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s made into a button by covering it with cloth. [Written also buttonmould.] Fossil buttonmolds, joints of encrinites. See Encrinite.

One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.

One of the Cestoidea.

Cuckold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis." Milton.

In the terminology of the United States Weather Bureau, an unusual fall in temperature, to or below the freezing point, exceeding 16º in twenty-four hours or 20º in thirty-six hours, independent of the diurnal range.

Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent. -- Cold"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.

Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n.

A British wagtail.

Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly. Withdraw unto some private place, And reason coldly of your grievances. Shak.

The state or quality of being cold.

Land held in copyhold. Milton.

One possessed of land in copyhold.

An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.…

To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. Shak.

o a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To cuckold. Dryden.