CLY SUPPLEMENT. COL 



achinery which are accomplished without denoting the class or rank to which his 



coupling boxe 



CLYSSUS, water obtained by the deflagra- 

 tion of nitre with charcoal, generally 

 resulting in the bursting of t>*e vessel em- 

 ployed. This roundabout mode of some- 



family belonged ; and the third, or 



men, signified the familia, family or house 



of which he was a member. 



COILS, GL-N, the twisted metal of which 

 modern guns are made, consisting of bar 



times getting a few drops of water, resorted metal wound at welding heat round 

 to by the alchemists in the earliest infancy mandrils of appropriate size : the gun metal 

 of chemical science, was looked upon as being so formed in the first stage of the 

 quite an occult operation, and the water so operation is then welded, bored, and turned 

 obtained invested with 110 limit of preten- of the desired dimensions, 

 tious value and importance. I COINAGE, that system of minting which 



COACERVATE, an old term signifying gave an authoritative stamp and form to the 

 " accumulated," and applied to some of the currency of ancient and modern times. If 

 excretions and secretions when long retained. , a parcel of gold be taken to the British 



COAGCLABLE LYMPH, the flbrine of the j Mint in the state of nuggets or bullion, it is 

 blood is sometimes so called from its peculiar first made into ingots, on which the assayera 

 power of spontaneous coagulation. ! make their report, a certificate being given 



COAL BRASSES, the iron pyrites found in .in the form of a Mint bill, stating the fine- 

 joining districts in coal and shale, which is j ness, weight, and value of the ingots, to the 

 frequently used for the manufacture of owners of them, which are then delivered 

 sulphuric acid. to the melter. who has the duty, according 



COAL TAR CONSTITUENTS, a series of to the assayer's report, of adding either alloy 

 important products obtained, by rectifica-| or fine gold to bring the mass to the standard 

 tion, from coal tar. There are fifty or more I of currency, being twenty-two of pure gold 

 of these compounds. The four bases are to two parts of alloy. The gold is then cast 

 Picoline, Leucoline, Aniline, and Pjridine- into bars, which are next assayed by a 

 The coal tar colours are obtained from ! sample from both ends of each bar. On the 

 the three products, aniline, phenylic acid, j assayer's report approving of them, the bars 

 and benzole, all of which contain the are then sent to the coining department, 

 organic radical phenyl. Benzole is con- [and rolled out into plates of suitable thick- 

 verted into aniline by heating it with nitric ness, out of which the blanks are punched, 

 acid, and afterwards with scraps of iron and the remainder of the plate or tcissel sent 

 and acetic acid. Magenta is produced by to be remelted. The blanks, or coins in the 

 heating aniline with arsenic acid ; mauve, unstamped stats, which amount to about 

 by heating it with bichromate of potash and j two thirds of the entire plate, are then, 

 sulphuric acid ; and violet and blue, by annealed, and passed through the marking 

 teating magenta with aniline. Of these dyes machine, by which the edges are a little 

 coal tar is very productive. | raised and smoothed, after which they are 



COCA, a narcotic obtained from the leaves blanched or cleaned in hot and dilute sul- 

 of Erythroxylon Coca, masticated and phuric acid. The final process is then gone 

 mixed with lime, and then formed into ! through of stamping between two steel dies 

 small balls called acullicos. the obverse and reverse simultaneously upon 



COCHLEA, the portion of the internal ear : them, and at the same time the milling of 

 which is shaped like an ordinary snail shell ' the edge by means of a collar which rises at 

 has received this name from its form. | the time of striking. By means of a- pro- 



COCKET, the scr.dl of parchment received priate machinery the blanks are brought to 

 by merchants from the officers of customs the stamping dies, and thrown off after being 

 on entering their goods. It is a certificate impressed ; the process being little else than 

 that the goods have been customed and may feeding a hopper with the blanks at this 

 therefore be discharged. I point and clearing away the coins. No 



COCYTCS, a branch of the Styx, according charge is made for minting, but any one 

 to Homer; one of the rivers of Hades. 'bringing such quantities of bullion as are 



COEFFICIENTS. See CO-ORDINATE GEO- received by the authorities of the Mint 

 METRY. I receives his full metal or its equivalent value 



CoiLiAC ARTERY, the flrst branch of the in coins, 

 aorta in the abdomen. | COKING COAL, those bituminous conls 



CCELIAC PASSION, a very painful form of which require to be converted into coke 

 diarrhoea, so called by some authors. before they are suitable for ordinary pur- 



CUSNCRUS, the hydatid which by its para- poses of combustion. Coke is that condition 

 si tical action on the brain produces itaggers of charcoal produced by the distillation of 

 In sheep. coal in the manufacture of gas, er by heating 



COGNOMEN, the third name by which the coal with oiily a partial accessor air ; the 

 those of any descent or good family were former being called Gas Coke, the latUr 

 designated in Rome. The first was the- Oven Coke. 



Pramomen, which served to distinguish the COLD BLAST, air at its ordinary tempera- 

 individual; the second was the JVomc;?, ture forctd through smelting furnaces, c 

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