Webster's Dictionary 1828

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COQUELICO

COQUELICOT, coqueliconoun Wild poppy; corn rose; hence, the color of wild poppy.

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COQUELICOT

COQUELICOT, COQUELICO, noun Wild poppy; corn rose; hence, the color of wild poppy.

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COQUET

COQUET, COQUETTE, noun A vain, airy, trifling girl, who endeavors to attract admiration and advances in love, from a desire to gratify vanity, and then rejects her lover; a jilt.

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COQUETISH

COQUETISH, adjective Practicing coquetry.

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COQUETRY

COQUETRY, noun Attempts to attract admiration, notice or love, from vanity; affectation of amorous advances; trifling in love.

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COQUETTE

COQUET, COQUETTE noun A vain, airy, trifling girl, who endeavors to attract admiration and advances in love, from a desire to gratify vanity, and then rejects her lover; a jilt....

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CORACLE

CORACLE, noun [Gr., a crow, and form.] A small sharp process of the scapula, shaped like a crows beak.

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CORACOID

CORACOID, adjective Shaped like a beak.

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CORAL

CORAL, noun [Latin Gr.]1. In zoology, a genus belonging to the order of vermes zoophyta. The trunk is radicated, jointed and calcarious. The species are distinguished by the for...

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CORAL-TREE

CORAL-TREE, noun A genus of plants, Erythrina, of several species, natives of Africa and America. They are all shrubby flowering plants, adorned chiefly with trifoliate or three...

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CORAL-WORT

CORAL-WORT, noun A genus of plants, Dentaria, called also tooth-wort or tooth-violet.

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CORALLACEOUS

CORALLACEOUS, adjective Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.

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CORALLIFORM

CORALLIFORM, adjective [coral and form.] Resembling coral; forked and crooked.

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CORALLINE

CORALLINE, adjective Consisting of coral; like coral; containing coral.CORALLINE, noun A submarine plant-like body, consisting of many slender, jointed branches, resembling some...

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CORALLINITE

CORALLINITE, noun A fossil polypier or coralline.

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CORALLITE

CORALLITE, noun A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral; or a fossil polypier, larger than a corallinite.

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CORALLOID

CORALLOID, CORALLOIDAL, adjective Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

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CORALLOIDAL

CORALLOID, CORALLOIDAL adjective Having the form of coral; branching like coral.CORALLOID, noun Eschara or hornwrack, a species of coralline, resembling woven cloth in texture, ...

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CORANT

CORANT, noun [Latin] A lofty sprightly dance.

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CORB

CORB, noun [Latin See the next word.]1. A basket used in coaleries.2. An ornament in a building.

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CORBAN

CORBAN, noun [Latin G., a wicker basket.]1. In Jewish antiquity, an offering which had life; an animal offered to God; in opposition to the mincha, which was an offering without...

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CORBE

CORBE, adjective Crooked. [Not in use.]

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CORBEIL

CORBEIL, noun In fortification, a little basket, to be filled with earth, and set upon a parapet, to shelter men from the fire of besiegers.

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CORBEL

CORBEL, noun [See the preceding words.]1. In architecture, the representation of a basket, sometimes set on the heads of caryatides.2. The vase or tambour of the Corinthian colu...

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CORBY

CORBY, noun A raven. [Not in use.]

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CORCELET

CORCELET, CORSELET, noun In natural history, that part of winged insects, which answers to the breast of other animals.

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CORCLE

CORCULE, CORCLE noun [Latin It is a diminutive, from cor, the heart.] In botany, the heart of the seed, or rudiment of a future plant, attached to and involved in the cotyledons...