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is situated; as London, York, Bristol, etc. [Eng.] Mozley & W. -- County court, a court whose jurisdiction is limited to county. -- County palatine, a county distingushed by particular privileges; -- so called a palatio (from the palace), because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers, in the admin…

An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl. My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow. Shak.

An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.

A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.

The person in whose favor a covenant is made.

To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit."Blessed is he whose is covered." Ps. xxxii. 1.

, a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ravelin.

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

One whose occupation is to tend cows.

Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers. The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. J. R. Green.

led in, or who practices, cranioscopy. It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.

A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.

A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter. [Colloq.]

A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.

appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle. There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. Shak.

A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc. Creature comforts, those which minister to the comfort of the body.

he cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.

me part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. Holland.

A person or animal whose ears are cropped.