One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
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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.
A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique.
Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.
Refuse wool.
A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general.
Wearing a cothurn.
Same as Cothurn.
Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.
Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.
A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.
A bird of the family Cotingid/, including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.
See Cottise.
See Cottised.
Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.
The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean.
A joint trustee.
An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.
A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
A small house; a cot; a hut.
Set or covered with cottages.
Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic.
One who lives in a cottage.
A cottager; a cottier.
To fasten with a cotter.
a natural family of fish including the sculpins.
In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.
A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.
Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.
Like a fish of the genus Cottus. A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.
A product from cotton-seed, used as lard.
To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.
Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.
venomous semiaquatic snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus) of swamps in southern U.S.; -- called also water moccasin, cottonmouth moccasin, and cottonmouth water moccasin. It grows to a length of about 4 feet. The name refers to the whiteness of the lips and inside of the mouth.
Resembling cotton.
The seed of the cotton plant.
The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.
See Cudweed.
a type of grunt (Haemulon melanurum) of warm Atlantic waters.
An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the Populus monilifera and Populus angustifolia of the Western United States.
Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.
A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire.
a genus of birds comprising the Old World quail.
A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.
One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.
Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.
Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.
Shaped like a cotyle or a cup.
Having cotyles.
Shaped like a cup; cup-shaped; as, the cotyloid cavity, the cup-shaped socket which receives the head of the thigh bone. Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.
A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.
A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
State of lying down for repose.
Lying down with head erect; squatting.
Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon. Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couch/ is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
Same as Couch/.
A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince.
One who couches.
The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.
Having no couch or bed.
A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.
An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.
A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.
One who coughs.
See Cowhage.
Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
A stream a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a ca/on, which has precipitous sides.
Color; -- chiefly used in a few French phrases, as couler de rose, color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate.
A fluting in a sword blade.
A deep gorge; a gully.
The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one amp/re in one second. Formerly called weber.
Same as Colter.
The puffin.
A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.
Relating to, derived from, or like, the Dipterix odorata, a tree of Guiana.
The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially.
The tree (Dipteryx odorata) which bears the tonka bean; also, the bean itself.
One who belongs to a council; one who gives an opinion.
the position of council member.
A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.
A member of a council.
To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.
Willing to receive counsel or follow advice.
direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.
same as counselor.
the position of counselor; same as counselorship.
One who counsels; an adviser.
a lawyer who pleads cases in court.
The function and rank or office of a counselor.
A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.
Capable of being numbered.
To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
One who countenances, favors, or supports.
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