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nt monument of primitive Christian rites and ceremonies. But centuries of subjection to Moslem rule have weakened and degraded it.

Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.

corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.

A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

Indian corn and butter, the combined taste resembling that of oysters. [U.S.] -- Corn parsley (Bot.), a plant of the parsley genus (Petroselinum ssegetum), a weed in parts of Europe and Asia. -- Corn popper, a utensil used in popping corn. -- Corn poppy (Bot.), the red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas), common in European corn…

A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep. Dunglison.

A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed. [Written also cott.]

d and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.

ng place. Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. Shak.

ith the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast. Couchant and levant (Law), rising up and lying down; -- said of beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise up to f…

; instruction. I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised. Shak. It was ill counsel had misled the girl. Tennyson.

urn a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. His left hand countered provokingly. C. Kingsley.

Same as Cow parsley.

rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking. It cradles their fears to sleep. D. A. Clark.

Abounding in cresses. The cressy islets white in flower. Tennyson.

A hovel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.

straw. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Forby. A dove to fly home her nest and croodle there. C. Kingsley.

singing softly. The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. Dickens.

s sued him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contract. Burrill. -- Cross aisle (Arch.), a transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church. -- Cross axie. (a) (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press. (b) A driving axle. with cran…

A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.