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One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak.

An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a Carolus or Jacobus.

A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain.

sk, as of fish. "A cade of herrings." Shak. A cade of herrings is 500, of sprats 1,000. Jacob, Law Dict.

A cenotaph. [R.] Lord Cobham honored him with a cenotaphy. Macaulay.

A greenish blue pigment prepared in various ways, consisting essentially of cobalt stannate. Unlike other cobalt blues, it does not change color by gaslight.

re, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles. Jacob.

The common greasewood of the western United States (Sarcobatus vermiculatus).

) Same as Dragon's blood. -- Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire. -- Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster.

The cobia.

A cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

self were compromised That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire. Shak.

exercise. Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs. Shak. Annd confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law. Ps. cv. 10.

To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove. F. P. Cobbe.

A cobblestone. [Obs.]

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]

A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.

a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon. Who can count the dust of Jacob Num. xxiii. 10. In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins. Macaulay.