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That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments. He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties. Macualay.

od. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. Macualay.

[by which] both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to follow. Goldsmith.

A coverlet. All the coverlid was clocth of gold. Tennyson.

. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.

In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of Marsh marigold. American cowslip (Bot.), a pretty flower of the West (Dodecatheon Meadia), belonging to the same order (Pr…

complishments; a fop. Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. Goldsmith. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.

or the coy maid, half willings to be pressed, Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest. Goldsmith.

To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.

reparation. In vain she tries her paste and creams, To smooth her skin or hide its seams. Goldsmith.

eputation or esteem; reputable; estimable. This gentleman was born of creditable parents. Goldsmith.

than a river and larger than a brook. Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks. Goldsmith.

break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. The cakes at tea ate short and crisp. Goldsmith.

them; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.

To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.] To cross me from the golden time I look for. Shak.

(Zoöl.) See Acorn-shell. -- Crown side. See Crown office. -- Crown tax (Eccl. Hist.), a golden crown, or its value, which was required annually from the Jews by the king of Syria, in the time of the Maccabees. 1 Macc. x. 20. -- Crown wheel. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown work. See in the Vocabulary. -- Pleas of t…

One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages. Azure-eyed and golden-haired, Forth the young crusaders fared. Longfellow.

A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.

A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup. Shak.

Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. Shenstone.