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An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

g the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers. [Also spelt coag.]

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges. [Written also combings.]

Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.

An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek. Fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell. Milton.

punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood. Wright.

our; one who has overcrowed, or got the better of, rivals or competitors. -- Cock of the woods. See Capercailzie.

A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.

A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.

A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.

A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.

A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret.

ion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.

A small wooden vessel; a pail. [Scot.] Jamieson.

s; conference; conversation. They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood.

A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.

One who combats. Sherwood.

A tooth of a wool comb. [Written also combrouch.]

One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.