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Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.

A little cloud. R. Browning. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge.

one body or mass; unity. Jer. Taylor. The coadunation of all the civilized provinces. Coleridge.

Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.

The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch. Knight. Ball cock. See under Ball. -- Chaparral cock. See under Chaparral. -- Cock and bull story, an extravagant, boastful story; a canard. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South Amer…

To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting. Cockling sea, waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.

Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.

Capable of being collated. Coleridge.

ints of agreement or disagreement. I must collage it, word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge.

instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops. With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.

-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, and Colt-Browning, pistol.

revolver made according to a system using a patented revolving cylinder, holding six cartridges, patented by Samuel Colt, an American inventor, in 1835. With various modifications, it has for many years been the standard for the United States army.

f control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

To begin to be, or to act as. [Archaic] We commence judges ourselves. Coleridge.

Communicating. [R.] Coleridge.

mpellations." Milton. He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children." Bp. Beveridge. The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else but father. Sir W. Temple.

ontaining the substance oe general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. More compendious and exeditious ways. Woodward. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. Sir T. Elyot.

A combination; a complex. [Archaic] This paragraph is . . . a complexion of sophisms. Coleridge.