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To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed.

See Coke, n.

To unite or coalesce. [Obs.] Let them continue to coalite. Bolingbroke.

The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.

Capable of being cooked. Blount.

A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.

gnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son]. Hooker.

worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known. Wearing the liveries and cognizance of their master. Prescott. This pale and angry rose, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate. Shak.

v. Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice. Hooker.

ell; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser.

Obs.] Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker.

A woman invested with authority to command. Hooker.

The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere. Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array. -- Commission of bankrupty, a commission apointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative…

own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker.

The majority or bulk of mankind. [Obs.] Hooker.

union of saints. We are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others. Hooker. What communion hath light with darkness 2 Cor. vi. 14. Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. South.

-- called also fret saw and keyhole saw. -- Compass timber (Shipbuilding), curved or crooked timber. -- Compass window (Arch.), a circular bay window or oriel window. It has two or more magnetic needles permanently attached to a card, which moves freely upon a pivot, and is read with reference to a mark on the box r…

y. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.

nt there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old. Hooker.

t of comradeship; comradeship. [R.] "Certainly", said Dunham, with the comradery of the smoker. W. D. Howells.