Avarice.
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Acquisitiveness.
Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.
In a covetous manner.
Strong desire.
A pantry.
A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.
A cove or series of coves, as the concaved surface under the overhang of a projecting upper story. The splayed jambs of a flaring fireplace.
Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.
A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.
a European annual (Vaccaria hispanica) with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort.
A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.
See Cowhage.
A phantasmic or /astral/ body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelg/nger.
One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship.
To make timorous; to frighten.
Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
Cowardice.
Cowardly.
To render cowardly
Cowardice.
In the manner of a coward.
Cowardice.
A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.
A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium Vitis-id/a), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.
The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle.
Dried cow dung used as fuel.
A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot.
See Kauri.
frightened into submission or compliance.
To cherish with care.
characterized by or showing abject fear.
The grampus. A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii). A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.
A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spicul/ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.
Cowardly.
a European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort; -- also called the cow-cockle.
One whose occupation is to tend cows.
To flog with a cowhide.
An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.
See Cowhage.
A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.
Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk.
One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.
Healing the distemper of cows.
A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.
Resembling a cow.
A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons.
One who works with another; a cooperator.
The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States.
See Cowpox.
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback; -- an informal name for cowboy.
A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.
A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass.
Same as Kauri.
A marine shell of the genus Cypr/a.
domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; as, wait till the cows come home.
a barn for cows.
leather from the skin of a cow.
A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.
Adorned with cowslips.
Same as Cow parsley.
A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.
A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.
The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.
Pain in the hip.
A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps. The cap itself.
Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited.
like a coxcomb.
The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.
Coxcombical.
Conceitedly.
See Cockswain.
To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.
the offspring of a coyote and a dog.
Somewhat coy or reserved.
In a coy manner; with reserve.
The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.
a tropical American palm (Acrocomia vinifera) having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber.
A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.
A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.
A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria.
Same as Coistril.
A contraction of cousin.
To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.
The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.
One who cheats or defrauds.
See Cosier.
Snugly; comfortably.
The state or quality of being cozy.
A wadded covering, often decorative, for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot. Also called tea cozy
a certified public accountant; an accountant certified by the state.
the consumer price index, an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer. The increase of this value each year is one measure of monetary inflation.
Sour; rough; austere.
A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.
Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
One who catches crabs.
The act or art of catching crabs.
Somewhat sour or cross.
Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
The cobia. An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus). A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
The water rat.
Having a sour, disagreeable countenance.
To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular].
A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.
To scratch.
Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of; as, a crack shot.
Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; extremely foolish; crazy; as, crackbrained notions.
Of marked ability or excellence.
A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor.
Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
One who, or that which, cracks.
Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
characteristic of country life; as, cracker-barrel philosophy.
a creeping red-berried perenial herb (Cornus canadensis) distinguished by clustered leaf whorls at tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska.
Of marked ability or excellence.
crazy.
same as groovy, sense 1.
The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
See Crackle, n., 3.
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