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Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator. [Obs.]

Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.

thing done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not. Burrill.

Perceiving together.

The head; -- used contemptuously. Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder. Shak.

A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts.

line. -- Executive council, a body of men elected as advisers of the chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. [U.S.] -- Legislative council, the upper house of a legislature, usually called the senate. -- Privy council. See under Privy. [Eng.]

That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. [Obs.] It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor. L'Estrange. I'll go in couples with her. Shak.

A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam. [Engl.]

Union; combination; a coupling; a pair. [Obs.] Shak. And forth together rode, a goodly couplement. Spenser.

h any two or more of the ranks of keys, or keys and pedals, are connected so as to act together when the organ is played.

Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe.

The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.

The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. Shak.

over; private; hid; secret; disguised. How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton

); avaricious; -- in a bad sense. The covetous person lives as if the world were madealtogether for him, and not he for the world. South.

of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges. Darwin.

d; -- usually attached to the gown. The nname was also applied to the hood and garment together. What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl Pope.

(a) when he fails to raise his oar clear of the water; (b) when he misses the water altogether in making a stroke.

l; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.