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Same as Brocatel.

Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.

The chough.

The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.

An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.

A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.

A morbid condition produced by the habitual and excessive use of cocaine. -- Co*ca"in*ist, n.

To treat or anæsthetize with cocaine. -- Co*ca`in*i*za"tion (#), n.

To set or place; to set; to station. To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. E. Hall.

f being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics.

To convoke; to call together. [Obs.] May (Lucan).

An assembly or meeting. In the first day there shall be a holy convocation. Ex. xii. 16.

Of or pertaining to a convocation.

An advocate or defender of convocation.

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrott, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.

A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

De*vo`cal*i*za"tion, n. If we take a high vowel, such as (i) [= nearly i of bit], and devocalize it, we obtain a hiss which is quite distinct enough to stand for a weak (jh). H. Sweet.