Iwarer, is about f> mlllimeU-rs long, oblong, black wllhont cosher', " *''.- '"*'"'. 
metallic luster, and sparsely clothed above with vihin-h cosne rer ( kosh'er-er), . 
. < ^ _ coshering. [Irish.] 
H&S. 
Coiy 
I ^.ininican Case-tiearer (Cotcirtofttra domiHt'catta). 
a t larva, extracted from CAM ; 4, larva, with cose ; f, beetle, en- 
larveil, showing punctures; </, same, natural size; t, eg|[. ciiUr^c*! ; 
/.bead of larva, coU<ve<l, teen from beneath ; jf, head of mate 
beetle, enlarged ; Ji, mandible of same, on still larv/crscalc ; i, anp* 
natural size ; /, leg of larva with the claw-juint, on larger scale ; *. 
mandible of larva, enlarged; /, maxilla of larva, enlarged. (Lines 
show natural sizes.) 
Corystidas 
Corystidse (ko- 
ris'ti-de). ti . /</. 
|XL.,< Corystcn 
+ -iiln: ) A fam- 
ily of bracliyn- 
rous decapo- 
dons crustace- 
ans, typified li\ 
tho genus ( '<>- 
rystes, contain- 
ing the long- 
armed crabs. 
Corystoidea 
(kor-iit-toi'd$- 
&), n. )>l. [NL'., 
<! Corystes + 
-oiriea.] A su- 
perfamily group 
or series of brachyurous decapod crustaceans, 
rese in M in; the Miii'iiilni. I '"t having lunger an- 
tenna' and a verv short epistome. 
Corythaix (ko-rith'a-iks), n. [NL. (llliger, 
181 1), < (}r. Hi/tMii;, helmet-shaking, i. e., with 
waving plumes,< nApvc, (no/nti-), helmet, + ataotiv, 
shake.] A generic name of the touracous, pi- 
cariau birds of the family Jftuoptopida : a syn- 
onym of Tnr<irits, which antedates it in use. 
Corythucha (kor-i-thii'kji), n. [NL. (Stal. 
IHfll), also Corytliucu; < Gr. Kifynf (KOfwft-), hel- 
met, 4- lx"v, have.] A genus of hoteropter- 
ous insects, of the family Tingitida;, contain- 
ing small weak bugs which gather in great 
numbers upon the leaves of plants, as C. arcu- 
ata on the oak, the white C. ciliata on the syca- 
more, t". jiti/litmUs on the butternut, and C. gos- 
.ty/iii on tho cotton-plant. 
coryza (ko-ri'zii), . [LL.'> < Gr. n6ovfa, a ca- 
tarrh, perhaps '<. nopvf, the head.] In palhol., 
an acute inflammation of the mucous mem- 
brane of tho nostrils, eyes, etc. ; a cold in the 
head. See osama. 
cost, . See coss*. 
COS. An abbreviation of cosine. 
cosat. [It. : see BOSK".] Same as cos* 2 . 
cosallte (ko'sa-lit), . [< Cosala (see def.) + 
-ite 2 .] A native sulpliid of bismuth and lead, 
occurring massive, of a metallic luster and 
lead-gray color, first found in a silver-mine at 
Cosala in Mexico. Bjelkite is a variety from 
Sweden. 
CoscinodisCUS (kos'i-no-dis'kus), n. [NL., < unity. See trigonometrital function*, under trigonometri 
Gr. Ktonivov, a sieve, +' dianof, a round plate, cal- Abbreviated cotet. 
a disk : see disk.] A genus of minute diato- cosectional (ko-sek shon-al), n. [< co-i 
inaceous alg, with simple disk-shaped frus- tional.] In hot., belonging to the same natural 
cosmetic 
One who practised 
commissioners were scattered profusely amonxIdleouA- 
ertn, who claimed lo be descended from good Irish lanii- 
lies. Macaulay. 
coshering (kosh'er-ing), n. [Verbal n. of cosh- 
, i '-'. i .] In Ireland, an old feudal custom where- 
by the lord of the soil was entitled to lodge and 
feast himself and his followers at a tenant's 
house. It was the petty abuse of a right of all feudal 
lords everywhere to be entertained hv their \a>-als ln>n 
traveling near the vassals' territories. Tills tribute or ex- 
action was afterward commuted fur lyuit-rrat. 
Cothrringt were visitations and progresses made by the 
lord and his followers among his tenants ; wherein he did 
eat them out of house and home. 
Sir J. Daviet, State of Ireland. 
Sometimes he contrived, in defiance of the law, to live 
by cothering, that Is to say, by quartering himself on the 
ui.l tenants of his family. Maeaulay, lltst. Bug., vi. 
COShery (kosh'6r-i), H. 
hair, the pubescence on the under side being much denser as MMMffM, 
and very conspicuous. COSiet, (I. See cozy. 
COSCOrob (kos'ko-rob), n. [Trinidad.] A fish cos i er t (ko'zher), n. 
of the genus Cichlasoma (family Cichlitlir) : so 
called in the island of Trinidad. Two species are 
there known, t'. tasnui and C. pulchra. They somewhat 
1 1 >lc the sunhahes of the United States, and have 
similar habits. 
See coze. 
; pret. and pp. cosed, ppr. cos- 
ing. [Vari of corse*, q. v.J To exchange or 
barter. Jamieson. [Scotch.] 
cosec. An abbreviation of cosecant. 
[< wither"* + -y 1 .] Same 
Burr;, ?.. [Also written cozier; prob. 
ult. < ML. cusire, cosere (> OF. cousdre, P. co- 
dre = Pr. coser, fusir = Sp. coser, cusir = Pg. 
eager = It. cucirc), contr. of L. consuere, sew to- 
gether: see confute.] A cobbler. 
Do you make an alehouse of my lady's house, that ye 
snueak out your coziert' catches without any mitigation or 
remorse of voice 1 Skat. , T. N. , II. S. 
cosignatary (ko-sig'na-ta-ri), n. Same as con- 
signatarif. 
cosecant (ko-se'kant), . [< co- 2 -h secant.] In cosignatory (ko-sig'na-to-ri), a. and w. Kro- 1 
trigonom., the secant of an angle or arc equal 
to the difference between a given angle or arc 
(whose cosecant it is) 
and 90; the secant of 
the complement of the 
given angle or arc. See 
cnnililement. It is the ratio 
of the radius to the distance 
from the center to the inter- 
section of one side of the an- 
C A 
Cosecant. 
ACB being the angle, the ra- 
tio of LC to DC or AC is the 
cosecant ; or, DC being equal to 
unity, it is the line LC. 
the other side : or, if the ra- 
dius of the circle be taken as 
tuies, remarkable for the extreme beauty of the section or group. ^ 
markings on their surface. About 60 species have coseismal (ko-sis mal), a. 
licen dfscrilk'd, chiefly inhabitants of tile sea, but some are 
fnuml in the fossil deposits ill Virginia, the Bermudas, and 
other localities. 
coscinomancy (kos'i-no-man-si), n. [< Gr. *6- 
OKIVOV, a sieve, + /lavrria, divination ; cf. KOGKI- 
i>d//aiT<f, a diviner by a sieve.] An old mode 
of divination, consisting in suspending a sieve, 
or fixing it to the point of a pair of shears, . , ., . . , , , 
then repeating a formula of words and the COSeismlc (ko-sis'mik), a. [< co-1 + sctsmtc.] 
names of persons suspected of some crime or kme as coseismal. 
other act. If the sieve moved when a name 
w;is repeated, the person named was deemed 
guilty. 
I. a. (Jniting with another or 
others in signing, as a treaty or agreement : as, 
cosignatory powers. 
II. .; pi. cosignatories (-riz). Onewhounites 
with another or others in signing a treaty or 
agreement. 
It was clear to the cotiynatorif* of the treaty of 1856 that 
the only hope of tranquillity for Turkey was non-interfer- 
ence in its Internal affaire. N. A. Ket., CXXVII. S94. 
'i-ka-tiv), a. [< co- 1 
same significa- 
tion. 
unity, It is this distance itself, cosily, adv. See cosily. 
Like all other trigouometri- (.Qgin^ ,,. and r. An obsolete form of cousin*. 
cosinage, cosenage (kuz'n-aj), . [< ME. co- 
sinagc, cousinage, < OF. cosinage, cousinage, < 
CO*JM, cousin, cousin, kinsman : see cousin 1 .] In 
lain : (a) Collateral relationship or kinship by 
blood; consanguinity, (frf) A writ to recover 
possession of an estate in lands when a stranger 
had entered and abated, after the death of the 
tresail (the grandfather's grandfather) or other 
collateral relation. 
[< o-2 + A-iiif 2 . A word in- 
Tlie so-called coscinomancy, or, as it is described in 
1 1 n.l i lira-. "I If oracle of sieve juid shears, that turns as 
certain as the spheres." 
Coscinopora (kos-i-nop'o-rS), n. [NL., < Gr. 
noniavov, a sieve, + TTOOOC, a pore.] 
genus of the family Coscinojioriila: 
coscinoporid (kos-i-nop'6-rid), n. 
of the family CotdnoporUte. 
Ooscinoporidae(kos ;l 'i-no-por'i-de), n.pl. [NL., 
< <'iiKi'iiiii/i'}i;t + -itla-..] ' A family of dictyonine 
hexaetinellid silicions sponges, of oalyculateor 
expansive form, whose walls are traversed by 
[< co-1 + Gr. ati- 
, an earthquake, + -al: see seismic.'] The 
term used by Mallet to designate the curve or _________________ 
line along which a wave of earthquake-shock cos i ne (ko'sin). . - . >,.,. .-- 
" simultaneously [synchronously] reaches the vented by tho English mathematician Edmund 
earth's surface"; the crest of a wave of shock. Gunter about 1620.] In 
trigonom., the sine of the 
complement of a given 
angle (whose cosine it 
is). If from the vertex of the 
angle as a center a circle is 
described with any radius, the 
cosine is the ratio of the dis- 
tance from the center to tho 
foot of a perpendicular let fall 
from the point of intersection 
of one side with the circle 
See homoseismal, ixochrone, ivoneismal. 
The owwurmai zone, of maximum disturbance. R. Mallet. 
Circles called " Isoselsuilc " or " mtciiinie " circles. 
J. Milne, Earthquakes, p. 10. 
cosenH, n. and v. An obsolete form of cousin 1 . 
cosen", P. See co:> '-'. 
cosenage, See cosinage. 
E. B. Tytor, Prim. Culture, 1. 116. COSCntient (ko-sen'shient), rt. [< co-1 + sen- 
tii'iit.] Perceiving together. 
:osey, a. and n. See cosy. 
osh" (kosh), n. [E. dial., < ME. cosh, cosche, 
coKshe ; origin obscure. Hardly related to co/i 2 .] 
A cottage; a hovel. [Prov. Eng.] 
Coote, lytylle howse |var. cosh, COK 
C 
Cosine. 
ACB being the angle, the 
ratio of FC to BC, or that of 
BK lo CD, is the cosine ; or. 
CD being equal to unity, it is 
the line OK. 
The typical 
(rolafiiss. 
A sponge 
the other to the radius; or. If 
the ratlins is taken as unity, 
the cosine Is that distance iUelf. The cosine <if the arc or 
angle is the sine of its compliment, and vice versa. See 
cnmplruirnt. Abbreviated oo. Cosine Integral, the in- 
tegral 
- COS 
du. 
Cos*he, a sorie house, IF.] cauerne. 
(kosh), a. [See cory.] 
quirt, ; comfortable. [Scotch.] 
straight lufundibuhform canals opening alter- ^3 ' (k h) The ^ UBk o f eor n. Halliic.ll. 
nately on either surface, and covered only by ppjT ov Eng ] 
the perforated limiting membrane, it includes co^heath (ko-sheTH'), r. t. [< co-1 + sheatli.] 
it^^^^'ir^a^'i^r^enri,':;,:'''^:'';;;;;";,';;;" TO *,,,ath U r more things together. [R*.] co ^^ (^^efik), . and *. [= 
i a cosher 1 (kosher), c. t. [Anpar. a freq. fonn, < mftique _ 8p . cosnuitico = Pg. It. cosmeti, 
Ooscinoptera (kos-i-nop'te-rii), n. [NL.,<Gr. cosh, comfortable : see coA 2 and co^. ] To feed 
a sieve, + TTf/xii', wing.] A genus with dainties or delicacies; coddle; hence, to 
treat kindly and fondly ; fondle ; pet. [Colloq.] 
Thus she eotHerrd up Kleanor with cold fowl and port 
wine. TriMupt, Barchester Towers, ixlii. 
[< Ir. cosair, a feast, a 
nut numerous, and inhabit the new world. The egg is banquet.] To levy exact ions upon; extort en- 
iped in an excrementltious covering, and U futaned t-tiiinineiit from S.M> 
(H of various plant* DJ mean^ of a short silken ' 
of Chujsniiniiilii' or leaf-beetles, of the group 
Cli/llirini. i'hanic'tei'i/.ed by separate frontcoxa?, 
oval and not einarginate eyes, and elytra with 
punctures not arranged in rows. The siwclcs are cosher- (kosh'er), r. t. 
" The egg is 
Prompt. Parr. - 
Palwra w. 
Hyperbolic cosine. 
Neat; snug; cognate (kos'met), M. [< Gr. noanfynK, an ar- 
ranger, an adorner, < noaufiv, order, adorn : see 
cosmetic.] In Gr. antiq., a liigh officer of state 
who had supreme direction of the college of 
ephebes. 
' n. [= F. cos- 
cosmetico, < Gr. 
, skilled in decorating, < Koa/afr6f, ver- 
bal adj. of Koa/ieiv, adorn, decorate, < x6ofiof, or- 
der, ornament : see cosmos 1 .] I. a. Pertaining 
to beauty; beautifying; improving beauty, par- 
ticularly the beauty of the complexion. Also 
cosmelical. 
'" 'c 
Ilire.el. I'lir lal\a i> al\\a\^ lolinil in ants' nests, uhelv 
it I'reils upon ve-etaMe iletiris. '1'lie eoniinonest sperirs 
iu the 1 nitcd states. (,'. i/uumiiViimi, the Uominican case- 
\ \.T> lit an.l prn|H-r hoii.se. sir, 
KIT sllell all iclle ^,'llest to 
The 
lludU>r<u(V5S\ 
And now. unveil il. the toilet -tainl display'd, 
F.arli si her \ a-e in niyMie order laid. 
Kirst, rolH-d in white, the nymph intent adores. 
With head uncover'd, the eofmelie powers. 
Pope, R. of the L., i. 1S4. 
