n. [ F. cachalot. ] (Zoöl.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. cacher to hide + pot a pot. ] An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Written also cainca root. ] [ See Cahincic. ] (Bot.) The root of an American shrub (Chiococca racemosa), found as far north as Florida Keys, from which cahincic acid is obtained; also, the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga, a celebrated antidote for snake poison. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Perhaps fr. f. cohorte a company or band. ] Partnership; league; as, to go in cahoot (or in cahoots) with a person. Usually used in the plural, and in modern usage often used to imply that the joint effort is unethical, shady, questionable, or illegal; as, a shill in cahoots with a pickpocket, to serve as a distraction. [ Slang, southwestern U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ F. calotte, dim. of cale a sort of flat cap. Cf. Caul. ] A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: (a) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. (b) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

To assume the calotte, to become a priest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Camelet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. The legendary site of King Arthur's court and castle. [ PJC ]

2. Hence, any place or time thought of as having idyllic peace, justice, and happiness. [ PJC ]

a. [ Cf. F. candiote. ] Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Photom.) The illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot; -- used as a unit of illumination. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

[ Can to be able + -not. ] Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Capotted. ] To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Carl. ] A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Alchemy) The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carotte, fr. L. carota; cf. Gr. &unr_; ] 1. (Bot.) An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mil.) A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States a case shot is a thin spherical or oblong cast-iron shell containing musket balls and a bursting charge, with a time fuse; -- called in Europe shrapnel. In Europe the term case shot is applied to what in the United States is called canister. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. Chariot, from char car. See Car. ] 1. (Antiq.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Charioted; p. pr. & vb. n. Charioting. ] To convey in a chariot. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ From the French inventor, A. A. Chassepot. ] (Mil.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Tamil shāya. ] The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. [ Written also choy root. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Tamil shuru&tsdot_;&tsdot_;u, prop., a roll. ] A kind of cigar, originally brought from Manila, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A woolen fabric, for men's clothing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a handsome tree of central and eastern North America (Gymnocladus dioica) having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
Syn. -- Kentucky coffee tree, bonduc, Gymnocladus dioica. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

See Chay root. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. dial. kleuzen to split. ] (Scot. & Dial. Eng.) 1. One of the divisions of a cleft hoof, as in the ox; also, the whole hoof. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The Devil; Clootie; -- usually in the pl. Burns. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Clotting. ] To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a clot or clod. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form into, or cover with, clots; to cause to coagulate; to make into a slimy mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. clot, clodde, clod; akin to D. kloot ball, G. kloss clod, dumpling, klotz block, Dan. klods, Sw. klot bowl, globe, klots block; cf. AS. clāte bur. Cf. Clod, n., Clutter to clot. ] A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. “Clots of pory gore.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word, and are so used by early writers; but in present use clod is applied to a mass of earth or the like, and clot to a concretion or coagulation of soft matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a hairy Eurasian plant (Geum urbanum) with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally.
Syn. -- herb bennet, wood avens, Geum urbanum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Club + foot. ] (Med.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes. [ 1913 Webster ]

In hair dressing, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a tall pot in which coffee is brewed, especially one in which the heating of the water is accomplished by electricity.
Syn. -- coffeepot, coffee pot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and Aletris aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Butterbur coltsfoot (Bot.), a European plant (Petasites vulgaris). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. compatriote, LL. compatriotus; com- + patriota a native. See Patriot, and cf. Copatriot. ] One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism. [ 1913 Webster ]

She [ Britain ] rears to freedom an undaunted race,
Compatriot, zealous, hospitable, kind. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. complot, prob. for comploit, fr.L. complicitum, prop. p. p. of complicare, but equiv. to complicatio complication, entangling. See Complicate, and cf. Plot. ] A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know their complot is to have my life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Complotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Complotting. ] [ Cf. F. comploter, fr. complot. ] To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design. [ 1913 Webster ]

We find them complotting together, and contriving a new scene of miseries to the Trojans. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. koet, W. cwtair; cwta short, bodtailed + iar hen; cf. cwtau to dock. Cf. Cut. ] 1. (Zool.) (a) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica. The common European or bald coot is Fulica atra (see under bald); the American is Fulica Americana. (b) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (Œdemia are called coots. See Scoter. “As simple as a coot.” Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A joint patriot. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. (Bot.) The wild poppy, or red corn rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a European bittercress (Dentaria bulbifera) having a knotted white rootstock.
Syn. -- coral-root bittercress, coralwort, Cardamine bulbifera, Dentaria bulbifera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an annual herb (Saussurea costus) of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs.
Syn. -- Saussurea costus, Saussurea lappa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. cot, cote, AS. cot, cote, cottage; akin to D. & Icel. kot, G. koth, kot, kothe. Cf. Coat. ] 1. A small house; a cottage or hut. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger. See also finger cot. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Cf. Ir. cot. ] A small, rudely-formed boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bell cot. (Arch.) See under Bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cot cottage, bedchamber; or cf. OF. coite, F. couette (E. quilt), LL. cottum, cottus, mattress. See Cot a cottage. ] A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed. [ Written also cott. ] [ 1913 Webster ]