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Cognizant

Having cognizance or knowledge. (of).

Cognize

To know or perceive; to recognize.

Cognizee

One to whom a fine of land was acknowledged.

Cognizor

One who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant.

Cognomen

The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.

Cognovit

An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.

Cogon

A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

Cogue

A small wooden vessel; a pail.

Cogware

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century.

Cogwheel

A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

Cohabit

To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.

Cohabitant

One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country.

Cohabitation

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.

Coheir

A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.

Coheiress

A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.

Cohere

To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.

Coherent

Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.

coherent light

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.

Coherer

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).

Cohesion

The act or state of sticking together; close union.

Cohesive

Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.

Cohobate

To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel.

Cohort

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

Cohosh

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.

Cohune palm Cohune

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.

Coif

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

Coiffure

A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.

Coign

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

Coigny Coigne

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

Coil

A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.

coiled

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.

Coin

To manufacture counterfeit money.

Coinage

The act or process of converting metal into money.

Coincide

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

Coincidence

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

Coincident

One of two or more coincident events; a coincidence.

Coincider

One who coincides with another in an opinion.

Coindication

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

Coiner

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

Coinhere

To inhere or exist together, as in one substance.

Coinsurance

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.

Cointense

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

Cointension

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

Coir

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

Coistril

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

Coit

To throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit.

Coition

A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation.

Cojuror

One who swears to another's credibility.

Coke

To convert into coke.

Cokes

A simpleton; a gull; a dupe.

Col

A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.

Cola

A genus of sterculiaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil. Same as Cola nut, below.

Colaborer

One who labors with another; an associate in labor.

Colander

A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like.

Colation

The act or process of straining or filtering.

Colatitude

The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.

Colature

The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer.

Colchicaceae

one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted: Colchicum; Gloriosa.

Colchicine

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia.

Colchicum

A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron.

Colcothar

Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis.

Cold-blooded

Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

cold-heartedness

an absence of concern for the welfare of others; indifference to the suffering of others.

Cold-short

Brittle when cold (that is, below a red heat); as, cold-short iron.

Cold-shut

Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.

coldcock

to to knock to the ground with force.

Coldish

Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

Coldly

In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.

Coldness

The state or quality of being cold.

Cole

A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of Brassica oleracea called rape and coleseed.

Colemanite

A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.

Coleoptera

An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxill/) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.

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