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Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested. Wiseman.

A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.

Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point. A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high. Hakluyt.

Rising to a point; conical; copped. [Obs.] Woodward.

or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint. You are coquetting a maid of honor. Swift.

A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toees, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome. Welkome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you. Shak.

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.

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

Radiating to or from the same point. [R.] Coleridge.

To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays.

A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point. Bacom

, crystalline substance, easily soluble, and of an acrid, burning taste. It is a virulent poison, a powerful antiseptic, and an exellent antisyphilitic; called also mercuric bichloride. It is to be carefully distinguished from calomel, the mild chloride of mercury.

of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles.

opped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

ges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.

A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council. An old lord of the council rated me the other day. Shak.

A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate.