Webster's Dictionary 1913

8425

Cotrustee

Co′trus‐tee″ (k?′tr?s–t?″), n. A joint trustee.

8426

Cotswold

Cots″wold′ (k?ts″w?ld′), n. [Cot a cottage or hut + wold an open country.] An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.Cotswol...

8427

Cotta

Cot″ta (?), n. [LL. See Coat.] 1. (Eccl.) A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes no...

8428

Cottage

Cot″tage (k?t″t?j; 48), n. [From Cot a cottage.] A small house; a cot; a hut.☞ The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tastef...

8429

Cottaged

Cot″taged (–t?jd), a. Set or covered with cottages.Even humble Harting's cottaged vale.Collins.

8430

Cottagely

Cot″tage‐ly (–t?j–l?), a. Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. Jer. Taylor.

8431

Cottager

Cot″ta‐ger (k?t″t?–j?r), n. 1. One who lives in a cottage.2. (Law) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.

8432

Cotter

{ Cot″ter, Cot″tar } (k?t″t?r), n. [LL. cotarius, cottarius, coterius. See Cot.] A cottager; a cottier. Burns.Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sangGood morrow to the cotter....

8433

Cotter (2)

Cot″ter (kŏt″tẽr), n. 1. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one o...

8434

Cotter (3)

Cot″ter, v. t. To fasten with a cotter.

8435

Cottier

Cot″ti‐er (–tĭ‐ẽr), n. [OF. cotier. See Coterie, and cf. Cotter.] In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers comm...

8436

Cottise

Cot″tise (kŏt″tĭs), n. [Cf. F. côté side, L. costa rib.] (Her.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cott...

8437

Cottised

Cot″tised (–t?st), a.(Her.) Set between two cottises, — said of a bend; or between two barrulets, — said of a bar or fess.

8438

Cottoid

Cot″toid (k?t″toid), a. [NL. cottus sculpin + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like a fish of the genus Cottus. — n. A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.

8439

Cottolene

Cot″to‐lene′ (kŏt″tō̍‐lēn′), n. A product from cotton-seed, used as lard.

8440

Cotton

Cot″ton (kŏt″t'n), n. [F. coton, Sp. algodon the cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. Acton, Hacqueton.] 1. A soft, d...

8441

Cotton (2)

Cot″ton, v. i. 1. To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.It cottons well; it can not choose but bearA pretty nap.Family of Love.2. To go on prosperously; to succeed.New, Heph...

8442

Cotton batting

Cot″ton bat″ting. Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.

8443

Cotton seed

{ Cotton seed, or, usually collectively, Cot″ton‐seed′ } (?), n. The seed of the cotton plant.

8444

Cotton State

Cotton State. Alabama; — a nickname.

8445

Cottonade

Cot″ton‐ade′ (k?t″t'n–?d′), n. [F. cottonade.] A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.

8446

Cottonary

Cot″ton‐a‐ry (–?–r?), a. Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.Cottonary and woolly pillows.Sir T. Browne.

8447

Cottonous

Cot″ton‐ous (–?s), a. Resembling cotton. Evelyn.

8448

Cottonseed meal

Cottonseed meal. A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.

8449

Cottonseed oil

Cottonseed oil. A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr.,.92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an a...

8450

Cottontail

Cot″ton‐tail′ (kŏt″t'n‐tāl′), n.(Zoöl.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); — also called Molly cottontail.

8451

Cottonweed

Cot″ton‐weed′ (–wēd′), n.(Bot.) See Cudweed.