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With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.

A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique. "The queen of your coterie." Thackeray.

Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.

Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.

rrect sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution. Wharton.

A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.

The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody.

ed from having had, in the colonial days, judical power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] -- To pay one's court, to seek to gain favor by attentions. "Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his court to Tissaphernes." Jowett. -- To put out of court, to refuse further judicial hearing.

Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.

An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it eventlyin a swath.

A werd rhyming with another word. His similes in order set And every crambo he could get. Swift. Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.

Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.

r craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay.

A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream.

Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

Marked with closely set transverse furrows.

upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond. To credit with, to give credit for; to assign as justly due to any one. Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clea…

putation, or honor; honorable; as, such conduct is highly creditable to him. Macualay. He settled him in a good creditable way of living. Arbuthnot.

A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.