A curvet.

Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.

See Cormorant.

a small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids.

One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.

A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.

A natural family of insects including the dobsonflies.

a plant of the genus Corydalis, with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers.

The type genus of the Corydalidae. It includes the dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus), whose aquatic larva, the hellgrammite, is used as bait in fishing.

A natural family of shrubs or small trees, used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus.

small genus of deciduous shrubs of temperate regions of Asia.

a genus of deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs or small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae.

A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn. Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

Corymbose.

Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.

Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.

In corymbs.

Any member of the genus Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.

Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryph/na. See Dolphin.

A ballet dancer.

A fish of the genus Coryph/na. See Dolphin. (2)

The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.

A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.

Nasal catarrh.

Divination by means of a suspended sieve.

A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan.

The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

See Cozen.

See Cozenage.

Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.

Perceiving together.

See Cozy.

to hit (someone) with a cosh or similar bludgeon, usually on the head.

To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.

One who coshers.

A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.

A tailor who botches his work.

Having the same signification.

One who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of Berlin.

See Cozily.

Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.

The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation.

an expert in the use of cosmetics.

Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.

With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.

Belonging to cosmogony.

One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.

The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato.

One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.

Of or pertaining to cosmography.

In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.

A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.

An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.

Worship paid to the world.

A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

The branch of science or philosophy dealing with the origin and nature of the universe as a whole. the branch of metaphysics speculating on the structure and nature of the most fundamental parts of the system of creation, such as space and time, the elements of bodies, the structure of the universe, the modifications of material things, causality, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature. the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and structure of the universe, including the evolution of its present observable structure, using the methods of observational astronomy as well as mathematical physics.

The art of measuring the world or the universe.

an astronaut; -- a term used by the Soviets and Russians.

Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.

The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

See Cosmopolitan.

Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.

Having the character of a cosmopolite.

The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.

An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality.

Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.

A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens, usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays. They are natives of the warmer parts of America, and many species are cultivated. Cosmos bipinnatus and Cosmos diversifolius are among the best-known species; Cosmos caudatus, of the West Indies, is widely naturalized.

An apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

Same as Pantheism.

Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.

A joint sovereign.

A thing (only in phrase below).

One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.

To treat as a pet; to fondle.

One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art.

The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.

determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit; as, a cost-plus government contract.

A rib of an animal or a human being.

Expense; cost.

Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.

Having the nerves spring from the midrib.

An apple, large and round like the head.

A costermonger.

Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.

To search after lodes. See Costeaning.

The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

Finely ribbed or costated.

One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.

Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebr/.

cost accounting.

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

In a costive manner.

An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

Costing nothing.

Costly.

The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.

A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.

An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections.

A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.

Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.

One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.

an annual herb (Saussurea costus) of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs.

A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme.

One who is surety with another.

See Cozy.

A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.

The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.

To quote.

A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide.

Living or being at the same time; contemporaneous.

One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.