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  • English Word Cotqueanity Definition The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean.
  • English Word Cotrustee Definition A joint trustee.
  • English Word Cotswold Definition An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.
  • English Word Cottage Definition A small house; a cot; a hut.
  • English Word Cottaged Definition Set or covered with cottages.
  • English Word Cottagely Definition Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic.
  • English Word Cottager Definition One who lives in a cottage.
  • English Word Cottager Definition One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.
  • English Word Cottar Definition A cottager; a cottier.
  • English Word Cotter Definition Alt. of Cottar
  • English Word Cotter Definition A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.
  • English Word Cotter Definition A toggle.
  • English Word Cotter Definition To fasten with a cotter.
  • English Word Cottier Definition In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.
  • English Word Cottise Definition A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.
  • English Word Cottised Definition Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.
  • English Word Cottoid Definition Like a fish of the genus Cottus.
  • English Word Cottoid Definition A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.
  • English Word Cottolene Definition A product from cotton-seed, used as lard.
  • English Word Cotton Definition A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
  • English Word Cotton Definition The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
  • English Word Cotton Definition Cloth made of cotton.
  • English Word Cotton Definition To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
  • English Word Cotton Definition To go on prosperously; to succeed.
  • English Word Cotton Definition To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
  • English Word Cotton Definition To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
  • English Word Cottonade Definition A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.
  • English Word Cottonary Definition Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.
  • English Word Cottonous Definition Resembling cotton.
  • English Word Cottontail Definition The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.