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er. [Obs.] His two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak.

Forward on all vessels on convoy duty.

To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow. [Obs.] Some bending down and coping to ward the earth. Holland.

A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.

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

ll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court. Blackstone.

To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple. He's likee a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out. Marston.

r, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I. Fosbroke.

To press forward in a winding way; as, to corksrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

is a defect in the first make of same men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards. T. Burnet.

Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. [Germany]

g the counter principle." I. Taylor. Counter approach (Fort.), a trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bond (Law), in old practice, a bond to secure one who has given bond for another. -- Counter brace. See Counter brace, in Vocabulary. -- Co…

The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.

Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country. She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language. 2 Macc. vii. 27.

ancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made. Chambers.

the Argive squadron steers Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore. Dennham. Westward the course of empire takes its way. Berkeley.

ally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] Edwards. -- Court day, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. -- Court dress, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. -- Court fool, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles fo…

An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.

rt of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.