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The cobra de capello.

The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.

Cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.]

A large swan. B. Jonson.

A wall made of clay mixed with straw.

to catch the ignorant and unwary. I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools. Cowper.

Abounding in cobwebs. "The cobwebbed cottage." Young.

Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

The calico bass.

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.

The cob or axis on which the kernels of Indian corn grow. [U.S.]

Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.

A thrower of the discus.

vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel. And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. Gen. xxxii. 9, 10. Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel. Gen. xxxii. 28. Jacob's ladder. (a) (Bot.) A perennial herb of the genus…

ssima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower. [Written also Jacobean.]

o a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. "A Jacobean table." C. L. Eastlake.

ent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.

A Jacobin.