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The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation. Coxe.

Defective digestion, indigestion. Coxe.

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.

The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness. Coxe.

Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe.

See Coxcomb.

acture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. Coxe.

One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb. That in civility thou seem'st so empty. Shak.

icine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.

tuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.

The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.

One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.

The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.

ses; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. Coxe.

The worship of the earth. G. W. Cox. The Geological Series.

derstood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either goitrous or idiots. W. Coxe.

uilt or temporary structure. Death comes on with equal footsteps To the hall and hut. Bp. Coxe.