First Names Rhyming COSTINE
English Words Rhyming COSTINE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES COSTƯNE AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH COSTƯNE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (ostine) - English Words That Ends with ostine:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (stine) - English Words That Ends with stine:
| amethystine | adjective (a.) Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet. |
| | adjective (a.) Composed of, or containing, amethyst. |
| asbestine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic. |
| augustine | noun (n.) Alt. of Augustinian |
| balaustine | noun (n.) The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally. |
| celestine | noun (n.) Alt. of Celestite |
| | noun (n.) Alt. of Celestinian |
| clandestine | adjective (a.) Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. |
| cystine | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine. |
| hydrastine | noun (n.) An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge. |
| intestine | adjective (a.) Internal; inward; -- opposed to external. |
| | adjective (a.) Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders, calamities, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective. |
| | adjective (a.) Shut up; inclosed. |
| | adjective (a.) That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. |
| | adjective (a.) The bowels; entrails; viscera. |
| laurestine | noun (n.) The Viburnum Tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter mouths. |
| mediastine | noun (n.) Alt. of Mediastinum |
| phalangistine | noun (n.) Same as Phalangist. |
| philistine | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine. |
| | noun (n.) A bailiff. |
| | noun (n.) A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement; one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Philistines. |
| | adjective (a.) Uncultured; commonplace. |
| polycystine | noun (n.) One of the Polycystina. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystina. |
| pristine | adjective (a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor. |
| sestine | noun (n.) See Sextain. |
| sistine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (tine) - English Words That Ends with tine:
| abietine | noun (n.) A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. |
| acolyctine | noun (n.) An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. |
| aconitine | noun (n.) An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite. |
| adamantine | adjective (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. |
| | adjective (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster. |
| agatine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, agate. |
| amanitine | noun (n.) The poisonous principle of some fungi. |
| anatine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike. |
| annotine | noun (n.) A bird one year old, or that has once molted. |
| argentine | noun (n.) A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure. |
| | noun (n.) White metal coated with silver. |
| | noun (n.) A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina. |
| | noun (n.) A citizen of the Argentine Republic. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America. |
| aventine | noun (n.) A post of security or defense. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood. |
| barbotine | noun (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief. |
| barkantine | noun (n.) Same as Barkentine. |
| barkentine | noun (n.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append. |
| benedictine | noun (n.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet. |
| bipontine | adjective (a.) Relating to books printed at Deuxponts, or Bipontium (Zweibrucken), in Bavaria. |
| bottine | noun (n.) A small boot; a lady's boot. |
| | noun (n.) An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. |
| brabantine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands. |
| brigantine | noun (n.) A practical vessel. |
| | noun (n.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail. |
| | noun (n.) See Brigandine. |
| buntine | noun (n.) A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals. |
| byzantine | noun (n.) A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant. |
| | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Byzantium. |
| brilliantine | noun (n.) An oily composition used to make the hair glossy. |
| | noun (n.) A dress fabric having a glossy finish on both sides, resembling alpaca but of superior quality. |
| cantine | noun (n.) See Canteen. |
| ceratine | adjective (a.) Sophistical. |
| cespitine | noun (n.) An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series. |
| chryselephantine | adjective (a.) Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory. |
| clementine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law. |
| cobaltine | noun (n.) Alt. of Cobaltite |
| colbertine | noun (n.) A kind of lace. |
| dentine | noun (n.) The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel. |
| dermatine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the skin. |
| diamantine | adjective (a.) Adamantine. |
| dietine | noun (n.) A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank. |
| diophantine | adjective (a.) Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra. |
| dracontine | adjective (a.) Belonging to a dragon. |
| dragantine | noun (n.) A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth. |
| eglantine | noun (n.) A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors. |
| | noun (n.) The sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa). |
| elephantine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. |
| emetine | noun (n.) A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle. |
| extine | noun (n.) The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants. |
| florentine | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of silk. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. |
| galantine | noun (n.) A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. |
| gelatine | noun (n.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Gelatin. |
| gigantine | adjective (a.) Gigantic. |
| guillotine | noun (n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim. |
| | noun (n.) Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine. |
| | verb (v. t.) To behead with the guillotine. |
| hatchettine | noun (n.) Alt. of Hatchettite |
| hellespontine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hellespont. |
| heptine | noun (n.) Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series. |
| hornotine | noun (n.) A yearling; a bird of the year. |
| infantine | adjective (a.) Infantile; childish. |
| intextine | noun (n.) A thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants, and situated between the extine and the intine, as in /nothera. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ine) - English Words That Ends with ine:
| acacine | noun (n.) Gum arabic. |
| acalycine | adjective (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous |
| acanthine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus. |
| acarine | adjective (a.) Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases. |
| acauline | adjective (a.) Same as Acaulescent. |
| accipitrine | adjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. |
| acervuline | adjective (a.) Resembling little heaps. |
| adulterine | noun (n.) An illegitimate child. |
| | adjective (a.) Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. |
| alabastrine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs. |
| alanine | noun (n.) A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia. |
| aldine | adjective (a.) An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works. |
| alexandrine | noun (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. |
| algerine | noun (n.) A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria. |
| alkaline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. |
| almandine | noun (n.) The common red variety of garnet. |
| almondine | noun (n.) See Almandine |
| alpestrine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Growing on the elevated parts of mountains, but not above the timbe/ line; subalpine. |
| alphonsine | adjective (a.) Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252-1284). |
| alpine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants. |
| | adjective (a.) Like the Alps; lofty. |
| altheine | noun (n.) Asparagine. |
| alumine | noun (n.) Alumina. |
| alvine | adjective (a.) Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions. |
| amandine | noun (n.) The vegetable casein of almonds. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc. |
| amaranthine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to amaranth. |
| | adjective (a.) Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. |
| | adjective (a.) Of a purplish color. |
| amarine | noun (n.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds. |
| amine | noun (n.) One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical. |
| amygdaline | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds. |
| andesine | noun (n.) A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes. |
| andine | adjective (a.) Andean; as, Andine flora. |
| angevine | noun (n.) A native of Anjou. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Anjou in France. |
| anguine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. |
| aniline | noun (n.) An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made. |
| | adjective (a.) Made from, or of the nature of, aniline. |
| animalculine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH COSTƯNE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (costin) - Words That Begins with costin:
| costing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cost |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (costi) - Words That Begins with costi:
| costiferous | adjective (a.) Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae. |
| costive | adjective (a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated. |
| | adjective (a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold. |
| | adjective (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding. |
| costiveness | noun (n.) An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation. |
| | noun (n.) Inability to express one's self; stiffness. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (cost) - Words That Begins with cost:
| cost | noun (n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast. |
| | noun (n.) See Cottise. |
| | verb (v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. |
| | verb (v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. |
| | verb (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit. |
| | verb (v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering. |
| | verb (v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Cost |
| costa | noun (n.) A rib of an animal or a human being. |
| | noun (n.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib. |
| | noun (n.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect. |
| | noun (n.) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals. |
| costage | noun (n.) Expense; cost. |
| costal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves. |
| | adjective (a.) Relating to a costa, or rib. |
| costard | noun (n.) An apple, large and round like the head. |
| | noun (n.) The head; -- used contemptuously. |
| costardmonger | noun (n.) A costermonger. |
| costate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Costated |
| costated | adjective (a.) Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs. |
| costeaning | noun (n.) The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits. |
| costellate | adjective (a.) Finely ribbed or costated. |
| coster | noun (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc. |
| costermonger | noun (n.) An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. |
| costless | adjective (a.) Costing nothing. |
| costlewe | adjective (a.) Costly. |
| costliness | noun (n.) The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness. |
| costly | adjective (a.) Of great cost; expensive; dear. |
| | adjective (a.) Gorgeous; sumptuous. |
| costmary | noun (n.) A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost. |
| costotome | noun (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. |
| costrel | noun (n.) A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side. |
| costume | noun (n.) Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. |
| | noun (n.) Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described. |
| | noun (n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes. |
| costumer | noun (n.) One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cos) - Words That Begins with cos:
| coscinomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of a suspended sieve. |
| coscoroba | noun (n.) A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan. |
| cosecant | noun (n.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. |
| cosenage | noun (n.) See Cozenage. |
| cosening | noun (n.) Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not. |
| cosentient | adjective (a.) Perceiving together. |
| cosey | adjective (a.) See Cozy. |
| cosherer | noun (n.) One who coshers. |
| coshering | noun (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house. |
| cosier | noun (n.) A tailor who botches his work. |
| cosignificative | adjective (a.) Having the same signification. |
| cosignitary | noun (n.) One who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of Berlin. |
| | adjective (a.) Signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers. |
| cosinage | noun (n.) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. |
| | noun (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. |
| cosine | noun (n.) The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. |
| cosmetic | noun (n.) Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion. |
| | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cosmetical |
| cosmetical | adjective (a.) Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation. |
| cosmic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cosmical |
| cosmical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone. |
| | adjective (a.) Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed. |
| | adjective (a.) Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal. |
| cosmogonal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cosmogonical |
| cosmogonic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cosmogonical |
| cosmogonical | adjective (a.) Belonging to cosmogony. |
| cosmogonist | noun (n.) One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony. |
| cosmogony | noun (n.) The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. |
| cosmographer | noun (n.) One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth. |
| cosmographic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cosmographical |
| cosmographical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cosmography. |
| cosmography | noun (n.) A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts. |
| cosmolabe | noun (n.) An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm. |
| cosmolatry | noun (n.) Worship paid to the world. |
| cosmoline | noun (n.) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly. |
| cosmological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cosmology. |
| cosmologist | noun (n.) One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology. |
| cosmology | noun (n.) The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature. |
| cosmometry | noun (n.) The art of measuring the world or the universe. |
| cosmoplastic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. |
| cosmopolitan | noun (n.) Alt. of Cosmopolite |
| | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cosmopolite |
| cosmopolite | noun (n.) One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. |
| | noun (a. & n.) See Cosmopolitan. |
| | adjective (a.) Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. |
| | adjective (a.) Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. |
| cosmopolitanism | noun (n.) The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism. |
| cosmopolitical | adjective (a.) Having the character of a cosmopolite. |
| cosmopolitism | noun (n.) The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices. |
| cosmorama | noun (n.) An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality. |
| cosmoramic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a cosmorama. |
| cosmos | noun (n.) The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it. |
| | noun (n.) The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens, usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays. They are natives of the warmer parts of America, and many species are cultivated. Cosmos bipinnatus and C. diversifolius are among the best-known species; C. caudatus, of the West Indies, is widely naturalized. |
| cosmosphere | noun (n.) An apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe. |
| cosmotheism | noun (n.) Same as Pantheism. |
| cosmothetic | adjective (a.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. |
| cosovereign | noun (n.) A joint sovereign. |
| coss | noun (n.) A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles. |
| | noun (n.) A thing (only in phrase below). |
| cossack | noun (n.) One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions. |
| cossas | noun (n.) Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH COSTƯNE:
English Words which starts with 'cos' and ends with 'ine':
English Words which starts with 'co' and ends with 'ne':
| cobblestone | noun (n.) A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes. |
| cobstone | noun (n.) Cobblestone. |
| cocagne | noun (n.) An imaginary country of idleness and luxury. |
| | noun (n.) The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs. |
| cocaine | noun (n.) A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain. |
| codeine | noun (n.) One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia. |
| coerulignone | noun (n.) A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret. |
| coigne | noun (n.) A quoin. |
| | noun (n.) Alt. of Coigny |
| colchicine | noun (n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia. |
| collidine | noun (n.) One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids. |
| colline | noun (n.) A small hill or mount. |
| cologne | noun (n.) A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne. |
| colophene | noun (n.) A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene. |
| colubrine | adjective (a.) like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber. |
| | adjective (a.) Like a snake; cunning; crafty. |
| columbine | noun (n.) A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America. |
| | noun (n.) The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. |
| comedienne | noun (n.) A women who plays in comedy. |
| commune | noun (n.) Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends. |
| | noun (n.) The commonalty; the common people. |
| | noun (n.) A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement. |
| | noun (n.) Absolute municipal self-government. |
| | verb (v. i.) To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel. |
| | verb (v. i.) To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper. |
| compline | noun (n.) Alt. of Complin |
| compone | adjective (a.) See Compony. |
| | adjective (a.) Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony. |
| | verb (v. t.) To compose; to settle; to arrange. |
| conchinine | noun (n.) See Quinidine. |
| concubine | noun (n.) A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour. |
| | noun (n.) A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father. |
| cone | noun (n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex. |
| | noun (n.) Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. |
| | noun (n.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base. |
| | noun (n.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. |
| | verb (v. t.) To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels. |
| coneine | noun (n.) See Conine. |
| confine | noun (n.) Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural. |
| | noun (n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison. |
| | verb (v. t.) To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with. |
| conhydrine | noun (n.) A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine. |
| coniine | noun (n.) See Conine. |
| conimene | noun (n.) Same as Olibene. |
| conine | noun (n.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2. |
| consigne | noun (n.) A countersign; a watchword. |
| | noun (n.) One who is orders to keep within certain limits. |
| contline | noun (n.) The space between the strands on the outside of a rope. |
| | noun (n.) The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side. |
| conylene | noun (n.) An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine. |
| conyrine | noun (n.) A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine. |
| copestone | noun (n.) A stone for coping. See Coping. |
| copplestone | noun (n.) A cobblestone. |
| coralline | noun (n.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches. |
| | noun (n.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals. |
| | adjective (a.) Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone. |
| coridine | noun (n.) A colorless or yellowish oil, C10H15N, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. |
| corinne | noun (n.) The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle. |
| corolline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a corolla. |
| corrovaline | noun (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart. |
| corticine | noun (n.) A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber. |
| corvine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike. |
| coryphene | noun (n.) A fish of the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. (2) |
| cotarnine | noun (n.) A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid. |
| cottolene | noun (n.) A product from cotton-seed, used as lard. |
| countermine | noun (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy. |
| | noun (n.) A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated. |
| | verb (v. t.) To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine. |
| | verb (v. t.) To frustrate or counteract by secret measures. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly. |
| counterpane | noun (n.) A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures. |
| | noun (n.) A duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc., corresponding with the original; -- now called counterpart. |
| covelline | noun (n.) Alt. of Covellite |
| cowbane | noun (n.) A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock. |
