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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Cōach'man, n. p. 243The person who drives a coach.Cōach'man-ship, n. p. 243Skill in driving coaches.Co-ăct′, v. t. p. 243To drive together; to force; to compel. [Obs.] In conclusion, both garrisons and the inhabitants . . . were coacted to render the city. Hale.Co-ăct', v. i. p. 243To act together; to unite. [Obs.] If I tell you how these two did coact, Shall I not lie in publishing a truth? Shak.Co-ăc'tion, n. p. 243Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling. South.Co-ăct'ive, a. p. 243Serving to compel or constrain. “Any coactive power of the civil kind.” Warburton. 2. Acting in concurrence. Shak.Co-ăc'tive-ly, adv. p. 243In a coactive manner.Cō-āc-tiv'i-ty, n. p. 243Unity of action. More.Co-ăd/ap-tā'tion, n. p. 243Mutual adaptation. R. Owen.Co'-a-dăpt'ed, a. p. 243Adapted one to another; as, co-adapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.Co-ād'ju-ment, n. p. 243Mutual aid or assistance.Co'ad-jüst', v. t. p. 243To adjust by mutual adaptations. R. Owen.Co'ad-jüst'ment, n. p. 243State of being mutually adjusted.Co-ād'ju-tant or Cō'ad-jū'tant, a. p. 243Mutually assisting or operating. Phillips.Co-ăd'ju-tant, n. p. 243An assistant. Ogilvie.Co-ăd'ju-ting, a. p. 244Mutually assisting; co-operating. “Coadjuting springs.” Drayton.Co-ād'ju-tive, a. p. 244Rendering mutual aid. Feltham.Cō'ad-jū'tor, n. p. 244One who aids another; an assistant; a fellow-helper. “Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor.” Sheridan. 2. One who is empowered or appointed to perform the duties of another. Johnson. 3. (Rom.…Cō'ad-jū'tor-shĭp, n. p. 244State of a coadjutor; joint assistance. Pope.Cō'ad-jū'tress or Cō'ad-jū'trix, n. p. 244A female assistant. Smollett.Co-ād'ju-van-cy or Cō'ad-jū'van-cy, n. p. 244Joint help; assistance; concurrent aid; co-operation. [Rare.] Browne.Co-ād'ju-vant or Cō'ad-jū'vant, n. p. 244(Med.) An ingredient in a prescription designed to aid some other ingredient.Co-ād'ū-nate, a. p. 244(Bot.) United at the base.Co-ăd'ū-nī'tion, n. p. 244Union of different substances in one mass. [R.] Hale.Cō'ad-vĕnt'ūre, n. p. 244An adventure in which two or more are partakers.Cō'ad-vēnt'ūr·er, n. p. 244A fellow-adventurer.Cō'af-fōr'est, v. t. p. 244To convert, as ground, into a forest. Howell.Cō-ā'gen-cy, n. p. 244Agency in common; joint agency.Cō-ā'gent, n. p. 244An assistant or associate in an act; a co-worker. Beaum.Cō'ag-mēnt', v. t. p. 244To congregate or head together. [Obs.] Glanville.Co-ăg'men-tā'tion, n. p. 244Collection into a mass or united body; union; conjunction. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Co-ăg'ū-la-bil'i-ty, n. p. 244Quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated. Ure.Co-ăg'ū-lā-ble, a. p. 244Capable of being coagulated. “Coagulable into a thick, white substance, not unlike a custard.” Boyle.Co-ăg'ū-lant, n. p. 244A substance which produces coagulation. Forsyth.Co-ăg'ū-lāte, v. t. p. 244To cause to change into a curd-like or inspissated state; — said of liquids; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.Co-ăg'ū-lāte, v. i. p. 244To undergo coagulation. Boyle. Syn.—To thicken; concrete; curdle.Co-ăg'ū-lā'tion, n. p. 244The act of changing from a liquid to a thickened, curd-like, semi-solid state, partly through some quality of the liquid, and not by evaporation alone; concretion.Co-ăg'ū-la-tive, a. p. 244Having the power to cause coagulation. “A salt . . . which seemed to have in it a coagulative power.” Boyle.Co-ăg'ū-lā'tor, n. p. 244That which causes coagulation. Arbuthnot.Co-ăg'ū-la-to-ry, a. p. 244Serving to coagulate; as, coagulatory effects. Boyle.Co-āg'ū-lūm, n. p. 244A coagulated mass, as curd, a clot of blood, &c.Cō-āid', n. p. 244A fellow-helper or assistant. Pope.Cōak, n. p. 244Mineral coal deprived of its volatile matter by heat. [Usually written coke.] Johnson. 2. The hole guarded by metal in a sheave through which the pin goes. Totten. 3. (Ship Carp.) A small…Tōak, v. t. p. 244(Ship Carp.) To unite, as timbers, by letting a projection of one into the other. Totten.Cōal, n. p. 244A completely charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from burning wood; the substance made from wood by a smothered fire; charcoal. 2. (Min.) A black, or brownish black, solid…Cōal, v. t. p. 244To burn to coal or charcoal; to char. Bacon. 2. To mark or delineate with charcoal. Camden. 3. To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.Cōal, v. i. p. 244To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.Cōal'-blăck, a. p. 244Black as a coal; very black. Dryden.Cōal'er-y, n. p. 244A coal-mine, coal-pit, or place where coals are dug, with the engines and machinery used in discharging the water and raising the coal.Cō'a-lĕsçe', v. i. p. 244To grow together; to unite, as separate bodies, or separate parts, into one body, as separate bones in an infant, or the fingers or toes. 2. To unite and adhere in one body or mass, by spontaneous…Cō'a-lĕs'çence, n. p. 244The act of growing together; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.Cō'a-lés'cent, a. p. 244Growing together; uniting.Coal'-field, n. p. 244A bed of fossil coal. 2. A region where coal abounds.Coal'-fish, n. p. 244(Ichth.) A species of Gadus or cod (Merlangus carbonarius), a native of the Baltic, the Northern, and the Mediterranean Seas. It is a coarse fish, deriving its name from the dusky pigment which…Cōal'-fit/ter, n. p. 244A coal-broker who conducts the sale of coal between the owner of a pit and the shipper. [Eng.]Cōal'-for-mā'tion, n. p. 244(Geol.) The formation or group of strata in which coal is found.Cōal'-hēav'er, n. p. 244One who is employed in carrying coal, and especially in discharging it from ships.Cō'a-lite, v. t. p. 244To unite or coalesce. [Obs.] Bolingbroke.Cō'a-lĭ'tion, n. p. 244Union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms or particles. Bentley. 2. A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states having different…Cō/a-lĭ'tion-ĭst or Cō/a-lĭ'tion-er, n. p. 244One who joins or promotes a coalition.