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Cotyle
- - A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.
Couche
- - Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon. (b) Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couch is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
Coudee
- - A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.
Coulee
- - A stream; (Geol.) a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a ca, which has precipitous sides.
Coupee
- - A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.
Couple
- noun - (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
- a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago"
- a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome"
- a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days"
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
- engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring"
- form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"
- link together; "can we couple these proposals?"
- two items of the same kind
Course
- adverb - (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks"
- a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy"
- a connected series of events or actions or developments; "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"
- a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"
- a mode of action; "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place"
- as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
- facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for
Cowage
- noun - pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey
- the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing