COVINOUS — CRANIOMETER NWAD COVINOUS.1

COVINOUS, a. Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent. NWAD COVINOUS.1

COW, n. plu. cows; old plu. kine. The female of the bovine genus of animals; a quadruped with cloven hoofs, whose milk furnishes an abundance of food and profit to the farmer. NWAD COW.1

Sea-cow, the Manatus, a species of the Trichechus. [See Sea-cow.] NWAD COW.2

COW, v.t. To depress with fear; to sink the spirits or courage; to oppress with habitual timidity. NWAD COW.3

COW-BANE, n. [cow and bane.] A popular name of the Aethusa cynapium. NWAD COW-BANE.1

COWHAGE, COW-ITCH, n. A leguminous plant of the genus Dolichos, a native of warm climates. It has a fibrous root and an herbaceous climbing stalk, with red papilionaceous flowers, and leguminous, coriaceous pods, crooked and covered with sharp hairs, which penetrate the skin, and cause an itching. NWAD COWHAGE.1

COWHERD, n. [See Herd.] One whose occupation is to tend cows. NWAD COWHERD.1

COW-HOUSE, n. A house or building in which cows are kept or stabled. NWAD COW-HOUSE.1

COW-KEEPER, n. One whose business is to keep cows. NWAD COW-KEEPER.1

COW-LEECH, n. [See Leech.] One who professes to heal the diseases of cows. NWAD COW-LEECH.1

COW-LEECHING, n. The act or art of healing the distempers of cows. NWAD COW-LEECHING.1

COW-LICK, n. A tuft of hair that appears as if licked by a cow. NWAD COW-LICK.1

COW-PARSNEP, n. A plant of the genus Heracleum. NWAD COW-PARSNEP.1

COW-PEN, n. A pen for cows. NWAD COW-PEN.1

COW-POX, n. The vaccine disease. NWAD COW-POX.1

COW-QUAKES, n. Quaking grass, the Briza, a genus of plants. NWAD COW-QUAKES.1

COWSLIP, COW’S-LIP, n. A plant of the genus Primula, or primrose, of several varieties. The American cowship belongs to the genus Dodecatheon; the Jerusalem and mountain cowslip, to the genus Pulmonaria. NWAD COWSLIP.1

COW’S-LUNGWORT, n. A plant of the genus Verbascum. NWAD COWS-LUNGWORT.1

COW-WEED, n. A plant of the genus Chaerophyllum, or chervil. NWAD COW-WEED.1

COW-WHEAT, n. A plant of the genus Melampyrum. NWAD COW-WHEAT.1

COWARD, n. [L.] NWAD COWARD.1

1. A person who wants courage to meet danger; a poltroon; a timid or pusillanimous man. NWAD COWARD.2

A coward does not always escape with disgrace, but sometimes loses his life. NWAD COWARD.3

2. In heraldry, a term given to a lion borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs. NWAD COWARD.4

COWARD, a. NWAD COWARD.5

1. Destitute of courage; timid; base; as a coward wretch. NWAD COWARD.6

2. Proceeding from or expressive of fear, or timidity; as coward cry; coward joy. NWAD COWARD.7

COWARDICE, n. Want of courage to face danger; timidity; pusillanimity; fear of exposing ones person to danger. NWAD COWARDICE.1

Cowardice alone is loss of fame. NWAD COWARDICE.2

Did cowardice; did injustice ever save a sinking state. NWAD COWARDICE.3

COWARDLIKE, a. Resembling a coward; mean. NWAD COWARDLIKE.1

COWARDLINESS, n. Want of courage; timidity; cowardice. NWAD COWARDLINESS.1

COWARDLY, a. NWAD COWARDLY.1

1. Wanting courage to face danger; timid; timorous; fearful; pusillanimous. NWAD COWARDLY.2

2. Mean; base; befitting a coward; as a cowardly action. NWAD COWARDLY.3

3. Proceeding from fear of danger; as cowardly silence. NWAD COWARDLY.4

COWARDLY, adv. In the manner of a coward; meanly; basely. NWAD COWARDLY.5

COWARDOUS, a. Cowardly. [Not used.] NWAD COWARDOUS.1

COWARDSHIP, n. Cowardice. [Not used.] NWAD COWARDSHIP.1

COWER, v.i. To sink by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; to stoop or sink downwards. NWAD COWER.1

