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n, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

A cockney. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The cocoanut.

A simpleton; a gull; a dupe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Cuckold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Poke (Phytolacca decandra).

endant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke.

al to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.] They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke.

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal, coal, or coke with clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep.

Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

tle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. Shak.

valent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exlusively for coal and coke.

See Coke, n.

comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n. They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy. Burke. To make the Stoics' institutes thy own. Dryden.

An interpreter. [Obs.] Coke.

ce. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. Coke. Law is beneficence acting by rule. Burke. And sovereign Law, that state's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.

The state of being recusant; nonconformity. Coke.

urt of law, chancery, etc.; also, in the plural, the volumes containing such reports; as, Coke's Reports.

e under Remanent. -- Residual product, a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc. -- Residual quantity (Alg.), a binomial quantity the two parts of which are connected by the negative sign, as a-b. -- Residual root (Alg.), the root of a residual quantity, as sq. root(a-b…