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ud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. A school in which he learns sly circumvention. Cowper.

To scent or perfume with civet. Cowper

The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.

. 60. Sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects. Cowper.

To rhyme. [Humorous]. Cowper.

shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal. [R.] Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge. Cowper.

Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.

ho works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child of nature, without guile. Cowper.

eir populous youth about the hive In clusters. Milton. We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city. Shak.

linching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. "The clutch of poverty." Cowper. An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak.

One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.

An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.

nd unwary. I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools. Cowper.

A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.] It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail. Thackeray.

llowed by with. Silence! coeval with eternity! Pope. Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade. Cowper.

rdam. Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary. -- Coffer fish. (Zoöl.) See Cowfish.

tongue whose strains were cogent as commands, Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands. Cowper.

s were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another. [Eng.] Cowell. Mozley & W.

A mean, paltry fellow; a coward. [Obs.] Shak.

the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant. How full the collet with his jewel is! Cowley.