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A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

Inclosed in a shell. The tender horns of cockled snails. Shak.

A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are k…

disturb; to stir up. [R.] Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. Hawthorne.

e into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand. "I conceive you." Hawthorne. O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! Shak. You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate. Swift.

Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion. Concupiscence like a pestilence walketh in darkness. Horne.

dealing with (a person or problem) directly; taking the bull by the horns. Syn. -- braving, coping with, grappling, tackling. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

confuting; refutation. "For the edification of some and the confutation of others." Bp. Horne.

are; sensible. Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt. Hawthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.

pher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.

dom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne.

with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

Having convolutions. beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn. Pennant.

selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.

flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrocosum, and Hymenæa Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ur

A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.

The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. Core box (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. -- Core print (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.

A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two- horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.