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istinguished from a discrete movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another. Rush.

ural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand. Dealing with witches and with conjurers. Shak. From the account the loser brings, The conjurer knows who stole the things. Prior.

An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarassing; a hitch. In this unhappy contretemps. De Quincey.

A coming together; a meeting. [Obs.] A usual ceremony at their [the witches] convents or meetings. B. Jonson.

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.

A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.

to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly. We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies. Shak. The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture. I. Taylor.

See Quitch grass.

A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures. On which a tissue counterpane was cast. Drayton.

A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane. Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk. Sir T. North.

The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup.

A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

arrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ravelin.

o crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.

ng crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculæ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]

A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]

de of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.

Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.

A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.