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3,199 words match “CAP”

CLIMBABLE a.
Capable of being climbed.
CLOAK n.
ent, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
CLOUD n.
out the head. Cloud on a (or the) title (Law), a defect of title, usually superficial and capable of removal by release, decision in equity, or legislation. -- To be under a cloud, to be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor. -- In the clouds, in the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary…
COACH n.
A cabin on the after part of the quarterdeck, usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.] [Obs.] The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. Pepys.
COAGULABILITY n.
The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated. Ure.
COAGULABLE a.
Capable of being coagulated. Boyle.
COALESCE v.
y or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. Campbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.
COBRA n.
The cobra de capello.
COCCOSPHERE n.
A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.
COCK n.
o has overcrowed, or got the better of, rivals or competitors. -- Cock of the woods. See Capercailzie.
COCKALEEKIE n.
A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.
COCKSHEAD n.
(Bot.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.
COCTIBLE a.
Capable of being cooked. Blount.
CODLIN; CODLING n.
ple. A codling when 't is almost an apple. Shak. Codling moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Carpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.
COEQUAL a.
One who is on an equality with another. In once he come to be a cardinal, He'll make his cap coequal with the crown. Shak.
COERCIBLE a.
Capable of being coerced. -- Co*er"ci*ble*ness, n.
COGITABLE a.
Capable of being brought before the mind as a throught or idea; conceivable; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.
COGNIZABLE a. 2 definitions
Capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes.
COGNOSCIBLE a.
Capable of being known. "Matters intelligible and cognoscible." Sir M. Hale.
COHABIT v.
r reside in company, or in the same place or country. The Philistines were worsted by the captived ark . . . : they were not able to cohabit with that holy thing. South.
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