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A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself. Untwisting his deceitful clew. Spenser.

The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle." Thackeray.

losed me round about. Jonah ii. 5. But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart. Herbert. A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.

The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.

The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. [U. S.]

Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

t; to turn up. Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears. Gay. Dick would cock his nose in scorn. Swift.

s. Cock"a*trice, n. Etym: [OF. cocatrice crocodile, F. cocatrix, cocatrice. The word is a corruption from the same source as E. crocodile, but was confused with cock the bird, F. coq, whence arose the fable that the animal was produced from a cock's egg. See Crocodile.]

The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners. Raymond.

ollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed.

The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.

The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone. Coffin bone, the foot bone of the horse and allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals. -- Coffin joint, the joint next above the coffin bone.…

A var. spelling of Coin, Quoin, a corner, wedge; -- chiefly used in the phrase coign of vantage, a position advantageous for action or observation.

A quoin. See you yound coigne of the Capitol yon corner stone Shak.

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wegde. See Coigne, and Quoin.

To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide. The rules of right jugdment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other. Watts.

Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement. The very concurrence and coincidence of ao many evidences . . . carries a great weight. Sir M. Hale. Those who discourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness. South.…

A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut. Homans.

o examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [Eng.]

by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. "The collection for the saints." 1 Cor. xvi. 1