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- English Word Cohort Definition A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.
- English Word Cohort Definition Any band or body of warriors.
- English Word Cohort Definition A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.
- English Word Cohosh Definition A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family.
- English Word Coif Definition A cap.
- English Word Coif Definition A close-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a small hood without a cape.
- English Word Coif Definition An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.
- English Word Coif Definition To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif.
- English Word Coifed Definition Wearing a coif.
- English Word Coiffure Definition A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.
- English Word Coigne Definition A quoin.
- English Word Coigne Definition Alt. of Coigny
- English Word Coigny Definition The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.
- English Word Coil Definition To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
- English Word Coil Definition To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
- English Word Coil Definition To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.
- English Word Coil Definition A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.
- English Word Coil Definition Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
- English Word Coil Definition A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.
- English Word Coil Definition A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.