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weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow. Dryden.

fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.

A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Knight.

A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.

To combine or unite. [Obs.] "Co-uned together." Feltham.

t for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. [Colloq.] Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach. G. Eliot.

Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant. Feltham.

To take in coal; as, the steaer coaled at Southampton.

To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character. [R.] Graham.

The style of gnomon of a dial. Chambers.

The fire chamber of a furnace. [Eng.] Knight.

oncoetaneous with another; a contemporary. [R.] A . . . coetanean of the late earl of SouthamptoAubrey.

Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. Sir W. Hamilton. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ly, adv. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ness, n.

The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary. -- Coffer fish. (Zoöl.) See Cowfish.

A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

e; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.