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  • English Word Cob Definition To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
  • English Word Cob Definition To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
  • English Word Cobaea Definition A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.
  • English Word Cobalt Definition A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.
  • English Word Cobalt Definition A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.
  • English Word Cobaltic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide.
  • English Word Cobaltiferous Definition Containing cobalt.
  • English Word Cobaltine Definition Alt. of Cobaltite
  • English Word Cobaltite Definition A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.
  • English Word Cobaltous Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence.
  • English Word Cobbed Definition of Cob
  • English Word Cobbing Definition of Cob
  • English Word Cobbing Definition Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2.
  • English Word Cobble Definition A fishing boat. See Coble.
  • English Word Cobble Definition A cobblestone.
  • English Word Cobble Definition Cob coal. See under Cob.
  • English Word Cobble Definition To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
  • English Word Cobble Definition To make clumsily.
  • English Word Cobble Definition To pave with cobblestones.
  • English Word Cobbled Definition of Cobble
  • English Word Cobbler Definition A mender of shoes.
  • English Word Cobbler Definition A clumsy workman.
  • English Word Cobbler Definition A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry.
  • English Word Cobblestone Definition A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.
  • English Word Cobbling Definition of Cobble
  • English Word Cobby Definition Headstrong; obstinate.
  • English Word Cobby Definition Stout; hearty; lively.
  • English Word Cobelligerent Definition Carrying on war in conjunction with another power.
  • English Word Cobelligerent Definition A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another.
  • English Word Cobia Definition An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.