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United closely with another. [Obs.]

Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.

One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.

A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers. [Also spelt coag.]

A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.

Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.

One who is on an equality with another. In once he come to be a cardinal, He'll make his cap coequal with the crown. Shak.

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terro…

A personcoetaneous with another; a contemporary. [R.] A . . . coetanean of the late earl of SouthamptoAubrey.

Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.

Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence. Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition. Jer. Taylor.

Existing at the same time with another. -- n.

To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations Bentley.

One who is related to another on the female side. Wharton.

s that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another. [Eng.] Cowell. Mozley & W.

One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. Feltham.

One who coincides with another in an opinion.

One who dwells with another, or with others. "Coinhabitants of the same element." Dr. H. More.

Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance…