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A husk; a pod; as, a peascod. [Eng.] Mortimer.

A gatherer of cods or peas. [Obs. or Prov.] Johnson.

dwells with another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.

To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel. Arbuthnot.

uced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh. Cold sore (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever. -- To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.] Cold, v. i.

A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.

A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. Bailey.

One of the speakers in a dialogue. Derham.

Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.

A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue. Malone.

That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. Acts xxvii. 30. That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. Shak.…

Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice. "Colorable pretense for infidility." Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Col"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Col"or*a*bly, adv. Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice. Hooker.

Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser.

Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss. Compton Reade. Dead coloring. See under Dead.

eaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. Butterbur coltsfoot (Bot.), a European plant (Petasites vulgaris).

Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go. Look, who comes yonder Shak. I did not come to curse thee. Tennyson.

ation. In comfort of her mother's fears. Shak. Cheer thy spirit with this comfort. Shak. Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not. Longfellow.

State of being comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.

Commendation; praise. [Obs.] Speak in his just commend. Shak.