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chain mail. See Chain mail, under Chain. -- Mast coat (Naut.), a piece of canvas nailed around a mast, where it passes through the deck, to prevent water from getting below. -- Sail coat (Naut.), a canvas cover laced over furled sails, and the like, to keep them dry and clean.

A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.

A cobblestone. "Their slings held cobbles round." Fairfax.

A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.

the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.

The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.

Lofty in feeling; exultant; pround; upstart. Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry. Marlowe.

The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry. They have in Turkey a drink called coffee . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. Bacon.

o wind 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.

Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog.

collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.

The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.

To rise and pass over, in distillation. -- To come over to, to join. -- To come round. (a) To recur in regular course. (b) To recover. [Colloq.] (c) To change, as the wind. (d) To relent. J. H. Newman.

An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun. Hutton.

a quiet, permanent nature, together with the sources thereof; as, the comfort of love; surrounded with comforts; but it is with the former only that the word consolation is brought into comparison. As thus compared, consolation points to some specific source of relief for the afflicted mind; as, the consolations of rel…

That which is the ground of approbation or praise. Good nature is the most godlike commendation of a man. Dryden.

A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade. Hoyle. Chamber of commerce. See Chamber.