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See Cozy.

Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness. And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended. Milton. Pardon me, Messer Claudio, if once more I use the ancient courtesies…

Crimson. [Obs.] A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley.

Full of creases. Tennyson.

Abounding in cresses. The cressy islets white in flower. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc. Cresylic acid. (Chem.) See Cresol.

A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands. Mozley & W.

Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.

ow herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositæ. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.

An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.

Dasypædic.

Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.

Pertaining to the Dasypædes; ptilopædic.

A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.

Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.

Having, or consisting of, ten syllables.

A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of François Delsarte (1811 -- 71), a French teacher of dramatic and musical expression.

The act of desynonymizing.

To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms. Coleridge. Trench.