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Cobnut

A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.

Cobourg

A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.

Cobra

The cobra de capello.

Cobwall

A wall made of clay mixed with straw.

Cobweb

The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.

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.

Cocaine

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.

Cocainism

A morbid condition produced by the habitual and excessive use of cocaine.

Cocainize

To treat or an/sthetize with cocaine.

coccidioidomycosis

a disease of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules.

coccidiosis

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.

coccidium

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.

Cocciferous

Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants.

Coccinella

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.

Coccobacterium

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

coccoid

spherical; like a coccus; as, a coccoid microorganism.

Coccoidea

a superfamily of scale insects and mealybugs.

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

a genus of climbing plants or shrubs.

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.

Coccygeal

Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebr/.

Coccyx

The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebr/ more or less consolidated.

cochin

an Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs.

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.

Cock

A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.

cock-a-hoop

Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.

cock-a-leekie Cockaleekie

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes; -- called also cocky-leeky.

cock's-eggs

a weedy vine of Argentina (Salpichroa organifolia) having solitary white flowers followed by egg-shaped white or yellow fruit.

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.

Cockal

A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice.

Cockateel cockatiel

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.

Cockatoo

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).

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. Melolontha vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.

Cocker

A rustic high shoe or half-boots.

Cocket

A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.

Cockeye

The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

Cockhead

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

Cockhorse

Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.

Cockle

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.

Cockler

One who takes and sells cockles.

Cockloft

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

Cockney

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.

Cockpit

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.

Cockroach

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

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.

Cockspur

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

cocksucker

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

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.

Cockup

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

Cocoa

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 Cocoa

A tall palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera) as its fruit. 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. It is widely planted throughout the tropics, and in some locations as an ornamental tree.

Cocoanut coconut

the edible white meat of a coconut{3}; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries.

Cocobolas Cocobolo

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.

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.

Cocoonery

A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.

cocozelle

a squash plant having a dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow.

Coctile

Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

Cod

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.

Coddle

To parboil, or soften by boiling.

Coddymoddy

A gull in the plumage of its first year.

Code

To serve as the nucleotide sequence directing the synthesis of a particular amino acid or sequence of amino acids in protein biosynthesis; as, this sequence of nucleotides encodes the hemoglobin alpha chain..

code-breaking

A process of discovering the content of an encoded message or the nature of a code{5}. The method used may be surreptitious, or may use sophisticated mathematical and computational techniques to discover the code.

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.

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