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A cuckold maker. [R.] Jordan.

vity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians.

A train of attendants; a procession.

priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.

ing to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.

A ballet dancer.

In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.

A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.

An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel. The King found his counsel as refractory as his judges. Macaulay.

; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter. This is counter, you false Danish dogs! Shak.

A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made. Chambers.

That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution. The king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them. Shak. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man…

A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.

A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant.

An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macualay.

Could; was able; knew or known; understood. [Obs.] Above all other one Daniel He loveth, for he couth well Divine, that none other couth; To him were all thing couth, As he had it of God's grace. Gower.

To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat. His calm and blameless life Does with substantial blessedness abound, And the soft wings of peace cover him round. Cowley.