Our dame wits cowering oer a kitchen fire. NWAD COWER.2

COWER, v.t. To cherish with care. [Not used.] NWAD COWER.3

COWISH, a. Timorous; fearful; cowardly. [Little used.] NWAD COWISH.1

COWL, n. NWAD COWL.1

1. A monks hood, or habit, worn by the Bernardines and Benedictines. It is either white or black. NWAD COWL.2

What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl? NWAD COWL.3

2. A vessel to be carried on a pole betwixt two persons, for the conveyance of water. NWAD COWL.4

COWL-STAFF, n. A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons. NWAD COWL-STAFF.1

COWLED, a. Wearing a cowl; hooded; in shape of a cowl, as a cowled leaf. NWAD COWLED.1

COWLIKE, a. Resembling a cow. NWAD COWLIKE.1

CO-WORKER, n. One that works with another; a co-operator. NWAD CO-WORKER.1

COWRY, n. A small shell, the Cypraea moneta, used for coin in Africa and the East Indies. NWAD COWRY.1

COXCOMB, n. [cocks comb.] NWAD COXCOMB.1

1. The top of the head. NWAD COXCOMB.2

2. The comb resembling that of a cock, which licensed fools wore formerly in their caps. NWAD COXCOMB.3

3. A fop; a vain showy fellow; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments. NWAD COXCOMB.4

4. A kind of red flower; a name given to a species of Celosia, and some other plants. NWAD COXCOMB.5

COXCOMBLY, a. Like a coxcomb. [Not used.] NWAD COXCOMBLY.1

COXCOMICAL, a. Foppish; vain; conceited; a low word. NWAD COXCOMICAL.1

COY, a. Modest; silent; reserved; not accessible; shy; not easily condescending to familiarity. NWAD COY.1

Like Daphne she, as lovely and as coy. NWAD COY.2

COY, v.i. NWAD COY.3

1. To behave with reserve; to be silent or distant; to refrain from speech or free intercourse. NWAD COY.4

2. To make difficulty; to be backward or unwilling; not freely to condescend. NWAD COY.5

3. To smooth or stroke. NWAD COY.6

COY, for decoy, to allure. [Not in use.] NWAD COY.7

COYISH, a. Somewhat coy, or reserved. NWAD COYISH.1

COYLY, adv. With reserve; with disinclination to familiarity. NWAD COYLY.1

COYNESS, n. Reserve; unwillingness to become familiar; disposition to avoid free intercourse, by silence or retirement. NWAD COYNESS.1

When the kind nymph would coyness feign, and hides but to be found again. NWAD COYNESS.2

COYSTREL, n. A species of degenerate hawk. NWAD COYSTREL.1

COZ. A contraction of cousin. NWAD COZ.1

COZEN, v.t. NWAD COZEN.1

1. To cheat; to defraud. NWAD COZEN.2

He that suffers a government to be abused by carelessness and neglect, does the same thing with him that corruptly sets himself to cozen it. NWAD COZEN.3

2. To deceive; to beguile. NWAD COZEN.4

Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. NWAD COZEN.5

COZENAGE, n. Cheat; trick; fraud; deceit; artifice; the practice of cheating. NWAD COZENAGE.1

COZENED, pp. Cheated; defrauded; beguiled. NWAD COZENED.1

COZENER, n. One who cheats, or defrauds. NWAD COZENER.1

COZENING, ppr. Cheating; defrauding; beguiling. NWAD COZENING.1

CRAB, n. [Gr. L.] NWAD CRAB.1

1. A crustaceous fish, the cray-fish, Cancer, a genus containing numerous species. They have usually ten feet, two of which are furnished with claws; two eyes, pedunculated, elongated and movable. To this genus belong the lobster, the shrimp, etc. NWAD CRAB.2

2. A wild apple, or the tree producing it; so named from its rough taste. NWAD CRAB.3

3. A peevish morose person. NWAD CRAB.4

4. A wooden engine with three claws for launching ships and heaving them into the dock. NWAD CRAB.5

5. A pillar used sometimes for the same purpose as a capstan. NWAD CRAB.6

6. Cancer, a sign in the zodiac. NWAD CRAB.7

Crabs claws, in the materia medica, the tips of the claws of the common crab; used as absorbents. NWAD CRAB.8

Crabs eyes, in pharmacy, concretions formed in the stomach of the cray-fish. They are rounded on one side, and depressed and sinuated on the other, considerably heavy, moderately hard, and without smell. They are absorbent, discussive and diuretic. NWAD CRAB.9

Crab-lice, small insects that stick fast to the skin. NWAD CRAB.10

CRAB, a. Sour; rough; austere. NWAD CRAB.11

CRAB-APPLE, n. A wild apple. [See Crab.] NWAD CRAB-APPLE.1

CRAB-GRASS, n. A genus of plants, the Digitaria. NWAD CRAB-GRASS.1

CRAB-TREE, n. The tree that bears crabs. NWAD CRAB-TREE.1

CRAB-YAWS, n. The name of a disease in the West Indies, being a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with hard callous lips. NWAD CRAB-YAWS.1

CRABBED, a. [from crab.] NWAD CRABBED.1

1. Rough; harsh; austere; sour; peevish; morose; cynical; applied to the temper. NWAD CRABBED.2

2. Rough; harsh; applied to things. NWAD CRABBED.3

3. Difficult; perplexing; as a crabbed author or subject. NWAD CRABBED.4

CRABBEDLY, adv. Peevishly; roughly; morosely; with perplexity. NWAD CRABBEDLY.1

CRABBEDNESS, n. NWAD CRABBEDNESS.1

1. Roughness; harshness. NWAD CRABBEDNESS.2

2. Sourness; peevishness; asperity. NWAD CRABBEDNESS.3

3. Difficulty; perplexity. NWAD CRABBEDNESS.4

CRABBY, a. Difficult. NWAD CRABBY.1

CRABER, n. The water-rat. NWAD CRABER.1

CRACK, v.t. NWAD CRACK.1

1. To rend, break, or burst into chinks; to break partially; to divide the parts a little from each other; as, to crack a board or a rock; or to break without an entire severance of the parts; as, to crack glass, or ice. NWAD CRACK.2

2. To break in pieces; as, to crack nuts. NWAD CRACK.3

3. To break with grief; to affect deeply; to pain; to torture; as, to crack the heart. We now use break, or rend. NWAD CRACK.4

4. To open and drink; as, to crack a bottle of wine. [Low.] NWAD CRACK.5

5. To thrust out, or cast with smartness; as, to crack a joke. NWAD CRACK.6

6. To snap; to make a sharp sudden noise; as, to crack a whip. NWAD CRACK.7

7. To break or destroy. NWAD CRACK.8

8. To impair the regular exercise of the intellectual faculties; to disorder; to make crazy; as, to crack the brain. NWAD CRACK.9

CRACK, v.i. NWAD CRACK.10

1. To burst; to open in chinks; as, the earth cracks by frost; or to be marred without an opening; as, glass cracks by a sudden application of heat. NWAD CRACK.11

2. To fall to ruin, or to be impaired. NWAD CRACK.12

The credit of the exchequer cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. [Not elegant.] NWAD CRACK.13

3. To utter a loud or sharp sudden sound; as, the clouds crack; the whip cracks. NWAD CRACK.14

4. To boast; to brag; that is, to utter vain, pompous, blustering words; with of. NWAD CRACK.15

The Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack. [Not elegant.] NWAD CRACK.16

CRACK, n. [Gr.] NWAD CRACK.17

1. A disruption; a chinkor fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; a partial separation of the parts of a substance, with or without an opening; as a crack in timber, in a wall, or in glass. NWAD CRACK.18

