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grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.

A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak.

A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.

The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.

breathed first; time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end; My life is run his compass. Shak.

Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.

aving on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw). -- Compound time (Mus.), that in which two or more simple measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining of two measures of 3-8 time. -- Compound word, a word…

ss of a single life. D. Webster. The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues. Melmoth.

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale.

To run together; to meet. [Obs.] Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates. J. Hughes.

tain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.

Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.

The tendency of fluids to run together. [R.] Boyle.

Inclined to flow or run together. --Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n.

To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.

Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.

An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.