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A husk; a pod; as, a peascod. [Eng.] Mortimer.

The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

A gatherer of cods or peas. [Obs. or Prov.] Johnson.

Lustful. [Obs.] Shak.

To parboil, or soften by boiling. It [the guava fruit] may be coddled. Dampier.

A gull in the plumage of its first year.

Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, e…

A joint defendant. Blackstone.

and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.

A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda.

A collection or digest of laws; a code. Burrill.

A kind of fish. Same as Cod.

d person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation. [Colloq.] A few of us old codgers met at the fireside. Emerson.

Ralating to a codex, or a code.

A clause added to a will.

Of the nature of a codicil.

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

One who codifies.

To reduce to a code, as laws.