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COSTARD n. 2 definitions
apples] consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett.
COSTARDMONGER n.
A costermonger.
COTARNINE n.
A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.
COTTER; COTTAR n.
A cottager; a cottier. Burns. Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier.
CRANTARA n.
The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.
CUSTARD n.
A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona (A. squamosa, reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastr…
DARTARS n.
A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.
DASTARD n. 3 definitions
o meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Shak.
DASTARDIZE v.
To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. Dryden.
DASTARDLINESS n.
The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
DASTARDLY a.
Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
DASTARDNESS n.
Dastardliness.
DASTARDY n.
Base timidity; cowardliness.
DATARIA n.
Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor).
DATARY n. 2 definitions
An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.
DAY-STAR n. 2 definitions
The morning star; the star which ushers in the day. A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter i. 19.
DENTARY a. 2 definitions
Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth. -- n.
DEPOSITARY n. 3 definitions
eives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries. Shak. The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people.J.S. Mill.
DEVOTARY n.
A votary. [Obs.] J. Gregory.
DEXTROROTARY a.
See Dextrotatory.
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