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See Coletit.

A joint cause. Fotherby.

stinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

In a confused manner.

A state of confusion. Norris.

Confusedly; obscurely. [Obs.]

To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon.

A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe. Drayton.

A cornemuse.

The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.

A merchant's office; a countinghouse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [U.S.]

An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.

Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. [Scot.] Burns.

A cup or dish. Take with thee . . . a cruse of honey. 1 Kings xiv. 3.

A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.

A dovecote.

ding where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.

a professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.

A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.