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.

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.

The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

A hard brittle cake or biscuit.

a whimsically eccentric person.

A burglar.

Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.

A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.

Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century.

To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.

a quiet song that lulls a child to sleep.

The act of using a cradle.

To play tricks; to practice artifice.

With craft; artfully; cunningly.

Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.

Without craft or cunning.

One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.

The work of a craftsman.

One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.

Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.

The neck or throat

Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.

The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.

The state of being craggy.

Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.

One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.

See Crare.

A creel or osier basket.

Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.

See Crowberry.

One who boasts; a braggart.

The act of cramming.

A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.

One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.

Crimson.

Knotty; difficult.

See Cramp, n., 2.

a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries.

inconveniently small; restricting movement; -- of living quarters or workspace; as, cramped quarters; a cramped office.

A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.

The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

See Crampet.

An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.

Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.

A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (Viburnum Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.

a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries. It is sometimes called high cranberry to distinguish it from the marsh cranberry or low cranberry.

See Craunch.

A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc. To dress with a crandall.

To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.

to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.

A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.