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n, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the kness. [Written also curtsy.] The lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience, and the ceremony proceeds as usual. Golgsmith.

he manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly. They can produce nothing so courtly writ. Dryden

formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl. My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow. Shak.

An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement.

lair; -- said of game. -- Under cover, in an envelope, or within a letter; -- said of a written message. Letters . . . dispatched under cover to her ladyship. Thackeray.

tolerable itching. The spiculæ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]

An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon. [Written also cous.]

ent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria. [Written also coypou.]

Snug; comfortable; easy; contented. [Written also cosey and cosy.]

Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. -- Crab"bed*ly, adv. -- Crab"bed*ness, n.

A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard. [Written also crampit and crampette.]

rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species. [Written also croppie.]

A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also crayer, cray, and craie.] Shak.

Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea. [Written also kreatic.]

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue. [Written also kreatine.]

he latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]

A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

he act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. [Written also crenellation.]

ic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum. [Written also creasol.]

llness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.