Part 2039

<h1>Coachmanship</h1> <Xpage=270>

<hw>Coach"man*ship</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Skill in driving a coach.</def>

<h1>Coachwhip snake</h1> <Xpage=270>

<hw>Coach"whip` snake"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (<spn>Masticophis flagelliformis</spn>).</def>

<note>&hand; Its long and tapering tail has the scales so arranged and colored as to give it a braided appearance, whence the name.</note>

<h1>Coact</h1> <Xpage=270>

<hw>Co*act"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>coactare</ets>, intens. fr. <ets>cogere</ets>, <ets>coactum</ets>, to force. See <er>Cogent</er>.]</ety> <def>To force; to compel; to drive.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not <b>coacted</b>. <i>Foxe.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Coact</h1> <Xpage=270>

<hw>Co*act"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>co-</ets> + <ets>act</ets>, v.i.]</ety> <def>To act together; to work in concert; to unite.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>But if I tell you how these two did <b>coact</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Coaction</h1> <Xpage=270>

<hw>Co*ac"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>coactio</ets>.]</ety> <def>Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.</def>

<i>Sojth.</i>

<h1>Coactive</h1> <Xpage=270>

<hw>Co*ac"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[In sense 1, fr. 1st <er>Coact</er>; in sense 2, fr. 2d <er>Coact</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.</def>

<blockquote>Any <b>coactive</b> power or the civil kind. <i>Bp. Warburton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Acting in concurrence; united in action.</def>

<blockquote>With what's unreal thou <b>coactive</b> art. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Coactively</h1> <Xpage=270>

<hw>Co*ac"tive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a coactive manner.</def>

<h1>Coactivity</h1> <Xpage=270>

<hw>Co`ac*tiv"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Unity of action.</def>

<h1>Coadaptation</h1> <Xpage=270>

<hw>Co*ad`ap*ta"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Mutual adaption.</def>

<i>R. Owen.</i>

<h1>Coadapted</h1> <Xpage=270>

<hw>Co`a*dapt"ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Adapted one to another; <as>as, <ex>coadapted</ex> pulp and tooth</as>.</def>