2. A burst of sound; a sharp or loud sound, uttered suddenly or with vehemence; the sound of any thing suddenly rent; a violent report; as the crack of a falling house; the crack of a whip. NWAD CRACK.19

3. Change of voice in puberty. NWAD CRACK.20

4. Craziness of intellect; or a crazy person. NWAD CRACK.21

5. A boast, or boaster. [Low.] NWAD CRACK.22

6. Breach of chastity; and a prostitute. [Low.] NWAD CRACK.23

7. A lad; an instant. [Not used.] NWAD CRACK.24

CRACK-BRAINED, a. Having intellects impaired; crazy. NWAD CRACK-BRAINED.1

CRACKER, n. NWAD CRACKER.1

1. A noisy boasting fellow. NWAD CRACKER.2

2. A rocket; a quantity of gunpowder confined so as to explode with noise. NWAD CRACKER.3

3. A hard biscuit. NWAD CRACKER.4

4. That which cracks any thing. NWAD CRACKER.5

CRACK-HEMP, CRACK-ROPE, n. A wretch fated to the gallows; one who deserves to be hanged. NWAD CRACK-HEMP.1

CRACKING, ppr. Breaking or dividing partially; opening; impairing; snapping; uttering a sudden sharp or loud sound; boasting; casting jokes. NWAD CRACKING.1

CRACKLE, v.i. To make slight cracks; to make small abrupt noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to decrepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. NWAD CRACKLE.1

CRACKLING, ppr. Making slight cracks, or abrupt noises. NWAD CRACKLING.1

CRACKLING, n. The making of small abrupt cracks or reports, frequently repeated. NWAD CRACKLING.2

The crackling of thorns under a pot. Ecclesiastes 7:6. NWAD CRACKLING.3

CRACKNEL, n. A hard brittle cake or biscuit. 1 Kings 14:3. NWAD CRACKNEL.1

CRADLE, n. [Gr., to swing.] NWAD CRADLE.1

1. A movable machine of various constructions, placed on circular pieces of board, for rocking children or inform persons to sleep, for alleviating pain, or giving moderate exercise. NWAD CRADLE.2

Me let the tender office long engage, to rock the cradle of reposing age. NWAD CRADLE.3

2. Infancy. From the cradle, is from the state of infancy; in the cradle, in a state of infancy. NWAD CRADLE.4

3. That part of the stock of a cross-bow, where the bullet is put. NWAD CRADLE.5

4. In surgery, a case in which a broken leg is laid after being set. NWAD CRADLE.6

5. In ship-building, a frame placed under the bottom of a ship for launching. It supports the ship and slides down the timbers or passage called the ways. NWAD CRADLE.7

6. A standing bedstead for wounded seamen. NWAD CRADLE.8

7. In engraving, an instrument, formed of steel, and resembling a chisel, with one sloping side, used in scraping mezzotintos, and preparing the plate. NWAD CRADLE.9

8. In husbandry, a frame of wood, with long bending teeth, to which is fastened a sythe, for cutting and laying oats and other grain in a swath. NWAD CRADLE.10

CRADLE, v.t. NWAD CRADLE.11

1. To lay in a cradle; to rock in a cradle; to compose, or quiet. NWAD CRADLE.12

It cradles their fears to sleep. NWAD CRADLE.13

2. To nurse in infancy. NWAD CRADLE.14

3. To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain. NWAD CRADLE.15

CRADLE, v.i. To lie or lodge in a cradle. NWAD CRADLE.16

CRADLE-CLOTHES, n. The clothes used for covering one in a cradle. NWAD CRADLE-CLOTHES.1

CRADLED, pp. Laid or rocked in a cradle; cut and laid with a cradle, as grain. NWAD CRADLED.1

CRADLING, ppr. Laying or rocking in a cradle; cutting and laying with a cradle, as grain. NWAD CRADLING.1

CRAFT, n. NWAD CRAFT.1

1. Art; ability; dexterity; skill. NWAD CRAFT.2

Poesy is the poets skill or craft of making-- NWAD CRAFT.3

2. Cunning, art or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit. NWAD CRAFT.4

The chief priests and scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark 14:1. NWAD CRAFT.5

3. Art; skill; dexterity in a particular manual occupation; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; trade. NWAD CRAFT.6

Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts 19:25. NWAD CRAFT.7

4. All sorts of vessels employed in loading or unloading ships, as lighters, hoys, barges, scows, etc. NWAD CRAFT.8

Small craft is a term given to small vessels of all hinds, as sloops, schooners, cutters, etc. NWAD CRAFT.9

CRAFT, v.i. To play tricks. [Not in use.] NWAD CRAFT.10

CRAFTILY, adv. [See Crafty.] With craft, cunning or guile; artfully; cunningly; with more art than honesty. NWAD CRAFTILY.1

CRAFTINESS, n. Artfulness; dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. NWAD CRAFTINESS.1

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job 5:13. NWAD CRAFTINESS.2

Not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully. 2 Corinthians 4:2. NWAD CRAFTINESS.3

CRAFTSMAN, n. An artificer; a mechanic; one skilled in a manual occupation. NWAD CRAFTSMAN.1

CRAFTSMASTER, n. One skilled in his craft or trade. NWAD CRAFTSMASTER.1

CRAFTY, a. NWAD CRAFTY.1

1. Cunning; artful; skillful in devising and pursuing a scheme, by deceiving others, or by taking advantage of their ignorance; wily; sly; fraudulent. NWAD CRAFTY.2

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job 5:12. NWAD CRAFTY.3

2. Artful; cunning; in a good sense, or in a laudable pursuit. NWAD CRAFTY.4

Being crafty, I caught you with guile. 2 Corinthians 12:16. NWAD CRAFTY.5

CRAG, n. [Gr., to break, L., breaking. See Crack.] A steep rugged rock; a rough broken rock, or point of a rock. NWAD CRAG.1

CRAG, n. [Gr. Roughness, or break. We now call it rack.] The neck, formerly applied to the neck of a human being, as in Spenser. We now apply it to the neck or neck-piece of mutton, and call it a rack of mutton. NWAD CRAG.2

CRAGGED, a. Full of crags or broken rocks; rough; rugged; abounding with prominences, points and inequalities. NWAD CRAGGED.1

CRAGGEDNESS, n. The state of abounding with crags, or broken, pointed rocks. NWAD CRAGGEDNESS.1

CRAGGINESS, n. The state of being craggy. NWAD CRAGGINESS.1

CRAGGY, a. Full of crags; abounding with broken rocks; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as the craggy side of a mountain; a craggy cliff. NWAD CRAGGY.1

CRAKE, n. A boast. [See Crack.] NWAD CRAKE.1

CRAKE, n. The corn-crake, a migratory fowl, is a species of the rail, Rallus, found among grass, corn, broom or furze. Its cry is very singular, crek, crek, and is imitated by rubbing the blade of a knife on an indented bone, by which it may be decoyed into a net. NWAD CRAKE.2

CRAKE-BERRY, n. A species of Empetrum or berry-bearing heath. NWAD CRAKE-BERRY.1

CRAM, v.t. NWAD CRAM.1

1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag; to cram a room with people; to cram victuals down the throat. NWAD CRAM.2

2. To fill with food beyond satiety; to stuff. NWAD CRAM.3

Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers. NWAD CRAM.4

3. To thrust in by force; to crowd. NWAD CRAM.5

Fate has crammed us all into one lease. NWAD CRAM.6

CRAM, v.i. TO eat greedily or beyond satiety; to stuff. NWAD CRAM.7

CRAMBO, n. A rhyme; a play in which one person gives a word to which another finds a rhyme. NWAD CRAMBO.1

CRAMMED, pp. Stuffed; crowded; thrust in; filled with food. NWAD CRAMMED.1

CRAMMING, ppr. Driving in; stuffing; crowding; eating beyond satiety of sufficiency. NWAD CRAMMING.1

CRAMP, n. NWAD CRAMP.1

1. Spasm; the contraction of a limb, or some muscle of the body, attended with pain, and sometimes with convulsions, or numbness. NWAD CRAMP.2

2. Restraint; confinement; that which hinders from motion or expansion. NWAD CRAMP.3

A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. NWAD CRAMP.4

3. A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, etc.; a cramp-iron. NWAD CRAMP.5

CRAMP, v.t. NWAD CRAMP.6

1. To pain or affect with spasms. NWAD CRAMP.7

2. To confine; to restrain; to hinder from action or expansion; as, to cramp the exertions of a nation; to cramp the genius. NWAD CRAMP.8

3. To fasten, confine or hold with a cramp or cramp-iron. NWAD CRAMP.9

CRAMP, a. Difficult; knotty. [Little used.] NWAD CRAMP.10

CRAMPED, pp. Affected with spasm; convulsed; confined; restrained. NWAD CRAMPED.1

CRAMP-FISH, n. The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which affects a person like electricity, causing a slight shock and producing numbness, tremor, and sickness of the stomach. NWAD CRAMP-FISH.1

CRAMPING, ppr. Affecting with cramp; confining. NWAD CRAMPING.1

CRAMP-IRON, n. An iron used for fastening things together; a cramp, which see. NWAD CRAMP-IRON.1

CRANAGE, n. [from crane. Low L.] The liberty of using a crane at a wharf for raising wares from a vessel; also, the money or price paid for the use of a crane. NWAD CRANAGE.1

CRANBERRY, n. [crane and berry.] A species of Vaccinium; a berry that grows on a slender, bending stalk. Its botanical name is oxycoccus, [sour berry,] and it is also called moss-berry, or moor-berry, as it grows only on peat-bogs or swampy land. The berry when ripe is red, and of the size of a small cherry or of the hawthorn berry. These berries form a sauce of exquisite flavor, and are used for tarts. The cranberry of the United States is a distinct species, the V. Macrocarpon. [The common pronunciation, cramberry, is erroneous.] NWAD CRANBERRY.1

CRANE, n. [Gr., the plant, cranes-bill.] NWAD CRANE.1

1. A migratory fowl of the genus Ardea, belonging to the grallic order. The bill is straight, sharp and long, with a furrow from the nostrils towards the point; the nostrils are linear, and the feet have four toes. These fowls have long legs, and a long neck, being destined to wade and seek their food among grass and reeds in marshy grounds. The common crane is about four feet in length, of a slender body, with ash-coloured feathers. NWAD CRANE.2

2. A machine for raising great weights, consisting of a horizontal arm, or piece of timber, projecting from a post, and furnished with a tackle or pulley. NWAD CRANE.3

3. A siphon, or crooked pipe for drawing liquors out of a cask. NWAD CRANE.4

CRANE’S-BILL, n. The plant Geranium, of many species; so named from an appendage of the seed-vessel, which resembles the beak of a crane or stork. Some of the species have beautiful flowers and a fragrant scent, and several of them are valued for their astringent properties. [See Crane.] NWAD CRANES-BILL.1

2. A pair of pinchers used by surgeons. NWAD CRANES-BILL.2

CRANE-FLY, n. An insect of the genus Tipula, of many species. The mouth is a prolongation of the head; the upper jaw is arched; the palpi are two, curved and longer than the head; the proboscis is short. NWAD CRANE-FLY.1

CRANIOGNOMY, n. [Gr., the skull, and knowledge; index; L., the skull.] The doctrine or science of determining the properties or characteristics of the mind by the conformation of the skull. NWAD CRANIOGNOMY.1

CRANIOLOGICAL, a. Pertaining to craniology. NWAD CRANIOLOGICAL.1

CRANIOLOGIST, n. One who treats of craniology, or one who is versed in the science of the cranium. NWAD CRANIOLOGIST.1

CRANIOLOGY, n. [Gr., the skull, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise on the cranium or skull; or the science which investigates the structure and uses of the skulls in various animals, particularly in relation to their specific character and intellectual powers. NWAD CRANIOLOGY.1

CRANIOMETER, n. [the skull, and measure.] An instrument for measuring the skulls of animals. NWAD CRANIOMETER.1