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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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Cog-nŏs'ci-bĭl'i-ty, n. p. 248The quality of being cognoscible. Cudworth.Cog-nŏs'ci-ble, a. p. 248Capable of being known. “The redundance of matters intelligible and cognoscible in things natural.” Hale. 2. Liable to judicial cognizance. No external act can pass upon a man for a crime that is not…Cog-nŏs'ci-tīve, a. p. 248Having the power of knowing. [Obs.] “An innate cognoscitive power.” Cudworth.Cog-nō'vit, n. p. 248(Law.) An acknowledgment and confession by a defendant of the justice of a plaintiff's claim, in whole or in part, authorizing judgment and execution against himself. Bouvier.Co-guārd'i-an, n. p. 248A joint guardian. Kent.Cōgue, n. p. 248A small wooden vessel; a dram.Cōg'wāre, n. p. 248A coarse, narrow, cloth-like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.Cŏg'-wheel, n. p. 248A wheel with cogs or teeth.Co-hāb'it, v. i. p. 248To dwell with; to inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country. The Philistines were worsted by the captivated ark, which foraged their country more than a conquering army; they were…Co-hăb'i-tant, n. p. 248One who dwells with another, or in the same place. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Raleigh.Co-hăb'i-tā'tion, n. p. 248The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. Felltham. 2. The state of living together as man and wife. That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of…Co-hāb'it-er, n. p. 248One who dwells with another; a cohabitant; a fellow-citizen. “Cohabiters of the same region.” Hobbs.Co-heir', n. p. 248A joint-heir; one of several entitled to an inheritance.Co-heir'ess, n. p. 248A female who inherits a share of an estate with other females; a joint heiress.Co-hēr'ald, n. p. 248A joint herald.Co-hēre', v. i. p. 248To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass, or as two substances that attract each other. Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or…Co-hē'rence or Co-hē'ren-cy, n. p. 249A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body, or a cleaving together of two bodies, by means of attraction. “The coherence of the particles of air.” Locke. 2. Suitable connection…Co-hēr'ent, a. p. 249Sticking together; cleaving, as the parts of bodies, solid or fluid. Arbuthnot. 2. Connected by some relation or agreement of form, order, &c.; observing due agreement; consistent; as, a coherent…Co-hēr/en tîf'ic, a. p. 249Causing, or pertaining to, cohesion. “Cohesive or coherentific force.” Coleridge.Co-hēr'ent-ly, adv. p. 249In a coherent manner; with due connection or agreement of parts.Co-hē'si-bil'i-ty, n. p. 249Tendency to unite by cohesion; cohesiveness. Good.Co-hē'si-ble, a. p. 249Capable of cohesion.Co-hē'sion, n. p. 249The act of sticking together; that form of attraction by which the particles of homogeneous bodies unite together. Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion. Arbuthnot. 2. A state of…Co-hē'sive, a. p. 249Having the power of sticking or cohering; tending to unite in a mass, and to resist separation. Nicholson.Co-hē'sīve-ly, adv. p. 249With cohesion.Co-hē'sīve-ness, n. p. 249The quality of being cohesive; the quality of adhering together, as particles of matter.Co-hib'it, v. t. p. 249To restrain. [Obs.]Cō-hĭ-bĭ'tion, n. p. 249Hinderance; restraint. [Obs.]Cō'ho-bāte, v. t. p. 249(Anæ. Chem.) To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel. Arbuthnot.Cō'ho-bā'tion, n. p. 249(Anc. Chem.) The operation of repeatedly distilling the same liquor, or that from the same substance. “Oil dulcified by cohobation with an aromatized spirit.” Grew.Cō'hōrn, n. p. 249See COEHORN.Cō'hōrt, n. p. 249(Rom. Antiq.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion. 2. Any band or body of warriors. Thence to the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth…Cō'hor-tā'tion, n. p. 249Exhortation; encouragement. [Obs.] Bailey.Coif, n. p. 249A kind of covering for the head; a cap. From point and saucy ermine down To the plain coif and rustic gown. Brooke. The judges, . . . although they are not of the first magnitude, nor need be of the…Coif, v. t. p. 249To cover or dress with a coif.Coifed, a. p. 249Wearing a coif.Coif'fūre, n. p. 249A head-dress. Addison.Coigne, n. p. 249A corner or external angle; a jutting point, as of a wall; a corner-stone. See you yon coigne of the capital? yon corner-stone? Shak. 2. A wedge for raising, fastening, or leveling any thing, as a…Coigne or Coin'y, v. i. p. 249To live by extortion. [Ireland.] Bryskett.Coil, v. t. p. 249To wind cylindrically, or in rings, as a cord, a rope, or a serpent.Coil, n. p. 249The ring, or series of rings, into which a rope or other like thing is wound. “The wild grape-vines that twisted their coils from tree to tree.” W. Irving. 2. A noise, tumult, bustle, confusion. I…Coin, n. p. 249A corner or external angle; a jutting point, as of a wall. See COIGNE. 2. A wedge for raising, lowering, fastening, or leveling any thing, as a cannon or a printer’s form. 3. A piece of metal on…Coin, v. t. p. 249To stamp and convert into money, as a piece of metal; to mint; in a more general sense, to form by stamping; as, to coin a medal. 2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.…Coin'age, n. p. 249The act or art of stamping or converting into money. “Gold pieces of different coinages.” W. Scott. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot. 2. Pieces of metal…Cō-in-cīde', v. i. p. 249To fall together; to agree in position;—sometimes followed by with. If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revolution of the earth useless. Cheyne. 2. To…Co-in'ci-dence, n. p. 249The act or condition of falling together; agreement in position; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, bodies, &c. Bentley. 2. The act or state of agreeing or corresponding; agreement; especially…Co-ĭn'ci-den-cy, n. p. 249Coincidence. Warburton.Co-ïn'ci-dent, a. p. 249Having coincidence; agreeing; corresponding; consistent;—sometimes followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a…Co-ïn'ci-dĕnt'al, a. p. 249Having a coincidence; coincident. Lond. Quart.Co-in'ci-dent-ly, adv. p. 249With coincidence.Cō-in-cī'der, n. p. 249One who, or that which, coincides or concurs.Cō-īn'di-cā'tion, n. p. 249An agreement of tokens, signs, or symptoms. Johnson.Coin'er, n. p. 249One who makes or stamps coin; a minter; a maker of money. They [the inhabitants of Birmingham] had acquired a less honorable renown as coiners of bad money. Macaulay. 2. An inventor or maker, as of…Cō'-in-hab'it-ant, n. p. 249One who dwells with another, or with others. “Co-inhabitants of the same element.” More.Cō'-in-hĕr'it-ance, n. p. 249Joint inheritance.Cō'-in-hēr'it-or, n. p. 249A joint heir; a co-heir.Co-in'qui-nāte, v. t. p. 249To pollute. [Obs.] Skelton.Cō-in'qui-nā'tion, n. p. 249Defilement. [Obs.] Cotgr.Cō-in'stan-tā'ne-oūs, a. p. 249Happening at the same instant.Coir, n. p. 249A material for cordage, consisting of the fibers of the cocoa-nut. Romans. 2. The cordage made of this material.