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See Commandery.

Illegal or prohobited traffic. Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. Burke.

Traffic in contraband gods; smuggling.

One who traffic illegaly; a smuggler.

A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle. [Obs.]

An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal. Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Coromandel wood, Calamander wood.

Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.

To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.

Capable of being countermanded; revocable. Bacon.

Resistance; opposition; a stand against. Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard. Longfellow.

Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.

Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.

To dress with a crandall.

Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surfase of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.

one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.

A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.

Dandruff or scurf on the head.

A boatman; an oarsman. [India]