Webster's Dictionary 1913

7696

Convoy pennant

Con″voy pen″nant. A white pennant with red border, carried: (a) Forward on all vessels on convoy duty. (b) Alone by a senior officer present during evolutions or drills, when it...

7697

Convulse

Con‐vulse″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Convulsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Convulsing.] [L. convulsus, p. p. of convellere to tear up, to shake; con- + vellere to pluck, pull.] 1. To cont...

7698

Convulsion

Con‐vul″sion (?), n. [L. convulsio: cf. F. convulsion.] 1. (Med.) An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.2. Any violent and i...

7699

Convulsional

Con‐vul″sion‐al (?), a. Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary. Lamb.

7700

Convulsionary

Con‐vul″sion‐a‐ry (�), a. [Cf. F. convulsionnaire.] Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. “Convulsionary struggles.” Sir W. Scott.

7701

Convulsionary (2)

Con‐vul″sion‐a‐ry, n. A convulsionist.

7702

Convulsionist

Con‐vul″sion‐ist, n. One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religi...

7703

Convulsive

Con‐vul″sive (?), a. [Cf. F. convulsif.] Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.An irregular, convulsive movement may be...

7704

Convulsively

Con‐vul″sive‐ly, adv. in a convulsive manner.

7705

Cony

Co″ny (? or?; 277), n. [OE. coning, conig, coni, OF. connin, conin, connil, fr. L. cuniculus a rabbit, cony, prob. an Hispanic word.] [Written also coney.] 1. (Zoöl.) (a) A rabb...

7706

Cony-catch

Co″ny–catch (?), v. t. To deceive; to cheat; to trick.Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business.Shak.

7707

Cony-catcher

Co″ny–catch′er (?), n. A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. Minsheu.

7708

Conylene

Con″y‐lene (?), n. [Conine + acetylene.] An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

7709

Conyrine

Con″y‐rine (?), n. [From Conine.] (Chem.) A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

7710

Coo

Coo (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Cooed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Cooing.] 1. To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.The stockdove only throug...

7711

Cooey

{ Coo″ey, Coo″ee } (?), n. A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal. [Written also cooie.]

7712

Cooey (2)

{ Coo″ey, Coo″ee (?) }, n. A peculiar cry uttered by the Australian aborigines as a call to attract attention, and also in common use among the Australian colonists. In the actu...

7713

Cooey (3)

{ Coo″ey, Coo″ee }, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Cooeyed or Cooeed (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Cooeying or Cooeeing.] To call out cooee.I cooeyed and beckoned them to approach. E. Giles.

7714

Cook

Cook (ko͞ok), v. i. To make the noise of the cuckoo.Constant cuckoos cook on every side.The Silkworms (1599).

7715

Cook (2)

Cook (ko͝ok), v. t. To throw. “Cook me that ball.” Grose.

7716

Cook (3)

Cook (ko͝ok), n. [AS. cōc, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. �, Skr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.] ...

7717

Cook (4)

Cook, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cooked (?); p. pr & vb. n.Cooking.] 1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of ...

7718

Cook (5)

Cook (ko͝ok), v. i. To prepare food for the table.

7719

Cookbook

Cook″book′ (–bo͝ok′), n. A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.“Just How”: a key to the cookbooks.Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.

7720

Cookee

Cook‐ee″ (ko͝ok‐ē″), n.A female cook.

7721

Cookery

Cook″er‐y (ko͝ok″ẽr‐y̆), n. 1. The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.2. A delicacy; a dainty. R. North.

7722

Cookey

{ Cook″ey, Cook″ie } (?), n. See Cooky.