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An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.

Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, embodying the law of rights of persons and of property generally. Abbot.

A miser or mean person.

An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races. Co*ed`u*ca"tion*al (, a.

A personcoetaneous with another; a contemporary. [R.] A . . . coetanean of the late earl of SouthamptoAubrey.

That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.

A person cinnected through cognation.

nd followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known. Wearing the liveries and cognizance of their master. Prescott. This pale and angry rose, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate. Shak.…

The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.

Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker. Watts.

arcel. [Eng.] Johnson. -- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders. -- To slip the collar, to get free; to disentangle one's self from difficulty, labor, or engagement. Spenser.

To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.

or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

r; to conclude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South.

That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay.

A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons…

Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation. They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood.

An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. Bouvier. Abbott.

A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.

Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.