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Not coördinate.

Want of coördination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action. Incoördination of muscular movement (Physiol.), irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them.

A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)

See Pataca.

Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.

l, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.

The coypu.

any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.

One who, or that which scoops.

To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away. [Colloq. & Humorous, U.S.]

A scoter duck.

The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. [Prov. Eng.]

The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.

A cooperator. [R.] Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices! Shak.

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room. It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired. Bacon. Were you but riding forth to air yourself. Shak.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.

due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.