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of tar, Stc. becaufe thefe buildings may be made either 
fquare, circular, or oval, as fancy may direift, the art de¬ 
pending upon the management of,the air admitted into 
the kilns, which can only be acquired by experience; 
and, as it is by no means meant to keep the mamifa&ure 
hid or concealed, tli fe who want to lee the practical part 
will have an opportunity fo to do at the different places 
where the manufacture is carried on. Exclufive of the 
above invention, for which only the patent has been ob¬ 
tained, I promote the condeniation of the let's coercible 
part of the vapour that comes off in.diftillation, by coin- 
mixing it with the fleam of boiling water, and complete 
the condenf.ition by the means of cold water, either in 
•contaft with the vapour, or applied externally to the vef- 
fels through which it pafles ; and, by an admifiion of the 
external air into the condenfing vefl'els when needful, I 
aifo caufe the vapour to pafs through more condenfing 
vefl'els than one, to feparate, by that means, the different 
oils and fubftances, according to the different degrees of 
cold and mpifture requifite to condenfe them; or occa- 
fionally I follow the ufual and common modes in praClice 
for condenfing the vapours thrown'off from any lubftances 
by the aClion of heat.” 
COAL-WORK,/ Acoalery; a place where coals are 
found.—Our officers make their iureft remits from the 
coal-works .and the mines; 
COAL'ERY,/ A place where coals are dug.—Two 
fine ftala&itse were found hanging from a black ilone, at a 
deferted vault in Ben well coalery. Woodward. 
‘To COALE'SCE, v. n [coalefco , Lat.] To unite in 
maffes by a fpontaneous approximation to each other.— 
When vapours are railed, they hinder not the tranfpa- 
rency of the air, being divided into parts too fmall to 
caufe any reflection in their fuperficies ; but when they 
begin to coalefce, and conftitute globules, thofe globules 
become of a convenient fize to reflect fome colours. New¬ 
ton —To grow together; to join. 
COALESCENCE,/. The aft of coalefcing; concre¬ 
tion; union. 
CO ALI'TION,/. [from coalefco, coalitum, Lat.] Union 
in one mafs or body ; conjunction of feparate parts in one 
whole.—The world's a mafs of heterogeneous confiften- 
cles, and every part thereof a coalition of diltinguilhable 
varieties. Glan-ville. —In the firll coalition of a people, 
their profpeCt is not great: they provide laws for their 
prefent exigence. Hale. 
CO AL'Y, adj. Containing coal.-—Or coaly Tine, or an¬ 
cient hallow’d Dee. Milton. 
CO'ANE,/. [from conus, Lat. as ufed by Virgil.] The 
top point.—Each fide of an arch defeendeth alike from the 
coane, or top point. Spelman. 
COAN'GO, a river of Africa, which rifes in the inte¬ 
rior parts, and, when near the fea, changes its name to 
Zaire, or Zaira. 
COAN'ZA, a river of Africa, which rifes far in the 
interior parts, and, after crofling the kingdom of Angola, 
runs into the Atlantic: thirty miles north-eaft of Cape 
Ledo. 
COANENEPIL'LI,/ in botany. See Passiflora. 
COAPOI'BA,/. in botany. See Copaifera. 
COAPTA'TION,/. [from con and apto, Lat.] The 
.adjuftment of parts to each other.—In a clock, the hand 
is moved upon the dial, the bell is (truck, and the other 
aCtions belonging to the'engine are performed, by virtue 
of the fize, fhape, bignefs, and coaptation, of the feveral 
parts. Boyle. 
To COA'RCT, or to Coarctate, v. a. [coarflo, Lat.] 
To Rraiten; to confine into a narrow compafs.—The 
wind finding the room in the form of a trunk, and coarc- 
tated therein, forced the (tones of the window, like pel¬ 
lets, clean through it. Bacon. —To contraft power; to re- 
ftrain.—If a mam coartts liimfelf to the extremity of an 
aCt, he muff blame and impute it to himielf, that he has 
thus ccarfled or flraitened himfelf fo far. Ayliffe. 
COARCTATTON, /, Confinement; reftraint to a 
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narrow fpace.-—The greatefl winds, if they have no co- 
arSlation, or blow not hollow, give an interior found. Ba¬ 
con. —Contraction of any fpace.—Straiten the artery never 
fo much,, provided the fides of it do not meet, the vefiel 
will continue to beat, below or beyond the. coardlation. 
Ray. —Reftraint of liberty.-—Election is oppofed not only 
to coaCtion, but alfo to coarttation, or determination to 
one. Bramball. 
COA'RI, a river of South America, which runs into 
the river of the Amazons, in Terra Firma. 
COARSE, adj. Not refined ; not feparated from impu¬ 
rities or bafer parts.—Of what coarfc metal are ye mould¬ 
ed ? Shakefpeare. —Not foft or fine : ufed of cloth, of which 
the threads are large. Rude; uncivil; rough of man¬ 
ners. Grofs ; not delicate : 
’Tis not the coarfer tie of human law 
That binds their peace. Thomfcn. 
Inelegant; rude; unpolifhed.—Praife of Virgil is againff. 
myfelf, for prefuming to copy, in my coarfe Englifli, his 
beautiful expreflions. Dryden. —Not nicely expert; un- 
fmifhed by art or education.—Practical rules may be ule- 
ful to fuch as are remote from advice, and to coarfe prac¬ 
titioners, which they are obliged to make ufe of. Aruuth - 
not. —Mean; not nice; not elegant; vile: 
Ill confort, and a coarfe perfume, 
Difgrace the delicacy of a feafti Rofcommon. 
COARSELY, adv. Without finenefs; without refine¬ 
ment.—Meanly ; not elegantly.—John came neither eat¬ 
ing nor drinking, but fared coarfcly and poorly,.accoiding 
to the apparel he wore. Brown. —Rudely ; not civilly.— 
The good cannot be too much honoured, nor the bad too 
coarfely ufed. Dryden. —Inelegantly.—Be pleafed to accept 
the rudiments of Virgil’s poetry, coarfely trar.fkited, but 
which yet retains fome beauties of the author. Dryden. 
CO'ARSENESS, f Impurity; unrefined ilate.—Firft 
know the materials whereof the glafs is made; then con- 
fider what the reafon is of the coarfenefs or dearnels. Ba¬ 
con. —Roughnefs ; want of finenefs. Groflhefs; want of 
delicacy.—Friends (pardon the coarfenefs of the illuftra- 
tion) as dogs in couples, fliould be of the fame fize. L'E- 
Jlratige. —Roughnefs; rudenefs of manners: 
A bafe wild olive he remains; 
The flirub the coarfenefs of the clown retains. Garth. 
Meannefs; want of nicety.—Confider the penurioufnefs 
of the Hollanders, the coarfenefs of their food and rai¬ 
ment, and their little indulgences of pleafure. Addifon. 
COASI'NA, a town of the ifland of Corfica; five miles 
north of Cervione. 
COAST, / [_coJle, Fr. cofa, Lat.] The edge or margin 
of the land next the fea; the ihore. It is not ufed for 
the banks of lefs waters.—He fees in Englifh (hips the 
Holland coajl. Dryden. —It feems fo be taken by Newton 
for fide, like the French cojle. It was likewife fo ufed by 
Bacon.—The fouth-eaft is found to be better for ripening 
of trees than the fouth-weft; though the fouth-weff be 
the hotteft coajl. Bacon. —The fea-coaft of Great Britain, 
from the figure of the ifland, but chiefly from the inlets 
of the fea, and the very irregular indented line which 
forms its fliore, comprehends, allowing for thofe finuofi- 
ties, at leaft eight hundred marine leagues; we may, there¬ 
fore, with fafety affirm, that in this refpeCt it is luperior 
in extent to France, though that be a much larger coun¬ 
try; and equal to Spain and Portugal in this ci.rcum- 
ftance, though Britain is not half the fize of that noble 
peninfula, which is Angularly happy in its advantages of 
coaft.— The coajl is clear, a proverbial expreffion. The 
danger is over; the enemies have marched off': 
Going out, and feeing that the coajl was clear, 
Zelmane difmified Mufidonas. Sidney. 
The royal fpy, when now the coajl was clear. 
Sought net the garden, but retir’d unfeen. Dryden. 
To COAST} v, «, To fail clofe by the coaft; to fait 
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