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A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.

One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.

An advocate or defender of convocation.

ury, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Médard.

Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England. Cornish chough. See Chough. -- Cornish engine, a single-acting pumping engine, used in mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending.

A performer on the cornet or horn.

A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.

In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable. W. W. Goodwin.

A co-religion

One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.

One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.

The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

See under Tennis.

y created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.

One who advocates the practice of cremation.

A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.

A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations.

Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. Nichol.

A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

The language of the Danes. Danish dog (Zoöl.), one of a large and powerful breed of dogs reared in Denmark; -- called also great Dane. See Illustration in Appendix.