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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Cōurt'-guīde, n. p. 305A directory of the names and addresses of the nobility and gentry in a town.Cōurt'-hānd, n. p. 305The hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. Shak.Cōurt'-house, n. p. 305A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [U. S.]Cōurt'ier, n. p. 305One who attends or frequents the courts of princes; a member of a princely court. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. 2. One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters…Court'ier-y, n. p. 305The manners of a courtier; courtliness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Court'-là'dy, n. p. 305A lady who attends or is conversant in court.Court'-lānds, n. pl. p. 305(Eng. Law.) Lands kept in demesne, that is, in the lord's own hands, to serve his family.Court'-leet, n. p. 305(Eng. Law.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.Cōurt'li-ness, n. p. 305The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners; civility.Cōurt'ling, n. p. 305A courtier; a sycophantic retainer to a court. B. Jonson.Court'ly, a. p. 305Relating to a court; court-like; high-bred; dignified and elegant. “In courtly company.” Shak. 2. Disposed to favor the great; fawning; obsequious; flattering; sycophantic. Officers . . . supposed to…Court'ly, adv. p. 305In the manner of courts; elegantly; in a flattering manner.cōurt'-mär'tial, n. p. 305A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of offenses against military or naval laws.Cōurt'-plȧs'ter, n. p. 305Sticking-plaster made of silk, with some adhesive substance, commonly gum benzoin, on one side. Ure.Cōurt'-pär'ty, n. p. 305A party attached to the court.Cōurt'shĭp, n. p. 305The act of soliciting favor. He paid his courtship with the crowd As far as modest pride allowed. Swift. 2. The act of wooing in love; solicitation of a woman to marriage. There is something…Cōurt'-yärd, n. p. 305A court or inclosure round a house.Cous'-cous, n. p. 305A kind of food used by the natives of Africa, made of millet flour, with flesh, and the bark of the Adansonia digitata, or baobab tree;—called also lulo.Cou'sin, n. p. 305One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt. The children of brothers and sisters are usually denominated cousins, or…Coüs'in, a. p. 305Allied. [Obs.] Chaucer.Coüs'in-age, n. p. 305Relationship; kinship. [Obs.] How she stode of cosinage To the emperour. Chaucer.Coŭs'in-ġĕr'man, n. p. 305A first cousin; a cousin in the first generation.Coŭs'in-ho͝od, n. p. 305The state or condition of a cousin.Coŭs'in-ly, a. p. 305Like or becoming a cousin.Cous'si-nĕt', n. p. 305(Arch.) (a.) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch. (b.) That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which serves to form the…Cou-teau', n. p. 305A hanger.Couth, a. p. 305Could; was able: —knew; understood. [Obs.] Above all other one Daniel He loveth, for he couth well Divine, that none other couth; To him were all things couth, As he had it of God's grace. Gower.Cou'zer-an-ite, n. p. 305(Min.) A crystallized mineral;—so called from Couzeran, in the Pyrenees, where it is found.Cōve, n. p. 305A retired nook; especially, a small inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the sea-shore. Vessels ready for him within secret coves and nooks. Holland. 2. A strip of prairie extending into wood-land…Cōve, v. t. p. 305To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs. [Obs.] Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel. Holland. 2. (Arch.) To arch over.…Côv'e-na-ble, a. p. 305Fit; proper; suitable. [Obs.] Wycliffe.Côv'e-na-bly, adv. p. 305Fitly; suitably. [Obs.] Chaucer.Côv'e-nant, n. p. 305A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; stipulation. If we conclude a peace, It shall be with such…Côv'e-nant, v. i. p. 305To enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation. Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry, . . . as the tenant should direct.…Cōv'e-nant, v. t. p. 305To grant or promise by covenant; to stipulate. Hag. ii. 5.Cōv'e-nant-ee', n. p. 305(Law.) The person to whom a covenant is made.Cōv'e-nant-er, n. p. 305One who makes a covenant. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) One who subscribed and defended the covenant usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant." See COVENANT.Cŏv'e-nant-ôr, n. p. 305(Law.) The party who makes a covenant. Burrill.Cōv'e-noŭs, a. p. 305See COVIN and COVINOUS.Cōv'ent, n. p. 305A convent or monastery. [Obs.] Bale. Covent Garden, a large square in London, so called as having originally been the garden attached to a large convent or monastery in that portion of the city.Cōv'en-try, n. p. 305(Geog.) A town in the county of Warwick, England. To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from all social intercourse for conduct regarded as mean or ungentlemanly. This phrase has…Cōv'en-try-blūe, n. p. 306Blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.Cōv'er, v. t. p. 306To overspread or envelop the surface or the whole body of; to lay or set over; to enwrap; to infold. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his home. Milton. 2. To brood or sit on. While the…Cōv'er, n. p. 306Any thing which is laid, set, or spread upon, about, or over another; an envelope; a lid. 2. Any thing which vails or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak. “A handsome cover for imperfections.”…Cōv'er-chief, n. p. 306A covering for the head. [Obs.] Chaucer.Cŏv'er-ēle, n. p. 306A small cover; a lid. Browne.Cōv'ered, a. p. 306Designed or used for concealment, shelter, &c.; as, a covered passage. Covered way (Fort.), a secure road of communication all round a fort, outside the ditch, having a banquette from which a grazing…Cōv'er-er, n. p. 306One who, or that which, covers.Cōv'er-let, n. p. 306The uppermost cover of a bed or any piece of furniture. “Odored sheets and arras coverlet.” Spenser.Co-vĕrsed’-sīne, n. p. 306(Geom.) The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle.Cōv'er-shāme, n. p. 306Something used to conceal infamy. Dryden.Cōv'er-slūt, n. p. 306Something to cover or hide sluttishness. Burke.Cōv'ert, a. p. 306Covered over; hid; secret; disguised. Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton. 2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; protected; as, a covert alley or place. 3. (Law.) Under cover, authority, or…Cōv'ert, n. p. 306A place which covers and protects; a shelter; a defense. A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm and from rain. Is. iv. 6. The highwayman has darted from his covert by the way-side. Prescott. 2.…Cōv'ert-bār'on, a. p. 306(Law.) Under the protection of a husband; married. Burvill.Cōv'ert-ly, adv. p. 306Secretly; closely; in private; insidiously. Among the poets, Persius covertly strikes at Nero. Dryden.Cōv'ert-ness, n. p. 306Secrecy; privacy. [R.] Bailey.Cōv'ert-ūre, n. p. 306Covering; shelter; defense. 2. (Law.) The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a…Cŏv'ert-wāy, n. p. 306(Fort.) The same as COVERED WAY. See COVERED.Côv'et, v. t. p. 306To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of;—used in a good sense. Covet earnestly the best gifts. 1 Cor. xii. 31. 2. To wish for inordinately or unlawfully; to lust after. Thou shalt not…