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COCKLOFT, k6k'l6ft, s. The room over thegarret.
COCKMASTER, klk'mls-tur, s. One thatbreeds game cocks.
COCKMATCH, klk'matsh, s. Cockfight for
a prize.
COCKNEY , kiik'ne, s. 270. A native ofLondon ; any effeminate, low citizen.
COCKPIT , kAk'pft, s. The area where cocksfight; a place on the lower deck of a man ofwar.
COCK’S-COMB, kAks'kAme, $. A plant,
Jousewort.
COCK’S-HEAD, kiiks'hld, s. A plant, sain-foin.
COCKSPUR, kilk'spur, s, Virginian haw-thorn. A species of medlar.
COCKSURE, kAk-shASr', a. Confidently cer-tain.
COCKSWAIN, kAk'sn, s. The officer thathas the command of the cock-boat. Corrupt-ly Coaw.—See Jlofltsieain.
COCK WEEP, kAkSvced, s. A plant, dit-tander or pepperwort.
COCOA, U'kA,s. A species of palm-tree.
COC-TILE , kiik'dl, a. 140. Made by baking.
COCTION, kok'shun, *. The act of boiling.
COD, kiid, ) .
CODFISH, kdd'flsh, 1 *• A sea f
COD, kid, Any case or husk in which
seeds are lodged.
To COD, kdd, v. a. To enclose in a cod.CODE, kude, s. A hook ; a book of the civil
law.
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CODILLF., ko-dil's. A term at ombre andquadrille.
To CODLE, kid'dl, u. 405. To parboil.
w. How Dr. Johnion could be guilty of so gross anoversight as to spell this word and its compounds withone d Is inconceivable. By the general rule of Eng lish pronunciation, as the word stands here, it ought(o be pronounced with the o long, the first syllablerhyming with go, no, and .90. false and absurd, how-ever, as this spelling is, the veneration I have for Dr.Johnson’s authority forbids me to alter it in this Dic-tionary, though I shall never follow it in practice.Perhaps the same veneration induced Mr. Sheridan tolet this word stand as he found it in Johnson. Dr.Kenrick has ventured to insert another d in the verb ;but in the substantive, derived from the present par-ticiple Codling, lets it stand with one d . Some willbe apt to think that when rf ends a syllable, and aconsonant follows the d, which begins another, thatthe business is done, and that the quantity of the vowelis sufficiently secured: but this is s» mistake; for un-Jess we previously understand the simple, the 0 in thecompound, by the general rule, roust be long. Mowthe first principle of orthography is. that, it possible,the letters should of themselves point out the sound ofthe word, without the necessity of recurring to ely.mology to find out the sound of the letters ; and Hutwe should never have recourse to etymology but wherefixing the sound would unsettle the sense. Thus Cod-ling, a kind of apple, ought to be written with doubled , both because it determines the sound of the 0, andshows its derivation from the verb To Coddle. AndCodling, a small codfish, ought to have but one d, be-cause putting two, in order to fix the sound of 0 ,wouldconiound it with another word. To write Saddler,therefore, with one d, as wc frequently see it on shops,is an error against the first principles of spelling; as,without necessity,it obliges us to understand the deri-vation of the word before we aie sure of ils sound.The word Stubling and Stabler, for stable-keeper, in
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Scotland , with the word Fabled in Milton, all presenttheir true sound to the eye without knowing theirprimitives; and this essential rule lias generated thedouble consonant in the participles and verbal nouns,beginning, regretted, cennplotter , Arc. But this rule,rational and useful as It is, is a thousand limes violatedby an affectation of a knowledge of the learned Ianguages, and an ignorant prejudice against clusters ofconsonants, us they are called. Thus couple, trouble,double, treble, and triple, have single consonants, be-came their originals in I.atin and French have nomore, though double consonants would fix the soundof the preceding vowels, an<l be merely double tothe eye.
CODLING, kid'llng,s. An apple generally
codied ; a small codfish.
COEFFICACY, ki-effe-k-t-si, s.The powerof several tilings acting together.COEFFICIENCY, kA-4f-'fish'4n-se, s. Co-operation, the state of acting together to somesingle end.
COEFFICIENT, ko-£f-fish^»t, s. Thatwhich unites its action with the action of an-other.—See Ffface.
COEMPTION, ko-em'shun,s.412.The act ofbuying up the whole quantity of any thing.COEQUAL, ko-c'qu&l, a. Equal.COEQUALITY, liA-e-quAl'e-tA, s. The stateof being equal.
To COERCE, kA-£rse', v. a . To restrain, tokeep in order by force.
COERCIBLE, kA-er'se-bl, a. That may berestrained ; that might to he restrained.COERCION, ko-er'shun, s. Penal restraint,check.
COERCIVE , kA-2r'slv,a.That which lias thepower of laying restraint; that which has theauthority of restraining by punishment.
COESSENTIAL, kA-es-sen'shill, rt. Partici-pating of the same essence.COESSENTIALITY, ko-es-sAn-slie-al'c-te,s. Participation of the same essence.COETANEOUS, kA-e-lA'nc-us, a. Of thesame age with another.
COETERNAL, kA-A-t4r'nill,a. Equally eter-nal with another.
COETERNALLY, kA-A-tAr'nAl-le, ad. In astate of equal eternity whli another.COETERNITY, kA-e-ter'ne-te, s. Havingexistence from eternity equal with anothereternal being.
COEVAL, kA-e'v&l, «. Of the same age.COEVAL, kA-e'v&I, s. A contemporary.COEVOUS, ko-e'vus, a. Of the same age.To COEXIST, kA-Ag-zist', v. w. 478. At thesame time with another.
COEXISTENCE, kA-eg-zIs'tense, s . Exist-ence at the same time with another.COEXISTENT, kA-eg-zls'tAnt, a. Havingexistence at the same time with another.
To COEXTEND, kA-uks-tend',«. a. 477. Toextend to the same space or duration with an-other.
COEXTENSION, ko-Ak-sten'sliun, s. Timstate of extending to the same space with an-other.
COFFEE, kAf'fe, s. The cofice-tree; theberries of the coffee-tree ; a drink made by theinfusion of those berries in hot water.COFFEE-HOUSE, kAf'fe-huusc,s. A housewhere collcc is solrl.
COFFEE-MAN, kifTennln, s. 88. One that
keeps a coffee-house.
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