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In every circumstance or particular; minutely. To set down somewhat circumstantially, not only the events, but the manner of my trials. Boyle.

Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year. Swift .

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.

A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut. [Eng.]

One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tr…

and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.

or cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut. Homans.

Same as Cola nut, below.

fort supposes the relief to be afforded by imparting positive enjoyment, as well as a diminution of pain. "Consolation, or comfort, signifies some alleviation to that pain to which it is not in our power to afford the proper and adequate remedy; they imply rather an augmentation of the power of bearing, than a diminuti…

Hollow; void of contents. [R.] As concave . . . as a worm-eaten nut. Shak.

An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. Knight.

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne.

A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. [Obs.]

One to whom anuthing is confirmed.

The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

An order of Entomastraca, including many minute Crustacea, both freshwater and marine.

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]

n Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut.