coolness 
coopt 
I hope we have readied the end of unbelief, have come 
A box, usually with grating or bars on one 
COOl-tankard (kol'tang^kard), 
lish beverage of various c~ 
ally made of ale with a 
and water, with the addition of lemon-juice, 
spices, and borage, or other savory herbs. 
Also called cold-tankard. 
coolweed (kol'wed), n. The clearweed, Pilea 
pumila : so called from its succulent pellucid 
stems and its habit of growing in cool places. 
COOlWOrt (kol'wert), n. In the United States, 
the popular name of a saxifragaceous plant, 
Tiarella cordifolia, the properties of which are 
diuretic and tonic. Also called miterwort. 
cooly 1 (ko'li), a. [< coo(i + -3/1.] Cool; some- 
what cold. [Bare.] 
Keeping my sheepe amongst the cooly shade. 
Spenser, Colin Clout, 1. 58. 
cooly 2 , See coolie. 
coom 1 (kom), re. [A dial. var. of culm>, q. v.] 
pou 
g 
cofine n a coo; 
hene, to shut 
often fol . 
hie as the system of compulsory co-operation and the sys- 
tem of voluntary co-operation. 
II. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 1. 
~i~ Coal-dust; culm. [Scotch.] 2. Soot. 3. 
The matter that works out of the naves or 
boxes of carriage-wheels; dust. 4. The dust 
and scrapings of wood produced in sawing. 
Brockett. [Prov. Eng.] 
COOm 2 (kom), re. An old English dry measure ,. 
of 4 bushels, or half a quarter (equal to 141 _ 
etc. Hence 3. Any narrow, confin- 
of abode, as a house or room. [Col- 
j ^. A cask; a barrel, keg, tub, pail, or 
other vessel formed of staves and hoops, for Specifically 2. In polit. ccon., a union ot per- 
containing liquids. 5. A Dutch corn-measure SO ns, especially of a number of laborers or 
equal to about one tenth of a Winchester peck. sma ll capitalists, for purposes of production, 
6 A tumbrel or close cart. [Scotch.] purchase, or distribution for their joint bene- 
'(kop) v.t. Kcoop, .] 1. To put into a fit; the act of uniting in, or the concurrent 
- ~ 1 ""* labor or action of, a cooperative society, bee 
cooperative. 
Co-operation in industry means the equitable distribu- 
tion of all gain among those who earn it. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLII. 158. 
cooperationist (ko-op-e-ra'shon-ist), re. [< 
cooperation + -ist.] 1. A member of a cooper- 
ative society. 
English cooperationists are pledged to "promote the 
oractice of truthfulness, justice, and economy." 
The American, VIII. 325. 
As Citizens, in some intestine braul, 
Long cooped vp within their Castle wall. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. 
A sense of church-yard mould, a sense of being boxed 
in and cooped, made me long to be out again. 
R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, p. 236. 
2f. To make or repair (a vessel formed of staves 
and hoops) ; hoop (a vessel). 
Shaken tubs 
Holland. 
be new cooped. 
= Syn. 1. To inclose, imprison, hem in, cage. 
cooper (ko'per), . [Early mod. E. also couper, 
er (hence the surnames Cooper and Cowper); 
D. kuyper, D. kuiper = MHG. fce/er, G. 
2. In South Carolina, before the civil war, one 
who opposed secession unless earned out with 
the cooperation of other southern States. 
And even South Carolina . . . gave a "Cooperation" 
majority of over 7,000 on the popular vote, electing 114 
" Cooperationistn" to 54 unqualified " Secessionists." 
H. Greeley, Amer. Conflict, I. 211. 
liters), not yet entirely disused. Also spelled Mfer, cooper, = Dan. kyper = Sw. kypare, wine- cooperative (ko-op'e-ra-tiv), a. [= F. coopera- 
coomb. cooper, cellarman (cf. ML. cuparius, cooper) ; to y _ Sp. Pg. cooper'ati'm, < LL. as if *coopera- 
COOmb 1 (kom), re. Same as comV*. as coop (ML. cupa, etc.) + -er 1 .] 1. One whose tivus, < cooperatus, pp. of cooperari, work toge- 
coomb 2 , re. Same as conib*. occupation is the making of barrels, tubs, and ther: see cooperate.] Operating, laboring, or 
coomb 3 , . Same as coom?. other vessels formed of staves and hoops. 2. striving jointly for the attainment of certain 
r> ,, i n tw . o ^nrmlnV a V. rirp vi a ti on wno makes casks lor liquids. wmie cooper, a cooyc. Btore at wn ich the owners ami regular uuyen 
racoon, Proeyon lotor : a popular abl reviation. whomakes tubs _ pal , 8) cnurn3 , e tc. goods at wholesale or nearly wholesale rates, and the 
2. [cap.] In U. S. AMI., a nickname tor a C o<jper (ko'per), r. [< cooper, n.] I. intrans. To profits of which are divided among the shareholders ac- 
member of the Whig party in the earlier part <jo the work of a cooper ; make barrels, hogs- cording to the amount held by each Such stores are not 
, Whig party in the earlier part "dolSe work of' a coope/; make barrels, hogs- 
of its history. headg) caskSi e tc. merou8 in Great Bri t aill . 
Fust place, I've ben consid'ble round in barrooms an jj_ trans. To mend or put m order: as, to co perator (ko-op'e-ra-tor), n. [= F. coopera- 
AgetherT public sentiment, 'mongst Demmercrats and cooper casks teur _ S p. Pg. cooperador = It, cooperatore, 
Coons. Lowell, Biglow Papers, ist ser. cooperage (ko'per-aj), n. [< coope) + -aye.] < LL. cooperator, < cooperari, pp. cooperatus, 
I. The work or business of a cooper. 2. ine work together: see cooperate.] One who acts, 
3 A sly, knowing person: often strengthened 
see cooperate.] I. a. Operating or working to- 
gether. 
Graces prevenient, subsequent, or co-operant. 
Bp. Nicholson, Expos, of Catechism, p. 60. 
[Slang, U. S.] 
COOn (kon), v. i. [< coon, n.] To creep, as a 
coon along a branch of a tree ; creep, clinging 
close. [Colloq., U. S.] 
Trying to coon across Knob Creek on a log, Lincoln fell 
in. The Century, XXXIII. 16, note. 
COOn-bear (kon'bar), n. The English name of 
j3Sluropus melanoleucus. See ^SLluropus. 
coonda-oil (kon'da-oil), re. Same as kunda-oil. 
COOn-heel (kon'hel), re. A long slender oyster: 
so called in Connecticut. 
coon-oyster (kon'ois"ter), re. A small oyster. 
Along the southern coast of the United States the name is , 
specifically applied to oysters growing in clusters along cooperate (kO-Op e-rat) 
the salt marshes. At Cape May, New Jersey, it is re- 
stricted to young oysters occurring on the sedges. [U. S.] 
COOnskin (kon' skin), n. The skin of the racoon 
dressed with the fur on, used chiefly for mak- 
ing caps. [U. S.] 
coontan (kon'ta), . 
HaroM discover** ' ^fc r arrowroot, 
The building stands at the head of Toad Lane, the nar- 
row hilly street in which the cooperators first opened a 
store. R. J. Hinton, Eng. Radical Leaders, p. 255. 
And this is the truth which has been firmly grasped by 
the cooperators, who form the other great branch of the 
industrial movement in England. 
The Century, XXVIII. 134. 
from wiiiub ' 
pertnt 
When l 
'Highly coitv/n<'('<r. 
reasonableness of oil 1 
-JiiftVr oin-sclves to r;:lt 
I see in part 
That all, as in some piece of art, 
Is toil cooperant to an end. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxxviii. C0 5perculum (ko-o-per'ku-lum), n.; pi. coo'per- 
II. n. That which cooperates. 525 (-la). [ML.,'< L. cooperculum, & cover t> < 
In gravity the units of mass and distance are the sole 
j-operantn. 
G. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, I. iv. 58. pyx Of Clborium. 
v i \ pret. and pp. coopering (ko'per-ing), re. [Verbal n. of cooper, 
- -- *,J 1. The art of manufacturing or repairing 
casks, barrels, and other vessels composed of 
staves and hoops. 2. See extract. [Local, 
Eng.] 
" Coopering," as the practice of having smacks fitted out 
for the sale of spirits and tobacco is called [in Suffolk]. 
Quarterly Rev., CXXVII. 386. 
cooperated, ppi.~ cooperating. [< LL. coopera- 
tus, pp. of cooperari (> F. cooperer = Sp. Pg. 
cooperar = It. cooperare), work together, < L. 
co-, together, + operari, work: see co- 1 and 
operate.] 1. To act or operate jointly with 
another or others to the same end ; work or en- 
deavor with another or together to promote the , 
same object : as, Eussia cooperated with Great COOper's-WOOd (ko'perz-wud), n. The wood of 
Britain, Austria, and Prussia in reducing the Alphitonia ercelsa, a tall rhamnaceous tree of 
power of Napoleon. 
Australia. It becomes dark with age, and is 
of the writer. Macaulay, Milton. 
2. To unite in producing the same effect; 
tend to the same result : as, natural and moral 
events cooperate in illustrating the wisdom of 
the Creator. 
Whate'er cooperates to the common mirth. 
Crashaw, The Name above every Name. 
, - ,, .. * ~y ; s< 
1. "The trade of a cooper; cooperage. 2. Ves- 
sels made by a cooper, collectively : in the quo- 
tation used attributively. 
Steep the wheat within certaine cooperie vessels made 
of wood. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xviii. 7. 
coopt (ko-opf), v. t. [= F. coopter, < L. coopttm: 
contr. capture, receive or elect into some body, 
cooperation (ko-op-e-ra'shpn), re. [= ] 
ration = Sp. cooperacion = Pg. coqperacao = It. 
cooperazione, < LL. cooperatio(n-), < cooperari, 
i. cooperatus, work together: see cooperate.] 
The act of working together to one end, or 
f combining for a certain purpose ; joint oper- 
ion or endeavor; concurrent effort or labor: 
the cooperation of several authors; the co- 
ation of the understanding and the will. 
. _,, joint choice ; specifically, to 
elect to membership in a committee, board, or 
society by the choice of its existing members. 
The mayor, with the assent of the town meuting. nom- 
inated two of the twenty-four, and two of the common 
council ; these four chose four more out of each body ; 
and these eiuht co-anted two more, and the ten two more. 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 422. 
