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her countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

See Cosmopolitan.

Having the character of a cosmopolite. [R.] Hackluyt.

The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.

mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality.

Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.

The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.

An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

Same as Pantheism. [R.]

Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic id…

A joint sovereign.

A thing (only in phrase below). Rule of Coss, an old name for Algebra. Etym: [It. regola di cosa rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the cosa, or the thing.]

Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

An outpost consisting of four men, forming one of a single line of posts substituted for the more formal line of sentinels and line of pickets.

Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.

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

One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art. [Obs.] "Art of numbers cossical." Digges (1579).

A rib; a side; a region or coast. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Betwixt the costs of a ship. B. Jonson.