Webster's Dictionary 1828

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COITION

COITION, noun A coming together; chiefly the venereal intercourse of the sexes; copulation.

2945

COJOIN

COJOIN, verb transitive To join with another in the same office.

2946

COJUROR

COJUROR, noun One who swears to anothers credibility.

2947

COKE

COKE, noun Fossil coal charred, or deprived of its bitumen, sulphur or other extraneous or volatile matter by fire, and thus prepared for exciting intense heat.

2948

COLANDER

COLANDER, noun A vessel with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquors. In America, this name is given, I believe, exclusively to a vessel of tin, or other met...

2949

COLATION

COLATION, noun The act of straining, or purifying liquor, by passing it through a perforated vessel.

2950

COLATURE

COLATURE, noun The act of straining; the matter strained.

2951

COLBERTINE

COLBERTINE, noun A kind of lace worn by women.

2952

COLCOTHAR

COLCOTHAR, noun The brown red oxyd of iron which remains after the distillation of the acid from sulphate of iron; used for polishing glass and other substances. It is called by...

2953

COLD

COLD, adjective1. Not warm or hot; gelid, frigid; a relative term. A substance is cold to the touch, when it is less warm then the body, and when in contact, the heat of the bod...

2954

COLD-BLOODED

COLD-BLOODED, adjective1. Having cold blood.2. Without sensibility, or feeling.

2955

COLD-FINCH

COLD-FINCH, noun A species of Motacilla, a bird frequenting the west of England, with the head and back of a brownish gray, the belly white, and the quill feathers and tail black.

2956

COLD-HEARTED

COLD-HEARTED, adjective Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.

2957

COLD-HEARTEDNESS

COLD-HEARTEDNESS, noun Want of feeling or sensibility.

2958

COLD-SHOT

COLD-SHOT, adjective Brittle when cold, as a metal.

2959

COLDLY

COLDLY, adverb In a cold manner; without warmth; without concern; without ardor or animation; without apparent passion, emotion or feeling; with indifference or negligence; as, ...

2960

COLDNESS

COLDNESS, noun1. Want of heat; as the coldness or water or air. When the heat or temperature of any substance is less than that of the animal body exposed to it, that state or t...

2961

COLE

COLE, noun The general name of all sorts of cabbage or brassica; but we generally use it in its compounds, cole-wort, cauliflower, etc.

2962

COLE-MOUSE

COLE-MOUSE, noun [See Coal-mouse.]

2963

COLE-PERCH

COLE-PERCH, noun A small fish, less than the common perch.

2964

COLE-SEED

COLE-SEED, noun1. The seed of the navew, napus sativa, or long-rooted, narrow-leafed rapa; reckoned a species of brassica or cabbage.2. Cabbage seed.

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COLE-WORT

COLE-WORT, noun A particular species of cole, brassica, or cabbage.

2966

COLEOPTER

COLEOPTER, TERA, noun The coleopters, in Linnes system of entomology, are an order of insects, having crustaceous elytra or shells, which shut and form a longitudinal suture alo...

2967

COLEOPTERAL

COLEOPTERAL, adjective Having wings covered with a case or sheath, which shuts as above.

2968

COLIC

COLIC, noun In general, a severe pain in the bowels, of which there are several varieties; as bilious colic hysteric colic nervous colic and many others.

2969

COLICAL

COLICAL, adjective Affecting the bowels.

2970

COLIN

COLIN, noun A bird of the partridge kind, found in America and the West Indies, called.