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Tending confirm or establish. Sherwood. -- Con*firm"a*tive*ly, adv.

combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam.

st side of America, yet certainly it is the least disoined by sea of all that coast. Berrewood.

design, or increase to some common stock; contributive. Milton. Bonfires of contributory wood. Chapman. Contributory negligence (Law), negligence by an injured party, which combines with the negligence of the injurer in producing the injury, and which bars recovery when it is the proximate cause of the injury. Wharton…

Relating to a cooper; coopered. [Obs.] Coopery vessels made of wood. Holland.

A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.

A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.

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

A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.

arlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is Erythrina Corallodendron. -- Coral wood, a hard, red cabinet wood. McElrath.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).

A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.

he west coast, of the Bay of Bengal. Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Coromandel wood, Calamander wood.

Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry. [R.] Bp. Fleetwood.

A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side. [Archaic] A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine. Tennyson.

Refuse wool. [Obs. or Prov.]

A kind of woolen material for women's skrits.

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.