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Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith.

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange.

A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.

An associate or companion; a friend; a partner. [Obs.] Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night. Shak.

, blue cordon], a first-rate cook, or one worthy to be the cook of the cordons bleus, or Knights of the Holy Ghost, famous for their good dinners. -- Cordon sanitaire (kd" s Etym: [F., sanitary cordon], a line of troops or military posts around a district infected with disease, to cut off communication, and thus preve…

alks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing. In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn. Milton.

thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. -- Corpse gate, the gate of a burial plac…

t cost his life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.

cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.

opriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described. I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.

A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire. Knight.

heir owner, to lie down and rise up to feed, -- such time being held to include a day and night at the least. Blackstone.

deliberation; consultation. Satan . . . void of rest, His potentates to council called by night. Milton. O great in action and in council wise. Pope. Aulic council. See under Aulic. -- Cabinet council. See under Cabinet. -- City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of al…

press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations. Knight.

mber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made. Knight.

ence of events according to natural laws. By course of nature and of law. Davies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.

Anything which weils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloack. "Under cover of the night." Macualay. A hendsome cover for imperfections. Collier.

A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock. Knight.

A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste. When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl. Shak.

A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Knight.