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To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves. The stockdove only through the forest cooes, Mournfully hoarse. Thomson.

To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.] Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms (1599).

To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water. Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. Luke xvi. 24.

One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.

s. -- Coöperative store, a store established by a coöperative society, where the members make their purchases and share in the profits or losses.

To make coördinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coördinate ideas in classification.

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance. All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them. blackstone.

To make return for; to requite; to repay. [Obs.] three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, We freely cope your courteous pains withal. Shak.

To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off. I like the work well; ere it be demanded (As like enough it will), I'd have it copied. Shak.…

To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel. To corbel out, to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it.

To make into a cordial.

A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]

f a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.

The chief ornament. [Obs.] Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society. Shak.

To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold. [Obs.] Burton.

A cuckold maker. [R.] Jordan.

the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.

To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. This is a defect in the first make of same men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards. T. Burnet.

To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen. [Obs.] As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. I. Watts.

To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.