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ulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.

To burn to charcoal; to char. [R.] Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces. Bacon.

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms. Bentley.

To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions. Raymond.

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

An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.

To put into cocks or heaps, as hay. Under the cocked hay. Spenser.

To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting. Cockling sea, waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To put into a coffer. Bacon.

A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.

To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon.

Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. Arbuthnot.

A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound. The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from trec to tree. W. Irving.

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.

To convert into coke.

ght which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equaly with others who are of the same degree of kindred.

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.

Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation. Bp. Hoadley.