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 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.

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.