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1,508 words match “BACON”

CLOD n.
th up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.
CLOSE n. 2 definitions
A grapple in wrestling. Bacon.
CLOSENESS n.
inst the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison.
CLOT n.
lum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.
CLOY v.
, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.
COACERVATE a.
Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped. [R.] Bacon.
COACERVATION n.
A heaping together. [R.] Bacon.
COAL v.
To burn to charcoal; to char. [R.] Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces. Bacon.
COARCT; COARCTATE v.
To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.] Bacon.
COARCTATION n.
Confinement to a narrow space. [Obs.] Bacon.
COBIRON n.
An andiron with a knob at the top. Bacon.
COCKATOO n.
Any venomous or deadly thing. This little cockatrice of a king. Bacon.
COEMPTION n.
The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity. [R.] Bacon.
COFFEE n.
ink called coffee . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. Bacon.
COFFER n. 2 definitions
plural. He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. Bacon. Hold, here is half my coffer. Shak.
COGITATE v.
gitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon.
COIF n.
of the first magnitude, nor need be of the degree of the coif, yet are they considerable. Bacon.
COLD a.
Not pungent or acrid. "Cold plants." Bacon
COLLATION n.
conferring or bestowing. [Obs.] Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon.
COLLIQUEFACTION n.
nt bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
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