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dy begun to show itself . . . which was to shed a glory over the meridian and close of Philip's reign. Prescott.

state of being contemporaneous. The lines of contemporaneity in the oölitic system. J. Philips.

denoting contempt. Little insults and contempts. Spectator. The contempt and anger of his lip. Shak.

nt; disdainful. Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. Shak. Curving a contumelious lip. Tennyson.

n, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips.

se of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27.

the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven. Phillips. Bailey.

to equal; -- usually followed by with. Host coped with host, dire was the din of war. Philips. Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens. Addison.

ce, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.

Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses). The coronal light during the eclipse is faint. Abney.

An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen during September and October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood. Called also Gegenschein.

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

o crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.

de of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips. -- Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added. -- Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the…

To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

on instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.

asily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.] Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. J. Philips.

A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.

tter inarticulate sounds, as animals. The young ravens which cry. Ps. cxlvii. 9. In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry. Shak. To cry on or upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech."No longer on Saint Denis will we cry." Shak. -- To cry out. (a) To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor.…

A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs.