Part 2473

<hw>Co`trus*tee"</hw> <tt>(k?`tr?s-t?")</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A joint trustee.</def>

<h1>Cotswold</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cots"wold`</hw> <tt>(k?ts"w?ld`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Cot</ets> a cottage or hut + <ets>wold</ets> an open country.]</ety> <def>An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.</def>

<cs><col>Cotswold sheep</col>, <cd>a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the <ets>Cotswold</ets> Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cottage</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cot"tage</hw> <tt>(k?t"t?j; 48)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Cot</er> a cotttage.]</ety> <def>A small house; a cot; a hut.</def>

<note>&hand; The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size.</note>

<cs><col>Cottage allotment</col>. <cd>See under <er>Alloment</er>.</cd> <mark>[Eng.]</mark> -- <col>Cottage cheese</col>, <cd>the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cottaged</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cot"taged</hw> <tt>(-t?jd)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Set or covered with cottages.</def>

<blockquote>Even humble Harting's <b>cottaged</b> vale. <i>Collins.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cottagely</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cot"tage*ly</hw> <tt>(-t?j-l?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<h1>Cottager</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cot"ta*ger</hw> <tt>(k?t"t?-j?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who lives in a cottage.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.</def>

<h1>Cotter, Cottar</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw><hw>Cot"ter</hw>, <hw>Cot"tar</hw><hw> <tt>(k?t"t?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>cotarius</ets>, <ets>cottarius</ets>, <ets>coterius</ets>. See <er>Cot</er>.]</ety> <def>A cottager; a cottier.</def>

<i>Burns.</i>

<blockquote>Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang Good morrow to the <b>cotter</b>. <i>Whittier.</i></blockquote>

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<h1>Cotter</h1> <Xpage=330>

<hw>Cot"ter</hw> <tt>(k?t"t?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. <note>[See <i>Illust</i>.]</note> In the United States a cotter is commonly called a <i>key</i>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A toggle.</def>

<h1>Cotter</h1> <Xpage=330>

<hw>Cot"ter</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To fasten with a cotter.</def>

<h1>Cottier</h1> <Xpage=330>