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Counter tenor; contralto.

To triturate; to pulverize. [R.]

To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect. Whate'er coöperates to the common mirth. Crashaw.

The act of coöperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Not holpen by the coöperation of angels. Bacon.

Operating jointly to the same end. Coöperative society, a society established on the principle of a joint-stock association, for the production of commodities, or their purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending of capital among its members. -- Coöperative store, a store established by…

One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle.

association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.

In a corporate capacity; acting as a coprporate body.

A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.

A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.

The state of being embodied; bodily existence. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

.] As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. I. Watts.

The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.

Tending to strengthen of confirm.

Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.

frame for hay; a crib; a rack. [Obs.] Begin from first where He encradled was, In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay. Spenser. Cratch cradle, a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; -- called also scratch cradle.

To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a gevser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.