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r Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused. Milton. Kind, connubial tenderness. Goldsmith.

To make up; to compose; to form. Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction. Johnson.

base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.

ontiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.

for any object; to assist. These men also contributed to obstruct the progress of wisdom. Goldsmith.

To be convenient; to serve. [Obs.] When that is known and golden time convents. Shak.

d; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. For a patriot, too cool. Goldsmith.

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith.

wth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.

A fish; the goldsinny.

grain for home consumption, except when the price rose above a certain rate. -- Corn marigold. (Bot.) See under Marigold. -- Corn oyster, a fritter containing grated green Indian corn and butter, the combined taste resembling that of oysters. [U.S.] -- Corn parsley (Bot.), a plant of the parsley genus (Petroselinum s…

used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown. Without a star, a coronet, or garter. Goldsmith.

corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18.

, and Plato. The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.

A small house; a cottage or hut. The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm. Goldsmith.

ich case it will not be easy to cotton with another. Swift. Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion Sir W. Scott.

r resting place. Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. Shak.

g the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit. Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit. Shak. Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals. Macaulay.

may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy.…