Chapter 86

In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.

The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. R. Owen.

Cos`mo*pol"i*tan*ism (k?z`m?-p?l"?-tan-?z'm), n. The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

Cos*mop"o*lite (-m?p"?-l?t), a. & n. See Cosmopolitan.

Cos`mo*po*lit"ic*al (k?z`m?-p?-l?t"?-kal), a. Having the character of a cosmopolite. [R.] Hackluyt.

Cos*mop"o*li*tism (k?z-m?p"?-l?-t?z'm), n. The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.

Cos`mo*ra"ma (k?z`m?-r?"m? or -r?"m?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ko`smos the world + &?;&?;&?; a sight, spectacle, fr. &?;&?;&?; to see.] 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.

Cos`mo*ram"ic (k&obreve;z`m&osl;*răm"&ibreve;k), a. Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.

||Cos"mos (k&obreve;z"m&obreve;s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ko`smos order, harmony, the world (from its perfect order and arrangement); akin to Skr. šad to distinguish one's self.]

1. The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.

2. The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony. Humboldt.

Cos"mo*sphere (k&obreve;z"m?-sf?r), n. [Gr. ko`smos the world + E. sphere.] 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.

Cos"mo*the`ism (k?z"m?-th?`?z'm), n. [Gr. ko`smos the world + &?;&?;&?; god.] Same as Pantheism. [R.]

Cos`mo*thet"ic (k?z`m?-th?t"?k), a. [Gr. ko`smos universe + &?;&?;&?; to place or arrange.] (Metaph.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.

Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance.

The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter. Sir W. Hamilton.

Co*sov"er*eign (k?-s?v"?r-?n or k?-s?v"-), n. A joint sovereign.

Coss (k&obreve;s), n. [Cf. Pers. kōs a road measure of about two miles; or Skr. krōša.] A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles. Whitworth.

Coss, n. [It. cosa.] A thing (only in phrase below).

Rule of Coss, an old name for Algebra. [It. regola di cosa rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the cosa, or the thing.]

Cos"sack (k?s"s?k), n. [Russ. kozak', kazak': cf. Turk. kazāk.] 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.

Cos"sas (k?s"s?s), n. [F.] Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.

Cos"set (k?s"s?t), n. [Cf. AS. cotsetla cottager, G. kossat, kothsasse, fr. kot, koth E. (cot) hut, and cf. also E. cade, a., cot a cade lamb.] A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

Cos"set, v. t. To treat as a pet; to fondle.

She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. O. W. Holmes.

{ Cos"sic (k?s"s?k), Cos"sic*al (-s?- kal), } a. [It. cossico. See 2d Coss.] Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art. [Obs.] "Art of numbers cossical." Digges (1579).

Cost (k?st; 115), n. [L. costa rib. See Coast.] 1. A rib; a side; a region or coast. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Betwixt the costs of a ship. B. Jonson.

2. (Her.) See Cottise.

Cost (k&obreve;st; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cost; p. pr. & vb. n. Costing.] [OF. coster, couster, F. coűter, fr. L. constare to stand at, to cost; con- + stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constant.] 1. 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.

A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak.

Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.

2. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe. Milton.

To cost dear, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.

Cost, n. [OF. cost, F. coűt. See Cost, v. t. ] 1. 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.

One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. Shak.

At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. Prescott.

2. Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

I know thy trains, Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils. Milton.

3. pl. (Law) Expenses incurred in litigation.

&fist; Costs in actions or suits are either between attorney and client, being what are payable in every case to the attorney or counsel by his client whether he ultimately succeed or not, or between party and party, being those which the law gives, or the court in its discretion decrees, to the prevailing, against the losing, party.

Bill of costs. See under Bill. -- Cost free, without outlay or expense. "Her duties being to talk French, and her privileges to live cost free and to gather scraps of knowledge." Thackeray.

||Cos"ta (k&obreve;s"t&adot;), n. [L., rib. See Coast.] 1. (Anat.) A rib of an animal or a human being.

2. (Bot.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.

3. (Zo÷l.) (a) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect. (b) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.

Cost"age (k?st"?j; 115), n. [OF. coustage.] Expense; cost. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Cos"tal (k?s"tal), a. [Cf. F. costal. See Costa.]

1. (Anat.) Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.

2. (Bot. & Zo÷l.) Relating to a costa, or rib.

Costal cartilage. See Cartilage, and Illust. of Thorax.

Cos"tal-nerved` (k?s"tal-n?rvd`), a. (Bot.) Having the nerves spring from the midrib.

Cos"tard (k?s"t?rd), n. [Prob. fr. OF. coste rib, side, F. c˘te, and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its sides. See Coast.] 1. An apple, large and round like the head.

Some [apples] consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett.

2. The head; -- used contemptuously.

Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder. Shak.

Cos"tard*mon`ger (-m?n`g?r), n. A costermonger.

{ Cos"tate (k?s"t?t), Cos"ta*ted (-t?-t?d), } a. [L. costatus, fr. costa rib.] Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.

Cos"tean` (k?s"t?n`), v. i. [Cornish cothas dropped + stean tin.] To search after lodes. See Costeaning.

Cos"tean`ing, 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.

Cos*tel"late (k?s-t?l"l?t), a. [L. costa rib.] Finely ribbed or costated.

Cos"ter (k?s"t?r), n.[Abbrev. of costermonger.] One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

Cos"ter*mon`ger (k?s"t?r-m?n`g?r), n. [See Costard.] An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. [Written also costardmonger.]

Cos*tif"er*ous (k?s-t?f"?r-?s), a. [Costa + -ferous.] (Anat.) Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrŠ.

Cos"tive (k?s"t?v), a. [OF. costevÚ, p. p. of costever, F. constiper, L. constipare to press closely together, to cram; con- + stipare to press together, cram. See Stipulate, Stiff, and cf. Constipate.] 1. Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

2. Reserved; formal; close; cold. [Obs.] "A costive brain." Prior. "Costive of laughter." B. Jonson.

You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being costive. Lord Chesterfield.

3. Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding. [Obs.]

Clay in dry seasons is costive, hardening with the sun and wind. Mortimer.

Cos"tive*ly, adv. In a costive manner.

Cos"tive*ness, n. 1. An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

2. Inability to express one's self; stiffness. [Obs.]

A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself. Wakefield.

Cost"less (k?st"l?s; 115), a. Costing nothing.

Cost"lewe (-l?), a. Costly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Cost"li*ness (-l?-n?s), n. The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.

Cost"ly (k?st"l?; 115), a. [From Cost expense.]

1. Of great cost; expensive; dear.

He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess. Prescott.

2. Gorgeous; sumptuous. [Poetic.]

To show how costly summer was at hand. Shak.

Cost"ma*ry (k?st"m?-r?), n. [L. costum an Oriental aromatic plant (Gr. &?;&?;&?;, cf. Ar. kost, kust) + Maria Mary. Cf. Alecost.] (Bot.) 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.

Cos"to*tome (k?s"t?-t?m), n. [Costa + Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; to cut.] An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.

Cos"trel (k?s"tr?l), n. [CF. W. costrel, OF. costrel, LL. costrellum, a liquid measure, costrellus a wine cup.] A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side. [Archaic]

A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine. Tennyson.

Cos"tume` (k?s"t?m` or k?s-t?m"), n. [F. costume, It. costume custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen (not found), for consuetudo custom. See Custom, and cf. Consuetude.] 1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.

2. 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.

I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.

3. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

Cos"tum`er (-t?m`?r), n. One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.

Co-suf"fer*er (k?-s?f"f?r-?r), n. One who suffers with another. Wycherley.

Co`su*preme" (k?`s?-pr?m"), n. A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.

Co*sure"ty (k?-sh?r"t?; 136), n.; pl. Cosureties (-t&?;z). One who is surety with another.

Co"sy (k?"z?), a. See Cozy.

Cot (k?t), 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.

The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm. Goldsmith.

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

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.

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

Bell cot. (Arch.) See under Bell.

Cot (k?t), 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.]

Co*tan"gent (k?-t?n"jent), n. [For co. tangens, an abbrev. of L. complementi tangens. See Tangent.] (Trig.) The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

Co*tar"nine (k?-t?r"n?n or -n?n), n. [F., fr. narcotine, by transposition of letters.] (Chem.) 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.

Cote (kōt), n. [See 1st Cot.] 1. A cottage or hut. [Obs.]

2. A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves.

Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, In hurdled cotes. Milton.

Cote, v. t. [Prob. from F. c˘tÚ side, OF. costet, LL. costatus, costatum, fr. L. costu rib, side: cf. F. c˘toyer to go or keep at the side of. See Coast.] To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare. [Obs.] Drayton.

We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming. Shak.

Cote, v. t. [See Quote.] To quote. [Obs.] Udall.

Co*tem`po*ra"ne*ous (k?-t?m`p?-r?"n?-?s), a. [See Contemporaneous.] Living or being at the same time; contemporaneous. -- Co*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Co*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.

Co*tem"po*ra*ry (k?-t?m"p?-r?-r?), a. Living or being at the same time; contemporary.

Co*tem"po*ra*ry, n.; pl. Cotemporaries (-r&ibreve;z). One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.

Co*ten"ant (k?-t?n"ant), n. A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.

||Co`te*rie" (k?`te-r?"; 277), n. [F., prob. from OF. coterie servile tenure, fr. colier cotter; of German origin. See 1st Cot.] A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique. "The queen of your coterie." Thackeray.

Co*ter"mi*nous (k?-t?r"m?-n?s), a. [Cf. Conterminous.] Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.

Cot"gare` (k?t"g?r`), n. Refuse wool. [Obs. or Prov.]

Co"thurn (k?"th?rn), n. [L. cothurnus, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;. Cf. Cothurnus.] A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general.

The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might be assumed with effect. Motley.

{ Co*thur"nate (k?-th?r"n?t), Co*thur"na*ted (-n?-t?d), } a. 1. Wearing a cothurn.

2. Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.

||Co*thur"nus (-n?s), n. [L.] Same as Cothurn.

Co*tic"u*lar (k?-t?k"?-l?r), a. [L. coticula a small touchstone, dim. cos, cotis, whetstone.] Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.

Co*tid"al (k?-t?d"al), a. Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.

Cotidal lines (Phys. Geog.), lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.

{ ||Co`til`lon" (k&osl;`t&esl;`y˘N" or k&osl;`t&esl;l`-; 277), Co*til"lion (k&osl;*t&ibreve;l"yŭn), } n. [F. cotillon, fr. OF. cote coat, LL. cotta tunic. See Coat.] 1. A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

2. A tune which regulates the dance.

3. A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.

||Co*tin"ga (k&osl;*t&esl;&nsm;"g&adot;), n. [Native South American name.] (Zo÷l.) A bird of the family CotingidŠ, including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.

Cot"ise (k&obreve;t"&ibreve;s), n. (Her.) See Cottise.

Cot"ised (-?st), a. (Her.) See Cottised.

Cot"land (k?t"l?nd), n. Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.

Cot"quean` (k?t"kw?n`), n. [Cot a cottage + quean.]

1. A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women. Addison.

2. A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy. [Obs.]

What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face? We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures. B. Jonson.

Cot*quean"i*ty (k?t-kw?n"?-t?), n. The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Co`trus*tee" (k?`tr?s-t?"), n. A joint trustee.

Cots"wold` (k?ts"w?ld`), n. [Cot a cottage or hut + wold an open country.] An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.

Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.

Cot"tage (k?t"t?j; 48), n. [From Cot a cottage.] A small house; a cot; a hut.

&fist; The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size.

Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [Eng.] -- Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.

Cot"taged (-t?jd), a. Set or covered with cottages.

Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.

Cot"tage*ly (-t?j-l?), a. Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Cot"ta*ger (k?t"t?-j?r), n. 1. One who lives in a cottage.

2. (Law) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.

{ Cot"ter, Cot"tar } (k?t"t?r), n. [LL. cotarius, cottarius, coterius. See Cot.] A cottager; a cottier. Burns.

Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier.

Cot"ter (k&obreve;t"t&etilde;r), n. 1. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge- shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.

2. A toggle.

Cot"ter, v. t. To fasten with a cotter.

Cot"ti*er (-t&ibreve;*&etilde;r), n. [OF. cotier. See Coterie, and cf. Cotter.] In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]

Cot"tise (k&obreve;t"t&ibreve;s), n. [Cf. F. c&ocit;tÚ side, L. costa rib.] (Her.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.

Cot"tised (-t?st), a. (Her.) Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.

Cot"toid (k?t"toid), a. [NL. cottus sculpin + -oid.] (Zo÷l.) Like a fish of the genus Cottus. -- n. A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.

Cot"to*lene` (k&obreve;t"t&osl;*lēn`), n. A product from cotton-seed, used as lard.

Cot"ton (k&obreve;t"t'n), n. [F. coton, Sp. algodon the cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. Acton, Hacqueton.] 1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

2. The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

3. Cloth made of cotton.

&fist; Cotton is used as an adjective before many nouns in a sense which commonly needs no explanation; as, cotton bagging; cotton cloth; cotton goods; cotton industry; cotton mill; cotton spinning; cotton tick.

Cotton cambric. See Cambric, n., 2. -- Cotton flannel, the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it is called swan's-down cotton, or Canton flannel. -- Cotton gin, a machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by Eli Whitney. -- Cotton grass (Bot.), a genus of plants (Eriphorum) of the Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles surrounding the fruit (seedlike achenia), which elongate at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton. -- Cotton mouse (Zool.), a field mouse (Hesperomys gossypinus), injurious to cotton crops. - - Cotton plant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce. The common species, originally Asiatic, is G. herbaceum. -- Cotton press, a building and machinery in which cotton bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment; a press for baling cotton. -- Cotton rose (Bot.), a genus of composite herbs (Filago), covered with a white substance resembling cotton. -- Cotton scale (Zo÷l.), a species of bark louse (Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to the cotton plant. -- Cotton shrub. Same as Cotton plant. -- Cotton stainer (Zo÷l.), a species of hemipterous insect (Dysdercus suturellus), which seriously damages growing cotton by staining it; -- called also redbug. -- Cotton thistle (Bot.), the Scotch thistle. See under Thistle. -- Cotton velvet, velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk; also, velvet made wholly of cotton. -- Cotton waste, the refuse of cotton mills. -- Cotton wool, cotton in its raw or woolly state. -- Cotton worm (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect (Aletia argillacea), which in the larval state does great damage to the cotton plant by eating the leaves. It also feeds on corn, etc., and hence is often called corn worm, and Southern army worm.

Cot"ton, v. i. 1. To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. [Obs.]

It cottons well; it can not choose but bear A pretty nap. Family of Love.

2. To go on prosperously; to succeed. [Obs.]

New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would? Lyly.

3. To unite; to agree; to make friends; - - usually followed by with. [Colloq.]

A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another. Swift.

Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion? Sir W. Scott.

4. To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to. [Slang]

Cot"ton*ade` (k?t"t'n-?d`), n. [F. cottonade.] A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.

Cot"ton*a*ry (-?-r?), a. Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. [Obs.]

Cottonary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.

Cot"ton*ous (-?s), a. Resembling cotton. [R.] Evelyn.

Cot"ton*tail` (k&obreve;t"t'n*tāl`), n. (Zo÷l.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

Cot"ton*weed` (-wēd`), n. (Bot.) See Cudweed.

Cot"ton*wood` (-w&oocr;d`), n. (Bot.) An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

Cot"ton*y (-?), a. 1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.

Cot"trel (k?t"tr?l), n. A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire. Knight.

{ Cot"y*la (k?t"?-l?), Cot"y*le (k?t"?-l?), } n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; anything hollow, cup of a joint, small meassure: cf. L. cotyla a measure.] (Anat.) A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.

Cot`y*le"don (k?t`?-l?"d?n), n. [Gr.&?;&?;&?; a cupshaped hollow, fr. &?;&?;&?;. See Cotyle.] 1. (Anat.) One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.

2. (Bot.) A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

&fist; Many plants, as the bean and the maple, have two cotyledons, the grasses only one, and pines have several. In one African plant (Welwitschia) the cotyledons are permanent and grow to immense proportions.

Cot`y*led"on*al (k?t`?-l?d"?n-a]/>l), a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.

Cot`y*led"on*a*ry (-?-r?), a. Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.

Cot`y*led"on*ous (-?s; 277), a. Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.

Co*tyl"i*form (k?-t?l"?-f?rm), a. [Cotyle + -form.] (Zo÷l.) Shaped like a cotyle or a cup.