<B>coolant, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cooling substance, used to reduce heat in machinery. <BR> <I>Ex. Purified water under high pressure formed the primary coolant which extracted the heat from the thermal reactor (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cooler">
<B>cooler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>anything that cools. <DD><B> 2. </B>a container that cools foods or drinks, or keeps them cool. <DD><B> 3. </B>a cooling medicine or agent; refrigerant. <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a prison or jail. <BR> <I>Ex. "Well, Mister, into the cooler," the cop said (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<B>Coolidge tube,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tube for the generation of X rays by means of a cathode consisting of a spiral of tungsten heated to incandescence. </DL>
<A NAME="coolie">
<B>coolie, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lies,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an unskilled laborer in India or China. <BR> <I>Ex. In 1924 he was evicted and fled Peking disguised as a coolie (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a laborer who does hard work for very little pay. <DD><I>adj. </I> like that worn by a coolie. <BR> <I>Ex. a coolie hat or suit.</I> <DD> Also, <B>cooly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="coolingoff">
<B>cooling-off, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> arranged or decreed for the purpose of calming down the parties in a quarrel or dispute and preparing for reasonable negotiations. <BR> <I>Ex. A "cooling-off" clause specified that a 30-day no-strike period should follow (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a cooling-off interval or period. <BR> <I>Ex. Some international diplomatic initiative may produce a cooling-off (William Beecher).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coolingtower">
<B>cooling tower,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a structure in which waste steam or water from power plants is cooled for reuse. <BR> <I>Ex. The designer of a large cooling tower must ... know what the temperature of the water will be when it enters the tower and what temperature it should be when it leaves the tower (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coolish">
<B>coolish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> rather cool. </DL>
<A NAME="coolly">
<B>coolly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in a cool condition; with coolness. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) without emotion, excitement, or haste; calmly; collectedly. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) without fervor, enthusiasm, or friendly warmth; with an air of indifference. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) with calm and unabashed assurance. </DL>
<A NAME="coolness">
<B>coolness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the condition of being or feeling cool; cool quality or sensation. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) freedom from excitement; calmness. <BR> <I>Ex. Only [his] coolness and tact averted a conflict (John Richard Green).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) lack of fervor or enthusiasm; absence of warmth or cordiality. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) calm and unabashed assurance. </DL>
<A NAME="coolth">
<B>coolth, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being cool; coolness. <BR> <I>Ex. Other electronically active solids convert heat to electricity ... and still others change electricity to coolth (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cooly">
<B>cooly, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lies.</B> <B>=coolie.</B></DL>
<A NAME="coom">
<B>coom</B> (1), noun. <B>=combe.</B></DL>
<A NAME="coom">
<B>coom</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD><B> 1. </B>soot. <DD><B> 2. </B>grease from axles or bearings. </DL>
<A NAME="coomb">
<B>coomb, </B>noun. <B>=combe.</B></DL>
<A NAME="coon">
<B>coon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=raccoon.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of the Whig Party in the United States from 1838 to 1844, when the raccoon was the party emblem. <BR><I>expr. <B>coon's age,</B> </I>(U.S. Informal.) a long time. <BR> <I>Ex. We had not seen the amount of cash mentioned as lost, in a coon's age (J. J. Hooper).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coonbear">
<B>coon bear,</B> <B>=giant panda.</B></DL>
<A NAME="cooncan">
<B>cooncan, </B>noun. <B>=conquian.</B></DL>
<A NAME="coonhound">
<B>coonhound, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a dog especially good at hunting raccoons. </DL>
<A NAME="coonskin">
<B>coonskin, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the skin of a raccoon, used for making caps, coats, mittens, or boots. <BR> <I>Ex. Because of the paucity of coonskins, he's using Australian rabbit, skunk, and even silver fox (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> made of coonskin. <BR> <I>Ex. a coonskin coat.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coontie">
<B>coontie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various tropical American plants from whose roots and stems a starch called arrowroot is obtained. <DD><B> 2. </B>flour made from this starch. </DL>
<B>coop</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a small cage or pen for chickens, rabbits, and other small animals. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a narrow, confined place. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang, Figurative.) a prison. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to keep in a coop. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to confine, especially in a very small space; cage. <BR> <I>Ex. The children were cooped up indoors by the rain.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (U.S. Slang.) to sleep in a parked police car while on patrol duty. <BR> <I>Ex. Small wonder that there was "cooping," or sleeping on the job; there simply wasn't much work to be done at 4:00 A.M. (Harper's).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>fly the coop,</B> </I>(Slang.) to escape. <BR> <I>Ex. Jabez had hunted over the place ... as soon as he discovered that Barbie and me had flown the coop (R. A. Watson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coop">
<B>coop</B> (2) or <B>co-op, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a cooperative store, apartment house, or apartment. </DL>
<A NAME="coop">
<B>coop.</B> or <B>co-op.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>cooperation. <DD><B> 2. </B>cooperative (store, society, or apartment). </DL>
<A NAME="cooper">
<B>cooper, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a man who makes and repairs wooden containers, such as barrels, casks, tubs, and, sometimes, crates. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make or repair (barrels, casks, tubs, or crates). <DD><I>v.i. </I> to work as a cooper. </DL>
<A NAME="cooperage">
<B>cooperage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the work done by a cooper; business of a cooper. <DD><B> 2. </B>the price paid for a cooper's work. <DD><B> 3. </B>a shop where such work or business is done. </DL>
<A NAME="cooperant">
<B>cooperant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> working together; cooperating. <DD><I>noun </I> a cooperating agent. </DL>
<A NAME="cooperate">
<B>cooperate, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to work together; unite in producing a result. <BR> <I>Ex. The children cooperated with their teachers in keeping their classrooms neat.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to practice economic cooperation. </DL>
<A NAME="cooperation">
<B>cooperation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of working together; united effort or labor. <BR> <I>Ex. Cooperation can accomplish many things which no individual could do alone. But cooperation with others to achieve a common good is also strongly satisfying to personality (Ogburn and Nimkoff).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Economics.) the combination of persons for purposes of production, purchase, or distribution for their joint benefit. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Biology.) the mutually beneficial activity of organisms living together. </DL>
<A NAME="cooperationist">
<B>cooperationist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who practices or advocates cooperation. </DL>
<A NAME="cooperative">
<B>cooperative, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>wanting or willing to work with others. <BR> <I>Ex. Most of the pupils were helpful and cooperative.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with cooperation. <BR> <I>Ex. The process results from cooperative research by experts in four fields.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of or having to do with a store, apartment, or other property or organization in which profits and losses are shared by members. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B><B>=cooperative store.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a union of farmers for buying and selling their produce at the best price. <DD><B> 3. </B>an organization in which the profits and losses are shared by all members. <DD><B> 4a. </B>an apartment house owned and operated by the tenants. In a cooperative, apartments are sold to individual owners, who share the operating costs of the building. <DD><B> b. </B>an apartment in such a building. adv. <B>cooperatively.</B> noun <B>cooperativeness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cooperativebank">
<B>cooperative bank,</B> <B>=savings and loan association.</B></DL>
<A NAME="cooperativestore">
<B>cooperative store,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a store where merchandise is sold to members who share in the profits and losses according to the amounts they buy. </DL>
<A NAME="cooperator">
<B>cooperator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who cooperates. <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of a cooperative society. </DL>
<A NAME="cooperpair">
<B>Cooper pair,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pair of electrons with equal and opposite momentum and spin which, according to the BCS theory of super-conductivity, attract each other and combine through an interaction involving the lattice of positive ions. </DL>
<A NAME="coopershawk">
<B>Cooper's hawk,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an American hawk colored like the sharp-shinned hawk but larger. </DL>
<A NAME="coopt">
<B>co-opt, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to elect (a new member) into a body by joint action or by the votes of the existing members. <BR> <I>Ex. He was co-opted into the ... War College to give history lectures (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>to take over; secure for oneself; adopt. <BR> <I>Ex. What it means is that rock has been co-opted by high culture, forced to adopt its standards (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to commandeer. <BR> <I>Ex. Jack McNally co-opting the cars to carry the President's household staff to Arlington (Atlantic).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to choose or elect new members. <BR> <I>Ex. the establishment of area health boards having an elected membership with powers to co-opt (London Times).</I> </DL>
