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A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.

Clogging, or having power to clog.

One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

The quality of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.

One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.

true Coelenterata, i.e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.

Belonging to the Coelentra. -- n.

ally or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n.

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

nd of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.

as altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macaulay.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.

iam's royal race my mother came." Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by the eye." L'Estrange. -- To come off. (a) To depart or pass off from. (b) To get free; to get away; to escape. (c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off well. (d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a conte…

commissary of subsistence. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. W. Irving Commissary general, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: (a)…

The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged. Hamilton.

A parcel or quantity of goods. [Obs.] A commodity of brown paper and old ginger. Shak.