coextend 
cause to extend through the same space or 
duration ; place so as to coincide or occupy the 
same extent or space. 
According to which the least body may be coextended 
with the greatest. Boyle, Works, I. 603. 
II. intrans. To reach to or attain the same 
place, time, or duration: used with with. 
coextension (ko-eks-ten'shon), n. [< co-1 + 
tj'teiisioH.] The mutual relation of two or more 
objects or (in logic) terms which have the same 
extension. 
coextensive (ko-eks-ten'siv), a. [< co- 1 + ex- 
tengicc.] Having the same extension, (a) Oc- 
cupying the same extent of space or duration 
of time. 
Home first extended her citizenship over all Italy, and 
her dominion over the whole Mediterranean world, and 
then, by another stage, she made her citizenship coexten- 
sive with her dominion. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 315. 
(6) In logic, having the same breadth, or logi- 
cal extension. 
coextensively (ko-eks-ten'siv-li), adv. So as 
to exhibit coextension. 
COCXtensiveness (ko-eks-ten'siv-nes), w. The 
state or quality of being coextensive. Sen tham . 
COft, cofet, [ME., < AS. oaf, quick, sharp, 
prompt.] Quick; sharp; impetuous; bold. 
The Inthere coue devuel. Ancren Riwle, p. 66. 
If he clothed man se, cof he [the adder] waxeth. 
Bestiary (Old Eng. Misc., ed. Morris), 1. 160. 
co-factor (ko-fak'tor). . [< co- 1 + factor.'} 
In alg., one of several factors entering into the 
same expression : thus, a coefficient is a con- 
stant co-factor. 
cofet, . See cof. 
co-feoffee (ko-fef e), n. [< co- 1 + feoffee.'] One 
of two or more joint feoffees; a person en- 
feoffed with another. 
cofert, n. An obsolete spelling of coffer. 
coff 1 (kof), (. t. ; pret. and pp. coft, ppr. coffing. 
[E. dial, and Sc., appar. a var. of cope 2 , coup, 
var. of cheap, chop 2 , buy, exchange : see cope 2 , 
eov.jft, cheap, cliojft. The change of p to/ within 
E. is not common, and is usually due to some 
interference ; but G. Icaufen (=E. cheap. chop%) 
can hardly apply here. The fact that trie verb 
is found chiefly in the pret. coft suggests that 
the present coff is developed from the pret. coft, 
the latter being in this view merely a var. of 
caught (ME. caught, caght, cought), etc., pret. 
of catchi, in the sense of ' get, obtain,' with the 
common change of the guttural gh to / as in 
draught = draft, cough, pron. as coff, etc.: see 
catch 1 , v.~\ 1. To chop or change. [Prov.Eng.] 
2. To buy. [Obsolete or Scotch.] 
My milk-white steed, 
That I hae coft sae dear. 
The Broomfield Hill (Child's Ballads, I. 133). 
That sark she coft for her wee Nannie. 
Bum*, Tarn o' Shanter. 
3f. To pay for; expiate; purchase forgiveness 
of by sacrifice. 
The knycht to Chryst, that deit on tre, 
And coft our synnis deir. 
The Bludy Serk (Child's Ballads, VIII. 151). 
coff 2 (kof), n. [Local E. ; origin unknown.] 
The offal of pilchards. 
coffat, An obsolete form of coffee. 
Coffea (kof e-a), n. [NL. : see coffee.'] A con- 
siderable genus of shrubs, natural order Bubi- 
acew, natives of tropical Asia and Africa. Some 
species yield coffee. See cut under coffee. 
coffee (kof'e or kof e), n. [First in 17th cen- 
tury, in various forms coffee, coffa, cauphe, etc. ; 
= D. Jcoffij = Gr. koffee (after E.), now kaffee 
(after F.) = Dan. Sw. kaffe (after F.) = Buss. 
kofe, kofei = F. caffe, coffe, now cafe (whence 
the half-English cafe, a coffee-house) = Sp. 
Pg. cafe = It. caffe (NL. clioava, now coffea), 
< Turk, qahwe, < AT. qahwe, qahwa, coffee (as 
a liquid); of. Ar. bonn, the coffee-berry.] 1. 
The berry of trees belonging to the genus Coffea, 
natural order Eubiaceai. Several species, but princi- 
pally C. Arabica, produce the coffee of commerce. It is 
a native of Arabia and Abyssinia, but is now extensively 
cultivated throughout tropical countries. It will grow to 
the height of 16 or 18 feet, but is seldom permitted to ex- 
ceed 8 or 9 feet, for the convenience of gathering the 
fruit. The stem is upright, and covered with a light- 
brown bark ; the branches are horizontal and opposite. 
The flowers grow in clusters at the bases of the leaves, are 
pure white, and of an agreeable odor. The fruit is a 
small, red, fleshy berry, having the size and appearance of 
a small cherry. Each berry contains two seeds, commonly 
called coffee-beans or coffee-nibs. When ripe the berries 
are gathered, and the outer pulp and the parchment-like 
covering of the seeds are removed. The Mocha coffee from 
Yemen in Arabia is reputed the best ; but the principal 
supplies are now obtained from Ceylon, Java, the West 
Indies, Brazil, and Central America. The Liberian coffee- 
tree, C. Liberica, of western tropical Africa, has recently 
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been introduced into cultivation. It grows to a greater 
size and yields a much larger berry than C. Arabica, and 
thrives in low damp regions where the latter will not nour- 
ish. What is known as the male coffee-berry is simply a re- 
Fruiting Branch of Coffee-plant ( Coffe 
a, flower ; b, section of berry, showing inclosed nutlets and position 
of onibryo. 
suit of the occasional coalescence of the two seeds of the 
fruit into one, and differs in no other respect from the or- 
dinary berry. The name cherry-coffee is given to the coffee- 
berry as it comes from the tree, before the pulp has been 
removed or the seeds have been dried. 
2. A drink made from the seeds of the coffee- 
tree, by infusion or decoction. Before being used 
the seeds are roasted, and then ground in a coffee-mill, or, 
as in the East, pounded. The beverage is best when made 
with coffee-beans freshly roasted and ground. Coffee acts 
asaslightstimulant, promoting cheerfulness and removing 
languor ; but in some cases it induces sleeplessness and 
nervous tremblings. The use of it originated in Abyssinia, 
passed to Arabia several centuries later, and is said to have 
been made known in Europe by A. Rauwolf, a German 
physician, whose travels appeared in 1573. 
And sip of a drink called Co/a in little china dishes, as 
hot as they can suffer it. Sandys, Travailes, p. 52. 
3. A light meal resembling afternoon tea, at 
which coffee is served. 4. The last course of 
a dinner, consisting of black coffee. 
Directly after coffee the band began to play. 
Greoille, Memoirs, June 5, 1831. 
Black coffee, strong coffee served without milk or cream. 
California coffee, the somewhat coffee-like fruit of 
Ithamnus Californica. Coffee-corn. See cornl. Crust 
coffee, a drink resembling coffee in color, made by steep- 
ing in water browned or toasted crusts of bread. Negro 
coffee, or Mogdad coffee, the seedsof Cassia occidental, 
which are roasted and used in the tropics as a substitute for 
coffee, though they contain no caffein. Sacca or sultan 
coffee, the husks of the coffee-berry, which are used to 
some extent with coffee, and are said to improve its flavor. 
Swedish coffee, the seeds of Astragalus Bceticus, used 
as coffee, and cultivated for this purpose in parts of Ger- 
many and Hungary. Wild coffee, of the West Indies, a 
name given to Faratnea odoratissima, which is allied to 
true coffee, to Eugenia dixticha, and to Casearia Icetioides. 
coffee-bean (kof'e-ben), n. The seed of the 
coffee-tree. 
coffee-berry (kof'e-ber'i), . The fruit of the 
coffee-tree. 
coffee-blight (kof 'e-blit), . A microscopic fun- 
gus, Hemileia vastatrix, which has caused great 
devastation in the coffee-plantations of Ceylon. 
coffee-borer (kof 'e-bor"er), . One of two 
species of coleopterous insects which bore into 
the stems of the coffee-plant. Xylotrechus quadri- 
pes is a longicorn beetle which bores into the coffee-plant 
in southern India. The eggs are laid under the bark and 
close to the root in November and December and hatch in 
February, and the larva attains full growth by July. Areo- 
cerus coffea; is the second species. It belongs to the family 
Anthribida, and is known as a coffee-pest in South Africa 
and Brazil, but is found in other countries, being nearly 
cosmopolitan. 
coffee-bug (kof e-bug), . The Lecaniitm coffea;, 
an insect belonging to the family Coccidie, liv- 
ing on the coffee-tree, and very destructive to 
coffee-plantations. 
coffee-Cleaner (kof e-kle"ner), n. 1. An appa- 
ratus for rubbing off the envelop of coffee-seeds. 
2. A machine for removing mold, dust, etc., 
from raw coffee. 
coffee-Clip (kofe-kup), n. A cup from which 
coffee is drunk, distinctively about one third 
larger than a tea-cup of the same set. 
coffee-house (kof 'e-hous), n. A house of enter- 
tainment where guests are supplied with coffee 
and other refreshments, and sometimes with 
lodging ; a caf 6. Coffee-houses in Great Britain for- 
merly held a position somewhat similar to that of the 
club-houses of the present day. 
Although they be destitute of Taverns, yet they have 
their Coffa-hounes, which something resembles them. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 51. 
The coffee-home must not be dismissed with a cursory 
mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not im- 
properly called a most important political institution. . . . 
The coffee-houses were the chief organs through which the 
public opinion of the metropolis vented itself. . . . Every 
man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffee- 
house to Irani the news and discuss it. Every coffee-house 
had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd 
coffer 
listened with admiration, and who soon became what the 
journalists of our own time have been called a fourth 
estate of the realm. Macaulay. 
At the present day every traveller is struck with the al- 
most complete absence in London of this element of Con- 
tinental life, but in the early years of the eighteenth cen- 
tury coffee-houxeK were probably more prominent ill Lon- 
don than in any other city in Europe. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., iv. 
coffee-huller (kof e-hul"er), . A machine for 
removing the husk which envelops the seed of 
coffee ; a coffee-cleaner. 
COffee-mant (kof e-man), n. One who keeps a 
coffee-house. Addison. [Bare.] 
coffee-mill (kof e-mil), n. A small machine or 
mill for grinding coffee. 
coffee-nib (kof e-nib), n. A coffee-bean. 
coffee-nut (kof 'e-nut), . The fruit of the Ken- 
tucky coffee-tree, Gymnocladus Canadensis. 
coffee-pot (kof 'e-pot), n. A covered pot or urn, 
of metal or earthenware, in which coffee is made, 
or in which the beverage is served at table. 
coffee-roaster (kof e-r6s*ter), n. 1. One who 
prepares coffee-beans for use by roasting them. 
2. A machine or rotary cylinder used in roast- 
ing coffee-beans. 
coffee-room (kofe-rom), n. A public room in 
an inn, hotel, or club-house, where guests are 
supplied with coffee and other refreshments; 
now, usually, the public dining-room. [Eng.] 
He returned in a gloomy mood to the coffee-room. 
Hannay, Singleton Fontenoy, i. 8. 
coffee-saget (kof e-saj), n. A coffee-house ora- 
tor. Churchill. [Kare.] 
coffee-shop (kofe-shop), w. 1. A shop where 
coffee is sold. 2. An inferior sort of coffee- 
house. 
coffee-Stand (kof e-stand), . 1. A support for 
the vessel in which coffee is prepared. 2. A 
stall set up on the street for the sale of coffee 
and other refreshments. 
coffee-tree (kof e-tre), n. The Coffea Arabica, 
and other species which produce the berries 
from which coffee is derived. See coffee. The 
wood of the common coffee-tree is of a light greenish- 
brown or dirty-yellow color, and nearly as close- and hard- 
grained as boxwood ; but the tree is too small for the 
wood to be of much value. California coffee-tree, 
IChamnun Californica. Kentucky COffee-tree, the Gym- 
nocladu* Canadeiisis, a large leguminous tree of the United 
States, the seeds of which have been used as a substitute 
for coffee. 
coffein, coffeine (kof e-in), n. [< Coffea + -in 2 , 
-i'nc 2 .] Same as caffein. 
coffer (kof er), n. [Early mod. E. cofer, < ME. 
cofer, cofre, a chest, esp. for money, ark, rarely 
coffin (>D.G.koffer= Dan. kuffert = Sw. koffert), 
< OF. cofre, F. coffre (= Pr. Sp. Pg. cofre), a 
modification of older cofin, a chest, > E. coffin, 
q. v. For the change of the second syllable, 
cf. order, < F. ordre, < L. ordo (ordin-). ~] 1. 
A box, casket, or chest (as now understood, a 
large chest), especially one used for keeping 
valuables, as money; an ark; hence, figura- 
tively, a treasury ; in the plural, the wealth or 
pecuniary resources of a person, corporation, 
nation, etc. 
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 298. 
Bot make to the [thee] a mancioun & that is my wylle, 
A cofer [ark] closed of tres, clanlych planed ; 
Wyrk wones [dwellings] therinne for wylde & for tame. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 310. 
There he found in the knyghtes cofer 
But even halfe a pounde. 
Lytell Qeste of Robyn Uode (Child's Ballads, V. 62). 
He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's 
co/ers. Bacon, Advice to Villiers. 
2. In arch., a sunk panel or compartment in 
a ceiling or soffit, of an ornamental character, 
usually enrich- 
ed with mold- 
ings and having 
a . rose, pome- 
granate, star, or 
other ornament 
in the center; 
a caisson. 3. 
In fort., a hol- 
low lodgment 
across a dry 
moat, from 6 to 
7 feet deep and 
from 16 to 18 
feet broad. The upper part is made of pieces of timber 
raised 2 feet above the level of the moat, and upon them 
are placed hurdles laden with earth, which serve as a cover- 
ing and as a parapet. It is raised by the besieged to re- 
pulse besiegers when they endeavor to pass the ditch. 
4. A trough in which tin ore is broken to pieces. 
5. A kind of caisson or floating dock. 6. 
A canal-lock chamber. 
Coffers of a Ceiling. 
Palace of Fontainebleau, France. ! 
