CPage 262
- English Word Cocoon Definition The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.
- English Word Cocoonery Definition A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.
- English Word Coctible Definition Capable of being cooked.
- English Word Coctile Definition Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.
- English Word Coction Definition Act of boiling.
- English Word Coction Definition Digestion.
- English Word Coction Definition The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
- English Word Cocus wood Definition A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.
- English Word Cod Definition A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.
- English Word Cod Definition A small bag or pouch.
- English Word Cod Definition The scrotum.
- English Word Cod Definition A pillow or cushion.
- English Word Cod Definition An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.
- English Word Cod liver Definition The liver of the common cod and allied species.
- English Word Coda Definition A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.
- English Word Codder Definition A gatherer of cods or peas.
- English Word Codding Definition Lustful.
- English Word Coddle Definition To parboil, or soften by boiling.
- English Word Coddle Definition To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.
- English Word Coddled Definition of Coddle
- English Word Coddling Definition of Coddle
- English Word Coddymoddy Definition A gull in the plumage of its first year.
- English Word Code Definition A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- English Word Code Definition Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
- English Word Codefendant Definition A joint defendant.
- English Word Codeine Definition One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.
- English Word Codetta Definition A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda.
- English Word Codex Definition A book; a manuscript.
- English Word Codex Definition A collection or digest of laws; a code.
- English Word Codex Definition An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament.