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COLOGNE EARTH n.
An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.
COMART n.
A covenant. [Obs.] Shak.
COMPART v.
To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions. [R.] The crystal surface is comparted all In niches verged with rubies. Glover.
COMPARTITION n.
The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. [Obs.] Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.
COMPARTMENT n. 2 definitions
One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden. In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work. Carew.
COMPARTNER n.
See Copartner. [Obs.]
COPART v.
To share. [Obs.] For, of all miserias, I hold that chief Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief. Webster (1661).
COPARTMENT n.
A compartment. [Obs.] T. Warton.
COPARTNER n.
One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. the associates and copartners of our loss. Milton.
COPARTNERSHIP n. 2 definitions
The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.
COPARTNERY n.
the state of being copartners in any undertaking. [R.]
COUNTERPART n. 4 definitions
A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile. In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another. Sir M. Hale.
COURT-MARTIAL v. 2 definitions
To subject to trial by a court-martial.
COWHEARTED a.
Cowardly. The Lady Powis . . . patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow. R. North.
DART n. 8 definitions
javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow. And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. 2 Sa. xviii. 14.
DARTARS n.
A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.
DARTER n. 3 definitions
One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
DARTINGLY adv.
Like a dart; rapidly.
DARTLE v.
To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.
DARTOIC a.
Of or pertaining to the dartos.
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