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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.

ous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.

ng cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort. [Colloq. Souther U. S.]

clude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South.

A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

es into it. [Written also coombe.] Buckland. A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed. Southey.

ning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South.

me. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.