COHORT
COHORT, noun1. Among the Romans, a body of about five or six hundred men; each cohort consisted of three maniples, and each maniple, of two centuries; and ten cohorts constitute...
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COHORTATION
COHORTATION, noun Exhortation; encouragement.
COHOZE
COHOES, or COHOZEnoun A fall of water, or falls; a word of Indian origin in America.
COIF
COIF, noun A kind of caul, or cap, worn on the head, by sergeants at law, and others. Its chief use was to cover the clerical tonsure.COIF, verb transitive To cover or dress wit...
COIFED
COIFED, adjective Wearing a coif.
COIFFURE
COIFFURE, noun A head-dress.
COIGNE
COIGNE, for coin. [See coin, a corner.]
COIL
COIL, verb transitive To gather, as a line or cord into a circular form; to wind into a ring, as a serpent, or a rope.COIL, noun1. A rope gathered into a ring; on shipboard, a s...
COILED
COILED, participle passive Gathered into a circular form, as a rope or a serpent.
COILING
COILING, participle present tense Gathering or winding into a ring or circle.
COIN
COIN, noun1. A corner; a jutting point, as of a wall.Rustic coins, stones jutting from a wall for new buildings to be joined to.2. A wedge for raising or lowering a piece of ord...
COINAGE
COINAGE,COINCIDE, verb intransitive1. To fall or to meet in the same point, as two lines, or bodies; followed by with.If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would hav...
COINCIDE
COINCIDE, v.i.1. To fall or to meet in the same point, as two lines, or bodies; followed by with.If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual...
COINCIDENCE
COINCIDENCE, noun1. The falling or meeting of two or more lines, surfaces, or bodies in the same point.2. Concurrence; consistency; agreement; as the coincidence of two or more ...
COINCIDENT
COINCIDENT, adjective1. Falling on the same point; meeting as lines, surfaces or bodies; followed by with.2. Concurrent; consistent; agreeable to; followed by with.Christianity ...
COINCIDER
COINCIDER, noun He or that which coincides or concurs.
COINCIDING
COINCIDING, participle present tense Meeting in the same point; agreeing; concurring.
COINDICATION
COINDICATION, noun In medicine, a sign or symptom, which, with other signs, assists to show the nature of the disease, and the proper remedy; a concurrent sign or symptom.
COINED
COINED, participle passive Struck or stamped, as money; made; invented; forged.
COINER
COINER, noun1. One who stamps coin; a minter; a maker of money.2. A counterfeiter of the legal coin; a maker of base money.3. An inventor or maker, as of words.COINING, particip...
COINING
COINING, noun1. The act, art or practice of stamping money.2. Coin; money coined; stamped and legitimated metal for a circulating medium.3. Coins of a particular stamp; as the c...
COINQUINATE
COINQUINATE, verb transitive To pollute.
COINQUINATION
COINQUINATION, noun Defilement.
COINY
COIGNE or COINYverb intransitive To live by extortion.
COISTRIL
COISTRIL, noun1. A coward; a runaway.2. A young lad.
COIT
COIT, noun A quoit, which see.
COITING
COITING. [See Quoit.]