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The act of making clean.

The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South.

ling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink. Shak.

Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.

The art of process of making cloth. [R.] Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing. Ray.

by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printer's ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series.

The act of croaking. [R] Dr. H. More.

A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.

nuation. Cocked hat. (a) A hat with large, stiff flaps turned up to a peaked crown, thus making its form triangular; -- called also three-cornered hat. (b) A game similar to ninepins, except that only three pins are used, which are set up at the angles of a triangle.

An object at which stones are flung. "Making a cockshy of him," replied the hideous small boy. Dickens.

A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells. Cocoa shells, the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.

It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.

Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.

ulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, embodying the law of rights of persons and of property generally. Abbot.

Partaking of the same essence. -- Co`es*sen"tial*ly, adv. We bless and magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son]. Hooker.

botton of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam.