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In a coördinate manner.

The state of being coördinate; equality of rank or authority.

The act of coördinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coördination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coördination of fun…

Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.

A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica. The common European or bald coot is F. atra (see under bald); the American is F. Americana.

A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.

The pharalope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.

A striped satin made in India. McElrath.

Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.

The wood of the cork oak. [Obs.]

A thrashing floor. Hos. ix. 1.

A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or de…

An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.

The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.

A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

Same as Craps.

together, as pigs in straw. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Forby. A dove to fly home her nest and croodle there. C. Kingsley.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. Phaer.