Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
coadapted |
adjective |
Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. |
coadjutor |
noun |
One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker., The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice. |
coadunate |
adjective |
United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf. |
coagulant |
noun |
That which produces coagulation. |
coagulate |
adjective |
Coagulated., To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg., To undergo coagulation. |
coalesced |
imp. & past participle |
of Coalesce |
coalgoose |
noun |
The cormorant; — so called from its black color. |
coalition |
noun |
The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms., A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests. |
co-allies |
plural |
of Co-ally |
coalmouse |
noun |
A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit. |
coarctate |
adjective |
To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely., To restrain; to confine., Pressed together; closely connected; — applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. |
coastwise |
adverb |
Alt. of Coastways |
coastways |
adverb |
By way of, or along, the coast. |
coaxation |
noun |
The act of croaking. |
coaxingly |
adverb |
In a coaxing manner; by coaxing. |
cobaltine |
noun |
Alt. of Cobaltite |
cobaltite |
noun |
A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt. |
cobaltous |
adjective |
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; — said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence. |
cobwebbed |
adjective |
Abounding in cobwebs. |
coccolite |
noun |
A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color. |
coccolith |
noun |
One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud. |
coccygeal |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebrae. |
cochineal |
|
A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera. |
cochleare |
noun |
A spoon., A spoonful. |
cochleary |
adjective |
Same as Cochleate. |
cochleate |
adjective |
Alt. of Cochleated |
cockateel |
noun |
An Australian parrot (Calopsitta Novae-Hollandiae); — so called from its note. |
cockering |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Cocker |
cockfight |
noun |
A match or contest of gamecocks. |
cockhorse |
noun |
A child’s rocking-horse., A high or tall horse., Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse., Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart. |
cocklebur |
noun |
A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; — called also clotbur. |
cockmatch |
noun |
A cockfight. |
cockneyfy |
verb t. |
To form with the manners or character of a cockney. |
cockroach |
noun |
An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera. |
cockscomb |
noun |
See Coxcomb., A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; — sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli. |
cockshead |
noun |
A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods. |
cockswain |
noun |
The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew. |
coco palm |
|
See Cocoa. |
cocobolas |
noun |
A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles. |
cocoonery |
noun |
A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons. |
codifying |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Codify |
cod liver |
noun |
The liver of the common cod and allied species. |
coecilian |
noun |
See Caecilian. |
coelodont |
adjective |
Having hollow teeth; — said of a group lizards., One of a group of lizards having hollow teeth. |
coemption |
noun |
The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity. |
coenobite |
noun |
See Cenobite. |
coenogamy |
noun |
The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; — as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies. |
coenosarc |
noun |
The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea. |
coequally |
adverb |
With coequality. |
coercible |
adjective |
Capable of being coerced. |
coetanean |
noun |
A person coetaneous with another; a contemporary. |
coeternal |
adjective |
Equally eternal. |
coexisted |
imp. & past participle |
of Coexist |
coffeeman |
noun |
One who keeps a coffeehouse. |
coffeepot |
noun |
A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking. |
cofferdam |
noun |
A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc. |
coffining |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Coffin |
cogitable |
adjective |
Capable of being brought before the mind as a thought or idea; conceivable; thinkable. |
cogitated |
imp. & past participle |
of Cogitate |
cognation |
noun |
Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred., Participation of the same nature., That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; — used in distinction from agnation. |
cognition |
verb t. |
The act of knowing; knowledge; perception., That which is known. |
cognitive |
adjective |
Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. |
cognizant |
adjective |
Having cognizance or knowledge. (of). |
cohabited |
imp. & past participle |
of Cohabit |
cohabiter |
noun |
A cohabitant. |
coheiress |
noun |
A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress. |
coherence |
noun |
Alt. of Coherency |
coherency |
noun |
A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion., Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness. |
cohesible |
adjective |
Capable of cohesion. |
cohibited |
imp. & past participle |
of Cohibit |
cohobated |
imp. & past participle |
of Cohobate |
coincided |
imp. & past participle |
of Coincide |
coincider |
noun |
One who coincides with another in an opinion. |
coinitial |
adjective |
Having a common beginning. |
cointense |
adjective |
Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense. |
colaborer |
noun |
One who labors with another; an associate in labor. |
colchicum |
noun |
A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron. |
colcothar |
noun |
Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; — called also crocus Martis. |
coldfinch |
noun |
A British wagtail. |
cold-shut |
adjective |
Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; — said of a forging or casting., An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding. |
colegoose |
noun |
See Coalgoose. |
colemouse |
noun |
See Coletit. |
coleopter |
noun |
One of the Coleoptera. |
coleperch |
noun |
A kind of small black perch. |
co-lessee |
noun |
A partner in a lease taken. |
co-lessor |
noun |
A partner in giving a lease. |
colestaff |
noun |
See Colstaff. |
colicroot |
noun |
A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root. |
collapsed |
imp. & past participle |
of Collapse |
collaring |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Collar |
collating |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Collate |
collation |
verb t. |
The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general., The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding., The act of conferring or bestowing., A conference., The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift., The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity., The report of the act made by the proper officers., The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred., A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries., A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; — first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries., To partake of a collation. |
collative |
adjective |
Passing or held by collation; — said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person. |
colleague |
noun |
A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures., To unite or associate with another or with others. |
collected |
imp. & past participle |
of Collect, Gathered together., Self-possessed; calm; composed. |
collector |
noun |
One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins., A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book., An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll., One authorized to collect debts., A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. |
collegial |
noun |
Collegiate. |
collegian |
noun |
A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college. |
collidine |
noun |
One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids. |
colligate |
verb t. |
To tie or bind together., To bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition., Bound together. |
collimate |
verb t. |
To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light. |
collingly |
adverb |
With embraces. |
collision |
noun |
The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing., A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. |
collisive |
adjective |
Colliding; clashing. |
collocate |
adjective |
Set; placed., To set or place; to set; to station. |
collodion |
noun |
A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. |
collodium |
noun |
See Collodion. |
colloidal |
adjective |
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids. |
colluding |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Collude |
collusion |
noun |
A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other’s hands; deceit; fraud; cunning., An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. |
collusive |
adjective |
Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion., Acting in collusion. |
collusory |
adjective |
Collusive. |
collutory |
noun |
A medicated wash for the mouth. |
collybist |
noun |
A money changer. |
collyrium |
noun |
An application to the eye, usually an eyewater. |
colocynth |
noun |
The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd. |
colombier |
noun |
A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper. |
colonelcy |
noun |
The office, rank, or commission of a colonel. |
colonical |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to husbandmen. |
colonitis |
noun |
See Colitis. |
colonized |
imp. & past participle |
of Colonize |
colonizer |
noun |
One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. |
colonnade |
noun |
A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc. |
colophany |
noun |
See Colophony. |
colophene |
noun |
A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene. |
colophony |
noun |
Rosin. |
colorable |
adjective |
Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice. |
colorific |
adjective |
Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies. |
colorless |
adjective |
Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water., Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless. |
colossean |
adjective |
Colossal. |
colosseum |
noun |
The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome. |
colostrum |
noun |
The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings., A mixture of turpentine and the yolk of an egg, formerly used as an emulsion. |
colporter |
noun |
Same as Colporteur. |
coltsfoot |
noun |
A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. |
colubrine |
adjective |
like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber., Like a snake; cunning; crafty. |
columbary |
noun |
A dovecote; a pigeon house. |
columbate |
noun |
A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium. |
columbiad |
noun |
A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation. |
columbian |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America. |
columbier |
noun |
See Colombier. |
columbine |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored., A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America., The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. |
columbite |
noun |
A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; — first found in New England. |
columbium |
noun |
A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium. |
columella |
noun |
An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens., A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses., A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear., The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells., The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals. |
comanches |
noun pl. |
A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; — called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty. |
comatulid |
noun |
Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera. |
combating |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Combat |
combatant |
adjective |
Contending; disposed to contend., One who engages in combat. |
combative |
adjective |
Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious. |
combinate |
adjective |
United; joined; betrothed. |
combining |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Combine |
comboloio |
noun |
A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. |
co-meddle |
verb t. |
To mix; to mingle, to temper. |
comedones |
plural |
of Comedo |
comfiture |
noun |
See Comfit, n. |
comforted |
imp. & past participle |
of Comfort |
comforter |
noun |
One who administers comfort or consolation., The Holy Spirit, — referring to his office of comforting believers., A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow., A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. |
commanded |
imp. & past participle |
of Command |
commander |
noun |
A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it., An officer who ranks next below a captain, — ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army., The chief officer of a commandery., A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc. |
commandry |
noun |
See Commandery. |
commatism |
noun |
Conciseness in writing. |
commenced |
imp. & past participle |
of Commence |
commended |
imp. & past participle |
of Commend |
commendam |
noun |
A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836. |
commender |
noun |
One who commends or praises. |
commensal |
noun |
One who eats at the same table., An animal, not truly parasitic, which lives in, with, or on, another, partaking usually of the same food. Both species may be benefited by the association., Having the character of a commensal. |
commented |
imp. & past participle |
of Comment |
commenter |
noun |
One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator. |
commerced |
imp. & past participle |
of Commerce |
commingle |
verb t. & i. |
To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend. |
comminute |
verb t. |
To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. |
committed |
imp. & past participle |
of Commit |
committal |
noun |
The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment. |
committee |
noun |
One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together., One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian. |
committer |
noun |
One who commits; one who does or perpetrates., A fornicator. |
commixing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Commix |
commixion |
noun |
Commixture. |
commodate |
noun |
A gratuitous loan. |
commodity |
noun |
Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness., That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), — goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc., A parcel or quantity of goods. |
commodore |
noun |
An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army., A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral., A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club., A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet. |
commonage |
noun |
The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. |
commonish |
adjective |
Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. |
commorant |
noun |
Ordinarily residing; inhabiting., Inhabiting or occupying temporarily., A resident. |
commotion |
noun |
Disturbed or violent motion; agitation., A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot., Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement. |
commoving |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Commove |
communing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Commune |
communion |
noun |
The act of sharing; community; participation., Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints., A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion., The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord’s supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion. |
communism |
noun |
A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all. |
communist |
noun |
An advocate for the theory or practice of communism., A supporter of the commune of Paris. |
community |
noun |
Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods., A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests., Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general., Common character; likeness., Commonness; frequency. |
commuting |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Commute |
commutual |
adjective |
Mutual; reciprocal; united. |
compacted |
imp. & past participle |
of Compact, Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united. |
compacter |
noun |
One who makes a compact. |
compactly |
adverb |
In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely. |
companion |
noun |
One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner., A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath., A fellow; — in contempt., A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck., A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch., To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany., To qualify as a companion; to make equal. |
companies |
plural |
of Company |
companied |
imp. & past participle |
of Company |
comparate |
noun |
One of two things compared together. |
comparing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Compare |
comparted |
imp. & past participle |
of Compart |
compassed |
imp. & past participle |
of Compass, Rounded; arched. |
compasses |
noun |
An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move. |
compelled |
imp. & past participle |
of Compel |
compeller |
noun |
One who compels or constrains. |
compendia |
plural |
of Compendium |
competing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Compete |
competent |
adjective |
Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit., Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; — followed by to. |
compiling |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Compile |
complaint |
noun |
Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding., Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring., An ailment or disease of the body., A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity. |
complanar |
adjective |
See Coplanar. |
completed |
imp. & past participle |
of Complete |
complexed |
adjective |
Complex, complicated. |
complexly |
adverb |
In a complex manner; not simply. |
complexus |
noun |
A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication. |
compliant |
adjective |
Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. |
complices |
plural |
of Complice |
complying |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Comply |
component |
verb t. |
Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent., A constituent part; an ingredient. |
comported |
imp. & past participle |
of Comport |
composing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Compose, Tending to compose or soothe., Pertaining to, or used in, composition. |
composite |
verb t. |
Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language., Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital., Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion., That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound. |
composure |
noun |
The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition., Orderly adjustment; disposition., Frame; make; temperament., A settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose., A combination; a union; a bond. |
comprador |
noun |
A kind of steward or agent. |
comprisal |
noun |
The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. |
comprised |
imp. & past participle |
of Comprise |
compromit |
noun |
To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise., To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation. |
comptible |
verb t. |
Accountable; responsible; sensitive. |
computing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Compute |
computist |
noun |
A computer. |
comradery |
noun |
The spirit of comradeship; comradeship. |
concaving |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Concave |
concavity |
noun |
A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave. |
concavous |
adjective |
Concave. |
concealed |
imp. & past participle |
of Conceal, Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. |
concealer |
noun |
One who conceals. |
conceding |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Concede |
conceited |
adjective |
Endowed with fancy or imagination., Entertaining a flattering opinion of one’s self; vain., Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. |
conceived |
imp. & past participle |
of Conceive |
conceiver |
noun |
One who conceives. |
concenter |
verb i. |
Alt. of Concentre, Alt. of Concentre |
concentre |
verb i. |
To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center., To draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate. |
concerned |
imp. & past participle |
of Concern, Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend. |
concerted |
imp. & past participle |
of Concert, Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals. |
concertos |
plural |
of Concerto |
conchifer |
noun |
One of the Conchifera. |
conchitic |
adjective |
Composed of shells; containing many shells. |
conciator |
adjective |
The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them. |
concierge |
noun |
One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female. |
conciliar |
adjective |
Alt. of Conciliary |
concisely |
adverb |
In a concise manner; briefly. |
concision |
noun |
A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction. |
concluded |
imp. & past participle |
of Conclude |
concluder |
noun |
One who concludes. |
concocted |
imp. & past participle |
of Concoct |
concocter |
noun |
One who concocts. |
concordat |
noun |
A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything., An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801. |
concourse |
noun |
A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence., An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place., The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies., An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet., Concurrence; cooperation. |
concreate |
verb t. |
To create at the same time. |
concreted |
imp. & past participle |
of Concrete |
concubine |
noun |
A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour., A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father. |
concurred |
imp. & past participle |
of Concur |
condemned |
imp. & past participle |
of Condemn, Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation., Used for condemned persons. |
condemner |
noun |
One who condemns or censures. |
condensed |
imp. & past participle |
of Condense |
condenser |
noun |
One who, or that which, condenses., An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape., An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate., A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object., An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling., An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine. |
condignly |
adverb |
According to merit. |
condiment |
noun |
Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning. |
condition |
noun |
Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate., Essential quality; property; attribute., Temperament; disposition; character., That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified., A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend., To make terms; to stipulate., To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible., To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of., To contract; to stipulate; to agree., To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one’s class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study., To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains)., train; acclimate. |
conditory |
noun |
A repository for holding things; a hinding place. |
condoling |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Condole |
condoning |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Condone |
conducing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Conduce |
conducent |
adjective |
Conducive; tending. |
conducive |
adjective |
Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote. |
conducted |
imp. & past participle |
of Conduct |
conductor |
noun |
One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director., One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car., The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus., A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod., A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director., Same as Leader. |
condyloid |
adjective |
Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle. |
condyloma |
noun |
Alt. of Condylome |
condylome |
noun |
A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrane. |
confected |
imp. & past participle |
of Confect |
conferred |
imp. & past participle |
of Confer |
conferree |
noun |
Same as Conferee. |
conferrer |
noun |
One who confers; one who converses., One who bestows; a giver. |
confervae |
plural |
of Conferva |
confessed |
imp. & past participle |
of Confess |
confesser |
noun |
One who makes a confession. |
confessor |
noun |
One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith., A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution. |
confestly |
adverb |
See Cofessedly. |
confidant |
noun fem. |
Alt. of Confidante |
confiding |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Confide, That confides; trustful; unsuspicious. |
confident |
noun |
See Confidant. |
configure |
verb t. |
To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. |
confining |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Confine |
confinity |
noun |
Community of limits; contiguity. |
confirmee |
noun |
One to whom anything is confirmed. |
confirmer |
noun |
One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates. |
confitent |
noun |
One who confesses his sins and faults. |
confiteor |
noun |
A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made. |
confiture |
noun |
Composition; preparation, as of a drug, or confection; a sweetmeat. |
confixure |
noun |
Act of fastening. |
conflated |
imp. & past participle |
of Conflate |
confluent |
adjective |
Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another., Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction., Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules., Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox., A small steam which flows into a large one., The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc. |
conformed |
imp. & past participle |
of Conform |
conformer |
noun |
One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines. |
confronte |
adjective |
Same as Affronte. |
confucian |
adjective |
Of, or relating to, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and teacher., A Confucianist. |
confusing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Confuse |
confusely |
adverb |
Confusedly; obscurely. |
confusion |
noun |
The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult., The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame., Overthrow; defeat; ruin., One who confuses; a confounder. |
confusive |
adjective |
Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. |
confutant |
noun |
One who undertakes to confute. |
confuting |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Confute |
congeable |
adjective |
Permissible; done lawfully; as, entry congeable. |
congealed |
imp. & past participle |
of Congeal |
congenial |
adjective |
Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic., Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition. |
congenite |
adjective |
Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital. |
congeries |
noun sing & pl. |
A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation. |
congested |
adjective |
Crowded together., Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperaemic; — said of any part of the body. |
conglobed |
imp. & past participle |
of Conglobe |
conglutin |
noun |
A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc. |
congruent |
adjective |
Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding. |
congruism |
noun |
See Congruity. |
congruity |
noun |
The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency., Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another., That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace. |
congruous |
adjective |
Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. |
conically |
adverb |
In the form of a cone. |
coniferin |
noun |
A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance. |
conjector |
noun |
One who guesses or conjectures. |
conjoined |
imp. & past participle |
of Conjoin, Joined together or touching. |
conjugate |
adjective |
United in pairs; yoked together; coupled., In single pairs; coupled., Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one., Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; — said of words., Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; — frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc., A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification., A complex radical supposed to act the part of a single radical., To unite in marriage; to join., To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons., To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals. |
conjugial |
adjective |
Conjugal. |
conjugium |
noun |
The marriage tie. |
conjuring |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Conjure |
connation |
noun |
Connection by birth; natural union. |
connature |
noun |
Participation in a common nature or character. |
connected |
imp. & past participle |
of Connect |
connector |
noun |
One who, or that which, connects, A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments., A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact. |
connexion |
noun |
Connection. See Connection. |
connexive |
adjective |
See Connective. |
conniving |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Connive |
connivent |
adjective |
Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice., Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc. |
connotate |
verb t. |
To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply. |
connoting |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Connote |
connubial |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial. |
connusant |
adjective |
See Cognizant. |
conominee |
noun |
One nominated in conjunction with another; a joint nominee. |
conquered |
imp. & past participle |
of Conquer |
conqueror |
noun |
One who conquers. |
conscient |
adjective |
Conscious. |
conscious |
adjective |
Possessing the faculty of knowing one’s own thoughts or mental operations., Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible., Made the object of consciousness; known to one’s self; as, conscious guilt. |
conscribe |
verb t. |
To enroll; to enlist. |
conscript |
adjective |
Enrolled; written; registered., One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor., To enroll, by compulsion, for military service. |
consecute |
verb t. |
To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue. |
consensus |
noun |
Agreement; accord; consent. |
consented |
imp. & past participle |
of Consent |
consenter |
adjective |
One who consents. |
conserved |
imp. & past participle |
of Conserve |
conserver |
noun |
One who conserves. |
consigned |
imp. & past participle |
of Consign |
consignee |
noun |
The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; — correlative to consignor. |
consigner |
noun |
One who consigns. See Consignor. |
consignor |
noun |
One who consigns something to another; — opposed to consignee. |
consisted |
imp. & past participle |
of Consist |
consolate |
verb t. |
To console; to comfort. |
consoling |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Console, Adapted to console or comfort; cheering; as, this is consoling news. |
consonant |
adjective |
Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; — usually followed by with or to., Having like sounds., harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords., Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants., An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound. |
consonous |
adjective |
Agreeing in sound; symphonious. |
consopite |
adjective |
Lulled to sleep., To lull to sleep; to quiet; to compose. |
consorted |
imp. & past participle |
of Consort |
conspired |
imp. & past participle |
of Conspire |
conspirer |
noun |
One who conspires; a conspirator. |
constable |
noun |
A high officer in the monarchical establishments of the Middle Ages., An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to execute the warrants of judicial officers. |
constancy |
noun |
The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God in his nature and attributes., Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity. |
constrain |
verb t. |
To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe., To bring into a narrow compass; to compress., To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress., To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige., To violate; to ravish., To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice. |
constrict |
verb t. |
To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink. |
construct |
verb t. |
To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice., To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics., Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference. |
construed |
imp. & past participle |
of Construe |
consulage |
noun |
A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their commerce by means of a consul in a foreign place. |
consulary |
adjective |
Consular. |
consulate |
noun |
The office of a consul., The jurisdiction or residence of a consul., Consular government; term of office of a consul. |
consulted |
imp. & past participle |
of Consult |
consulter |
noun |
One who consults, or asks counsel or information. |
consuming |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Consume |
contagion |
noun |
The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact., That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease., The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm., Venom; poison. |
contagium |
noun |
Contagion; contagious matter. |
contained |
imp. & past participle |
of Contain |
container |
noun |
One who, or that which, contains. |
contemned |
imp. & past participle |
of Contemn |
contemner |
noun |
One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. |
contemper |
verb t. |
To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften. |
contended |
imp. & past participle |
of Contend |
contender |
noun |
One who contends; a contestant. |
contented |
adjective |
Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing. |
contently |
adverb |
In a contented manner. |
contested |
imp. & past participle |
of Contest |
conticent |
adjective |
Silent. |
continent |
adjective |
Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing., Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate., Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste., Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever., That which contains anything; a receptacle., One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America. |
continual |
adjective |
Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding., Occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated. |
continued |
imp. & past participle |
of Continue, Having extension of time, space, order of events, exertion of energy, etc.; extended; protracted; uninterrupted; also, resumed after interruption; extending through a succession of issues, session, etc.; as, a continued story. |
continuer |
noun |
One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence. |
contorted |
adjective |
Twisted, or twisted together., Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants., Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation. |
contralto |
noun |
The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor., the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto., Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice. |
contrarry |
adjective |
To contradict or oppose; to thwart. |
contrived |
imp. & past participle |
of Contrive |
contriver |
noun |
One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. |
contumacy |
noun |
Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority., A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned. |
contumely |
noun |
Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace. |
contusing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Contuse |
contusion |
noun |
The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised., A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound. |
conundrum |
noun |
A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun., A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made. |
conusable |
adjective |
Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged. |
convenong |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Convene |
converged |
imp. & past participle |
of Converge |
conversed |
imp. & past participle |
of Converse |
converser |
noun |
One who engages in conversation. |
converted |
imp. & past participle |
of Convert |
converter |
noun |
One who converts; one who makes converts., A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. |
convexity |
noun |
The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. |
conveying |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Convey |
convicted |
imp. & past participle |
of Convict |
convinced |
imp. & past participle |
of Convince |
convincer |
noun |
One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof. |
convivial |
adjective |
Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. |
convocate |
verb t. |
To convoke; to call together. |
convoking |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Convoke |
convolute |
adjective |
Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; — said of the leaves of plants in aestivation. |
convolved |
imp. & past participle |
of Convolve |
convoying |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Convoy |
convulsed |
imp. & past participle |
of Convulse |
coopering |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Cooper |
cooperage |
noun |
Work done by a cooper., The price paid for coopers; work., A place where coopers’ work is done. |
cooperant |
adjective |
Operating together; as, cooperant forces. |
cooperate |
verb i. |
To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect. |
coparceny |
noun |
An equal share of an inheritance. |
copartner |
noun |
One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. |
copatriot |
noun |
A joint patriot. |
copesmate |
noun |
An associate or companion; a friend; a partner. |
copestone |
noun |
A stone for coping. See Coping. |
copiously |
adverb |
In a copious manner. |
coportion |
noun |
Equal share. |
coppering |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Copper, The act of covering with copper., An envelope or covering of copper. |
copperish |
adjective |
Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste. |
coprolite |
noun |
A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement. |
copsewood |
noun |
Brushwood; coppice. |
copulated |
imp. & past participle |
of Copulate |
copygraph |
noun |
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing. |
copyright |
noun |
The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books., To secure a copyright on. |
coquetted |
imp. & past participle |
of Coquet |
corallian |
noun |
A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; — called also coral-rag. |
coralline |
adjective |
Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone., A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches., Formerly any slender coral-like animal; — sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals. |
corallite |
noun |
A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral., One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal. |
coralloid |
adjective |
Having the form of coral; branching like coral. |
coral-rag |
noun |
Same as Corallian. |
coralwort |
noun |
A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; — called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root. |
corchorus |
noun |
The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens. |
cordately |
adverb |
In a cordate form. |
cordelier |
noun |
A Franciscan; — so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans., A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris. |
cordeling |
adjective |
Twisting. |
cordially |
adverb |
In a cordial manner. |
cordoform |
adjective |
Heart-shaped. |
cordonnet |
noun |
Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. |
co-regent |
noun |
A joint regent or ruler. |
coreopsis |
noun |
A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing. |
coriander |
noun |
An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative. |
corivalry |
noun |
Alt. of Corivalship |
corkiness |
noun |
The quality of being corky. |
corkscrew |
noun |
An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles., To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one’s way through a crowd. |
cormogeny |
noun |
The embryological history of groups or families of individuals. |
cormorant |
noun |
Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese., A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. |
cormoraut |
adjective |
Ravenous; voracious. |
cornamute |
noun |
A cornemuse. |
corncrake |
noun |
A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; — called also corn bird. |
cornelian |
noun |
Same as Carnelian. |
cornemuse |
noun |
A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe. |
corneouss |
adjective |
Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard. |
cornering |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Corner |
cornercap |
noun |
The chief ornament. |
cornfield |
noun |
A field where corn is or has been growing; — in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn. |
cornfloor |
noun |
A thrashing floor. |
cornicula |
plural |
of Corniculum |
cornified |
adjective |
Converted into horn; horny. |
corniform |
adjective |
Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped. |
cornopean |
noun |
An obsolete name for the cornet-a-piston. |
cornshuck |
noun |
The husk covering an ear of Indian corn. |
cornstalk |
noun |
A stalk of Indian corn. |
corollary |
noun |
That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous., Something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence. |
corollate |
adjective |
Alt. of Corollated |
corolline |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to a corolla. |
coronamen |
noun |
The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet. |
coronated |
adjective |
Having or wearing a crown., Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; — said of birds., Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; — said of spiral shells., Having a crest or a crownlike appendage. |
coroneted |
adjective |
Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank. |
coronilla |
noun |
A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets. |
corporace |
noun |
See Corporas. |
corporale |
adjective |
A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth. |
corporate |
adjective |
Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town., Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body., United; general; collectively one., To incorporate., To become incorporated. |
corporeal |
adjective |
Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; — opposed to spiritual or immaterial. |
corporify |
verb t. |
To embody; to form into a body. |
corposant |
noun |
St. Elmo’s fire. See under Saint. |
corpulent |
adjective |
Very fat; obese., Solid; gross; opaque. |
corpuscle |
noun |
A minute particle; an atom; a molecule., A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. |
corradial |
adjective |
Radiating to or from the same point. |
corrasion |
noun |
The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water. |
corrasive |
adjective |
Corrosive. |
corrected |
imp. & past participle |
of Correct |
correctly |
adverb |
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. |
corrector |
noun |
One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids. |
correlate |
verb i. |
To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related., To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena., One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative. |
