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A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

A small cooper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.

bottom, at the foundation or basis; in reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." J. F. Cooper. -- To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] J. H. Newman. He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. Addison. -- To go to the bottom, to sink;…

A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

To make hollow; to scoop out. [Obs.] The mouldred earth cav'd the banke. Spenser.

o the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

cover or dress with, or as with, a coif. And coif me, where I'm bald, with flowers. J. G. Cooper.

A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ig…

ce and their turn. Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. J. F. Cooper.

To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. Bartlett.…

A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.

Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon. Bishop.

A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.

A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

To negotiate a dicker; to barter. [U.S.] "Ready to dicker. and to swap." Cooper.

into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect. A deserted and dilapidated buildings. Cooper.

To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

h a dredging machine. R. Carew. Dredging machine, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.

A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.

To mew or coop up. [Obs.] Shak.