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A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.

ricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. -- Clover worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Asopia costalis), often very destructive to clover hay. -- In clover, in very pleasant circumstances; fortunate. [Colloq.] - - Sweet clover. See Meliot.

An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original member…

together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands. "Cluster of provinces." Motley.

A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.

A child's rocking-horse. Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. Mother Goose.

th after a wetting. Cockling sea, waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.

An immature apple. A codling when 't is almost an apple. Shak. Codling moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Carpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.

Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. Silence! coeval with eternity! Pope. Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade. Cowper.

A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, 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.

Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.

Relatives by the mother's side. Wharton.

That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.

Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for rastraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hibing an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where…

an astronomical instrument from the position it ought to have with respect to the axis of motion of the instrument. -- Line of collimation, the axial line of the telescope of an astronomical or geodetic instrument, or the line which passes through the optical center of the object glass and the intersection of the cros…

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.

A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America. The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty.…