coinheritance 
The Spirit of God . . . adopts UH into thr 111): <l icnl body 
of Christ, and gives us title to a tttnlu rttanet with him 
Jer. Taylor, Works (eil. 1830), H. 40. 
coinheritor (ko-iri-her'i-tor), n. [< co- 1 + in- 
heritor.} A joint heir; a coheir. 
coining-press (koi'ning-pres), n. A machine 
for striking or stamping coins. A screw -i>n >.-. 
worked by atmospheric pressure, wa introduri-d fur this 
purpose about \w\, rapeneding tin- old method f strik- 
ing coins by the hammer. It was subsequently much im- 
proved, but has been generally abandoned. The lever- 
Ancient anil modern forms of 
Coining-press. (From " History 
of the D. S. Mini.") 
press worked by steam, invented by Uhlhorn in 1829, has 
lin-ir adopted iu Kui:lund. In this press the blanks or 
disks to be stamped are placed between the dies by a me- 
chanical layer-on, and the pressure is then imparted by a 
toggle-joint and a bent lever. A lever-press similar to 
that of Uhlboru in principle but differing In construc- 
tion, invented by Thonnelier, a Frenchman, la used in 
the mints of the United States. 
cpinless (koin'les), o. [< coin 1 + -less.} Hav- 
ing no coin or money ; moneyless ; penniless. 
You . . . look'd for homage you deem'd due 
From coinless bards to men like you. 
W. Combe, Dr. Syntax, ii. 7. 
coinquinatet (ko-in'kwi-nat), v. t. [< L. coin- 
quinatiis, pp. of coinquinare (> OF. coinquiner), 
pollute, < co-, together, + inquinare, pollute.] 
To pollute ; defile. [Rare.] 
That would coinquinate 
That would contaminate 
The Church's high estate. 
Skelton, Colin Clout, 1. 706. 
coinquinationt (ko-in-kwi-na'shon), n. [< OF. 
coinquination, < LL. coinquinatid(n-), < L. coin- 
quinare, pollute : see coinquinate.] Defilement ; 
pollution. [Bare.] 
Coinquination [F.I, a eoinquination or coinquinating ; a 
soyling, defiling, polluting ; defaming. Cotyrave. 
Vntil I make a second inundation 
To wash thy purest Fame's coinquination 
And make it tit for flnall conflagration. 
Davit, Commendatory Poems, p. 14. 
coinstantaneous (ko-in-stan-ta'ne-us), a. [< 
co- 1 + fMttmteMOtt*.] Happening at the same 
instant ; coincident in moment of time. 
In the case of the prawn-like crabs, their movements 
were as coinstantaneou* as in a regiment of soldiers. 
Darwin, Voyage of Beagle, I. 22. 
coinstant aneously (ko - in - stan - ta'ne - us - li), 
adv. At the same moment; simultaneously. 
Darwin. 
COinsure (ko-in-shor'), v. i. ; pret. and. pp. coin- 
sured, ppr. coinsuring. [< co- 1 + insure.'} To 
insure one's life or one's property together with 
others. 
An equitable method by which a coinsuring member 
could retire from the society when he ceased to need fur- 
ther insurance. H. A. Rev., CXLIII. 144. 
cointt, o. [ME., also quaint, queint, quaint, > 
mod. E. quaint, q. v.] A Middle English form 
of quaint. 
cointense (ko-in-tens'), a. [< co- 1 + intense."] 
Of the same intensity as another ; equally in- 
tense. 
Two sensations that are like in kind can be known as 
like or unlike in intensity. . . . We can recognize changes 
as connatural, or the reverse ; and connatural changes we 
can recognize as cointense, or the reverse. 
H. S[>encer, Prin. of Psychol., 361. 
cointension (ko-in-teu'shon), n. [< co- 1 + in- 
tension.] The condition of being of equal in- 
tensity with another. 
In comparing simple states of consciousness that are 
alike in kind, we observe their relative intensities. If their 
intensities are equal, they must be called cointense ; and 
the equality of their intensities is cointension. 
II. Speneer, Prin. of Psychol., 362. 
cointensity (ko-in-ten'si-ti), n. [< cointense, 
after intensity.'} Same as cointension. H. Spen- 
cer. 
cointerest (ko-in'ter-est), n. [< co- 1 + inter- 
cut.} A joint interest. Milton. 
cqintiset, . A Middle English form of quain- 
tise. 
cointoiset, n. [OF., also cointise, quaintness, 
neatness, > ME. cointise, quointise, quaintise: 
see quaintise.} 1. A scarf, handkerchief, or 
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veil; specifically, a scarf worn pendent from 
the head-dress by women in the thirteenth cen- 
tury. 2. A similar veil or kerchief worn by a 
knight pendent from his helmet, as if bestowed 
by Iiis lady; hence, any favor of like character 
worn at a tournament, etc. 3. In heraldic rep- 
resentations, drapery falling from the helmet 
iu folds and curves : a common mode of heral- 
dic decoration in the fifteenth century and 
later. See lauihrequin and mantlini/. 
coinverse (ko-in-vers'), a. [< co- 1 + inverse.} 
In geont., two points inverse to each other with 
regard to two given circles are said to be coin- 
verse to either circle. 
COir, COire (klr), n. [Formerly cair, cayar ; = 
Pg. cairo, < Malayalam kdyar (= Tamil MyOftt, 
kin/ini), rope, cord, < kdyaru, be twisted.] The 
prepared fiber of the husk of the cocoanut. it is 
twiaU-d into coarse yarn for making ropes, matting, etc. 
Cordage made of this material rots in fresh water and 
snaps in frost, but it is strengthened by salt water, is vi-i y 
buoyant and elastic, and is thus in some respect* prefera- 
ble to hemp for marine uses, especially in cases requiring 
a rope that will float. 
COistrilt (kois'tril), >i. [Early mod. E. also 
coystril, coystrel ; perhaps connected with OF. 
eoustillier, a soldier armed with a dagger, < 
coustille, a sort of dagger, < coustel, prop, con/' I, 
also coltel, cultel, mod. F. couteau, < ML. culttl- 
lus, a knife : see cutlass.} An inferior groom ; a 
lad employed by the esquire to carry a knight's 
arms; hence, a mean paltry fellow. 
He's a coward and a coytttril, that will not drink to my 
niece. Shale., T. N., 1. 3. 
COlt (koit), n. Same as quoit. 
coition (ko-ish'on), . [< L. coitio(n-), a com- 
ing together, a meeting, coition, < coire, pp. coi- 
tus, come together, < co-, together, + ire, go : see 
go.} 1. A coming together; a meeting. Spe- 
cifically 2. Sexual congress; copulation. 
Coition'of the moon, the position of the moon when in 
the same sign and degree of the zodiac with the sun. E. D. 
coitus (ko'i-tus), H.; pi. coitus. [L., a meeting 
(in this sense also ceetus), coition (in this sense 
only coitus), a meeting, assemblage (in this 
sense only coitus: see cete 1 ), < coire, come to- 
gether, meet: see coition.] Coition ; sexual in- 
tercourse; copulation. 
Coil (ko'iks), n. [NL., < Gr. /c&f, an Egyptian 
variety of palm. Cf. cocoa.} A small genus of 
coarse monoecious grasses, of which one spe- 
cies, C. Lacryma, a native of eastern Asia, is 
found in gardens under the name of JoVs-tears. 
The large, round, white, shining fruits have some resem- 
blance to heavy drops of tears; hence its fanciful title. 
They are sometimes used for necklaces, bracelets, etc. 
cojoin (ko-join'), v. t. or . [< co- 1 + join. Cf. 
conjoin.} To join or associate. Shak. [Rare.] 
cojuror (ko-jo'ror), n. [< co- 1 + juror.} One 
who swears to another's credibility. [Rare.] 
The solemn forms of oaths : of a compurgator, or coju- 
ror, which kind of oath was very much used by the Anglo- 
Saxons. The form of the oath is this : " I swear by God, 
that the oath which N. swore was honest and true. ' 
M. Shelton, tr. of W. Wotton's View of Hickes's 
[Thesaurus, p. 59. 
cokt, n. An obsolete form of eocfc 1 . 
cokatricet, An obsolete form of cockatrice. 
coke 1 (kok), n. [Sometimes spelled coafc/ same 
as E. dial, cokes, coaks, cinders. Cf. grindle- 
colce, a worn-down grindstone. Phonetically, 
cofce may be compared with cake (cf. LG. koke, 
cake, and see cafce 1 ) ; but coke does not "cake." 
Hence F. cofce, Sp. cofc, G. fcoafcs, kohks, usually 
coafcs, etc., coke.] The solid product of the car- 
bonization of coal, bearing the same relation to 
that substance that charcoal does to wood, it 
is an important article in metallurgy, since few bitumi- 
nous coals can be used for the manufacture of iron with- 
out having been first coked. The coking coals, as they are 
called, are bituminous, and such as contain but a small 
percentage of water. Hence the coals as recent as the Ter- 
tiarybrown-coals or lignites rarely furnish coke; that 
is. the material left behind after the bituminous or vola- 
tile matter has been driven off is a powder, and not the co- 
herent somewhat vesicular substance to which the name 
of coke is given. The nature of the difference between 
coking and non-coking coals has not yet been fully made 
out, and it is stated on good authority that some coal 
which cokes readily when first mined does not do so after 
having been exposed to the atmosphere, if only for a few 
days. The use of coke dates certainly as far back as the 
middle of the seventeenth century. Its preparation was 
formerly known as charlring or charring, and the word was 
often, and is still occasionally, written cook. 
coke 1 (kok), v. ; pret. and pp. coked, ppr. coking. 
[< cofce 1 , n.] I. trans. To convert (coal) into 
coke. 
II. I'M trans. To become coke ; be convertible 
into coke : as, a coking coal. 
Sometimes spelled coafc. 
Coke 2 t, n. A Middle English form of coofc 1 . 
coke-barrow (kok 'bar '6), n. A large two- 
wheeled barrow used for various purposes about 
cola-nut 
coke-ovens and furnaces. It is made of sheet- 
iron, and has the form of a half cylinder. 
cokedrilt, . Same as crocmlili . 
cokenayt, An obsolete form of cockney. 
coke-omnibus (kok'om'ni-bus), n. In gas- 
inanuf., an iron carriage moving on rails, in 
front of the retorts, from which it receives the 
coke as drawn, and carries it to the place of 
deposit. 
coke-oven (kok'uv'n), n. A furnace, oven, kiln, 
or retort used for reducing bituminous coal to 
coke ; a coking-oven. The essential features are a 
(liainiii-r in contain the coal, with openings at various 
points for the admission of air, which can h>- closed as re- 
quired during the progress of the operation, and a fur- 
nace or fire-chamber to supply the necessary heat. In mine 
forms the gases which are evolved are utilized as fuel for 
the oven iUelf, or for a steam l>il<r, r for some similar 
purpose, or they are condensed as tar, etc. 
coker 1 (ko'ker), n. Same as cocfcer 8 . 
coker 2 (ko'ker). v. t. [E. dial.] To sell by auc- 
tion. [Pnw- Bug.] 
coker't, r. t. See cocker*. 
cokerelt, An obsolete form of cockerel. 
cokernut (ko'ker-nut), n. A commercial mode 
of spelling cocoanut. 
Coker nuts for cups, like the mazers of olden time. 
S. Unwell, Taxes in England, II. 96. 
cokes 1 , n. pi. See coafcs and cofce 1 . 
cokes- 1, n. and v. See coax. 
cokett, . See cocfcet 1 . 
coke-tower (kok'tpu'er), n. A high tower or 
condenser filled with coke, used in the manu- 
facture of hydrochloric acid, to give a large 
surface for the union of a falling spray of water 
with rising chlorin. See hydrochloric. 
cokewoldt, n. A Middle English form of eucfc- 
old. 
cokint, > [ME., < OF. coquin (ML. coquinus, 
cokinus), a vagabond, servant, messenger; a 
rogue. See cocfcney.] A rogue. 
Thou hethen cokin, 
Wende to thi deuel Apollln. 
Arthur and Merlin, 1. 6381. 
coking (ko'king), n. [Verbal n. of cofce 1 .] The 
act or process of converting or of being con- 
verted into coke. 
It will thus be seen that the coal at the back is under- 
going a process of coking before being pushed forward. 
Science, IV. 332. 
coking-kiln, coking-oven (ko'king-kil, -uv'n), 
n. A coke-oven. 
coknayt, n. An obsolete form of cockney. 
col (kol), n. [F., the neck, a pass, defile, < L. 
ml I n in. the neck: see collar.} A narrow pass 
between two mountain peaks: a term used in 
English by some writers on alpine geology and 
mountaineering. 
One thing alone could justify the proposition (to returnl 
. . . a fog so thick as to prevent them from striking the 
summit of the col at the proper point. 
Tyndall, Hours of Exercise in the Alps, ii. 
col-. [L. col-, but in classical L. prevailingly 
unassimilated con- before 1: see com-, con-.] 
The assimilated form of com-, con-, before /. See 
com-, con-. 
Col. 1. An abbreviation (a) of Colonel as a ti- 
tle, and (6) of Colossians. 2. [i.e.] An apothe- 
caries' abbreviation of coliander, an obsolete 
form of coriander. 
Cola, n. Latin plural of colon. 
colander, cullender (kul'an-der). n. [E. dial. 
culdore; prob. < Sp. coJador, a colander (cf. It. 
colatojo (<. ML. colatorium: see colatorium), F. 
couloire, a colander), < color = It. colare, Pr. 
coiar = F. couler (> ult. E. cuWis 1 , cullis*), < L. 
colare, strain, filter, < colum, a strainer, colan- 
der, sieve.] A vessel of hair, wicker, or metal, 
with a bottom, or bottom and sides, perforated 
with little holes to allow liquids to run off, as 
in washing vegetables or straining curds, sepa- 
rating the juices from fruits or the liquor from 
oysters, etc. ; a strainer. 
An osier colander provide 
Of twigs thick wrought. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgica, It 328. 
colander-shovel (kul'an-der-shuv 1 '!), n. A 
shovel of open wirework used for taking salt- 
crystals from an evaporating-pan. 
cola-nut (ko'la-nut), n. A brownish bitter seed, 
of about the size of a chestnut, produced by a 
tree of western tropical Africa, Cola acuminate, 
natural order Sterculiacea. The tree has become 
naturalized in the West Indies and Brazil. The nuts are 
said to be used for purifying water, for quieting the crav- 
ings of hunger, and to increase the power of resisting fa- 
tigue from prolonged labor ; they quickly counteract the 
effects of intoxication. They have been found to contain 
two or three times as much caffein as coffee itself, and 
some theobromine. Also called cola-seed and yuru-n<it. 
