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One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.

The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.

To grapple; to engange in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. Prescott. To close on or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. "Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage." Sir W. Temple. -- To close with. (a) To acced…

blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxiii. 21 The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. Goldsmith.

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.

The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.

An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

e under Ball. -- Chaparral cock. See under Chaparral. -- Cock and bull story, an extravagant, boastful story; a canard. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South American bird (Rupicola aurantia) having a beautiful crest. -- Cock of the walk, a chief or master; the hero of t…

Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.

istinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

rly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose…

A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.