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lly, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

Lofty in feeling; exultant; pround; upstart. Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry. Marlowe.

To parboil, or soften by boiling. It [the guava fruit] may be coddled. Dampier.

rpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.

mon tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.

The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.

To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around. You can see his flery serpents . . . Coiting, playing in the water. Longfellow.

; to concur; as, our aims coincide. The rules of right jugdment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other. Watts.

Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid. [Obs.] Harvey.

d to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.

rmation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.

gular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling.

A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.

planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. [Obs.] Planets that are oft combust. Milton.

The possession or exercise of authority. Command and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion. Locke.

A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc. Commander in chief, the military title of the officer who has supreme command of the land or naval forces or the united forces of a nation or state; a generalissimo. The President is commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States.…

ew to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden. I must translate and comment. Pope.

or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course. You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign. Junius. Any sudden assent to the proposal . . . migh…