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A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

(as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire clotch mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince. [Obs.] Dryden. The duke's levees and couchees were so crowded that the antechambers were full. Bp. Burnet.

a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a cañon, which has precipitous sides.

strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front. Dryden.

king in another; an opposite. O counterpart Of our soft sex, well are you made our lords. Dryden.

Resistance; opposition. [Obs.] Give not shus the countertime to fate. Dryden.

nt in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. Dryden.

ner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly. They can produce nothing so courtly writ. Dryden

to make a stipulation. Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry, . . . as the tenant should direct. L'Estrange. And they covenanted with him for thyrty pieces of silver. Matt. xxvi. 15.

Something used to conceal infamy. [Obs.] Dryden.

age; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon. A fool is nauseous, but a coward worse. Dryden.

squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.

coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden.

Sour; rough; austere. The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast. Dryden.

[Collog.] The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. Dryden.

A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

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

oisting apparatus traveling on rails or beams fixed overhead, as in a machine shop or foundry. -- Water crane, a kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.

ties ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. Dryden. He peeped into every cranny. Arbuthnot.