CCEI, 
common receptacle involucred. Tliere is 
blit one species, viz. C. montana, a shrub, 
found in New Caledonia. 
CODICIL, a schedule, or supplement 
to a will, or other writing. It is used as 
an addition to a testament, when any thing 
is omitted which the testator would add, 
explain, alter, or retract; and is of the 
same nature as a testament, except that it 
is without an heir, or executor. So that a 
codicil is a less solemn will, of one that 
dies either testate or intestate, without the 
appointment of an heir ; testate, when he 
that hath made his codicil, hath either be- 
fore or afterwards made liis 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 tlie 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 testa- 
ment a great will ; and a codicil a little 
one. But there is this further difference 
between a codicil and a testament, tliat a 
codicil cannot contain the institution of an 
heir ; and that in a codicil, a man is not 
obliged to observe strictly all the formali- 
ties prescribed by law for solemn testa- 
ments. 
CODON, in botany, a genus of the De- 
candria Monogynia class and order. Es- 
sential character : calyx ten-parted, per- 
manent ; leaflets alternately shorter ; corolla 
bell shaped, ten-cleft; nectary ten-celled, 
composed of ten scales ; pericarpium two- 
celled, containing several seeds. There is 
but one species, viz. C. royeni. 
COECUM, in anatomy, the first of the 
three large intestines, called intestina erassa. 
COEFFICIENTS, in algebra, such num- 
bers, or given quantities, as are put before 
letters, or unknown quantities, uito which 
letters they are supposed to be multiplied ; 
Hius, in 3 a, or b x, or c x x ; 3 is the coef- 
ficient of 3 a, ft of 6 X, and cof c x x. Wlien 
no number is prefixed, unit is supposed to 
be the coefficient ; thus 1 is the coeflScient 
of a or of b. 
COELESTIAL globe. See Globe. 
CGELIAC artery, that artery which 
issues from the aorta, just below the dia- 
phragm. See Anatomy. 
CcELiAC passion, in medicine, a kind of 
flux, • or diarrhoea, wherein the aliments, 
either wliolly changed, or only in part, pass 
off by stool. 
CiELiAC vein, in anatomy, that running 
COF 
through the intestinum rectum, along with 
the cceliac artery. 
CCEMETERY, or Cemetery, a place 
set apart or consecrated for the burial of 
the dead. Anciently none were buried in 
churches or church-yards : it was even un- 
lawful to inter in cities ; instead of which 
they had coeineteries without the walls. 
These were held in great veneration among 
the primitive Christians. 
COFFEA, in botany, in French caffe, so 
named from Caffa in Africa, where it grows 
abundantly ; a genus of the Pentandria 
Monogynia class and order. Natural or-' 
der of Stellatas. Rubiaceae Jussieu. Es- 
sential character : corolla salver-shaped ; 
stamens upon the tube ; berry inferior, two- 
seeded ; seeds arilled. There are ten spe- 
cies of which C. arabica, Eastern coffee- 
tree, is seldom more than eighteen feet high 
in its native countiy, or more than twelve 
in Europe. The main stem grows upright, 
and is covered w ith a light brown bark ; 
branches horizontal, opposite, brachiate at 
every joint ; leaves opposite when fully 
grown, they are nearly five inches long,' 
and an inch and half broad in the middle, 
ovate lanceolate. They generally conti- 
nue 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 ber- 
ries 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 exceeds 
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 ever- 
green, it makes a beautiful appearance at 
every season in the stove, and particularly 
when in flower, and also when the ben-ies 
are red, which is generally in the winter : 
as they continue along time in that state, 
tliere is scarcely any plant that deserves a 
place more than this. 
COFFER, in fortification, a hollow lodg- 
ment 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, which little elevation has hur- 
dles, 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- 
