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The state of being cloudy.

veal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.

The quality of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.

The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated. Ure.

Capable of being coagulated. Boyle.

her, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.

A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.

en hydrous, blue when dehydrated. Its solution is used for a sympathetic ink, the writing being nearly colorless when dried in the air, owing to absorbed moisture, and becoming bright blue when warmed.

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.

or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.

Capable of being cooked. Blount.

coefficient placed arbitrarily in an algebraic, expression, the value of the coefficient being afterwards determined by the conditions of the problem.

Being on an equality in rank or power. -- n.

The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.

Capable of being coerced. -- Co*er"ci*ble*ness, n.

Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.

The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.

A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.