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To coo, as a pigeon. [Obs.]

f an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. [Colloq.]

s plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

o the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose.

The time at which cooks first crow; the early morning.

Capable of being cooked. Blount.

cover or dress with, or as with, a coif. And coif me, where I'm bald, with flowers. J. G. Cooper.

Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

ollar beef (or other meat), to roll it up, and bind it close with a string preparatory to cooking it.

Composedly; coolly.

the act of melting; fusion. When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ig…

cture is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling.

A dry measure. See Coomb.

continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it. [Written also coombe.] Buckland. A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed. Southey.

ce and their turn. Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. J. F. Cooper.

eiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.

A confectioner. [Obs.] He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. 1 Sam. viii. 13.

size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet. Years contracting to a moment. Wordsworth.