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.

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.

A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.

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 Act/a, plants of the Crowfoot family.

A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.

To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif.

Wearing a coif.

A hairdresser.

a woman hairdresser.

A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.

A var. spelling of Coin, Quoin, a corner, wedge; -- chiefly used in the phrase coign of vantage, a position advantageous for action or observation.

A quoin.

The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.

A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.

curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals; as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on the deck. Opposite of uncoiled.

A testicle.

To manufacture counterfeit money.

The act or process of converting metal into money.

To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.

The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc.

Coincidence.

One of two or more coincident events; a coincidence.

Coincident.

With coincidence.

One who coincides with another in an opinion.

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

One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money.

One who dwells with another, or with others.

To inhere or exist together, as in one substance.

Joint inheritance.

A coheir.

Having a common beginning.

To pollute.

Defilement.

Happening at the same instant.

Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance or between other insurers.

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

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

A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut.

An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries.