Coyish (a.) Somewhat coy or reserved.
Coyly (adv.) In a coy manner; with reserve.
Coyness (n.) The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.
Coyote (n.) A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.
Coypu (n.) A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria.
Coystrel (n.) Same as Coistril.
Coz (n.) A contraction of cousin.
Cozened (imp. & p. p.) of Cozen
Cozening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cozen
Cozen (v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
Cozen (v. i.) To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.
Cozenage (n.) The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.
Cozener (n.) One who cheats or defrauds.
Cozier (n.) See Cosier.
Cozily (adv.) Snugly; comfortably.
Coziness (n.) The state or quality of being cozy.
Cozy (superl.) Snug; comfortable; easy; contented.
Cozy (superl.) Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar.
Cozy (a.) A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.
Crab (n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
Crab (n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
Crab (a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
Crab (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
Crab (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
Crab (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
Crab (a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
Crab (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
Crab (v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.
Crab (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
Crab (a.) Sour; rough; austere.
Crabbed (n.) Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
Crabbed (n.) Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
Crabbed (n.) Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
Crabbed (n.) Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
Crabber (n.) One who catches crabs.
Crabbing (n.) The act or art of catching crabs.
Crabbing (n.) The fighting of hawks with each other.
Crabbing (n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
Crabbish (a.) Somewhat sour or cross.
Crabby (a.) Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
Crabeater (n.) The cobia.
Crabeater (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).
Crabeater (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
Craber (n.) The water rat.
Crabfaced (a.) Having a sour, disagreeable countenance.
Crabsidle (v. i.) To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular].
Crabstick (n.) A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.
Crab tree () See under Crab.
Crab-yaws (n.) A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.
Crache (v.) To scratch.
Cracked (imp. & p. p.) of Crack
Cracking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crack
Crack (v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
Crack (v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
Crack (v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
Crack (v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
Crack (v. t.) To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
Crack (v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
Crack (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
Crack (v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
Crack (v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
Crack (n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
Crack (n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
Crack (n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
Crack (n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
Crack (n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
Crack (n.) A crazy or crack-brained person.
Crack (n.) A boast; boasting.
Crack (n.) Breach of chastity.
Crack (n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
Crack (n.) A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
Crack (n.) Free conversation; friendly chat.
Crack (a.) Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
Crack-brained (a.) Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.
Cracked (a.) Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
Cracked (a.) Crack-brained.
Cracker (n.) One who, or that which, cracks.
Cracker (n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
Cracker (n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
Cracker (n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
Cracker (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
Cracker (n.) The pintail duck.
Cracker (n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Crackle (v. i.) To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
Crackle (n.) The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
Crackle (n.) A kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.
Crackle (n.) A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.
Crackled (a.) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
Crackleware (n.) See Crackle, n., 3.
Crackling (n.) The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
Crackling (n.) The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.
Crackling (n.) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
Cracknel (v. t.) A hard brittle cake or biscuit.
Cracksmen (pl. ) of Cracksman
Cracksman (n.) A burglar.
Cracovian (a.) Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.
Cracovienne (n.) A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.
Cracowes (n. pl.) Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century.
Cradle (n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.