The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity.
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The Brazilian porcupine (Cercolades prehensiles syn. Sphingurus prehensiles), remarkable for its prehensile tail.
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.
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.
a member of a religious order living in common. Same as Cenobite.
of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living. Opposite of eremitic.
The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.
The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies.
The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.
The larval stage of a tapeworm (T/nia c/nurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.
Being on an equality in rank or power. One who is on an equality with another.
The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.
With coequality.
To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
Capable of being coerced.
The act or process of coercing.
Coercive.
Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain.
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.
Partaking of the same essence.
Participation of the same essence.
Joint establishment.
Joint estate.
A person coetaneous with another; a contemporary.
Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous.
Equally eternal.
Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.
One of the same age; a contemporary.
Coeval
A joint executor.
A joint executrix.
To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with.
Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence.
Existing at the same time with another. That which coexists with another.
Coexistent.
To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree.
The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
Equally extensive; having equal extent; as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive.
the genus comprising the coffee trees.
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.
an evergreen shrub of Western U.S. (Rhamnus californicus), bearing small red or black fruits; -- called also the California buckthorn.
a cake or sweet bread usually glazed after baking, and having added nuts and fruits; it is often served with coffee.
A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation.
One who keeps a coffeehouse.
A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking.
A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained.
To put into a coffer.
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.
One who keeps treasures in a coffer.
Rubblework faced with stone.
To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Having no coffin.
A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.
A small fishing boat.
The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.
Congenial.
Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful.
In a cogent manner; forcibly; convincingly; conclusively.
A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.
Trick; deception.
A cobblestone.
The quality of being cogitable; conceivableness.
Capable of being brought before the mind as a thought or idea; conceivable; thinkable.
Full of thought; thoughtful.
To think over; to plan.
The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.
Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating.
A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth.
A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.
One who is related to another on the female side.
The state of being cognate.
Relatives by the mother's side.
Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.
A person connected through cognation.
See Cognizor, Cognizee.
The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power.
Capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes.
In a cognizable manner.
Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.
Having cognizance or knowledge. (of).
To know or perceive; to recognize.
One to whom a fine of land was acknowledged.
One who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant.
The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.
One bearing the same name; a namesake.
A cognomen or surname.
Cognizance.
A connoisseur.
The quality of being cognoscible.
Capable of being known.
Having the power of knowing.
An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.
A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.
A joint guardian.
A small wooden vessel; a pail.
A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century.
A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.
To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.
One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country.
The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.
A cohabitant.
A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.
A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.
The state of being a coheir.
A joint herald.
To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.
Light in which the phases of all electromagnetic waves at each point on a line normal to the direction of the the beam are identical. Coherent light is usually monochromatic, and the most common source of such light for practical uses is from a laser.
In a coherent manner.
Any device in which an imperfectly conducting contact between pieces of metal or other conductors loosely resting against each other is materially improved in conductivity by the influence of Hertzian waves; -- so called by Sir O. J. Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere, or weld together, a condition easily destroyed by tapping. A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings (usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts) between terminal wires or plugs (called conductor plugs).
The state of being cohesible.
Capable of cohesion.
The act or state of sticking together; close union.
Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.
To restrain.
Hindrance; restraint.
To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel.
The process of cohobating.
See Coehorn.
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