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Same as Cola nut, below.

The bitter fruit of Cola acuminata, which is nearly as large as a chestnut, and furnishes a stimulant, which is used in medicine.

One who labors with another; an associate in labor.

A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perfprated metal, or the like.

The act or process of straining or filtering. [R.]

The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.

The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer. [R.]

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

Agriculture. [Obs.] Bailey.

e beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk. Chocolate house, a house in which customers may be served with chocolate. -- Chocolate nut. See Cacao.

A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallæ.

Having machicolations. "Machicolated turrets." C. Kingsley.

An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.…

One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus, who are censured in rev. ii. 6, 15.

A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.

To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.

The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.

One who, or that which, filters. "[Tissues] act as percolators." Henfrey.

A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.

relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.