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A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects. Gray. These conversazioni [at Florence] resemble our card assemblies. A. Drummond.

The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea). [Also written coolen and cullum.]

Heart-shaped. Gray.

A miner's underground working time or shift. Raymond.

A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe. Drayton.

tness. [Obs.] The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it. Ray.

To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays.

A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point. Bacom

It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.

The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

To treat as a pet; to fondle. She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. O. W. Holmes.

y side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare. [Obs.] Drayton. We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming. Shak.

as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique. "The queen of your coterie." Thackeray.

Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed. Look here upon this picture, and on this-The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. Shak.

ginally stitched or woven in squares or figures. On which a tissue counterpane was cast. Drayton.

s levied upon the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. [Eng.] -- County seat, a county town. [U.S.] -- County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a…

-- said of a written message. Letters . . . dispatched under cover to her ladyship. Thackeray.

The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

rder to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap. Beaconsfield. Thackeray. The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks. Howells.

To bend, turn, or wind. Along the crankling path. Drayton.