

copped
-rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.

coppel
-see cupel.

copper
-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.
-a coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.
-a vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
-the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.
-to cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

copper works
-a place where copper is wrought or manufactured.

copper
-bottomed
-having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

copper
-faced
-faced or covered with copper; as, copper
-faced type.

copper
-fastened
-fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper
-fastened ship.

copper
-nickel
-niccolite.

copper
-nose
-a red nose.

copperas
-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.

coppered
-of copper

copperhead
-a poisonous american serpent (ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles;
-- called also copper
-belly, and red viper.
-a nickname applied to a person in the northern states who sympathized with the south during the civil war.

coppering
-of copper
-the act of covering with copper.
-an envelope or covering of copper.

copperish
-containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

copperplate
-a plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
-an impression on paper taken from such a plate.

coppersmith
-one whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

copperworm
-the teredo;
-- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.
-the ringworm.

coppery
-mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

coppice
-a grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. see copse.

coppin
-a cop of thread.

copple
-something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

copple dust
-cupel dust.

copple
-crown
-a created or high
-topped crown or head.

coppled
-rising to a point; conical; copped.

copplestone
-a cobblestone.

copps
-see copse.

copra
-the dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.

coprolite
-a piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

coprolitic
-containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.

coprophagan
-a kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.

coprophagous
-feeding upon dung, as certain insects.

cops
-the connecting crook of a harrow.

copse
-a wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. see coppice.
-to trim or cut;
-- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
-to plant and preserve, as a copse.

copsewood
-brushwood; coppice.

copsy
-characterized by copses.

coptic
-of or pertaining to the copts.
-the language of the copts.

copts
-an egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient egyptians.
-the principal sect of christians in egypt and the valley of the nile.

copula
-the word which unites the subject and predicate.
-the stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals;
-- called also coupler.

copulate
-joined; associated; coupled.
-joining subject and predicate; copulative.
-to unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.

copulated
-of copulate

copulating
-of copulate

copulation
-the act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
-the coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.

copulative
-serving to couple, unite, or connect; as, a copulative conjunction like "and".
-connection.
-a copulative conjunction.

copulatively
-in a copulative manner.

copy
-an abundance or plenty of anything.
-an imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue.
-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.
-that which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
-manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.
-a writing paper of a particular size. same as bastard. see under paper.
-copyhold; tenure; lease.
-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.
-to imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life.
-to make a copy or copies; to imitate.
-to yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well.

copyer
-see copier.

copygraph
-a contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing.

copyhold
-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.
-land held in copyhold.

copyholder
-one possessed of land in copyhold.
-a device for holding copy for a compositor.
-one who reads copy to a proof reader.

copying
-of copy
-from copy, v.

copyist
-a copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.

copyright
-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.
-to secure a copyright on.

coquelicot
-the wild poppy, or red corn rose.
-the color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet.

coquet
-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.
-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.

coquetries
-of coquetry

coquetry
-attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.

coquette
-a vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt;
-- formerly sometimes applied also to men.
-a tropical humming bird of the genus lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. several species are known. see illustration under spangle, v. t.

coquetted
-of coquet

coquetting
-of coquet

coquettish
-practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.

coquettishly
-in a coquettish manner.

coquilla nut
-the fruit of a brazilian tree (attalea funifera of martius.).

coquimbite
-a mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas;
-- so called because found in the province of coquimbo, chili.

coquina
-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.

cor
-a hebrew measure of capacity; a homer.

cor
-
-a prefix signifying with, together, etc. see com
-.

cor/niculate
-horned; having horns.
-having processes resembling small horns.

cora
-the arabian gazelle (gazella arabica), found from persia to north africa.

coracle
-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 thibet and in egypt.

coracoid
-shaped like a crow's beak.
-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.
-the coracoid bone or process.

corage
-see courage

coral
-the hard parts or skeleton of various anthozoa, and of a few hydrozoa. similar structures are also formed by some bryozoa.
-the ovaries of a cooked lobster;
-- so called from their color.
-a piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.

coral fish
-any bright
-colored fish of the genera chaetodon, pomacentrus, apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.

coral
-rag
-same as corallian.

coraled
-having coral; covered with coral.

corallaceous
-like coral, or partaking of its qualities.

corallian
-a deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite;
-- called also coral
-rag.

coralliferous
-containing or producing coral.

coralliform
-resembling coral in form.

coralligena
-same as anthozoa.

coralligenous
-producing coral; coralligerous; coralliferous.

coralligerous
-producing coral; coralliferous.

corallin
-a yellow coal
-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. see aurin, and rosolic acid under rosolic.

coralline
-composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone.
-a submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
-formerly any slender coral
-like animal;
-- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.

corallinite
-a fossil coralline.

corallite
-a mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.
-one of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal.

coralloid
-having the form of coral; branching like coral.

coralloidal
-resembling coral; coralloid.

corallum
-the coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. see coral.

coralwort
-a cruciferous herb of certain species of dentaria;
-- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.

coranach
-a lamentation for the dead; a dirge.

corant
-alt. of coranto

coranto
-a sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion.

corb
-a basket used in coal mines, etc. see corf.
-an ornament in a building; a corbel.

corban
-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.
-an alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

corbe
-crooked.

corbel
-a bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. corbels were employed largely in gothic architecture.
-to furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

corbel
-table
-a horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.

corbell
-a sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel.
-small gabions.

corbie
-alt. of corby

corbies
-of corby

corbiestep
-one of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope;
-- also called crowstep.

corby
-the raven.
-a raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge.

corchorus
-the common name of the kerria japonica or japan globeflower, a yellow
-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old
-fashioned gardens.

corcle
-alt. of corcule

corcule
-the heart of the seed; the embryo or germ.

cord
-a string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
-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.
-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.
-any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. see under spermatic, spinal, umbilical, vocal.
-see chord.
-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.
-to arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
-of core

cordage
-ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.

cordal
-same as cordelle.

cordate
-heart
-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.

cordately
-in a cordate form.

corded
-of cord
-bound or fastened with cords.
-piled in a form for measurement by the cord.
-made of cords.
-striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface.
-bound about, or wound, with cords.

cordelier
-a franciscan;
-- so called in france from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all franciscans.
-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.

cordeling
-twisting.

cordelle
-a twisted cord; a tassel.

cordial
-proceeding from the heart.
-hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.
-tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.
-anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates.
-any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial.
-aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur.

cordialities
-of cordiality

cordiality
-relation to the heart.
-sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness.

cordialize
-to make into a cordial.
-to render cordial; to reconcile.
-to grow cordial; to feel or express cordiality.

cordially
-in a cordial manner.

cordialness
-cordiality.

cordierite
-see iolite.

cordillera
-a mountain ridge or chain.

cordiner
-a cordwainer.

