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One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.

Covered with growing clover. Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.

One who suffers with another. Wycherley.

Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.

A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.

A young cock.

One who keeps treasures in a coffer. [R.]

of the same mass. Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together. Locke.

urpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness. Coherence of discourse, and a direct tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most eminently to be found in him. Locke.

Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

In a coherent manner.

assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere, or weld together, a condition easily destroyed by tapping. A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings (usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts) between te…

To inhere or exist together, as in one substance. Sir W. Hamilton.

To delay. Bailey.

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate.

ore things together; comparison. [Obs.] Helps and furtherances which . . . the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford. Hocker.

Relating to conference. [R.] Clarke.

Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate.