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.

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.

Same as Cockaleekie.

Cockfighting.

A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage). The Lotium, or darnel.

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

Wrinkled; puckered.

One who takes and sells cockles.

One of the shells or valves of a cockle.

An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.

One who breeds gamecocks.

A cockfight.

Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively.

To form with the manners or character of a cockney.

Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.

The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.

An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

See Coxcomb.

A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.

A kind of net to catch woodcock.

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.

A variety of Crat/gus, or hawthorn (Crat/gus Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

a worthless or despicable person; -- intended as disparaging and invariably offensive.

Perfectly safe.

The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.

A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.

Peppergrass.

Pert.

See Cocoa.