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Coigns
- noun - Alternative spelling of quoin. Also coigne.
- expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
- the keystone of an arch
Coigny
- - The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.
Coking
- verb - become coke; "petroleum oils coke after distillation"
Colony
- noun - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
- a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris"
- a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
- a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
- a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony"
- one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
Coming
- verb -
- arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer"
- be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo"
- be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled"
- be received; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda"
- come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His breath came hard"
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
- come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her"
- come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June"
- come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading"
- cover a certain distance; "She came
COMINT
- noun - technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients
Conine
- - A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.
Coning
- verb - make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
Cooing
- verb - cry softly, as of pigeons
- speak softly or lovingly; "The mother who held her baby was cooing softly"
Coping
- verb - brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"