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hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.

One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. Hanmer.

ces; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity. Macualay. The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face. Burke.

coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv. Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. W. Irving.

Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry. Coy, and difficult to win. Cowper. Coy and furtive graces. W. Irving. Nor the coy maid, half willings to be pressed, Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest. Goldsmith.…

A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker. [U.S.]

A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc. -- v. t.

A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the æsthetic craze. Various crazes concerning health and disease. W. Pater.

A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured.

A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

nd under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew. Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. Shak. Create in me a clean heart. Ps. li. 10.

The tin ore which collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle.

credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B. Bank credit, or Cash credit. See under Cash. -- Bill of credit. See under Bill. -- Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person named therein is entitled to draw a certain s…

To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

One who, or that which, cremmates or consumes to ashes.

Chalky; cretaceous. [Obs.] Ash.

To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc. Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers. -- Crimping iron. (a) An iron instrume…

Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.

Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (C. moschata) and is…

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]