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ety, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management.

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

With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.

Worship paid to the world. Cudworth.

A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.…

A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy. [Obs.] What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures. B. Jonson.

nd, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]

Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.

aised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast. Couchant and levant (Law), rising up and lying down; -- said of beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise up to feed, -- such t…

Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.

accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. [Colloq.]

Approving or encouraging aspect of face; hence, favor, good will, support; aid; encouragement. Thou hast made him . . . glad with thy countenance. Ps. xxi. 6. This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice. Atterbury.

and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.

Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.

Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.

Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.

rs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.

A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise.

Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals.