Cohort (n.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.
Cohort (n.) Any band or body of warriors.
Cohort (n.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.
Cohosh (n.) A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family.
Coif (n.) A cap.
Coif (n.) A close-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a small hood without a cape.
Coif (n.) An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.
Coif (v. t.) To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif.
Coifed (a.) Wearing a coif.
Coiffure (n.) A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.
Coigne (n.) A quoin.
Coigne (n.) Alt. of Coigny
Coigny (n.) The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.
Coiled (imp. & p. p.) of Coil
Coiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coil
Coil (v. t.) To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
Coil (v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
Coil (v. i.) To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.
Coil (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.
Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Coil (n.) A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.
Coil (n.) A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.
Coilon (n.) A testicle.
Coin (n.) A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.
Coin (n.) A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense.
Coin (n.) That which serves for payment or recompense.
Coined (imp. & p. p.) of Coin
Coining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coin
Coin (v. t.) To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.
Coin (v. t.) To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.
Coin (v. t.) To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Coin (v. i.) To manufacture counterfeit money.
Coinage (v. t.) The act or process of converting metal into money.
Coinage (v. t.) Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
Coinage (v. t.) The cost or expense of coining money.
Coinage (v. t.) The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
Coincided (imp. & p. p.) of Coincide
Coinciding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coincide
Coincide (n.) To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.
Coincide (n.) To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.
Coincide (n.) To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide.
Coincidence (n.) The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc.
Coincidence (n.) The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
Coincidence (n.) Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement.
Coincibency (n.) Coincidence.
Coincident (a.) Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with.
Coincident (n.) One of two or more coincident events; a coincidence.
Coincidental (a.) Coincident.
Coincidently (adv.) With coincidence.
Coincider (n.) One who coincides with another in an opinion.
Coindication (n.) One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
Coiner (n.) One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money.
Coiner (n.) An inventor or maker, as of words.
Coinhabitant (n.) One who dwells with another, or with others.
Coinhere (v. i.) To inhere or exist together, as in one substance.
Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.
Coinheritor (n.) A coheir.
Coinitial (a.) Having a common beginning.
Coinquinate (v. t.) To pollute.
Coinquination (n.) Defilement.
Coinstantaneous (a.) Happening at the same instant.
Cointense (a.) Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense.
Cointension (n.) The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension.
Coir (n.) A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut.
Coir (n.) Cordage or cables, made of this material.
Coistril (n.) An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries.
Coistril (n.) A mean, paltry fellow; a coward.
Coit (n.) A quoit.
Coit (v. t.) To throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit.
Coition (n.) A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation.
Cojoin (v. t.) To join; to conjoin.
Cojuror (n.) One who swears to another's credibility.
Coke (n.) Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where / smokeless fire is required.
Coke (v. t.) To convert into coke.
Cokenay (n.) A cockney.
Cokernut (n.) The cocoanut.
Cokes (n.) A simpleton; a gull; a dupe.
Cokewold (n.) Cuckold.
Col- () A prefix signifying with, together. See Com-.
Col (n.) A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.
Colaborer (n.) One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
Colander (n.) A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like.
Colation (n.) The act or process of straining or filtering.
Colatitude (n.) The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.
Colature (n.) The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer.
Colbertine (n.) A kind of lace.
Colchicine (n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia.
Colchicum (n.) A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron.
Colcothar (n.) Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis.
Cold (n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
Cold (n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
Cold (n.) Not pungent or acrid.
Cold (n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
Cold (n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
Cold (n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
Cold (n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
Cold (n.) Not sensitive; not acute.
Cold (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
Cold (n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
Cold (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.