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A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia. [Written also corsac.]

Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form. [Written also corymbous.]

n apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. [Written also costardmonger.]

ited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed. [Written also cott.]

ith or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]

A member of a council. [Written also councillor.]

The act of forging; forgery. [Obs.] [Written also counterfaisance.]

A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief. [Scot.] [Written also curch.] Jamieson.

n, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the kness. [Written also curtsy.] The lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience, and the ceremony proceeds as usual. Golgsmith.

lair; -- said of game. -- Under cover, in an envelope, or within a letter; -- said of a written message. Letters . . . dispatched under cover to her ladyship. Thackeray.

tolerable itching. The spiculæ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]

An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon. [Written also cous.]

ent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria. [Written also coypou.]

Snug; comfortable; easy; contented. [Written also cosey and cosy.]

A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard. [Written also crampit and crampette.]

rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species. [Written also croppie.]

A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also crayer, cray, and craie.] Shak.

Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea. [Written also kreatic.]

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue. [Written also kreatine.]

he latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]