corrigent |
noun |
A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action. |
corrivate |
verb t. |
To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams. |
corroding |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Corrode |
corrodent |
adjective |
Corrosive., Anything that corrodes. |
corrosion |
noun |
The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion. |
corrosive |
adjective |
Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid., Having the quality of fretting or vexing., That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually., That which has the power of fretting or irritating. |
corrugant |
adjective |
Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. |
corrugate |
adjective |
Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows., To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. |
corrugent |
adjective |
Drawing together; contracting; — said of the corrugator. |
corrupted |
imp. & past participle |
of Corrupt |
corrupter |
noun |
One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals. |
corruptly |
adverb |
In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully. |
corseting |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Corset |
corticate |
adjective |
Alt. of Corticated |
corticine |
noun |
A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber. |
corticose |
adjective |
Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky. |
corticous |
adjective |
Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose. |
corundums |
plural |
of Corundum |
coruscant |
adjective |
Glittering in flashes; flashing. |
coruscate |
verb i. |
To glitter in flashes; to flash. |
corvorant |
noun |
See Cormorant. |
corybants |
plural |
of Corybant |
corymbose |
adjective |
Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form. |
coryphene |
noun |
A fish of the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. (2) |
corypheus |
noun |
The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest. |
coscoroba |
noun |
A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan. |
coshering |
noun |
A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant’s house. |
cosmogony |
noun |
The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. |
cosmolabe |
noun |
An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; — called also pantacosm. |
cosmoline |
noun |
A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly. |
cosmology |
noun |
The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature. |
cosmorama |
noun |
An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality. |
costively |
adverb |
In a costive manner. |
costotome |
noun |
An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. |
cosupreme |
noun |
A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. |
cotangent |
noun |
The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. |
cotarnine |
noun |
A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid. |
cothurnus |
noun |
Same as Cothurn. |
coticular |
adjective |
Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones. |
cotillion |
noun |
A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille., A tune which regulates the dance., A kind of woolen material for women’s skirts., A formal ball. |
cotrustee |
noun |
A joint trustee. |
cottagely |
adjective |
Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. |
cottolene |
noun |
A product from cotton-seed, used as lard. |
cottonade |
noun |
A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton. |
cottonary |
adjective |
Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. |
cottonous |
adjective |
Resembling cotton. |
cotyledon |
noun |
One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta., A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf. |
couchancy |
noun |
State of lying down for repose. |
couchless |
adjective |
Having no couch or bed. |
councilor |
noun |
A member of a council. |
counseled |
imp. & past participle |
of Counsel |
counselor |
noun |
One who counsels; an adviser., A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [See under Consilor.], One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister. |
countable |
adjective |
Capable of being numbered. |
countless |
adjective |
Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable. |
countrify |
verb t. |
To give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear rustic. |
countries |
plural |
of Country |
courbaril |
noun |
See Anime, n. |
courtbred |
adjective |
Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly. |
courteous |
adjective |
Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant. |
courtesan |
noun |
A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. |
courtiery |
noun |
The manners of a courtier; courtliness. |
courtlike |
adjective |
After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly. |
courtling |
noun |
A sycophantic courtier. |
courtship |
noun |
The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor., The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage., Courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy., Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse. |
courtyard |
noun |
A court or inclosure attached to a house. |
cousinage |
noun |
Relationship; kinship. |
coussinet |
noun |
A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch., That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute. |
covariant |
noun |
A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic. |
covelline |
noun |
Alt. of Covellite |
covellite |
noun |
A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; — hence called indigo copper. |
covenable |
adjective |
Fit; proper; suitable. |
covenably |
adverb |
Fitly; suitably. |
coverture |
noun |
Covering; shelter; defense; hiding., The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte. |
covetable |
adjective |
That may be coveted; desirable. |
cowardice |
noun |
Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. |
cowardish |
adjective |
Cowardly. |
cowardize |
verb t. |
To render cowardly |
cowblakes |
noun pl. |
Dried cow dung used as fuel. |
cowhiding |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Cowhide |
cowlstaff |
noun |
A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons. |
cow-pilot |
noun |
A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); — called also mojarra. |
coxcombly |
adjective |
like a coxcomb. |
coxcombry |
noun |
The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness. |