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An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." Holdsworth.

A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action. Dunglison.

xpenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.

Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.

pulus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.

To oppose; to revoke the command of. For us to alter anuthing, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him. Hooker.

Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

Relationship; kinship. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Fit; proper; suitable. [Obs.] "A covenable day." Wyclif (Mark vi. 21).

To grant or promise by covenant. My covenant of peace that I covenanted with you. Wyclif.

anger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat. His calm and blameless life Does with substantial blessedness abound, And the soft wings of peace cover him round. Cowley.

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chærophyllum (C. temulum and C. sylvestre).

A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).

A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.

A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).

An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon. [Written also cous.]

The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork. For the first time in his life he tested crackling. Lamb.

Infancy, or very early life. From their cradles bred together. Shak. A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles. Clarendon.