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A caption or sophistical mode of arguing. [R.]

ogether, as pigs in straw. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Forby. A dove to fly home her nest and croodle there. C. Kingsley.

ked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes. [Poetic] Do I look as if I were crow-trodden Beau. & FL.

Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.

A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

The state of being a cub. [Jocose] "From cubhood to old age." W. B. Dawkins.

See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.

See Custodian.

Relating to custody or guardianship.

One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.

Office or duty of a custodian.

A custodian. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. Bacon.

A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow.

A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.

A plant of the genus Asphodelus.

The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.

State of the dead. [Obs.]

A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.