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), a marine fish (Blepharis crinitus) of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.

The European spotted flycatcher. Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. Beck. Draper's Dict. Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn. Beau. & Fl. Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in which threads of cobwed are substituted for wires.

Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

quare muzzle, the ears long and set low, the legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but not curly. Various colors are bred, as black, liver, red, black and white, black and tan, etc.

An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done. [Eng.]

One to whom a fine of land was ackowledged. Blackstone.

One who ackowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant. Blackstone.

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

lapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.

epipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars.

Acting in an indirect way. If by direct or by collateral hand They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . . To you in satisfaction. Shak.

A small hill or mount. [Obs.] And watered park, full of fine collines and ponds. Evelyn.

ation, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book. The colophon, or final description, fell into disuse, and . . . the title page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book. De Morgan. The book was uninjured from title page to colophon. Sir W. Scott.

ot disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.

The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.

To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.

To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came off very fine. (h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to separate. (i) To hurry away; to get through. Chaucer. -- To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the worst." Calamy. -- To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave disquisiti…

wer, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

The frontier of a country; confines. [Obs.] Shelton.