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o truth; to satisfy by proof. Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others. Atterbury.

rble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.] They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. Addison.

nheritance. All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them. blackstone.

A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.

ock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock. [Broker's Cant] Corner stone, the stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially, the stone which forms the corner of the fou…

owed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.

spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles.

exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft.

Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form. [Written also corymbous.]

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. To do him wanton rites, whichcost them woe. Milton. To cost dear, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.

A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.

e, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare. [Obs.] Drayton. We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming. Shak.

or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity. T. Burnet.

broidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.

rtional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them.

tion or aspect; free from shame or dismay. "It puts the learned in countenance, and gives them a place among the fashionable part of mankind." Addison. -- Out of countenance, not bold or assured; confounded; abashed. "Their best friends were out of countenance, because they found that the imputations . . . were well g…

th such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals. Macaulay.

, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.

ole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

he king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them. Shak. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it. Addison.