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ompanion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband. Milton. He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. Dryden. The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. Thakeray. The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. Darwin.…

money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. He had lost a cool hundred. Fielding. Leaving a cool thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket. Dickens.

To choose or elect in concert with another. [R.] Each of the hundred was to coöpt three others. Jowett (Thysyd. ).

a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. Piers plowman. A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes. Bp. Burnet.

Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate. He . . . with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored. Milton.

To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join. Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . . And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach. Shak.

To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue. We coursed him at the heels. Shak.

Hunted; as, a coursed hare.

One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. Hanmer.

A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.

A region of country having covers; a hunting country.

To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shak.

to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap. Beaconsfield. Thackeray. The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks. Howells.

cked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years. Leigh Hunt.

the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope.

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [Slang.]

rom one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream. A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. I. Watts.

In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.

whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen xxv. 27.