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Abounding in cobwebs. "The cobwebbed cottage." Young.

Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

Peppergrass. Johnson.

See Cauliflower.

Commonwealth. Such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal. Shak.

government and system of laws. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton.

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone- shaped disk of the flower head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.

The shotproof pilot house of a war vessel.

A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.

Costly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Cudweed.

A counterpoise.

To weigh against; to counterbalance.

ng the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.

Same as Cow parsley.

es formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century. Fairholt.

Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

See Cruet.