cording
-of cord

cordoform
-heart
-shaped.

cordon
-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.
-the cord worn by a franciscan friar.
-the coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
-a line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.
-a rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.

cordonnet
-doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc.

cordovan
-same as cordwain. in england the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.

corduroy
-a sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.
-trousers or breeches of corduroy.
-to form of logs laid side by side.

cordwain
-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.

cordwainer
-a worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker.

core
-a body of individuals; an assemblage.
-a miner's underground working time or shift.
-a hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
-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.
-the center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
-the most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.
-the prtion 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.
-a disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
-the bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
-to take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
-to form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.

coreopsis
-a genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two
-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. c. tinctoria, of the western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.

corer
-that which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer.

corf
-a basket.
-a large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.
-a wooden frame, sled, or low
-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

corfiote
-alt. of corfute

corfute
-a native or inhabitant of corfu, an island in the mediterranean sea.

coriaceous
-consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.
-stiff, like leather or parchment.

coriander
-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.

coridine
-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.

corindon
-see corrundum.

coring
-of core

corinne
-the common gazelle (gazella dorcas). see gazelle.

corinth
-a city of greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.
-a small fruit; a currant.

corinthiac
-pertaining to corinth.

corinthian
-of or relating to corinth.
-of or pertaining to the corinthian order of architecture, invented by the greeks, but more commonly used by the romans.
-debauched in character or practice; impure.
-of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateurs.)
-a native or inhabitant of corinth.
-a gay, licentious person.

corium
-armor made of leather, particularly that used by the romans; used also by enlish soldiers till the reign of edward i.
-same as dermis.
-the deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.

corival
-a rival; a corrival.
-to rival; to pretend to equal.

corivalry
-alt. of corivalship

corivalship
-joint rivalry.

cork
-the outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (quercus suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. see cutose.
-a stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
-a mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
-to stop with a cork, as a bottle.
-to furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

cork fossil
-a variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.

corkage
-the charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.

corked
-of cork
-having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

corkiness
-the quality of being corky.

corking
-of cork

corking pin
-a pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold.

corkscrew
-an instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.
-to press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd.

corkwing
-a fish; the goldsinny.

corky
-consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.
-tasting of cork.

corm
-a solid bulb
-shaped root, as of the crocus. see bulb.
-same as cormus, 2.

cormogeny
-the embryological history of groups or families of individuals.

cormophylogeny
-the phylogeny of groups or families of individuals.

cormophyta
-a term proposed by endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

cormophytes
-alt. of cormophyta

cormorant
-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.
-a voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.

cormoraut
-ravenous; voracious.

cormus
-see corm.
-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.

corn
-a thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. it is usually painful and troublesome.
-a single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
-the various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
-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.
-a small, hard particle; a grain.
-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.
-to form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
-to feed with corn or (in sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
-to render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.

cornage
-anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

cornamute
-a cornemuse.

cornbind
-a weed that binds stalks of corn, as convolvulus arvensis, polygonum convolvulus.

corncob
-the cob or axis on which the kernels of indian corn grow.

corncrake
-a bird (crex crex or c. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the european crake or land rail;
-- called also corn bird.

corncrib
-a crib for storing corn.

corncutter
-a machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.
-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.

corndodger
-a cake made of the meal of indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers.

cornea
-the transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. see eye.

corneal
-pertaining to the cornea.

corneas
-of cornea

corned
-of corn

cornel
-the cornelian cherry (cornus mas), a european shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.
-any species of the genus cornus, as c. florida, the flowering cornel; c. stolonifera, the osier cornel; c. canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.

cornelian
-same as carnelian.

cornemuse
-a wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.

corneocalcareous
-formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.
-horny on one side and calcareous on the other.

corneouss
-of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.

corner
-the point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
-the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
-an edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
-a secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
-direction; quarter.
-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.
-to drive into a corner.
-to drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
-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.

cornercap
-the chief ornament.

cornered
-of corner
-1 having corners or angles.
-in a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.

cornering
-of corner

cornerwise
-with the corner in front; diagonally; not square.

cornet
-an obsolete rude reed instrument (ger. zinken), of the oboe family.
-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
-a
-piston.
-a certain organ stop or register.
-a cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
-a troop of cavalry;
-- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
-the standard of such a troop.
-the lowest grade of commissioned officer in a british cavalry troop, who carried the standard. the office was abolished in 1871.
-a headdress
-a square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
-a part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
-see coronet, 2.

cornet
-a
-piston
-a brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

cornetcy
-the commission or rank of a cornet.

corneter
-one who blows a cornet.

cornets
-a
-piston
-of cornet
-a
-piston

corneule
-one of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates.

cornfield
-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.

cornfloor
-a thrashing floor.

cornflower
-a conspicuous wild flower (centaurea cyanus), growing in grainfields.

corni (
-n/) di basseto
-of corno di bassetto

corni inglesi
-of corno inglese

cornic
-pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (cornus florida).

cornice
-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.

corniced
-having a cornice.

cornicle
-a little horn.

cornicula
-of corniculum

cornicular
-a secretary or clerk.

corniculum
-a small hornlike part or process.

corniferous
-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.

cornific
-producing horns; forming horn.

cornification
-conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.

cornified
-converted into horn; horny.

corniform
-having the shape of a horn; horn
-shaped.

cornigerous
-horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals.

cornin
-a bitter principle obtained from dogwood (cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance;
-- called also cornic acid.
-an extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.

corning
-of corn

corniplume
-a hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

cornish
-of or pertaining to cornwall, in england.
-the dialect, or the people, of cornwall.

cornist
-a performer on the cornet or horn.

cornloft
-a loft for corn; a granary.

cornmuse
-a cornemuse.

corno inglese
-a reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the english horn.

corno di bassetto
-a tenor clarinet;
-- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the english horn, which is a tenor oboe.

cornopean
-an obsolete name for the cornet
-a
-piston.

cornsheller
-a machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.

cornshuck
-the husk covering an ear of indian corn.

cornstalk
-a stalk of indian corn.

cornstarch
-starch made from indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.

cornu
-a horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

cornu ammonis
-a fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.

cornua
-of cornu

cornua ammonis
-of cornu ammonis

cornucopia
-the horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. it is an emblem of abundance.
-a genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.

cornucopias
-of cornucopia

cornute
-alt. of cornuted
-to bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold.

cornuted
-bearing horns; horned; horn
-shaped.
-cuckolded.

cornuto
-a man that wears the horns; a cuckold.

cornutor
-a cuckold maker.

corny
-strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
-producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
-containing corn; tasting well of malt.
-tipsy.

corocore
-a kind of boat of various forms, used in the indian archipelago.

corody
-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.

corol
-a corolla.

corolla
-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.

corollaceous
-pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla.

corollaries
-of corollary

corollary
-that which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous.
-something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence.

corollate
-alt. of corollated

corollated
-having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.

corollet
-a floret in an aggregate flower.

corollifloral
-alt. of corolliflorous

corolliflorous
-having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. compare calycifloral and thalamifloral.

corolline
-of or pertaining to a corolla.

coromandel
-the west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the bay of bengal.

corona
-a crown or garland bestowed among the romans as a reward for distinguished services.
-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.
-the upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.
-the shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
-a peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.
-an inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.
-any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.
-a circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.
-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.
-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.
-a character [/] called the pause or hold.

coronach
-see coranach.

coronae
-of corona

coronal
-of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses).
-of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation.
-of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.
-of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.
-a crown; wreath; garland.
-the frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.

coronamen
-the upper margin of a hoof; a coronet.

coronary
-of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.
-resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.
-a small bone in the foot of a horse.
-informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack.

coronas
-of corona

coronate
-alt. of coronated

coronated
-having or wearing a crown.
-having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished;
-- said of birds.
-girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines;
-- said of spiral shells.
-having a crest or a crownlike appendage.

coronation
-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.
-the pomp or assembly at a coronation.

coronel
-a colonel.
-the iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points.

coroner
-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.

coronet
-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.
-the upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin.
-the iron head of a tilting spear; a coronel.

coroneted
-wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.

coroniform
-having the form of a crown or coronet; resembling a crown.

coronilla
-a genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

coronis
-in greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.
-the curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.

coronoid
-resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.

coronule
-a coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. see pappus.

corosso
-the name in central america for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. see ivory nut.

coroun
-crown.

corozo
-alt. of corosso

corpora
-of corpus

corpora callosa
-of corpus

corpora lutea
-of corpus

corpora striata
-of corpus

corporace
-see corporas.

corporal
-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.
-belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
-having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. in this sense now usually written corporeal.
-alt. of corporale

corporale
-a fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.

corporalities
-of corporality

corporality
-the state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality;
-- opposed to spirituality.
-a confraternity; a guild.

corporally
-in or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present.

corporalship
-a corporal's office.

corporas
-the corporal, or communion cloth.

corporate
-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.
-belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
-united; general; collectively one.
-to incorporate.
-to become incorporated.

corporately
-in a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body.
-in, or as regarda, the body.

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.

corporator
-a member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.

corporature
-the state of being embodied; bodily existence.

corporeal
-having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material;
-- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.

corporealism
-materialism.

corporealist
-one who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist.

corporealities
-of corporeality

corporeality
-the state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

corporeally
-in the body; in a bodily form or manner.

corporealness
-corporeality; corporeity.

corporeity
-the state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality.

corporify
-to embody; to form into a body.

corposant
-st. elmo's fire. see under saint.

corps
-the human body, whether living or dead.
-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 body or code of laws.
-the land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed.

corpse
-a human body in general, whether living or dead;
-- sometimes contemptuously.
-the dead body of a human being;
-- used also fig.

corpulence
-alt. of corpulency

corpulency
-excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.
-thickness; density; compactness.

corpulent
-very fat; obese.
-solid; gross; opaque.

corpulently
-in a corpulent manner.

corpus
-a body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

corpuscle
-a minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
-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.

corpuscular
-pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.

corpuscularian
-corpuscular.
-an adherent of the corpuscular philosophy.

corpuscule
-a corpuscle.

corpusculous
-corpuscular.

corrade
-to gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
-to erode, as the bed of a stream. see corrosion.

corradial
-radiating to or from the same point.

corradiate
-to converge to one point or focus, as light or rays.

corradiation
-a conjunction or concentration of rays in one point.

corral
-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.
-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.

corraled
-of corral

corralling
-of corral

corrasion
-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.

corrasive
-corrosive.

correct
-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.
-to make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
-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).
-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.
-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.

correctable
-capable of being corrected.

corrected
-of correct

correctible
-alt. of correctable

correctify
-to correct.

correcting
-of correct

correction
-the act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
-the act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
-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.
-abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.
-an allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.

correctional
-tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.

correctioner
-one who is, or who has been, in the house of correction.

corrective
-having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
-qualifying; limiting.
-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.
-limitation; restriction.

correctly
-in a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

correctness
-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.

corrector
-one who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.

correctory
-containing or making correction; corrective.

correctress
-a woman who corrects.

corregidor
-the chief magistrate of a spanish town.

correi
-a hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies.

correlatable
-such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.

correlate
-to have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.
-to put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena.
-one who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.

correlated
-of correlate

correlating
-of correlate

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.

correlative
-having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
-one who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing.
-the antecedent of a pronoun.

correlatively
-in a correlative relation.

correlativeness
-quality of being correlative.

correligionist
-a co
-religion/ist.

correption
-chiding; reproof; reproach.

correspond
-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.
-to be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer;
-- followed by to.
-to have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters;
-- followed by with.

corresponded
-of correspond

correspondence
-friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
-the letters which pass between correspondents.
-mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.

correspondencies
-of correspondency

correspondency
-same as correspondence, 3.

correspondent
-suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.
-one with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.
-one who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.
-one who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.

correspondently
-in a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.

corresponding
-of correspond
-answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.
-carrying on intercourse by letters.

correspondingly
-in a corresponding manner; conformably.

corresponsive
-corresponding; conformable; adapted.

corridor
-a gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
-the covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

corrie
-same as correi.

corrigenda
-of corrigendum

corrigendum
-a fault or error to be corrected.

corrigent
-a substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action.

corrigibility
-quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.

corrigible
-capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.
-submissive to correction; docile.
-deserving chastisement; punishable.
-having power to correct; corrective.

corrigibleness
-the state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.

corrival
-a fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion.
-having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry.
-to compete with; to rival.

corrivalry
-corivalry.

corrivalship
-corivalry.

corrivate
-to cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams.

corrivation
-the flowing of different streams into one.

corroborant
-strengthening; supporting; corroborating.
-anything which gives strength or support; a tonic.

corroborate
-to make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.
-to make more certain; to confirm; to establish.
-corroborated.

corroborated
-of corroborate

corroborating
-of corroborate

corroboration
-the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.
-that which corroborates.

corroborative
-tending to strengthen of confirm.
-a medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.

corroboratory
-tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

corrode
-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.
-to consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
-to have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

corroded
-of corrode

corrodent
-corrosive.
-anything that corrodes.

corrodiate
-to eat away by degrees; to corrode.

corrodibility
-the quality of being corrodible.

corrodible
-capable of being corroded; corrosible.

corroding
-of corrode

corrosibility
-corrodibility.

corrosible
-corrodible.

corrosibleness
-the quality or state of being corrosible.

corrosion
-the action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.

corrosive
-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.
-having the quality of fretting or vexing.
-that which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
-that which has the power of fretting or irritating.

corroval
-a dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of new granada as an arrow poison.

corrovaline
-a poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.

corrugant
-having the power of contracting into wrinkles.

corrugate
-wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
-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
-of corrugate

corrugating
-of corrugate

corrugation
-the act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

corrugator
-a muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

corrugent
-drawing together; contracting;
-- said of the corrugator.

corrump
-to corrupt. see corrupt.

corrumpable
-corruptible.

corrupt
-changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
-changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
-abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
-to change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
-to change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
-to draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
-to debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
-to waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
-to become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
-to become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.

corrupted
-of corrupt

corrupter
-one who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.

corruptful
-tending to corrupt; full of corruption.

corruptibility
-the quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness.

corruptible
-capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay.
-capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
-that which may decay and perish; the human body.

corrupting
-of corrupt

corruptingly
-in a manner that corrupts.

corruption
-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 product of corruption; putrid matter.
-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.
-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.

corruptionist
-one who corrupts, or who upholds corruption.

corruptive
-having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.

corruptless
-not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible.

corruptly
-in a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully.

corruptness
-the quality of being corrupt.

corruptress
-a woman who corrupts.

corsac
-the corsak.

corsage
-the waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
-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.

corsair
-a pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
-a piratical vessel.

corsak
-a small foxlike mammal (cynalopex corsac), found in central asia.

corse
-a living body or its bulk.
-a corpse; the dead body of a human being.

corselet
-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.
-the thorax of an insect.

corsepresent
-an offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.

corset
-in the middle ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.
-an article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.
-to inclose in corsets.

corseted
-of corset

corseting
-of corset

corslet
-a corselet.

corsned
-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.

cortege
-a train of attendants; a procession.

cortes
-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.

cortex
-bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.
-bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.
-the outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

cortical
-belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

corticate
-alt. of corticated

corticated
-having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.

cortices
-of cortex

corticifer
-one of the gorgoniacea;
-- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

corticiferous
-producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.
-having a barklike c/nenchyms.

corticiform
-resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.

corticine
-a material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or india rubber.

corticose
-abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.

corticous
-relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.

cortile
-an open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

corundum
-the earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, 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.

corundums
-of corundum

coruscant
-glittering in flashes; flashing.

coruscate
-to glitter in flashes; to flash.

coruscation
-a sudden flash or play of light.
-a flash of intellectual brilliancy.

corve
-see corf.

corvee
-an obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.

corven
-p. p. of carve.

corves
-of corf

corvet
-alt. of corvette

corvette
-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.

corvetto
-a curvet.

corvine
-of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.

corvorant
-see cormorant.

corybant
-one of the priests of cybele in phrygia. the rites of the corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.

corybantes
-of corybant

corybantiasm
-a kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.

corybantic
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, the corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.

corybants
-of corybant

corymb
-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.
-any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

corymbed
-corymbose.

corymbiferous
-bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.

corymbose
-consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.

corymbosely
-in corymbs.

coryphaenoid
-belonging to, or like, the genus coryphaena. see dolphin.

coryphee
-a ballet dancer.

coryphei
-of corypheus

coryphene
-a fish of the genus coryphaena. see dolphin. (2)

corypheus
-the conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.

corypheuses
-of corypheus

coryphodon
-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.

coryphodont
-pertaining to, or resembling, the genus coryphodon.

coryza
-nasal catarrh.

coscinomancy
-divination by means of a suspended sieve.

coscoroba
-a large, white, south american duck, of the genus cascoroba, resembling a swan.

cosecant
-the secant of the complement of an arc or angle. see illust. of functions.

cosen
-see cozen.

cosenage
-see cozenage.

cosening
-anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.

cosentient
-perceiving together.

cosey
-see cozy.

cosher
-to levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. see coshering.
-to treat with hospitality; to pet.

cosherer
-one who coshers.

coshering
-a feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.

cosier
-a tailor who botches his work.

cosignificative
-having the same signification.

cosignitaries
-of cosignitary

cosignitary
-signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers.
-one who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of berlin.

cosily
-see cozily.

cosinage
-collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
-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.

cosine
-the sine of the complement of an arc or angle. see illust. of functions.

cosmetic
-alt. of cosmetical
-any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

cosmetical
-imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation.

cosmic
-alt. of cosmical

cosmical
-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.
-pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone.
-characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed.
-rising or setting with the sun;
-- the opposite of acronycal.

cosmically
-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.
-universally.

cosmogonal
-alt. of cosmogonical

cosmogonic
-alt. of cosmogonical

cosmogonical
-belonging to cosmogony.

cosmogonies
-of cosmogony

cosmogonist
-one who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.

cosmogony
-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.

cosmographer
-one who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.

cosmographic
-alt. of cosmographical

cosmographical
-of or pertaining to cosmography.

cosmographically
-in a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.

cosmographies
-of cosmography

cosmography
-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.

cosmolabe
-an instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies;
-- called also pantacosm.

cosmolatry
-worship paid to the world.

cosmoline
-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.

cosmological
-of or pertaining to cosmology.

cosmologist
-one who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.

cosmology
-the science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.

cosmometry
-the art of measuring the world or the universe.

cosmoplastic
-pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of god; world
-forming.

cosmopolitan
-alt. of cosmopolite
-alt. of cosmopolite

cosmopolitanism
-the quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

cosmopolite
-one who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.
-having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
-common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.
-see cosmopolitan.

cosmopolitical
-having the character of a cosmopolite.

cosmopolitism
-the condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.

cosmorama
-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.

cosmoramic
-of or pertaining to a cosmorama.

cosmos
-the universe or universality of created things;
-- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.
-the theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.

cosmosphere
-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.

cosmotheism
-same as pantheism.

cosmothetic
-assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.

cosovereign
-a joint sovereign.

coss
-a hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two english miles.
-a thing (only in phrase below).

cossack
-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.

cossas
-plain india muslin, of various qualities and widths.

cosset
-a lamb reared without the aid of the dam. hence: a pet, in general.
-to treat as a pet; to fondle.

cossic
-alt. of cossical

cossical
-of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art.

cost
-a rib; a side; a region or coast.
-see cottise.
-of cost
-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.
-to require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
-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.
-loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
-expenses incurred in litigation.

costa
-a rib of an animal or a human being.
-a rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.
-the anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
-one of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.

costage
-expense; cost.

costal
-pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.
-relating to a costa, or rib.

costal
-nerved
-having the nerves spring from the midrib.

costard
-an apple, large and round like the head.
-the head;
-- used contemptuously.

costardmonger
-a costermonger.

costate
-alt. of costated

costated
-having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.

costean
-to search after lodes. see costeaning.

costeaning
-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.

costellate
-finely ribbed or costated.

coster
-one who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

costermonger
-an apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.

