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To temper; to moderate. [Obs.] Moisten and contemperate the air. Sir T. Browne.

ing cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it. [R.] Contrate wheel. See Crown wheel.

Counter tenor; contralto.

To triturate; to pulverize. [R.]

To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect. Whate'er coöperates to the common mirth. Crashaw.

association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.

In a corporate capacity; acting as a coprporate body.

.] As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. I. Watts.

TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a gevser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. [R.] R. Browning.

Cribriform.

A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie.

Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.

ector or vicar Hook. All this the good old man performed alone, He spared no pains, for curate he had none. Dryden.

A curacy.

See Aurocyanide.

A salt of cyanuric acid.