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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>COONTIE</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="coontie"> coontie, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any one of various tropical American plants from whose roots and stems a starch called arrowroot is obtained. <DD> 2. flour made from this starch. </DL> <A NAME="coony"> coony, adjective, coonier, cooniest.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) wary and clever; shrewd. </DL> <A NAME="coop"> coop (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a small cage or pen for chickens, rabbits, and other small animals. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) a narrow, confined place. <DD> 3. (Slang, Figurative.) a prison. <DD>v.t. 1. to keep in a coop. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) to confine, especially in a very small space; cage. Ex. The children were cooped up indoors by the rain. <DD>v.i. (U.S. Slang.) to sleep in a parked police car while on patrol duty. 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). expr. fly the coop, (Slang.) to escape. Ex. Jabez had hunted over the place ... as soon as he discovered that Barbie and me had flown the coop (R. A. Watson). </DL> <A NAME="coop"> coop (2) or co-op, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a cooperative store, apartment house, or apartment. </DL> <A NAME="coop"> coop. or co-op.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. cooperation. <DD> 2. cooperative (store, society, or apartment). </DL> <A NAME="cooper"> cooper, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a man who makes and repairs wooden containers, such as barrels, casks, tubs, and, sometimes, crates. <DD>v.t. to make or repair (barrels, casks, tubs, or crates). <DD>v.i. to work as a cooper. </DL> <A NAME="cooperage"> cooperage, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the work done by a cooper; business of a cooper. <DD> 2. the price paid for a cooper's work. <DD> 3. a shop where such work or business is done. </DL> <A NAME="cooperant"> cooperant, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. working together; cooperating. <DD>noun a cooperating agent. </DL> <A NAME="cooperate"> cooperate, intransitive verb, -ated, -ating.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to work together; unite in producing a result. Ex. The children cooperated with their teachers in keeping their classrooms neat. <DD> 2. to practice economic cooperation. </DL> <A NAME="cooperation"> cooperation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of working together; united effort or labor. 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). <DD> 2. (Economics.) the combination of persons for purposes of production, purchase, or distribution for their joint benefit. <DD> 3. (Biology.) the mutually beneficial activity of organisms living together. </DL> <A NAME="cooperationist"> cooperationist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who practices or advocates cooperation. </DL> <A NAME="cooperative"> cooperative, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. wanting or willing to work with others. Ex. Most of the pupils were helpful and cooperative. <DD> 2. of or having to do with cooperation. Ex. The process results from cooperative research by experts in four fields. <DD> 3. of or having to do with a store, apartment, or other property or organization in which profits and losses are shared by members. <DD>noun 1. =cooperative store. <DD> 2. a union of farmers for buying and selling their produce at the best price. <DD> 3. an organization in which the profits and losses are shared by all members. <DD> 4a. 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. an apartment in such a building. adv. cooperatively. noun cooperativeness. </DL> <A NAME="cooperativebank"> cooperative bank, =savings and loan association.</DL> <A NAME="cooperativestore"> cooperative store,<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"> cooperator, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who cooperates. <DD> 2. a member of a cooperative society. </DL> <A NAME="cooperpair"> Cooper pair,<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"> Cooper's hawk,<DL COMPACT><DD> an American hawk colored like the sharp-shinned hawk but larger. </DL> <A NAME="coopt"> co-opt, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to elect (a new member) into a body by joint action or by the votes of the existing members. Ex. He was co-opted into the ... War College to give history lectures (New York Times). <DD> 2a. to take over; secure for oneself; adopt. Ex. What it means is that rock has been co-opted by high culture, forced to adopt its standards (New Yorker). <DD> b. to commandeer. Ex. Jack McNally co-opting the cars to carry the President's household staff to Arlington (Atlantic). <DD>v.i. to choose or elect new members. Ex. the establishment of area health boards having an elected membership with powers to co-opt (London Times). </DL> <A NAME="cooptate"> co-optate, transitive verb, -tated, -tating. =co-opt.</DL> <A NAME="cooptation"> co-optation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> election to membership by the votes of the existing members; a co-opting. </DL> <A NAME="cooptative"> co-optative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or chosen by co-optation. </DL> <A NAME="cooption"> co-option, noun. =co-optation.</DL> <A NAME="coordinal"> coordinal or co-ordinal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) belonging to the same order or family. </DL> <A NAME="coordinate"> coordinate, verb, -nated, -nating, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to arrange in proper order; put in proper relation; adjust; harmonize. Ex. A swimmer should coordinate the movements of his arms and legs. A symphonic conductor coordinates the playing of the instruments in his orchestra. <DD> 2. to make coordinate; make equal in importance. <DD>v.i. 1. to become coordinate. <DD> 2. to be arranged in the proper order or relation; form a system. <DD> 3. to act together harmoniously. Ex. If your muscles don't coordinate as you walk, you will trip or fall down. <DD>adj. 1a. equal in importance; of equal rank. Ex. The chief of police has power coordinate with or next to the local judge. <DD> b. of equal grammatical importance. In the phrase "a cold, windy day," "cold" and "windy" are coordinate adjectives. <DD> 2. made up of coordinate parts. <DD> 3. joining words, phrases, or clauses of equal grammatical importance. See also coordinating conjunction. <DD> 4. (Mathematics.) having to do with or involving the use of coordinates. <DD> 5. (Chemistry.) in which one atom shares two electrons with another atom. Ex. a coordinate bond. <DD> 6. (U.S.) in which men and women attend separate colleges. Ex. Harvard University, with Harvard College chiefly for men and Radcliffe College for women, is a coordinate university. <DD>noun 1. a coordinate person or thing; an equal. Ex. Citizens are coordinates in a court of law. <DD> 2. (Mathematics.) any of two or more numbers that define the position of a point, line, plane, or system with regard to a frame of reference, such as a fixed figure or system of lines. expr. coordinates, clothing matched in color, fabric, or style to produce a harmonious effect in combination. Ex. ... there's striped and plain coordinates and Him and Her outfits for brothers and sisters (Punch). adv. coordinately. noun coordinateness. noun coordinator. </DL> <A NAME="coordinateclause"> coordinate clause,<DL COMPACT><DD> a clause, especially a main clause, equal in grammatical importance to another clause in the same sentence. Ex. A compound sentence has two or more coordinate clauses. </DL> <A NAME="coordinateconjunction"> coordinate conjunction, =coordinating conjunction.</DL> <A NAME="coordinategeometry"> coordinate geometry, =analytic geometry.</DL> <A NAME="coordinatingconjunction"> coordinating conjunction,<DL COMPACT><DD> a conjunction that connects words, phrases, or clauses of equal rank. Ex. "And" and "but" are coordinating conjunctions. </DL> <A NAME="coordination"> coordination, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. harmonious adjustment or working together. Ex. Poor coordination in his hands made his drawing crude. Lack of coordination and leadership in nonmilitary defense efforts (New York Times). <DD> 2. arrangement in proper order or proper relation. Ex. An outline often helps in the coordination of ideas. <DD> 3. a putting or being put into the same order or rank. <DD> 4. (Chemistry.) <DD> a. the formation of coordinate bonds. <DD> b. the group or number of atoms bound to the central atom by coordinate bonds. </DL> <A NAME="coordinative"> coordinative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> coordinating. </DL> <A NAME="coos"> Coos, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several American Indian languages of the Penutian group. </DL> <A NAME="coot"> coot, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a wading and swimming bird somewhat like a duck, with short wings and webbed feet. <DD> 2. a large, black duck of northern regions and seas; scoter. <DD> 3. (Informal.) a fool; simpleton. </DL> <A NAME="cootch"> cootch, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) cooch. </DL> <A NAME="cootie"> cootie, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Slang.) a louse; body louse. <DD> 2. a children's game played by rolling a die to determine who will complete a stylized drawing of a louse. </DL> <A NAME="coowner"> coowner, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a joint owner. </DL> <A HREF="coowners.dic">NEXT</A>