costiferous
-rib
-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae.

costing
-of cost

costive
-retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
-reserved; formal; close; cold.
-dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.

costively
-in a costive manner.

costiveness
-an unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
-inability to express one's self; stiffness.

costless
-costing nothing.

costlewe
-costly.

costliness
-the quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.

costly
-of great cost; expensive; dear.
-gorgeous; sumptuous.

costmary
-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.

costotome
-an instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post
-mortem examinations and dissections.

costrel
-a bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.

costume
-dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
-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.
-a character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

costumer
-one who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.

cosupreme
-a partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme.

cosureties
-of cosurety

cosurety
-one who is surety with another.

cosy
-see cozy.

cot
-a small house; a cottage or hut.
-a pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.
-a cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.
-a small, rudely
-formed boat.
-a sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.

cotangent
-the tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. see illust. of functions.

cotarnine
-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.

cote
-a cottage or hut.
-a shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves.
-to go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare.
-to quote.

cotemporaneous
-living or being at the same time; contemporaneous.

cotemporaries
-of cotemporary

cotemporary
-living or being at the same time; contemporary.
-one who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.

cotenant
-a tenant in common, or a joint tenant.

coterie
-a set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique.

coterminous
-bordering; conterminous;
-- followed by with.

cotgare
-refuse wool.

cothurn
-a buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general.

cothurnate
-alt. of cothurnated

cothurnated
-wearing a cothurn.
-relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.

cothurnus
-same as cothurn.

coticular
-pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.

cotidal
-marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.

cotillion
-a brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.
-a tune which regulates the dance.
-a kind of woolen material for women's skirts.
-a formal ball.

cotillon
-alt. of cotillion

cotinga
-a bird of the family cotingidae, including numerous bright
-colored south american species;
-- called also chatterers.

cotise
-see cottise.

cotised
-see cottised.

cotland
-land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.

cotquean
-a man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women.
-a she
-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy.

cotqueanity
-the condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean.

cotrustee
-a joint trustee.

cotswold
-an open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the cotswold hills, in gloucestershire, england.

cottage
-a small house; a cot; a hut.

cottaged
-set or covered with cottages.

cottagely
-cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic.

cottager
-one who lives in a cottage.
-one who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.

cottar
-a cottager; a cottier.

cotter
-alt. of cottar
-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.
-a toggle.
-to fasten with a cotter.

cottier
-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.

cottise
-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.

cottised
-set between two cottises,
-- said of a bend; or between two barrulets,
-- said of a bar or fess.

cottoid
-like a fish of the genus cottus.
-a fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus cottus. see sculpin.

cottolene
-a product from cotton
-seed, used as lard.

cotton
-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.
-the cotton plant. see cotten plant, below.
-cloth made of cotton.
-to rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
-to go on prosperously; to succeed.
-to unite; to agree; to make friends;
-- usually followed by with.
-to take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton;
-- used with to.

cottonade
-a somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.

cottonary
-relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.

cottonous
-resembling cotton.

cottontail
-the american wood rabbit (lepus sylvaticus);
-- also called molly cottontail.

cottonweed
-see cudweed.

cottonwood
-an american tree of the genus populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the p. monilifera and p. angustifolia of the western united states.

cottony
-covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.
-of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.

cottrel
-a trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire.

cotyla
-alt. of cotyle

cotyle
-a cuplike cavity or organ. same as acetabulum.

cotyledon
-one of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.
-a leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

cotyledonal
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.

cotyledonary
-having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.

cotyledonous
-of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.

cotyliform
-shaped like a cotyle or a cup.

cotyligerous
-having cotyles.

cotyloid
-shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.
-pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.

couage
-to inspire with courage.

coucal
-a large, old world, ground cuckoo of the genus centropus, of several species.

couch
-to lay upon a bed or other resting place.
-to arrange or dispose as in a bed;
-- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
-to lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
-to transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
-to conceal; to include or involve darkly.
-to arrange; to place; to inlay.
-to put into some form of language; to express; to phrase;
-- used with in and under.
-to treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
-to lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
-to lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
-to bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
-a bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the united states, a lounge.
-any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
-a mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
-a preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

couch grass
-see quitch grass.

couchancy
-state of lying down for repose.

couchant
-lying down with head erect; squatting.
-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.

couche
-not erect; inclined;
-- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.
-lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.

couched
-of couch
-same as couch/.

couchee
-a reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince.

coucher
-one who couches.
-one who couches paper.
-a factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.
-the book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.

couching
-of couch
-the operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.
-embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.

couchless
-having no couch or bed.

coudee
-a measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.

cougar
-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.

cough
-to expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.
-to expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing;
-- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
-to bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.
-a sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.
-the more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.

coughed
-of cough

cougher
-one who coughs.

coughing
-of cough

couhage
-see cowhage.

could
-of can
-was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.

coulee
-a stream
-a stream of lava. also, in the western united states, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a caon, which has precipitous sides.

coulisse
-a piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.
-one of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.

couloir
-a deep gorge; a gully.
-a dredging machine for excavating canals, etc.

coulomb
-the standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. it is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro
-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampere in one second. formerly called weber.

coulter
-same as colter.

coulterneb
-the puffin.

coumaric
-relating to, derived from, or like, the dipterix odorata, a tree of guiana.

coumarin
-the concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of dipterix (formerly coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, c9h6o2, of vanilla
-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. coumarin in also made artificially.

council
-an assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case.
-a body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council.
-act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation.

councilist
-one who belong to a council; one who gives an opinion.

councilman
-a member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.

councilmen
-of councilman

councilor
-a member of a council.

counsel
-interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.
-examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence.
-result of consultation; advice; instruction.
-deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
-a secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
-one who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel.
-to give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.
-to advise or recommend, as an act or course.

counselable
-willing to receive counsel or follow advice.
-suitable to be advised; advisable, wise.

counseled
-of counsel

counseling
-of counsel

counselled
-of counsel

counselling
-of counsel

counselor
-one who counsels; an adviser.
-a member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [see under consilor.]
-one whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.

counselorship
-the function and rank or office of a counselor.

count
-to tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
-to place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
-to esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
-to number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
-to reckon; to rely; to depend;
-- with on or upon.
-to take account or note;
-- with
-to plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
-the act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.
-an object of interest or account; value; estimation.
-a formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.
-a nobleman on the continent of europe, equal in rank to an english earl.

count
-wheel
-the wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

countable
-capable of being numbered.

counted
-of count

countenance
-to encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
-to make a show of; to pretend.

countenanced
-of countenance

countenancer
-one who countenances, favors, or supports.

countenancing
-of countenance

counter
-a prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. see counter, adv. & a.
-one who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.
-a piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.
-money; coin;
-- used in contempt.
-a prison; either of two prisons formerly in london.
-a telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
-a table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.
-contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise;
-- used chiefly with run or go.
-in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
-at or against the front or face.
-contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
-the after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern,
-- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
-same as contra. formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.
-the breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
-the back leather or heel part of a boot.
-an encounter.
-to return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

counter brace
-the brace of the fore
-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
-a brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.

counter tenor
-one of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.

counter weight
-a counterpoise.

counter
-compony
-see compony.

counter
-couchant
-lying down, with their heads in opposite directions;
-- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.

counter
-courant
-running in opposite directions;
-- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.

counter
-paly
-paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.

counter
-roll
-a duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.

counter
-salient
-leaping from each other;
-- said of two figures on a coast of arms.

counteract
-to act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.

counteracted
-of counteract

counteractibely
-by counteraction.

counteracting
-of counteract

counteraction
-action in opposition; hindrance resistance.

counteractive
-tending to counteract.
-one who, or that which, counteracts.

counterbalance
-to oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
-a weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
-a mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel
-a counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.

counterbalanced
-of counterbalance

counterbalancing
-of counterbalance

counterbore
-a flat
-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
-a kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis;
-- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat
-bottomed recess at its mouth.
-to form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.

counterbrace
-to brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
-to brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.

counterbuff
-to strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.
-a blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

countercast
-a trick; a delusive contrivance.

countercaster
-a caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper;
-- used contemptuously.

counterchange
-to give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
-to checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. see counterchaged, a., 2.
-exchange; reciprocation.

counterchanged
-of counterchange
-exchanged.
-having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.

counterchanging
-of counterchange

countercharge
-an opposing charge.

countercharm
-to destroy the effect of a charm upon.
-that which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm.

countercharmed
-of countercharm

countercharming
-of countercharm

countercheck
-to oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.
-a check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover.
-any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.

counterchecked
-of countercheck

counterchecking
-of countercheck

counterclaim
-a claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.

countercurrent
-running in an opposite direction.
-a current running in an opposite direction to the main current.

counterdraw
-to copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.

counterdrawing
-of counterdraw

counterdrawn
-of counterdraw

counterdrew
-of counterdraw

counterfaisance
-see counterfesance.

counterfeit
-representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.
-fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin.
-assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist.
-that which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
-that which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit.
-one who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
-to imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person.
-to imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
-to carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
-to make counterfeits.

counterfeited
-of counterfeit

counterfeiter
-one who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger.
-one who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses.

counterfeiting
-of counterfeit

counterfeitly
-by forgery; falsely.

counterfesance
-the act of forging; forgery.

counterfleury
-counterflory.

counterflory
-adorned with flowers (usually fleurs
-de
-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others;
-- said of any ordinary.

counterfoil
-that part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account;
-- called also counterstock.
-the part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued.

counterforce
-an opposing force.

counterfort
-a kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
-a spur or projection of a mountain.

countergage
-an adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.

counterguard
-a low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.

counterirritant
-alt. of counterirritation

counterirritate
-to produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

counterirritation
-see counter irritant, etc., under counter, a.

counterjumper
-a salesman in a shop; a shopman;
-- used contemptuously.

counterman
-a man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods.

countermand
-to revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.
-to prohibit; to forbid.
-to oppose; to revoke the command of.
-a contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.

countermandable
-capable of being countermanded; revocable.

countermanded
-of countermand

countermanding
-of countermand

countermarch
-to march back, or to march in reversed order.
-a marching back; retrocession.
-an evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left.
-a change of measures; alteration of conduct.

countermarched
-of countermarch

countermarching
-of countermarch

countermark
-a mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the goldsmiths' company of london, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy.
-an artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
-to apply a countermark to; as, to countermark silverware; to countermark a horse's teeth.

countermen
-of counterman

countermine
-an underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
-a stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.
-to oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine.
-to frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
-to make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.

countermined
-of countermine

countermining
-of countermine

countermove
-to move in a contrary direction to.
-alt. of countermovement

countermovement
-a movement in opposition to another.

countermure
-a wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [r.] cf. contramure.
-to fortify with a wall behind another wall.

countermured
-of countermure

countermuring
-of countermure

counternatural
-contrary to nature.

counterpane
-a coverlet for a bed,
-- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures.
-a duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc., corresponding with the original;
-- now called counterpart.

counterpart
-a part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.
-one of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.
-a person who closely resembles another.
-a thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite.

counterpassant
-passant in opposite directions;
-- said of two animals.

counterplead
-to plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.

counterplot
-to oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
-a plot or artifice opposed to another.

counterplotted
-of counterplot

counterplotting
-of counterplot

counterpoint
-an opposite point
-the setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody
-the art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.
-music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. see polyphony.
-a coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. see 1st counterpane.

counterpoise
-to act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
-to act against with equal power; to balance.
-a weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.
-an equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.
-the relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.

counterpoised
-of counterpoise

counterpoising
-of counterpoise

counterpole
-the exact opposite.

counterponderate
-to equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

counterprove
-to take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. see counter proof, under counter.

counterproved
-of counterprove

counterproving
-of counterprove

counterrolment
-a counter account. see control.

counterscale
-counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another.

counterscarf
-the exterior slope or wall of the ditch;
-- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

counterseal
-to seal or ratify with another or others.

countersealed
-of counterseal

countersealing
-of counterseal

countersecure
-to give additional security to or for.

countershaft
-an intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

countersign
-to sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.
-the signature of a secretary or other officer to a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest its authenticity.
-a private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword.

countersigned
-of countersign

countersigning
-of countersign

countersink
-to chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw.
-to cause to sink even with or below the surface; as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork.
-an enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt.
-a drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.

countersinking
-of countersink

counterstand
-resistance; opposition; a stand against.

counterstep
-a contrary method of procedure; opposite course of action.

counterstock
-see counterfoil.

counterstroke
-a stroke or blow in return.

countersunk
-of countersink
-chamfered at the top;
-- said of a hole.
-sunk into a chamfer; as, a countersunk bolt.
-beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead.

countersway
-a swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.

counterterm
-a term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym;
-- the opposite of synonym; as, "foe" is the counterterm of "friend".

countertime
-the resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.
-resistance; opposition.

countertrippant
-trippant in opposite directions. see trippant.

countertripping
-same as countertrippant.

counterturn
-the critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties.

countervail
-to act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate.
-power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.

countervailed
-of countervail

countervailing
-of countervail

countervallation
-see contravallation.

counterview
-an opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other.
-a position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.

countervote
-to vote in opposition to; to balance or overcome by voting; to outvote.

counterwait
-to wait or watch for; to be on guard against.

counterweigh
-to weigh against; to counterbalance.

counterwheel
-to cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.

counterwork
-to work in opposition to; to counteract.

countess
-the wife of an earl in the british peerage, or of a count in the continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. see the note under count.

countesses
-of countess

counties
-of county

counting
-of count

countinghouse
-alt. of countingroom

countingroom
-the house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.

countless
-incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.

countor
-an advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause.

countour
-alt. of countourhouse

countourhouse
-a merchant's office; a countinghouse.

countre
-
-same as prefix counter
-.

countreplete
-to counterplead.

countretaille
-a counter tally; correspondence (in sound).

countries
-of country

countrified
-having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude.

countrify
-to give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear rustic.

country
-a tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
-rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
-the inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. hence: (a) one's constituents. (b) the whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve parliament and appeal to the country.
-a jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
-the inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
-the rock through which a vein runs.
-pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
-destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
-pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.

country seat
-a dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.

country
-base
-same as prison base.

country
-dance
-see contradance.

countryman
-an inhabitant or native of a region.
-one born in the same country with another; a compatriot;
-- used with a possessive pronoun.
-one who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.

countrymen
-of countryman

countryside
-a particular rural district; a country neighborhood.

countrywoman
-a woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant.

countrywomen
-of countrywoman

counttenance
-appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien.
-the face; the features.
-approving or encouraging aspect of face; hence, favor, good will, support; aid; encouragement.
-superficial appearance; show; pretense.

county
-an earldom; the domain of a count or earl.
-a circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs;
-- called also a shire. see shire.
-a count; an earl or lord.

coup
-a sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem;
-- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.

coupable
-culpable.

coupe
-the front compartment of a french diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on british railways.
-a four
-wheeled close carriage for two persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver;
-- so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off.

coupe
-gorge
-any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.

couped
-cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased;
-- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. see erased.

coupee
-a motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.

couple
-that which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
-two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace.
-a male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.
-see couple
-close.
-one of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery;
-- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
-two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.
-to link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.
-to join in wedlock; to marry.
-to come together as male and female; to copulate.

couple
-beggar
-one who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other.

couple
-close
-a diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. couple
-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple
-closes or chevron cottised.
-a pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam.

couple
-closes
-of couple
-close

coupled
-of couple

couplement
-union; combination; a coupling; a pair.

coupler
-one who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars.

couplet
-two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

coupling
-of couple
-the act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.
-a device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts.

coupon
-a certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
-a section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

coupure
-a passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.

courage
-the heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
-heart; inclination; desire; will.
-that quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.

courageous
-possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.

courageously
-in a courageous manner.

courageousness
-the quality of being courageous; courage.

courant
-represented as running;
-- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.
-a piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.
-a circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

couranto
-a sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant.

courap
-a skin disease, common in india, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

courb
-curved; rounded.
-to bend; to stop; to bow.

courbaril
-see anime, n.

courche
-a square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.

courier
-a messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business.
-an attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

courlan
-a south american bird, of the genus aramus, allied to the rails.

course
-the act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
-the ground or path traversed; track; way.
-motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
-progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.
-motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
-customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
-method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
-a series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.
-the succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
-that part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
-a continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
-the lowest sail on any mast of a square
-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
-the menses.
-to run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
-to cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
-to run through or over.
-to run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of lancashire.
-to move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

coursed
-of course
-hunted; as, a coursed hare.
-arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.

courser
-one who courses or hunts.
-a swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
-a grallatorial bird of europe (cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the ostrich family.

coursey
-a space in the galley; a part of the hatches.

coursing
-of course
-the pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.

court
-an inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
-the residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
-the collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
-any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.
-attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
-the hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
-the persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.
-a tribunal established for the administration of justice.
-the judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
-the session of a judicial assembly.
-any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
-a place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
-to endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
-to endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
-to attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
-to invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
-to play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.

court tennis
-see under tennis.

court
-baron
-an inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court;
-- now fallen into disuse.

court
-craft
-the artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.

court
-cupboard
-a movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions.

court
-leet
-a court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.

court
-martial
-a court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
-to subject to trial by a court
-martial.

court
-martialed
-of court
-martial

court
-martialing
-of court
-martial

court
-plaster
-sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.

courtbred
-bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.

courted
-of court

courtehouse
-a house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.
-a county town;
-- so called in virginia and some others of the southern states.

courteous
-of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.

courteously
-in a courteous manner.

courteousness
-the quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.

courtepy
-a short coat of coarse cloth.

courter
-one who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles.

courtesan
-a woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.

courtesanship
-harlotry.

courtesied
-of courtesy

courtesies
-of courtesy

courtesy
-politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.
-an act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.
-favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy.
-an act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees.
-to make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes.
-to treat with civility.

courtesying
-of courtesy

courtier
-one who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
-one who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.

courtiery
-the manners of a courtier; courtliness.

courting
-of court

courtlike
-after the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.

courtliness
-the quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.

courtling
-a sycophantic courtier.

courtly
-relating or belonging to a court.
-elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering.
-disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious.
-in the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.

courts
-martial
-of court
-martial

courtship
-the act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor.
-the act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage.
-courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy.
-court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court
-craft; finesse.

courtyard
-a court or inclosure attached to a house.

couscous
-a kind of food used by the natives of western africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab;
-- called also lalo.

couscousou
-a favorite dish in barbary. see couscous.

cousin
-one collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
-a title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. in english writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.
-allied; akin.

cousin
-german
-a first cousin. see note under cousin, 1.

cousinage
-relationship; kinship.

cousinhood
-the state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.

cousinly
-like or becoming a cousin.

cousinry
-a body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.

cousinship
-the relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood.

coussinet
-a stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
-that part of the ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.

couteau
-a knife; a dagger.

couth
-could; was able; knew or known; understood.

couvade
-a custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.

covariant
-a function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. an invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.

cove
-a retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
-a strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
-a concave molding.
-a member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
-to arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
-to brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
-a boy or man of any age or station.

coved
-of cove

covelline
-alt. of covellite

covellite
-a native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color;
-- hence called indigo copper.

covenable
-fit; proper; suitable.

covenably
-fitly; suitably.

covenant
-a mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.
-an agreement made by the scottish parliament in 1638, and by the english parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy;
-- usually called the "solemn league and covenant."
-the promises of god as revealed in the scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc.
-a solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc.
-an undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement.
-a form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.
-to agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.
-to grant or promise by covenant.

covenanted
-of covenant

covenantee
-the person in whose favor a covenant is made.

covenanter
-one who makes a covenant.
-one who subscribed and defended the "solemn league and covenant." see covenant.

covenanting
-of covenant
-belonging to a covenant. specifically, belonging to the scotch covenanters.

covenantor
-the party who makes a covenant.

covenous
-see covinous, and covin.

covent
-a convent or monastery.

coventry
-a town in the county of warwick, england.

cover
-to overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
-to envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.
-to invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory.
-to hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods.
-to brood or sit on; to incubate.
-to shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.
-to remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.
-to extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.
-to put the usual covering or headdress on.
-to copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare;
-- said of the male.
-anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.
-anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.
-shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.
-the woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.
-the lap of a slide valve.
-a tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests.
-to spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.

cover
-point
-the fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."

cover
-shame
-something used to conceal infamy.

coverchief
-a covering for the head.

covercle
-a small cover; a lid.

covered
-of cover
-under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.
-of covet

coverer
-one who, or that which, covers.

covering
-of cover
-anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.

coverlet
-the uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.

coverlid
-a coverlet.

coversed sine
-the versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. see illust. of functions.

covert
-covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
-sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
-under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.
-a place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
-one of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. see illust. of bird.

covert baron
-under the protection of a husband; married.

covertly
-secretly; in private; insidiously.

covertness
-secrecy; privacy.

coverture
-covering; shelter; defense; hiding.
-the condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.

covet
-to wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of;
-- used in a good sense.
-to long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
-to have or indulge inordinate desire.

covetable
-that may be coveted; desirable.

coveter
-one who covets.

coveting
-of covet

covetise
-avarice.

covetiveness
-acquisitiveness.

covetous
-very desirous; eager to obtain;
-- used in a good sense.
-inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious;
-- in a bad sense.

covetously
-in a covetous manner.

covetousness
-strong desire.
-a strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money;
-- in a bad sense.

covey
-a brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together;
-- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.
-a company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls.
-to brood; to incubate.
-a pantry.

covin
-a collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.
-deceit; fraud; artifice.

coving
-of cove

covinous
-deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.

cow
-a chimney cap; a cowl
-the mature female of bovine animals.
-the female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.
-to depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.
-a wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.

cow parsley
-an umbelliferous plant of the genus chaerophyllum (c. temulum and c. sylvestre).

cow parsnip
-a coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus heracleum (h. sphondylium in england, and h. lanatum in america).

cow tree
-a tree (galactodendron utile or brosimum galactodendron) of south america, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.

cow's lungwort
-mullein.

cow
-pilot
-a handsomely banded, coral
-reef fish, of florida and the west indies (pomacentrus saxatilis);
-- called also mojarra.

cowage
-see cowhage.

cowan
-one who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship.

coward
-borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs;
-- said of a lion.
-destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
-belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
-a person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.
-to make timorous; to frighten.

cowardice
-want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

cowardie
-cowardice.

cowardish
-cowardly.

cowardize
-to render cowardly

cowardliness
-cowardice.

cowardly
-wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
-proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.
-in the manner of a coward.

cowardship
-cowardice.

cowbane
-a poisonous umbelliferous plant; in england, the cicuta virosa; in the united states, the cicuta maculata and the archemora rigida. see water hemlock.

cowberries
-of cowberry

cowberry
-a species of vaccinium (v. vitis
-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery;
-- locally called mountain cranberry.

cowbird
-the cow blackbird (molothrus ater), an american starling. like the european cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds;
-- so called because frequently associated with cattle.

cowblakes
-dried cow dung used as fuel.

cowboy
-a cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the western and southwestern united states.
-one of the marauders who, in the revolutionary war infested the neutral ground between the american and british lines, and committed depredations on the americans.

cowcatxjer
-a strong inclined frame, usually of wrought
-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot.

cowdie
-see kauri.

cowed
-of cow

cower
-to stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.
-to cherish with care.

cowered
-of cower

cowering
-of cower

cowfish
-the grampus.
-a california dolphin (tursiops gillii).
-a marine plectognath fish (ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front;
-- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.

cowhage
-a leguminous climbing plant of the genus mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. the spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.

cowhearted
-cowardly.

cowherd
-one whose occupation is to tend cows.

cowhide
-the hide of a cow.
-leather made of the hide of a cow.
-a coarse whip made of untanned leather.
-to flog with a cowhide.

cowhided
-of cowhide

cowhiding
-of cowhide

cowing
-of cow

cowish
-timorous; fearful; cowardly.
-an umbelliferous plant (peucedanum cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in oregon.

cowitch
-see cowhage.

cowl
-a monk's hood;
-- usually attached to the gown. the name was also applied to the hood and garment together.
-a cowl
-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.
-a wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.
-a vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.

cowled
-wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk.

cowleech
-one who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.

cowleeching
-healing the distemper of cows.

cowlick
-a tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.

cowlike
-resembling a cow.

cowlstaff
-a staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons.

coworker
-one who works with another; a co/perator.

cowpea
-the seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus dolichos; also, the plant itself. many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the united states.

cowper's glands
-two small glands discharging into the male urethra.

cowpock
-see cowpox.

cowpox
-a pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia;
-- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.

cowquake
-a genus of plants (briza); quaking grass.

cowrie
-same as kauri.
-alt. of cowry

cowries
-of cowry

cowry
-a marine shell of the genus cypraea.

cows
-of cow

cowslip
-a common flower in england (primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. it is often cultivated in the united states.
-in the united states, the marsh marigold (caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. it is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. see illust. of marsh marigold.

cowslipped
-adorned with cowslips.

cowweed
-same as cow parsley.

cowwheat
-a weed of the genus melampyrum, with black seeds, found on european wheatfields.

cox
-a coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.

coxa
-the first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

coxalgia
-alt. of coxalgy

coxalgy
-pain in the hip.

coxcomb
-a strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
-the cap itself.
-the top of the head, or the head itself
-a vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.
-a name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. same as cockscomb.

coxcombical
-befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited.

coxcombly
-like a coxcomb.

coxcombry
-the manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.

coxcomical
-coxcombical.

coxcomically
-conceitedly.

coxswain
-see cockswain.

coy
-quiet; still.
-shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest;
-- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry.
-soft; gentle; hesitating.
-to allure; to entice; to decoy.
-to caress with the hand; to stroke.
-to behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.
-to make difficulty; to be unwilling.

coyed
-of coy

coying
-of coy

coyish
-somewhat coy or reserved.

coyly
-in a coy manner; with reserve.

coyness
-the quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.

coyote
-a carnivorous animal (canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of north america;
-- called also prairie wolf. its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.

coypu
-a south american rodent (myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. it produces a valuable fur called nutria.

coystrel
-same as coistril.

coz
-a contraction of cousin.

cozen
-to cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
-to deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.

cozenage
-the art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.

cozened
-of cozen

cozener
-one who cheats or defrauds.

cozening
-of cozen

cozier
-see cosier.

cozily
-snugly; comfortably.

coziness
-the state or quality of being cozy.

cozy
-snug; comfortable; easy; contented.
-chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar.
-a wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.