Webster's Dictionary 1913

8749

Cousinship

Cous″in‐ship, n. The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood. G. Eliot.

8750

Coussinet

Cous″si‐net′ (k??s″s?–n?t′), n. [F., dim. of coussin cushion. See Cushionet.] (Arch.) (a) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch. (b) Th...

8751

Couteau

Cou‐teau″ (k??–t?″), n. A knife; a dagger.

8752

Couth

Couth (k??th), imp. & p. p. of Can. [See Can, and cf. Uncouth.] Could; was able; knew or known; understood.Above all other one DanielHe loveth, for he couth wellDivine, that non...

8753

Couvade

‖Cou′vade″ (ko͞o′vȧd″), n. [F., fr. couver. See Covey.] A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if il...

8754

Couveuse

‖Cou′veuse″ (?), n.(Med.) An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.

8755

Covariant

Co‐va″ri‐ant (k?–v?″r?–a>nt), n.(Higher Alg.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the sa...

8756

Cove

Cove (kōv), n. [AS. cofa room; akin to G. koben pigsty, orig., hut, Icel. kofi hut, and perh. to E. cobalt.]1. A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or ba...

8757

Cove (2)

Cove, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Coved (k?vd); p. pr. & vb. n.Coving.] (Arch.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.The mosques and other build...

8758

Cove (3)

Cove, v. t. [CF. F. couver, It. covare. See Covey.] To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.Not being able to cove or sit upon them, she bestoweth them in the gr...

8759

Cove (4)

Cove, n. [A gypsy word, covo that man, covi that woman.] A boy or man of any age or station.There's a gentry cove here.Wit's Recreations (1654).Now, look to it, coves, that all ...

8760

Covelline

{ Co‐vel″line (k?–v?l″l?n), Co‐vel″lite } (–l?t), n. [After Covelli, the discoverer.] (Min.) A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; — hence called...

8761

Covenable

Cov″e‐na‐ble (k?v″?–n?–b'l), a. [OF. covenable, F. convenable. See Covenant.] Fit; proper; suitable. “A covenable day.” Wyclif (Mark vi. 21).

8762

Covenably

Cov″e‐na‐bly (k?v″?–n?–bly), adv. Fitly; suitably. “Well and covenably.” Chaucer.

8763

Covenant

Cov″e‐nant (k?v″?–nant), n. [OF. covenant, fr. F. & OF. convenir to agree, L. convenire. See Convene.]1. A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stip...

8764

Covenant (2)

Cov″e‐nant (k?v″?–n?nt), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Covenanted; p. pr. & vb. n.Covenanting.] To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a...

8765

Covenant (3)

Cov″e‐nant, v. t. To grant or promise by covenant.My covenant of peace that I covenanted with you.Wyclif.

8766

Covenantee

Cov′e‐nan‐tee″ (k?v′?–nan–t?″), n.(Law) The person in whose favor a covenant is made.

8767

Covenanter

Cov″e‐nant‐er (k?v″?–n?nt–?r), n. 1. One who makes a covenant.2. (Eccl. Hist.) One who subscribed and defended the “Solemn League and Covenant.” See Covenant.

8768

Covenanting

Cov″e‐nant‐ing, a. Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters.Be they covenanting traitors,Or the brood of false Argyle?Aytoun.

8769

Covenantor

Cov″e‐nant‐or′ (–?r′), n.(Law) The party who makes a covenant. Burrill.

8770

Covenous

Cov″e‐nous (k?v″?–n?s), a. See Covinous, and Covin.

8771

Covent

Cov″ent (k?v″ent), n. [OF. covent, F. couvent. See Convent.] A convent or monastery. Bale.Covent Garden, a large square in London, so called because originally it was the garden...

8772

Coventry

Cov″en‐try (k?v″en–tr?), n. A town in the county of Warwick, England.To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly cond...

8773

Cover

Cov″er (k?v″?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Covered (–?rd); p. pr. & vb. n.Covering.] [OF. covrir, F. couvrir, fr. L. cooperire; co- + operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + ...

8774

Cover (2)

Cov″er (k?v″?r), n. 1. Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.2. Anything which veils or concea...

8775

Cover (3)

Cov″er, v. i. To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet. Shak.