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berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.

See Lumpfish. [Scot.]

See Lumpfish. [Scot.]

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

n 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.

A small wooden vessel; a pail. [Scot.] Jamieson.

ent or passion; deliberately. He was slain in cold blood after thefight was over. Sir W. Scott. To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.

] Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryden. College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. -- The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome.

The Scotch shepherd dog. There are two breeds, the rough-haired and smooth-haired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks. [Written also colly, colley.]

A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. Collodion process (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensit…

ntifying the book. De Morgan. The book was uninjured from title page to colophon. Sir W. Scott.

A dovecote or pigeon house.

A dovecote; a pigeon house. Sir T. Browne.

seem your own destruction to design Dryden. So sweet did harp and voice combine. Sir W. Scott.

See Coamings. Combing machine (Textile Manuf.), a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.

e commerce commission. A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter. Prescott.

The office of commissioner. Sir W. Scott.

son; relatively; not positively or absolutely. With but comparatively few exceptions. Prescott.

To appear in court personally or by attorney. [Scot]

ompletion of an undertaking, an education, a service. The completion of some repairs. Prescott.