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A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.

A rabbit. See Cony.

An abbreviation of Congius.

A gallon, or four quarts. [Often abbreviated to cong.]

Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. [Obs.] Crabb.

clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess stood. Sir W. Scott.

epresentative in Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are termed his constituents. Abbot. To appeal from the representatives to the constituents. Macaulay.

of the subject matter and attendant circumstances in connection with the words employed. Abbott. Interpretation properly precedes construction, but it does not go beyond the written text. Parsons. Construction of an equation (Math.), the drawing of such lines and figures as will represent geometrically the quantities…

clearer are to be attained. I. Watts. Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them. Mark xv. 15.

Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.

liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness. Abbott.

A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus).

The occupation of a cooper. Crabb.

ted by officers having charge of the originals, and authorized to give copies officially. Abbot.

An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it. [Written also corrody.]

The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

ly two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe.

A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard. [Written also crampit and crampette.]

A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. Crabb.