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An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.

A young cod; also, a hake.

One of the same age; a contemporary. As if it were not enough to have outdone all your coevals in wit. Pope.

degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations Bentley.

cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole. For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will cog. Swift.

A quoin. See you yound coigne of the Capitol yon corner stone Shak.

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.

ated or forged. "Unnecessary coinage . . . of words." Dryden. This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak.

th colbertine. Swift. Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine. Young.

eeling; with indifference; calmly. Withdraw unto some private place, And reason coldly of your grievances. Shak.

Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort. [Colloq. Souther U. S.]

f by direct or by collateral hand They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . . To you in satisfaction. Shak.

ction. Local is his throne . . . to fix a point, A central point, collective of his sons. Young.

The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate. You with your foes combine, And seem your own destruction to design Dryden. So sweet did harp and voice combine. Sir W. Scott.

e, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come united. How come you thus estranged Shak. How come her eyes so bright Shak.

handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.

Serviceable; helpful. [Obs.] Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. Shak.

Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26.