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l or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton.

A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal. [Written also cooie.]

The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea). [Also written coolen and cullum.]

A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter. [Written also comb.]

The red, or corn, poppy. [Written also cup-rose.]

nd is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]

One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.

A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]

, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation. Let him first learn to write, after a copy, all the letters. Holder.

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing.

ess. -- Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.

A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also core.]

he individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal. [Written also corallet.]

A lamentation for the dead; a dirge. [Written also coranich, corrinoch, coronach, cronach, etc.] [Scot.]

with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also corindine.]

The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle. [Written also korin.]

m of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

use for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it. [Written also corrody.]

The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points. [Written also cronel.] Grose.