Costume (n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Costumer (n.) One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.
Co-sufferer (n.) One who suffers with another.
Cosupreme (n.) A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme.
Cosureties (pl. ) of Cosurety
Cosurety (n.) One who is surety with another.
Cosy (a.) See Cozy.
Cot (n.) A small house; a cottage or hut.
Cot (n.) A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.
Cot (n.) A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.
Cot (n.) A small, rudely-formed boat.
Cot (n.) A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.
Cotangent (n.) The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Cotarnine (n.) 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.
Cote (n.) A cottage or hut.
Cote (n.) A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves.
Cote (v. t.) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare.
Cote (v. t.) To quote.
Cotemporaneous (a.) Living or being at the same time; contemporaneous.
Cotemporary (a.) Living or being at the same time; contemporary.
Cotemporaries (pl. ) of Cotemporary
Cotemporary (n.) One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.
Cotenant (n.) A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
Coterie (n.) A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique.
Coterminous (a.) Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.
Cotgare (n.) Refuse wool.
Cothurn (n.) A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general.
Cothurnate (a.) Alt. of Cothurnated
Cothurnated (a.) Wearing a cothurn.
Cothurnated (a.) Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.
Cothurnus (n.) Same as Cothurn.
Coticular (a.) Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.
Cotidal (a.) Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.
Cotillon (n.) Alt. of Cotillion
Cotillion (n.) A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.
Cotillion (n.) A tune which regulates the dance.
Cotillion (n.) A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.
Cotillion (n.) A formal ball.
Cotinga (n.) A bird of the family Cotingidae, including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.
Cotise (n.) See Cottise.
Cotised (a.) See Cottised.
Cotland (n.) Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.
Cotquean (n.) A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women.
Cotquean (n.) A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy.
Cotqueanity (n.) The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean.
Cotrustee (n.) A joint trustee.
Cotswold (n.) An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.
Cottage (n.) A small house; a cot; a hut.
Cottaged (a.) Set or covered with cottages.
Cottagely (a.) Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic.
Cottager (n.) One who lives in a cottage.
Cottager (n.) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.
Cotter (n.) Alt. of Cottar
Cottar (n.) A cottager; a cottier.
Cotter (n.) A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.
Cotter (n.) A toggle.
Cotter (v. t.) To fasten with a cotter.
Cottier (n.) 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.
Cottise (n.) 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.
Cottised (a.) Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.
Cottoid (a.) Like a fish of the genus Cottus.
Cottoid (n.) A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.
Cottolene (n.) A product from cotton-seed, used as lard.
Cotton (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
Cotton (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
Cotton (n.) Cloth made of cotton.
Cotton (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
Cotton (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed.
Cotton (v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
Cotton (v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
Cottonade (n.) A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.
Cottonary (a.) Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.
Cottonous (a.) Resembling cotton.
Cottontail (n.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.
Cottonweed (n.) See Cudweed.
Cottonwood (n.) An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
Cottony (a.) Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.
Cottony (a.) Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
Cottrel (n.) A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire.
Cotyla (n.) Alt. of Cotyle
Cotyle (n.) A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.
Cotyledon (n.) One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.
Cotyledon (n.) A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.
Cotyledonal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.
Cotyledonary (a.) Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.
Cotyledonous (a.) Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.
Cotyliform (a.) Shaped like a cotyle or a cup.
Cotyligerous (a.) Having cotyles.
Cotyloid (a.) Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.
Cotyloid (a.) Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.
Coucal (n.) A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.
Couched (imp. & p. p.) of Couch
Couching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Couch
Couch (v. t.) To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
Couch (v. t.) To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Couch (v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
Couch (v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
Couch (v. t.) To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
Couch (v. t.) To arrange; to place; to inlay.
Couch (v. t.) To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.