Part 2076

<h1>Coextension</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co`ex*ten"sion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.</def>

<h1>Coextensive</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co`ex*ten"sive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Equally extensive; having <?/ extent; <as>as, consciousness and knowledge are <ex>coextensive</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Sir W. Hamilton. -</i>

- <wordforms><wf>Co`ex*ten"sive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ness, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Coffee</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cof"fee</hw> <tt>(?; 115)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Turk. <ets>qahveh</ets>, Ar. <ets>qahuah</ets> wine, coffee, a decoction of berries. Cf. <er>Caf\'82</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus <spn>Coffea</spn>, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The coffee tree.</def>

<note>&hand; There are several species of the coffee tree, as, <spn>Coffea Arabica</spn>, <spn>C. occidentalis</spn>, and <spn>C. Liberica</spn>. The white, fragrant flowers grow in clusters at the root of the leaves, and the fruit is a red or purple cherrylike drupe, with sweet pulp, usually containing two pyrenes, commercially called "beans" or "berries".</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry.</def>

<blockquote>They have in Turkey a drink called <b>coffee</b> . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; The use of <i>coffee</i> is said to have been introduced into England about 1650, when coffeehouses were opened in Oxford and London.</note>

<cs><col>Coffee bug</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a species of scale insect (<spn>Lecanium coff\'91a</spn>), often very injurious to the coffee tree.</cd> -- <col>Coffee rat</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Musang</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Coffeehouse</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cof"fee*house`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>coffeehouse</b> must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The <b>coffeehouses</b> were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his <b>coffeehouse</b> to learn the news and discuss it. Every <b>coffeehouse</b> had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Coffeeman</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cof"fee*man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who keeps a coffeehouse.</def>

<i>Addison.</i>

<h1>Coffeepot</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cof"fee*pot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A covered pot im which coffee is prepared, <?/r is brought upon the table for drinking.</def>

<h1>Coffeeroom</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cof"fee*room`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained.</def>

<h1>Coffer</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cof"fer</hw> <tt>(?; 115)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>cofre</ets>, F. <ets>coffre</ets>, L. <ets>cophinus</ets> basket, fr. Gr. <?/. Cf. <er>Coffin</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>In ivory <b>coffers</b> I have stuffed my crowns. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>