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To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. South.

s esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South. Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.

A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).

The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix.

To take in coal; as, the steaer coaled at Southampton.

very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.

force employed in lifesaving stations along the seacoast. [U. S.] -- Coast rat (Zoöl.), a South African mammal (Bathyergus suillus), about the size of a rabbit, remarkable for its extensive burrows; -- called also sand mole. -- Coast waiter, a customhouse officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for t…

d at top. Wright. -- Cob money, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its aliquot parts.

A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a consrvatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.

The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.

A plant of Central and Southern Anerica, of the Cactus familly, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.

; a canard. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South American bird (Rupicola aurantia) having a beautiful crest. -- Cock of the walk, a chief or master; the hero of the hour; one who has overcrowed, or got the better of, rivals or competitors. -- Cock of the woods. See Caper…

by their fond papas and mammas! Thackeray. He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation. Southey.

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

Coeaval [Obs.] South.

Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. South.

e worsted by the captived ark . . . : they were not able to cohabit with that holy thing. South.

A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.

. . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness. South.

able to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.