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.
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To annex with something else.
The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.
Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction.
To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.
Confinement to a narrow space.
Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.
In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character.
made coarse or crude by lack of skill; -- sometimes used to mean inferior.
The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.
The union or articulation of bones to form a joint.
To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
Of or pertaining to a coast.
A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.
A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.
By way of, or along, the coast; following a coastline; as, coastwise winds contributed to the storm.
To cover with a coat or outer garment.
a dress that is tailored like a coat and buttons up the front.
covered with an outer layer or film; as, sugar-coated pills.
A coat with short flaps.
A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, having a ringed tail but with a longer body, tail, and nose; -- called also coati mondi and coati mundi.
same as coati.
A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.
Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.
a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily; -- called also cloakroom.
the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist.
the influence of another person; the effect of association with another person; as, he was elected to office on the president's coattails.
a writer who collaborates with others in writing something.
A simpleton; a dupe.
The act of croaking.
One who coaxes.
having a common axis.
p. pr. of coax; as, the boys' coaxing voices.
In a coaxing manner; by coaxing.
To strike
A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. Cobaea scandens (called cup-and-saucer vine, monastery bells, or Mexican ivy) is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.
A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide.
Containing cobalt.
A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence.
Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2.
To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
A mender of shoes.
A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.
Headstrong; obstinate.
A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another.
An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.
An andiron with a knob at the top.
A joint or coadjutant bishop.
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.
A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.
See Caboose.
A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.
The cobra de capello.
Cobblestone.
A large swan.
A wall made of clay mixed with straw.
The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
Abounding in cobwebs.
Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.
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.
The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.
An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.
A powerful narcotic alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain. It is classified as addictive and is not available in the U. S. without a prescription, but is nevertheless one of the most widespread illegal drugs of abuse. It is used in several forms, including small pellets of free base, called crack. Most of the cacaine illegally used in the U.S. is imported.
A morbid condition produced by the habitual and excessive use of cocaine.
To treat or an/sthetize with cocaine.
a disease of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules.
any of a group of infectious diseases caused by protozoan parasites (coccidia) of the order Coccidia, which infect the intestines of birds, dogs, and other vertebrates.
any sporozoan of the order Coccidia, parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates. It is the causative agent of coccidiosis, which can be a problem in poultry rearing.
Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants.
A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larv/ feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.
a natural family of insects including the ladybugs.
One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.
spherical; like a coccus; as, a coccoid microorganism.
a superfamily of scale insects and mealybugs.
A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.
One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.
A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.
An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.
a genus of large finches.
a genus of climbing plants or shrubs.
The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.
One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebr/.
Coccygeal.
The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebr/ more or less consolidated.
an Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs.
An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.
Of or pertaining to the cochlea.
A spoon.
Spoon-shaped.
Same as Cochleate.
Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.
A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.
the crowing sound made by a rooster.
Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes; -- called also cocky-leeky.
Giddy; rash.
a bird of the Andes (Rupicola peruviana) similar to Rupicola rupicola.
See Lumpfish.
a weedy vine of Argentina (Salpichroa organifolia) having solitary white flowers followed by egg-shaped white or yellow fruit.
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.
Wearing a cockade.
A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice.
The Russian variety of bagatelle.
A small gray and white Australian parrot (Leptolophus hollandicus, formerly Calopsitta Nov/-Hollandi/) with a prominent crest; the male has bright yellow cheeks and crest, but the female has only a pale yellow in the face; -- it is so called from its note.
A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuin/, 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 cockatoo (Plictolophus cristatus or Cacatua cristatus), the sulphur-crested (Cacatua galerita or Plictolophus galeritus), etc. The palm cockatoo or great black cockatoo of Australia is Probosciger aterrimus (formerly Microglossus aterrimus).
To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning.
A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.
A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. Melolontha vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning; the first light of day.
A rustic high shoe or half-boots.
A young cock.
A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.
The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.
A match or contest of gamecocks.
Addicted to cockfighting.
The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.
Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
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