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Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

A double bar marking the end. At every close she made, the attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song. Dryden.

uced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word clôture was originally applied to this proceeding.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.

as distinguished from a drawing- room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.

A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose.

The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs. Smart.

A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.

ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

An orthopterus insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

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

The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the…

w the coronet, in which is the coffin bone. Coffin bone, the foot bone of the horse and allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals. -- Coffin joint, the joint next above the coffin bone.

Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.

Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker. Watts.

The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3 : 6 and 6 : 12 are relations of cointension. Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer.