<B>cobalt blue,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a dark-blue coloring matter made from cobalt, especially from an oxide, phosphate, or arsenate of cobalt. Cobalt blue is used in dyeing, paints, and staining glass. <DD><B> 2. </B>the dark-blue color of this pigment. </DL>
<A NAME="cobaltbomb">
<B>cobalt bomb,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a hydrogen bomb encased in a shell of cobalt instead of steel. It is an extremely dangerous atomic weapon because of the wide dispersal of radioactive cobalt dust. <BR> <I>Ex. The cobalt bomb is a fact, but it is a suicide weapon that will not be used to poison the earth and the living things upon it (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=cobalt 60 bomb.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cobaltgreen">
<B>cobalt green,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a bright-green coloring matter derived from zinc oxide and cobalt, used chiefly in paints. <DD><B> 2. </B>the bright-green color of this pigment. </DL>
<A NAME="cobaltic">
<B>cobaltic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of cobalt. <DD><B> 2. </B>containing cobalt, especially with a valence of 3. </DL>
<A NAME="cobaltiferous">
<B>cobaltiferous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> containing or yielding cobalt. </DL>
<A NAME="cobaltine">
<B>cobaltine, </B>noun. =cobaltite.</DL>
<A NAME="cobaltite">
<B>cobaltite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a silver-white, brilliant mineral containing cobalt, arsenic, and sulfur. It is an important ore of cobalt. </DL>
<A NAME="cobaltous">
<B>cobaltous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> containing cobalt, especially with a valence of 2. </DL>
<A NAME="cobaltyellow">
<B>cobalt yellow,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a bright-yellow coloring matter derived from a compound of potassium nitrite, acetic acid, and salt of cobalt, used in dyeing and paints. <DD><B> 2. </B>the bright-yellow color of this pigment. </DL>
<A NAME="cobb">
<B>cobb, </B>noun. <B>=cob</B> (2).</DL>
<A NAME="cobber">
<B>cobber, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Australian Slang.) a friend; mate; comrade. </DL>
<A NAME="cobble">
<B>cobble</B> (1), transitive verb, <B>-bled,</B> <B>-bling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to mend (shoes); repair; patch. <DD><B> 2. </B>to put together clumsily. </DL>
<A NAME="cobble">
<B>cobble</B> (2), noun, verb, <B>-bled,</B> <B>-bling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>=cobblestone.</B> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to pave with cobblestones. <BR><I>expr. <B>cobbles,</B> </I>coal in lumps about the size of small cobblestones. <BR> <I>Ex. Along the dock wharves yesterday I heard that in this nuclear age some of the local tugs have difficulty mustering enough stokers to keep the cobbles flowing into the furnaces (Cape Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cobble">
<B>cobble</B> (3), noun. =coble.</DL>
<A NAME="cobbler">
<B>cobbler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person whose work is mending shoes. <DD><B> 2. </B>a clumsy workman; botcher. <BR> <I>Ex. Thou cobbler, botching the socks of bombast oratory (Robert Burns).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S.) a fruit pie baked in a deep dish, usually with a crust only on top. <DD><B> 4. </B>an iced drink made of wine, fruit juice, sugar, and crushed ice. <BR> <I>Ex. This wonderful invention ... is called a cobbler. Sherry cobbler, when you name it long; cobbler when you name it short (Dickens).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cobbles">
<B>cobbles, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>cobble</B> (2). </DL>
<A NAME="cobblestone">
<B>cobblestone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a naturally rounded stone that was formerly much used in paving; cobble. Smaller stones of the same character are usually called <I>pebbles,</I> and larger ones <I>boulders.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cobblestoned">
<B>cobblestoned, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> paved with cobblestones. </DL>
<A NAME="cobbly">
<B>cobbly, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>shaped like a cobblestone. <DD><B> 2. </B>bumpy, as if paved with cobblestones. <BR> <I>Ex. a cobbly road.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cobby">
<B>cobby, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a cob (horse). <BR> <I>Ex. a team of short-tailed cobby chestnuts.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cobcoal">
<B>cob coal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> coal in round lumps. </DL>
<A NAME="cobelligerent">
<B>cobelligerent, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a nation or person that helps another in carrying on a war. <BR> <I>Ex. The securities jumped up to 22 when the U.S. and Russia were cobelligerents during World War II (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cobia">
<B>cobia, </B>noun. =sergeant fish.</DL>
<A NAME="coble">
<B>coble, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Scotland and in northern England) a type of flat-bottomed rowboat, used especially in fishing. Also, <B>cobble.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cobmeal">
<B>cob meal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a meal made from corn and corncobs ground up. <BR> <I>Ex. Cob meal is rapidly replacing corn meal as a mild abrasive in hand soaps. (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cobnosed">
<B>cob-nosed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) having a big, round nose. </DL>
<A NAME="cobnut">
<B>cobnut, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel. <DD><B> 2. </B>the tree it grows on. </DL>
<A NAME="cobol">
<B>COBOL</B> or <B>Cobol, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a computer language widely used in business and industry for programing data-processing machines. </DL>
<A NAME="cobold">
<B>cobold, </B>noun. =kobold.</DL>
<A NAME="cobra">
<B>cobra, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a very poisonous snake of southern Asia and Africa. It can make its head and neck look like a hood. The Indian cobra is common in India and adjacent countries, and the king cobra of southeastern Asia is the largest. <BR> <I>Ex. Dr. Oliver noted that the baby cobra was capable of inflicting a fatal bite. At birth, the young are equipped with venom sacs and fangs (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=mamba.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=asp </B>(of Egypt). </DL>
<A NAME="cobradecapello">
<B>cobra de capello, </B>pl. <B>cobras de capello.</B> <B>=Indian cobra;</B> spectacled snake.</DL>
<A NAME="cobraplant">
<B>cobra plant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a species of pitcher plant native to California. Most of the insects caught by this plant are killed. </DL>
<A NAME="cobweb">
<B>cobweb, </B>noun, adjective, verb, <B>-webbed,</B> <B>-webbing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>the web or net spun by a spider to capture its prey. <BR> <I>Ex. The fly was caught in a cobweb spun over a window in the barn.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the stuff it is made of. <DD><B> c. </B>a single thread spun by a spider. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) anything thin and slight or entangling like a spider's web. <BR> <I>Ex. The thief had to confess when he was caught in the cobweb of lies that he had spun.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) any musty accumulation or obstruction. <BR> <I>Ex. A course in profound thoughts underlying relativity and quantum mechanics [would] blow away some of the cobwebs which grow in unventilated ivory towers (Atlantic).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> thin; like gauze. <BR> <I>Ex. a cobweb veil. (Figurative.) A cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage (Edith Wharton).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to cover or hang with cobwebs. </DL>
<A NAME="cobwebbed">
<B>cobwebbed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>covered or hung with cobwebs. <DD><B> 2. </B>musty; stale. </DL>
<A NAME="cobwebbery">
<B>cobwebbery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ber-ies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the spinning of cobwebs. <DD><B> 2. </B>a texture of cobwebs. </DL>
<A NAME="cobwebby">
<B>cobwebby, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like a cobweb. <DD><B> 2. </B>covered with cobwebs. </DL>
<A NAME="cobwork">
<B>cobwork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> work consisting of logs laid horizontally with the ends joined so as to form a rectangular or other enclosure, such as in a log house. </DL>
<A NAME="coca">
<B>coca, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tropical shrub or small tree growing in South America and also in Java and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), whose dried leaves are used to make cocaine and other alkaloids. <DD><B> 2. </B>its dried leaves, often chewed by the natives for their stimulant properties. <BR> <I>Ex. The use of coca in Peru ... is said to have originated with the Incas (Lindley and Moore).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cocaine">
<B>cocaine</B> or <B>cocain, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a drug used to deaden pain and as a stimulant. It is a narcotic obtained from dried coca leaves. When used in excess, it can cause systemic poisoning. Cocaine is a bitter, crystalline alkaloid. </DL>
<A NAME="cocainehydrochloride">
<B>cocaine hydrochloride,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a colorless, crystalline powder, the usual form in which cocaine is used in medicine as a local anesthetic. </DL>
<A NAME="cocainism">
<B>cocainism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a physical and mental disorder produced by the excessive use of cocaine. </DL>
<A NAME="cocainize">
<B>cocainize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to treat with or affect by cocaine; anesthetize with cocaine. noun <B>cocainization.</B> </DL>
<B>cocci, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>coccus.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="coccid">
<B>coccid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a homopterous insect. <BR> <I>Ex. The scale insects and mealy bugs are coccids.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coccidia">
<B>coccidia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>coccidium.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="coccidial">
<B>coccidial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or caused by coccidia. <BR> <I>Ex. Coccidial infections of the intestine are particularly destructive to rabbits and birds (Hegner and Stiles).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coccidioidal">
<B>coccidioidal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the group of parasitic fungi that cause coccidioidomycosis. </DL>
<A NAME="coccidioidomycosis">
<B>coccidioidomycosis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fungous disease of the lungs, particularly affecting persons in dry, dusty areas, caused by inhaled spores; valley fever. </DL>
<A NAME="coccidiosis">
<B>coccidiosis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of several diseases caused by protozoan parasites in the intestines, rare in man but comparatively frequent in birds (especially in domestic poultry) and domestic animals. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=coccidioidomycosis.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="coccidiostat">
<B>coccidiostat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a substance that checks the spread of coccidia. <BR> <I>Ex. A new coccidiostat [is] designed to control the poultry disease coccidiosis (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coccidium">
<B>coccidium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ia.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of the group of protozoan parasites that cause coccidiosis. </DL>
