Coax (v. t.) To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.
Coax (n.) A simpleton; a dupe.
Coaxation (n.) The act of croaking.
Coaxer (n.) One who coaxes.
Coaxingly (adv.) In a coaxing manner; by coaxing.
Cob (n.) The top or head of anything.
Cob (n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
Cob (n.) The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
Cob (n.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
Cob (n.) A young herring.
Cob (n.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
Cob (n.) A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
Cob (n.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
Cob (n.) A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
Cob (n.) A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.
Cob (n.) Clay mixed with straw.
Cob (n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
Cob (n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
Cobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Cob
Cobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cob
Cob (v. t.) To strike
Cob (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
Cob (v. t.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
Cobaea (n.) A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.
Cobalt (n.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.
Cobalt (n.) A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.
Cobaltic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide.
Cobaltiferous (a.) Containing cobalt.
Cobaltine (n.) Alt. of Cobaltite
Cobaltite (n.) A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.
Cobaltous (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence.
Cobbing (a.) Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2.
Cobble (n.) A fishing boat. See Coble.
Cobble (n.) A cobblestone.
Cobble (n.) Cob coal. See under Cob.
Cobbled (imp. & p. p.) of Cobble
Cobbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cobble
Cobble (v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
Cobble (v. t.) To make clumsily.
Cobble (v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.
Cobbler (n.) A mender of shoes.
Cobbler (n.) A clumsy workman.
Cobbler (n.) A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry.
Cobblestone (n.) A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.
Cobby (n.) Headstrong; obstinate.
Cobby (n.) Stout; hearty; lively.
Cobelligerent (a.) Carrying on war in conjunction with another power.
Cobelligerent (n.) A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another.
Cobia (n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.
Cobiron (n.) An andiron with a knob at the top.
Cobishop (n.) A joint or coadjutant bishop.
Coble (n.) A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.
Cobnut (n.) A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.
Cobnut (n.) A game played by children with nuts.
Coboose (n.) See Caboose.
Cobourg (n.) A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.
Cobra (n.) See Copra.
Cobra (n.) The cobra de capello.
Cobra de capello () The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.Naja --
Cobstone (n.) Cobblestone.
Cobswan (n.) A large swan.
Cobwall (n.) A wall made of clay mixed with straw.
Cobweb (n.) The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
Cobweb (n.) A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.
Cobweb (n.) That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.
Cobweb (n.) The European spotted flycatcher.
Cobwebbed (a.) Abounding in cobwebs.
Cobwebby (a.) Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.
Cobwork (a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.
Coca (n.) The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.
Cocagne (n.) An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.
Cocagne (n.) The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs.
Cocaine (n.) A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.
Cocciferous (a.) Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants.
Coccinella (n.) A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larvae feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.
Coccobacteria (pl. ) of Coccobacterium
Coccobacterium (n.) One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.
Coccolite (n.) A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.
Coccolith (n.) One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.
Coccosphere (n.) A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.
Coccosteus (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.
Cocculus Indicus (n.) The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.
Cocci (pl. ) of Coccus
Coccus (n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
Coccus (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).
Coccus (n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.
Coccygeal (a.) Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebrae.
Coccygeous (a.) Coccygeal.
Coccyges (pl. ) of Coccyx
Coccyx (n.) The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated.
Cochineal () A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.
Cochineal fig () A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.
Cochin fowl () A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam).
Cochlea (n.) An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.
Cochlear (a.) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.
Cochleare (n.) A spoon.
Cochleare (n.) A spoonful.
Cocleariform (a.) Spoon-shaped.
Cochleary (a.) Same as Cochleate.
Cochleate (a.) Alt. of Cochleated