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cutor. So that a codicil is a less solemn 

 will, of one that dies either testate or in- 

 testate, without the appointment of an 

 heir; testate, when he that hath made 

 his codicil hath either before or after- 

 wards made his testament, on which that 

 codicil depends, or to which it refers ; 

 intestate, when one leaves behind him 

 only a codicil without a testament, 

 wherein he gives legacies only to be 

 paid by the heir at law, and not by any 

 heir instituted by will or testament. A 

 codicil, as well as a will, may be either 

 written, or nuncupative. Some authors 

 call a testament a great will ; and a codi- 

 cil a little one. But there is this further 

 difference between a codicil and a testa- 

 ment, that a codicil cannot contain the 

 institution of an heir ; and that in a codi- 

 cil, a man is not obliged to observe strict- 

 ly all vhe formalities prescribed by law 

 for solemn testaments. 



CODON, in botany, a genus of the De- 

 candria Monogyma class and order. 

 Essential character : calyx ten-parted, 

 permanent ; leaflets alternately shorter ; 

 corolla bell-shaped, ten-cleft; nectary 

 ten-celled, composed of ten scales; 

 pericarpium two-celled, containing seve- 

 ral seeds. There is but one species, viz. 

 C. royeni. 



CCECUM, in anatomy, the first of the 

 three large intestines, called intestina 

 crassa. 



COEFFICIENTS, in algebra, such 

 numbers, or given quantities, as are put 

 before letters, or unknown quantities, 

 into which letters they are supposed 

 to be multiplied ; thus, in 3 a, or b ,r, or 

 c x x\ 3 is the co-efficient of 3 a, b of b x. 

 and c of c x x. When no number is 

 prefixed, unit is supposed to be the co- 

 efficient ; thus 1 is the co-efficient ot a or 

 of b. 



CCELESTIAL globe. See GLOBE. 



CCELIAC artery, that artery which is- 

 sues from the aorta, just below the dia- 

 phragm. See AXATOMT. 



C(ELiAc/>asszo7z, in medicine, a kind of 

 flux, or diarrhoea, wherein the aliments, 

 either wholly changed, or only in part, 

 pass off' by stool. 



COEMETERY, or CEMETERY, a place 

 set apart or consecrated for the burial 

 of the dead. Antiently, none were bu- 

 ried in churches or church-y ards : it 

 was even unlawful to inter in cities : in- 

 stead of which they had coemeteries 

 without the walls. These were held in 

 great veneration among the primitive 

 ohristians 



COFFEA, in botany, in France, caffe, 



so named from Caff'a in Africa, where it 

 grows abun antly ; a genus of the Pen- 

 tandria Mon gyn.a class and v;jder. Na- 

 tural order of SteilaU. Rubiaceae, Jus- 

 sieu. Essential character : corolla salver- 

 shaped; stamens upon the tube; berry 

 inferior, two-seeded; seeds arilled. There 

 are ten species, ot which C. arabica, 

 Eastern Coffee-tree, is seldom more than 

 eighteen feet high in its native country, 

 or more than twelve in Europe. The 

 main stem grows upright, and is covered 

 with a light brown bark; branches hori- 

 zontal, opposite, braclnate at every point; 

 leaves opposite ; when fully grown, they 

 are nearly five inches long, and an inch 

 and half broad in the middle, ovate lan- 

 ceolate. They generally continue three 

 years. The flowers are produced in 

 clusters at the base of the leaves, sitting 

 close to the branches ; they are of a pure 

 white, with a very grateful odour, but 

 of short duration ; they are succeeded by 

 berries which are well known, as well as 

 the use of them. This species of coffee 

 is greatly superior to the C. occidentalis, 

 Western Coffee-tree, which rarely ex- 

 ceeds six feet in height ; the corolla is 

 white and sweet scented ; it is a native of 

 Domingo, about Cape Francois, where it 

 flowers in December. As the Coffee-tree 

 is an evergreen, it makes a beautiful 

 appearance at every season in the stove, 

 and particularly when in flower, and also 

 when the berries are red, which is gene- 

 rally in the winter; as they continue 

 a long time in that state, there is scarcely 

 any plant that deserves a place more than 

 this. 



COFFER, in fortification, a hollow 

 lodgment athwart a dry moat, from six 

 to seven feet deep, and from sixteen to 

 eighteen broad, the upper part being 

 made of pieces of timber, raised two feet 

 above the level of that moat, whicli little 

 elevation has hurdles, laden with earth, 

 for its covering, and serves as a parapet 

 with embrasures. 



COFFERER of the King's household, 

 a principal officer in the court, next 

 under the Comptroller, who, in the 

 compting-house, and elsewhere at other 

 times, has a special charge and over- 

 sight of other officers of the house, 

 for their good demeanor and charge of 

 their offices, to all which he pays their 

 wages. 



COFFIN, the case in which a dead 

 body is interred ; usually made of elm, 

 or oak. It consis'-s of a bottom, two 

 ends, and two sides ; the latter being 

 sawed half through, at right angles with 



