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e. "A prince who regarded uniformity of faith as the corner stone of his government." Prescott. -- Corner tooth, one of the four teeth which come in a horse's mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle teeth and the tushes.

A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares. Cotgrave.

ollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.

Same as Correi. [Scot.] Geikie.

A piratical vessel. Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean. Prescott.

See Cottise.

palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess. Prescott.

lace, or other circumstances represented or described. I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.

He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And spurred his steed to full career. Sir W. Scott. To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. Mortimer.

To vote in opposition ti; to balance or overcome by viting; to outvote. Dr. J. Scott.

vron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief. [Scot.] [Written also curch.] Jamieson.

t at door would speak with you. Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. Sir. W. Scott.

; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant. A patient and courteous bearing. Prescott. His behavior toward his people is grave and courteous. Fuller.

An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant." He [Wharton] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house.…

Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.

ert from storm. Is. iv. 6. The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside. Prescott.

One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship. [Scot.]

A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack. [Eng. & Scot. Colloq.]

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinginng on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty. The cradle that received thee at thy birth. Cowper. No sooner was I crept out of my cradle B…