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See Choltry.

Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.

A stream; (Geol.)

Color; -- chiefly used in a few French phrases, as couler de rose, color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate.

A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.

A deep gorge; a gully.

The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantitty transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called weber.…

Any instrument by which electricity can be measured in coulombs.

The law that the force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them.

Same as Colter.

The puffin.

A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.

To make foul; to defile. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.

A government by slaves. [Written also dulocracy.] Hare.

See Durukuli.

A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.

Mixed with, or emitting, lightning. [Obs.] "With foul enfouldred smoke." Spenser.

Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled.

Same as Engouled.