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around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges. [Written also combings.]

person, esp. a rich covetous person. [Obs.] All cobbing country chuffs, which make their bellies and their bags their god, are called rich cobs. Nash.

ants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a consrvatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.

A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right. Bell.

small musical imstrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.

ion; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies. It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air. Bacon.

g it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. The confiscations following a subdued rebellion. Hallam.

A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.

aband of war, that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent. Wharton.

ntroversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.

and other causes. Liquids are generally heated by convection -- when heat is applied from bellow. Nichol.

djustment; as, a coördination of functions. "Coördination of muscular movement by the cerebellum." Carpenter.

notortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.

A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. Brain coral, or Brain stone coral. See under Brain. -- Chain coral. See under Chain. -- Coral animal (Zoöl.), one of the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called coral insects.…

An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

A small, rudely-formed boat. Bell cot. (Arch.) See under Bell.

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chærophyllum (C. temulum and C. sylvestre).

A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).

A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.

An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon. [Written also cous.]