Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.

A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.

A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipom/a.

The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.

To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain.

An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.

Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary.

A convulsionist.

One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. M/dard.

Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.

in a convulsive manner.

A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus) The chief hare.

To deceive; to cheat; to trick.

A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver.

An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.

To call out cooee.

emitting a cry like that of a dove; as, The cooing pigeons.

To prepare food for the table.

A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.

heated again after having cooled down; -- often used of food remaining from a previous day.

A female cook.

an implement for cooking.

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat; cooking.

See Cooky.

the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery.

A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.

An eating house.

a stove for cooking, especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove.

cooking utensils, such as pots, pans, or baking dishes made of heat-resistant material.

A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

To become less hot; to lose heat.

a fluid (gas or liquid) used to cool a device by transferring heat away from one part to another.

made or become cool or made cool as specified; often used as a combining form; as, air-cooled auto engine; the cooled milk was put in the refrigerator.

That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.

Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion; unshakably calm and collected.

Same as Cooly.

An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.

Somewhat cool.

In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.

The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.

The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea).

Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.

A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.

A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.

A raccoon. See Raccoon.

A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards.

any dog trained to hunt raccoons.

any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons.

a cap made from the skin of a raccoon, with the tail hanging down the back; -- called also coonskin cap.

A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.

To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.

See Coupe.

To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel.

Work done by a cooper.

Operating together; as, cooperant forces.

To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect.

Operating jointly to the same end.

One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end.

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

The occupation of a cooper.

To choose or elect in concert with another.

To choose; to elect; to coopt.

The act of choosing; selection; choice.

To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

Joint ordinance.

A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.

To make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification.

dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements.

In a coordinate manner.

The state of being coordinate; equality of rank or authority.

The act of coordinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coordination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coordination of functions.

same as coordinating.

Expressing coordination.

A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica. The common European or bald coot is Fulica atra (see under bald); the American is Fulica Americana The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.

A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida. The box tortoise.

The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.

A striped satin made in India.

The top of a thing; the head; a crest.

The red, or corn, poppy.

A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and was formerly much used in affections of the mucous membranes. It is also used in varnishes and lacquers, and in cleaning oil paintings. -- called also balsam of copaiba, copaiba balsam, balsam capivi, and Jesuits' resin.

The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.

Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.

An equal share of an inheritance.

To share.

A compartment.

One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer.

The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.

the state of being copartners in any undertaking.

completely satisfactory.

Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.

A joint patriot.

To bargain for; to buy.

A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove.

A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.

Clad in a cope.

See Larvalla.

A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. One of the Copepoda.

An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.

Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

same as copacetic.

An associate or companion; a friend; a partner.

A stone for coping. See Coping.

reproducing the features of an original especially in an inferior manner.

One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.

The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.

Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.

In a copious manner.

The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style.

A copier.

Situated in one plane.

A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.

Equal share.

Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.