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pposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. Sir W. Hamilton.

. Coup de grace (ke gr Etym: [F.], the stroke of mercy with which an executioner ends by death the sufferings of the condemned; hence, a decisive, finishing stroke. -- Coup de main (ke m Etym: [F.] (Mil.), a sudden and unexpected movement or attack. -- Coup de soleil (k Etym: [F.] (Med.), a sunstroke. See Sunstroke.…

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

One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.

n; -- used in a good sense. [Archaic] Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson.

Leather made of the hide of a cow.

hort body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

y repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.

The chief priets and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1.

having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

He was hardly able to crawl about the room. Arbuthnot. The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. Byron.

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

animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.

Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head. "The crested bird." Dryden.

e, the crime of our first father's fall. Spenser. Capital crime, a crime punishable with death.

. -- Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles leather, iron, etc. -- Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the border of a lady's cap.

A very fine, hairlike feather. Booth.

A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.

That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.

Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.