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me other occasions. Piers plowman. A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes. Bp. Burnet.

al-red seeds. The best known is Erythrina Corallodendron. -- Coral wood, a hard, red cabinet wood. McElrath.

A performer on the cornet or horn.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

An obsolete name for the cornet-à-piston.

The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet.

Having the form of a crown or coronet; resembling a crown.

ated to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus. Martyn.

n the first make of same men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards. T. Burnet.

ing figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.

s couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity. T. Burnet.

n. The duke's levees and couchees were so crowded that the antechambers were full. Bp. Burnet.

The law that the force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them.

ton. O great in action and in council wise. Pope. Aulic council. See under Aulic. -- Cabinet council. See under Cabinet. -- City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common council, but sometimes otherwise constituted. -- Common council. See under Common…

nduct. Such countermarches and retractions as we do not willingly impute to wisdom. T. Burnet.

; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. [WordNet 1.5]

a wool-like fabric. [WordNet 1.5]

; to decoy. [Obs.] A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets. Bp. Rainbow.

like a crab. -- Crab tree, the tree that bears crab applies. -- Crab wood, a light cabinet wood obtained in Guiana, which takes a high polish. McElrath. -- To catch a crab (Naut.), a phrase used of a rower: (a) when he fails to raise his oar clear of the water; (b) when he misses the water altogether in making a st…