A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.

A favorite dish in Barbary. See Couscous.

Allied; akin.

A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.

Relationship; kinship.

The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.

Like or becoming a cousin.

A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.

The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood.

A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch. That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.

A knife; a dagger.

Could; was able; knew or known; understood.

high fashion designing and dressmaking.

someone who designs clothing.

A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.

An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.

a statistical measure of the relationship of two variables, formed by multiplying the difference of each variable from its mean, both variables being measured at the same time, and averaging all such products.

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.

A boy or man of any age or station.

A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.

Fit; proper; suitable.

Fitly; suitably.

To grant or promise by covenant.

The person in whose favor a covenant is made.

One who makes a covenant.

Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters.

The party who makes a covenant.

See Covinous, and Covin.

A convent or monastery.

A town in the county of Warwick, England.

To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.

The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports /point./

Something used to conceal infamy.

the range of items covered. Coverage may be small (narrow coverage}, or large (broad coverage or wide coverage).

a loose-fitting one-piece garment that is worn over other clothing, especially one with trouser-like pants legs.

A covering for the head.

A small cover; a lid.

Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.

One who, or that which, covers.

Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.

The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.

A coverlet.

A region of country having covers; a hunting country.

A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.

Secretly; in private; insidiously.

Secrecy; privacy.

Covering; shelter; defense; hiding.

To have or indulge inordinate desire.

That may be coveted; desirable.

One who covets.

Avarice.

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 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.