CPage 690
- English Word Coussinet Definition A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
- English Word Coussinet Definition That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
- English Word Couteau Definition A knife; a dagger.
- English Word Couth Definition Could; was able; knew or known; understood.
- English Word Couvade Definition A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
- English Word Covariant Definition 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.
- English Word Cove Definition A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
- English Word Cove Definition A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
- English Word Cove Definition A concave molding.
- English Word Cove Definition A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
- English Word Cove Definition To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
- English Word Cove Definition To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
- English Word Cove Definition A boy or man of any age or station.
- English Word Coved Definition of Cove
- English Word Covelline Definition Alt. of Covellite
- English Word Covellite Definition A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.
- English Word Covenable Definition Fit; proper; suitable.
- English Word Covenably Definition Fitly; suitably.
- English Word Covenant Definition A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.
- English Word Covenant Definition An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant."