COXCOMICAL
COXCOMICAL, adjective Foppish; vain; conceited; a low word.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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COY
COY, adjective Modest; silent; reserved; not accessible; shy; not easily condescending to familiarity.Like Daphne she, as lovely and as coyCOY, verb intransitive1. To behave wit...
COYISH
COYISH, adjective Somewhat coy, or reserved.
COYLY
COYLY, adverb With reserve; with disinclination to familiarity.
COYNESS
COYNESS, noun Reserve; unwillingness to become familiar; disposition to avoid free intercourse, by silence or retirement.When the kind nymph would coyness feign, and hides but t...
COYSTREL
COYSTREL, noun A species of degenerate hawk.
COZ
COZ. A contraction of cousin.
COZEN
COZEN, verb transitive1. To cheat; to defraud.He that suffers a government to be abused by carelessness and neglect, does the same thing with him that corruptly sets himself to ...
COZENAGE
COZENAGE, noun Cheat; trick; fraud; deceit; artifice; the practice of cheating.
COZENED
COZENED, participle passive Cheated; defrauded; beguiled.
COZENER
COZENER, noun One who cheats, or defrauds.
COZENING
COZENING, participle present tense Cheating; defrauding; beguiling.
CRAB
CRAB, noun [Gr. Latin]1 A crustaceous fish, the cray-fish, Cancer, a genus containing numerous species. They have usually ten feet, two of which are furnished with claws; two ey...
CRAB-APPLE
CRAB-APPLE, noun A wild apple. [See Crab.]
CRAB-GRASS
CRAB-GRASS, noun A genus of plants, the Digitaria.
CRAB-TREE
CRAB-TREE, noun The tree that bears crabs.
CRAB-YAWS
CRAB-YAWS, noun The name of a disease in the West Indies, being a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with hard callous lips.
CRABBED
CRABBED, adjective [from crab.]1. Rough; harsh; austere; sour; peevish; morose; cynical; applied to the temper.2. Rough; harsh; applied to things.3. Difficult; perplexing; as a ...
CRABBEDLY
CRABBEDLY, adverb Peevishly; roughly; morosely; with perplexity.
CRABBEDNESS
CRABBEDNESS, noun1. Roughness; harshness.2. Sourness; peevishness; asperity.3. Difficulty; perplexity.
CRABBY
CRABBY, adjective Difficult.
CRABER
CRABER, noun The water-rat.
CRACK
CRACK, verb transitive1. To rend, break, or burst into chinks; to break partially; to divide the parts a little from each other; as, to crack a board or a rock; or to break with...
CRACK-BRAINED
CRACK-BRAINED, adjective Having intellects impaired; crazy.
CRACK-HEMP
CRACK-HEMP, CRACK-ROPE, noun A wretch fated to the gallows; one who deserves to be hanged.
CRACK-ROPE
CRACK-HEMP, CRACK-ROPE noun A wretch fated to the gallows; one who deserves to be hanged.
CRACKER
CRACKER, noun1. A noisy boasting fellow.2. A rocket; a quantity of gunpowder confined so as to explode with noise.3. A hard biscuit.4. That which cracks any thing.