COOT — CORDWAINER NWAD COOT.1
COOT, n. A fowl of the genus Fulica, frequenting lakes and other still waters. The common coot has a bald forehead, a black body, and lobated toes, and is about fifteen inches in length. It makes its nest among rushes, with grass and reeds, floating on the water. NWAD COOT.1
COP, n. [G.] The had or top of a thing, as in cob-castle for cop-castle, a castle on a hill; a tuft on the head of birds. This word is little used in America, unless cob, the spike of maize, may be the same word. NWAD COP.1
COPAIBA, n. Balsam of copaiba or capivi, is a liquid resinous juice, flowing from incisions made in the stem of a tree called Copaifera officinalis, growing in Spanish America, in the province of Antiochia. This juice is clear, transparent, of a whitish or pale yellowish color, an agreeable smell, and a bitterish pungent taste. It is of the consistence of oil, or a little thicker. As a medicine, it is corroborating and detergent. NWAD COPAIBA.1
COPAL, n. The concrete juice of a tree growing in Mexico or New Spain, hard, shining, transparent, citron-colored, and odoriferous. It is not strictly a gum nor a resin, as it has not the solubility in water common to gums, nor that in spirit of wine common to resins. In these respects it rather resembles amber. It may be dissolved by digestion in lintseed oil, with a heat little less than sufficient to boil or decompose the oil. This solution, diluted with spirit of turpentine, forms a beautiful transparent varnish. NWAD COPAL.1
COPARCENARY, n. [See Coparcener.] Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession or joint succession to an estate of inheritance. NWAD COPARCENARY.1
COPARCENER, n. [con and parcener, L., to divide.] A coheir; one who has an equal portion of the inheritance of his or her ancestor with others. NWAD COPARCENER.1
All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them. NWAD COPARCENER.2
Coparceners take by descent; joint-tenants, by purchase. NWAD COPARCENER.3
COPARCENY, n. An equal share of an inheritance. NWAD COPARCENY.1
COPARTMENT, n. The same as compartment. [Not in use.] NWAD COPARTMENT.1
COPARTNER, n. [con and partner. See Coparcener.] NWAD COPARTNER.1
1. One who has a share in a common stock for transacting business, or who is jointly concerned with one or more persons, in carrying on trade or other business; a partner; an associate, particularly in trade or manufactures. NWAD COPARTNER.2
2. A sharer; a partaker; as, copartners of our loss. NWAD COPARTNER.3
1. Joint concern in business; a state of having joint share in a common stock, or a joint interest and concern in business, particularly in trade and manufactures. NWAD COPARTNERSHIP.2
2. The persons who have a joint concern. NWAD COPARTNERSHIP.3
COPATAN, n. [See Cop.] High raised; pointed. [Not in use.] NWAD COPATAN.1
COPE, n. NWAD COPE.1
1. A cover for the head. NWAD COPE.2
2. A sacerdotal ornament or vestment worn in sacred ministrations. An ornament worn by chanters and subchanters, when they officiate in solemnity. It reaches from the shoulders to the feet. NWAD COPE.3
3. Any thing spread or extended over the head; the arch or concave of the sky; the roof or covering of a house; the arch over a door, etc. NWAD COPE.4
4. An ancient tribute due to the king or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in some part of Derbyshire. NWAD COPE.5
COPE, v.t. NWAD COPE.6
1. To cover as with a cope. NWAD COPE.7
2. To pare the beak or talons of a hawk. NWAD COPE.8
3. To embrace. NWAD COPE.9
COPE, v.i. NWAD COPE.10
1. To strive or contend on equal terms, or with equal strength; to equal in combat; to match; to oppose with success. NWAD COPE.11
The Generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens. NWAD COPE.12
Till Luther rose, no power could cope with the pope. NWAD COPE.13
He was too open and direct in his conduct, and possessed too little management-to cope with so cool and skillful an adversary. NWAD COPE.14
2. To contend; to strive or struggle; to combat. NWAD COPE.15
Host copd with host, dire was the din of war. NWAD COPE.16
3. To encounter; to interchange kindness or sentiments. NWAD COPE.17
4. To make return; to reward. NWAD COPE.18
5. To exchange, or barter. [Not in use.] NWAD COPE.19
COPEMAN, n. A chapman. [Not used.] NWAD COPEMAN.1
COPERNICAN, a. Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth, who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system. NWAD COPERNICAN.1
COPESMATE, n. [cope and mate.] A companion or friend. NWAD COPESMATE.1
COPIED, pp. [See Copy.] Taken off; written or transcribed from an original or form; imitated. NWAD COPIED.1
COPIER, COPYIST, n. One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original or form; a transcriber; an imitator; also, a plagiary. NWAD COPIER.1
COPING, n. [See Cope, n.] The top or cover of a wall, made sloping to carry off the water. 1 Kings 7:9. A coping over, is a projecting work beveling on its under side. NWAD COPING.1
COPIOUS, a. NWAD COPIOUS.1
1. Abundant; plentiful; in great quantities; full; ample; furnishing full supplies. NWAD COPIOUS.2
The tender heart is peace, and kindly pours its copious treasures forth in various converse. NWAD COPIOUS.3
2. Furnishing abundant matter; not barren; rich in supplies. NWAD COPIOUS.4
The redemption of man is a copious subject of contemplation. NWAD COPIOUS.5
Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! Thy name shall be the copious matter of my song. NWAD COPIOUS.6
COPPIOUSLY, adv. NWAD COPPIOUSLY.1
1. Abundantly; plentifully; in large quantities. NWAD COPPIOUSLY.2
2. Largely; fully; amply; diffusely. NWAD COPPIOUSLY.3
The remains of antiquity have been copiously described by travelers. NWAD COPPIOUSLY.4
COPIOUSNESS, n. NWAD COPIOUSNESS.1
1. Abundance; plenty; great quantity; full supply. NWAD COPIOUSNESS.2
2. Diffusiveness of style or manner of treating a subject; as the copiousness of Homer. NWAD COPIOUSNESS.3
COPIST, n. A copier; an ill formed word. NWAD COPIST.1
COPLAND, n. A piece of ground terminating in a cop or acute angle. [Not used in America.] NWAD COPLAND.1
CO-PLANT, v.i. To plant together. [Not in use.] NWAD CO-PLANT.1
CO-PORTION, n. Equal share. [Not used.] NWAD CO-PORTION.1
COPPED, COPPLED, a. [See Cop.] Rising to a point, or head. NWAD COPPED.1
Copped like a sugar loaf. NWAD COPPED.2
COPPEL. [See Cupel.] NWAD COPPEL.1
COPPER, n. [L., G., supposed to be so called from Cyprus, an isle in the Mediterranean. This opinion is probable, as the Greeks called it Cyprian brass, brass of Cyprus. In this case copper was originally an adjective.] A metal, of a pale red color, tinged with yellow. Next to gold, silver and platina, it is the most ductile and malleable of the metals, and it is more elastic than any metal, except steel, and the most sonorous of all the metals. It is found native in lamins or fibers, in a gangue almost always quartzous; it is also found crystalized, and in grains or superficial lamins on stones or iron. It is not altered by water, but is tarnished by exposure to the air, and is at last covered with a green carbonated oxyd. Copper in sheets is much used for covering the bottoms of ships, for boilers and other utensils; mixed with tin and zink, it is used in enamel-painting, dyeing, etc. : mixed with tin, it forms bell-metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with zink, it forms brass, pinchbeck, etc. When taken into the body ti operates as a violent emetic, and all its preparations are violent poisons. NWAD COPPER.1
COPPER, a. Consisting of copper. NWAD COPPER.2
COPPER, n. NWAD COPPER.3
1. A vessel made of copper, particularly a large boiler. NWAD COPPER.4
2. Formerly, a small copper coin. NWAD COPPER.5
My friend filled my pocket with coppers. NWAD COPPER.6
COPPER, v.t. To cover or sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship. NWAD COPPER.7
COPPERAS, n. Sulphate of iron, or green vitriol; a salt of a peculiar astringent taste, and of various colors, green, gray, yellowish, or whitish, but more usually green. It is much used in dyeing black and in making ink, and in medicine, as a tonic. The copperas of commerce is usually made by the decomposition of iron pyrites. The term copperas was formerly synonymous with vitriol, and included the green, blue and white vitriols, or the sulphates of iron, copper and zink. NWAD COPPERAS.1
COPPER-BOTTOMED, a. Having a bottom sheathed with copper. NWAD COPPER-BOTTOMED.1
COPPERED, pp. Covered with sheets of copper; sheathed. NWAD COPPERED.1
COPPER-FASTENED, a. Fastened with copper bolts. NWAD COPPER-FASTENED.1
COPPERISH, a. Containing copper; like copper or partaking of it. NWAD COPPERISH.1
COPPER-NOSE, n. A red nose. NWAD COPPER-NOSE.1
COPPER-PLATE, n. A plate of copper on which concave lines are engraved or corroded, according to some delineated figure or design. This plate, when charged with any colored fluid, imparts an impression of the figure or design to paper or parchment. NWAD COPPER-PLATE.1
COPPER-SMITH, n. One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils. NWAD COPPER-SMITH.1
COPPER-WORK, n. A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. NWAD COPPER-WORK.1
COPPER-WORM, n. A little worm in ships; a worm that frets garments; a worm that breeds in ones hand. NWAD COPPER-WORM.1
COPPERY, a. Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper in taste or smell. NWAD COPPERY.1
COPPICE, COPSE, n. A wood of small growth, or consisting of underwood or brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel. NWAD COPPICE.1
The rate of coppice lands will fall on the discovery of coal-mines. NWAD COPPICE.2
COPPLED, a. [from cop.] Rising to a point; conical. NWAD COPPLED.1
COPPLE-DUST, n. Powder used in purifying metals. NWAD COPPLE-DUST.1
COPPLE-STONES, n. Lumps and fragments of stone broke from the adjacent cliffs, rounded by being bowled and tumbled to and again by the action of water. In New England, we pronounce this word cobble, cobble-stones, and if the word is a diminutive of cob, cop, a head, or cub, a heap, we follow the Welsh cob, as the English do the same word, cop, in the Saxon dialect. We apply the word to small round stones, from the size of an inch or two, to five or six inches or more, in diameter, wherever they may be found. NWAD COPPLE-STONES.1
COPSE, n. [See Coppice.] NWAD COPSE.1
COPSE, v.t. To preserve underwoods. NWAD COPSE.2
COPSY, a. Having copses. NWAD COPSY.1
COPTIC, a. Pertaining to the descendants of the ancient Egyptians, called Copts, or cophti, as distinct from the Arabians and other inhabitants of modern Egypt. The name is supposed to be taken from Coptos, the metropolis of the Thebaid; as Egypt, is probably from that name; inclosed, fortified. To inclose, to bind, to fortify. Whatever may be the origin of Copt, the adjective Coptic now refers to the people called Copts, who are Christians, and to their language. NWAD COPTIC.1
COPTIC, n. The language of the Copts. NWAD COPTIC.2
COPULA, n. [L. See Copulation and Couple.] In logic, the word which unties the subject and predicate of a proposition. Religion is indispensable to happiness. Here is is the copula joining religion, the subject, with indispensable to happiness, the predicate. NWAD COPULA.1
COPULATE, a. Joined. [Little used.] NWAD COPULATE.1
COPULATE, v.t. [L.] To unite; to join in pairs. [Little used.] NWAD COPULATE.2
COPULATE, v.i. To unite in sexual embrace; applied to animals in general. NWAD COPULATE.3
COPULATION, n. [L.] The act of coupling; the embrace of the sexes in the act of generation; coition. NWAD COPULATION.1
COPULATIVE, a. That unites or couples. In grammar, the copulative conjunction connects two or more subjects or predicates, in an affirmative or negative proposition; as, riches and honors are temptations to pride; the Romans conquered Spain and gaul and Britain; neither wealth nor honors will purchase immortal happiness. NWAD COPULATIVE.1
COPULATIVE, n. NWAD COPULATIVE.2
1. A copulative conjunction. NWAD COPULATIVE.3
2. Connection. [Not in use.] NWAD COPULATIVE.4
COPY, n. [See Cope and Cuff.] Literally, a likeness, or resemblance of any kind. Hence, NWAD COPY.1
1. A writing like another writing; a transcript from an original; or a book printed according to the original; hence, any single book, or set of books, containing a composition resembling the original work; as the copy of a deed, or of a bond; a copy of Addisons works; a copy of the laws; a copy of the scriptures. NWAD COPY.2
2. The form of a picture or statue according to the original; the imitation or likeness of any figure, draught, or almost any object. NWAD COPY.3
3. An original work; the autograph; the archetype. Hence, that which is to be imitated in writing or printing. Let the child write according to the copy. The copy is in the hands of the printer. Hence, a pattern or example for imitation. His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation. NWAD COPY.4
4. Abundance. [L.] NWAD COPY.5
COPY, v.t. NWAD COPY.6
1. To write, print or engrave, according to an original; to form a like work or composition by writing, printing or engraving; to transcribe; often followed by out, but the use is not elegant. NWAD COPY.7
The men of Hezekiah copied certain proverbs of Solomon. NWAD COPY.8
2. To paint or draw according to an original. NWAD COPY.9
3. To form according to a model, as in architecture. NWAD COPY.10
4. To imitate or attempt to resemble; to follow an original or pattern, in manners or course of life. Copy the Savior in his humility and obedience. NWAD COPY.11
COPY, v.i. To imitate or endeavor to be like; to do any thing in imitation of something else. A painter copies from the life. An obedient child copies after his parent. NWAD COPY.12
They never fail, when they copy, to follow the bad as well as the good. NWAD COPY.13
COPYBOOK, n. A book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate. NWAD COPYBOOK.1
COPYED, pp. Transcribed; imitated; usually written copied. NWAD COPYED.1
COPYER, n. One who copies or transcribes; usually written copier. NWAD COPYER.1
COPYHOLD, n. In England, a tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant hath nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lords court. NWAD COPYHOLD.1
COPYHOLDER, n. One who is possessed of land in copyhold. NWAD COPYHOLDER.1
COPYIST, n. A copier; a transcriber. NWAD COPYIST.1
COPYRIGHT, n. The sole right which an author has in his own original literary compositions; the exclusive right of an author to print, publish and vend his own literary works, for his own benefit; the like right in the hands of an assignee. NWAD COPYRIGHT.1
COQUALLIN, n. A small quadruped of the squirrel kind, but incapable of climbing trees. NWAD COQUALLIN.1
COQUELICOT, COQUELICO, n. Wild poppy; corn rose; hence, the color of wild poppy. NWAD COQUELICOT.1
COQUET, COQUETTE, n. A vain, airy, trifling girl, who endeavors to attract admiration and advances in love, from a desire to gratify vanity, and then rejects her lover; a jilt. NWAD COQUET.1
The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, and sport and flutter in the fields of air. NWAD COQUET.2
Note. In French, coquet is masculine and coquette feminine; but as our language has no such termination for gender, it may be better to write coquet for both sexes, and for distinction prefix male to the word when applied to a man. NWAD COQUET.3
COQUET, v.t. To attempt to attract notice, admiration or love, from vanity; to entertain with compliments and amorous tattle; to treat with an appearance of amorous tenderness. NWAD COQUET.4
You are coquetting a maid of honor. NWAD COQUET.5
COQUET, v.i. To trifle in love; to act the lover from vanity; to endeavor to gain admirers. NWAD COQUET.6
COQUETISH, a. Practicing coquetry. NWAD COQUETISH.1
COQUETRY, n. Attempts to attract admiration, notice or love, from vanity; affectation of amorous advances; trifling in love. NWAD COQUETRY.1
CORACLE, n. [Gr., a crow, and form.] A small sharp process of the scapula, shaped like a crows beak. NWAD CORACLE.1
CORACOID, a. Shaped like a beak. NWAD CORACOID.1
CORAL, n. [L. Gr.] NWAD CORAL.1
1. In zoology, a genus belonging to the order of vermes zoophyta. The trunk is radicated, jointed and calcarious. The species are distinguished by the form of their branches, and are found in the ocean adhering to stones, bones, shells, etc. Coral was formerly supposed to be a vegetable substance, but is now known to be composed of a congeries of animals. Coral is red, white and black. It is properly the shells of marine animals of the polype kind, consisting of calcarious earth combined with gelatine and other animal matter. In the South Sea, the isles are mostly coral rocks covered with earth. Corals seem to consist of carbonate of lime and animal matter, in equal proportions. NWAD CORAL.2
2. A piece of coral worn by children about their necks. NWAD CORAL.3
CORAL, a. Made of coral; resembling coral. NWAD CORAL.4
CORAL-TREE, n. A genus of plants, Erythrina, of several species, natives of Africa and America. They are all shrubby flowering plants, adorned chiefly with trifoliate or three-lobed leaves, and scarlet spikes of papilionaceous flowers. NWAD CORAL-TREE.1
CORAL-WORT, n. A genus of plants, Dentaria, called also tooth-wort or tooth-violet. NWAD CORAL-WORT.1
CORALLACEOUS, a. Like coral, or partaking of its qualities. NWAD CORALLACEOUS.1
CORALLIFORM, a. [coral and form.] Resembling coral; forked and crooked. NWAD CORALLIFORM.1
CORALLINE, a. Consisting of coral; like coral; containing coral. NWAD CORALLINE.1
CORALLINE, n. A submarine plant-like body, consisting of many slender, jointed branches, resembling some species of moss; or animals growing in the form of plants, having their stems fixed to other bodies. These stems are composed of capillary tubes, which pass through a calcarious crust and open on the surface. In the Linnean system, corallines are classed with the zoophytes. They have been distributed by Ellis into vesiculated, furnished with small bodies like bladders; tubular, composed of simple tubes; celliferous, which, when magnified, appear to be fine thin cells, the habitations of small animals; and articulated, consisting of short pieces of stony or cretaceous brittle matter, covered with pores or cells, joined by a tough, membranous, flexible substance, composed of many small tubes. Butin this arrangement of Ellis, the term coralline is synonymous with the more ancient term lithophyta, including all the polypebearing animals, and nearly coinciding with the zoophyta of Linne, and the polypiers of the French naturalists. NWAD CORALLINE.2
CORALLINITE, n. A fossil polypier or coralline. NWAD CORALLINITE.1
CORALLITE, n. A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral; or a fossil polypier, larger than a corallinite. NWAD CORALLITE.1
CORALLOID, CORALLOIDAL, a. Having the form of coral; branching like coral. NWAD CORALLOID.1
CORALLOID, n. Eschara or hornwrack, a species of coralline, resembling woven cloth in texture, consisting of arrangements of very small cells. One species is called narrow-leaved hornwrack; another, the broad-leaved hornwrack. This name is given also to the keratophyta, horn-plant, or sea-shrub, a species of Gorgonia. NWAD CORALLOID.2
CORANT, n. [L.] A lofty sprightly dance. NWAD CORANT.1
CORB, n. [L. See the next word.] NWAD CORB.1
1. A basket used in coaleries. NWAD CORB.2
2. An ornament in a building. NWAD CORB.3
CORBAN, n. [L. G., a wicker basket.] NWAD CORBAN.1
1. In Jewish antiquity, an offering which had life; an animal offered to God; in opposition to the mincha, which was an offering without life. NWAD CORBAN.2
It is a gift, corban, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; that is, I have devoted that to God which you ask of me, and it is no longer mine to give. NWAD CORBAN.3
2. An alms-basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a gift; an alms; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited. NWAD CORBAN.4
3. Among Mohammedans, a ceremony performed at the foot of mount Arrarat in Arabia, near Mecca. It consists in killing the number of sheep, and distributing them among the poor. NWAD CORBAN.5
CORBE, a. Crooked. [Not in use.] NWAD CORBE.1
CORBEIL, n. In fortification, a little basket, to be filled with earth, and set upon a parapet, to shelter men from the fire of besiegers. NWAD CORBEIL.1
CORBEL, n. [See the preceding words.] NWAD CORBEL.1
1. In architecture, the representation of a basket, sometimes set on the heads of caryatides. NWAD CORBEL.2
2. The vase or tambour of the Corinthian column; so called from its resemblance to a basket. NWAD CORBEL.3
CORBEL, n. NWAD CORBEL.4
1. A short piece of timber in a wall, jutting six or eight inches, as occasion requires, in the manner of a shoulderpiece; sometimes placed for strength under the semigirder of a platform. The under part is sometimes cut into the form of a boultin; sometimes of an ogee, or of a face, etc. NWAD CORBEL.5
2. A niche or hollow left in walls for images, figures or statues. NWAD CORBEL.6
CORBY, n. A raven. [Not in use.] NWAD CORBY.1
CORCELET, CORSELET, n. In natural history, that part of winged insects, which answers to the breast of other animals. NWAD CORCELET.1
CORCULE, CORCLE, n. [L. It is a diminutive, from cor, the heart.] In botany, the heart of the seed, or rudiment of a future plant, attached to and involved in the cotyledons. It consists of the plume or ascending part, and the rostel, or radicel, the simple descending part. NWAD CORCULE.1
CORD, n. [L. Gr. According to the Welsh, this word signifies a twist, from cor, the root of chorus.] NWAD CORD.1
1. A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. Rahab let down the spies by a cord through the window. Joshua 2:15. NWAD CORD.2
2. A quantity of wood, or other material, originally measured with a cord or line. The cord is a pile containing 128 cubic feet; or a pile eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad. NWAD CORD.3
3. In scripture, the cords of the wicked are the snares with which they catch the unwary. Psalm 129:4. NWAD CORD.4
The cords of sin are bad habits, or the consequences of sin. Proverbs 5:22. NWAD CORD.5
The cords of a man are the fair, gentle or natural means of alluring men to obedience. Hosea 11:4. NWAD CORD.6
The cords of vanity are worldly vanities and pleasures, profit or preferment; or vain and deceitful arguments and pretenses, which draw men to sin. Isaiah 5:18. NWAD CORD.7
To stretch a line or cord about a city, is to level it, or utterly to destroy it. Lamentations 2:8. NWAD CORD.8
The cords of a tent denote stability. To loosen or break the cords, is to weaken or destroy; to lengthen the cords, is to enlarge. Job 30:11; Isaiah 54:2; Jeremiah 10:20. NWAD CORD.9
CORD, v.t. NWAD CORD.10
1. To bind with a cord or rope; to fasten with cords. NWAD CORD.11
2. To pile wood or other material for measurement and sale by the cord. NWAD CORD.12
CORDWOOD, n. Wood cut and piled for sale by the cord, in distinction from long wood; properly, wood cut to the length of four feet; bu in this respect, the practice is not uniform. In Scotland, cord-wood is wood conveyed to market on board of vessels, in opposition to that which is floated. NWAD CORDWOOD.1
CORDAGE, n. All sorts of cords or ropes, used in the running rigging of a ship, or kept in reserve to supply the place of that which may be rendered unserviceable. In a more general sense, the word includes all ropes and lines used on board of ships. NWAD CORDAGE.1
CORDATE, CORDATED, a. [L., with a different signification, from cor, the heart.] Having the form of a heart; heart-shaped; a term used by naturalists; as a cordate leaf in botany, resembling the longitudinal section of the heart. Hence, cordate-oblong, heart-shaped lengthened; cordate-lanceolate, heart-shaped, gradually tapering towards each extremity, like the head of a lance; cordate-sagittate, heart-shaped, but resembling the head of an arrow. NWAD CORDATE.1
CORDATELY, adv. In a cordate form. NWAD CORDATELY.1
CORDED, pp. NWAD CORDED.1
1. Bound or fastened with cords. NWAD CORDED.2
2. Piled in a form for measurement by the cord. NWAD CORDED.3
3. Made of cords; furnished with cords. NWAD CORDED.4
4. In heraldry, a cross corded is one wound with cords, or made of two pieces of wood. NWAD CORDED.5
CORDELIER, n. A Franciscan friar; one of the order of religious founded by St. Francis; a gray friar. The cordeliers wear a thick gray cloth, a little cowl, a chaperon, and a cloke, with a girdle of rope or cord, tied with three knots. NWAD CORDELIER.1
CORDIAL, a. [L., the heart.] NWAD CORDIAL.1
1. Proceeding from the heart; hearty; sincere; not hypocritical; warm; affectionate. NWAD CORDIAL.2
With looks of cordial love. NWAD CORDIAL.3
We give our friends a cordial reception. NWAD CORDIAL.4
2. Reviving the spirits; cheering; invigorating; giving strength or spirits; as cordial waters. NWAD CORDIAL.5
CORDIAL, n. NWAD CORDIAL.6
1. In medicine, that which suddenly excites the system, and increases the action of the heart or circulation when languid; any medicine which increases strength, raises the spirits, and gives life and cheerfulness to a person when weak and depressed. NWAD CORDIAL.7
2. Any thing that comforts, gladdens and exhilarates; as, good news is a cordial to the mind. NWAD CORDIAL.8
CORDIALITY, n. NWAD CORDIALITY.1
1. Relation to the heart. [Not used.] NWAD CORDIALITY.2
2. Sincerity; freedom from hypocrisy; sincere affection and kindness. NWAD CORDIALITY.3
Our friends were received with cordiality. NWAD CORDIALITY.4
CORDIALLY, adv. Heartily; sincerely; without hypocrisy; with real affection. NWAD CORDIALLY.1
The Christian cordially receives the doctrines of grace. NWAD CORDIALLY.2
CORDIERITE, n. The mineral called otherwise iolite and dichroite. NWAD CORDIERITE.1
CORDIFORM, a. [L., the heart, and form.] Heart-shaped; having the form of the human heart. NWAD CORDIFORM.1
CORDINER, n. [Not used. See Cordwainer.] NWAD CORDINER.1
CORDON, n. [See Cord.] NWAD CORDON.1
1. In fortification, a row of stones jutting before the rampart, and the basis of the parapet; or a row of stones between the wall of a fortress which lies aslope, and the parapet which is perpendicular; serving as an ornament, and used only in fortifications of stone-work. NWAD CORDON.2
2. In military language, a line or series of military posts; as a cordon of troops. NWAD CORDON.3
CORDOVAN, n. Spanish leather. NWAD CORDOVAN.1
CORDUROY, n. A thick cotton stuffribbed. NWAD CORDUROY.1
CORDWAIN, n. Spanish leather; goatskin tanned and dressed. NWAD CORDWAIN.1
CORDWAINER, n. [from cordwain.] A shoemaker. This word was formerly written cordiners. It is evidently from the French cordouan, cordouannier; properly, a worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather. NWAD CORDWAINER.1