Part 2512

<h1>Coussinet</h1> <Xpage=335>

<hw>Cous"si*net`</hw> <tt>(k??s"s?-n?t`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., dim. of <ets>coussin cushion</ets>. See <er>Cushionet</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.</def>

<i>Gwilt.</i>

<h1>Couteau</h1> <Xpage=335>

<hw>Cou*teau"</hw> <tt>(k??-t?")</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>A knife; a dagger.</def>

<h1>Couth</h1> <Xpage=335>

<hw>Couth</hw> <tt>(k??th)</tt>, <tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <mord>of <er>Can</er></mord>. <ety>[See <er>Can</er>, and cf. <er>Uncouth</er>.]</ety> <def>Could; was able; knew or known; understood.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Above all other one Daniel He loveth, for he <b>couth</b> well Divine, that none other <b>couth</b>; To him were all thing <b>couth</b>, As he had it of God's grace. <i>Gower.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Couvade</h1> <Xpage=335>

<hw>Cou`vade"</hw> <tt>(k??`v?d")</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. <ets>couver</ets>. See <er>Covey</er>.]</ety> <def>A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.</def>

<blockquote>The world-wide custom of the <b>couvade</b>, where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days. <i>Tylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Covariant</h1> <Xpage=335>

<hw>Co*va"ri*ant</hw> <tt>(k?-v?"r?-a]/>nt)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Higher Alg.)</fld> <def>A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.</def>

<h1>Cove</h1> <Xpage=335>

<hw>Cove</hw> <tt>(k?v)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>cofa</ets> room; akin to G. <ets>koben</ets> pigsty, orig., hut, Icel <ets>kofi</ets> hut, and perh. to E. <ets>cobalt</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.</def>

<blockquote>Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret <b>coves</b> and nooks. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A concave molding.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.</def>

<h1>Cove</h1> <Xpage=335>

<hw>Cove</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Coved</er> <tt>(k?vd)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Coving</er>.]</wordforms> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.</def>

<blockquote>The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and <b>coved</b> roofs. <i>H. Swinburne.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Coved ceiling</col>, <cd>a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove.</cd> -- <col>Coved vault</col>, <cd>a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cove</h1> <Xpage=335>

<hw>Cove</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[CF. F. <ets>couver</ets>, It. <ets>covare</ets>. See <er>Covey</er>.]</ety> <def>To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Not being able to <b>cove</b> or sit upon them , she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cove</h1> <Xpage=335>

<hw>Cove</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[A gypsy word, <ets>covo</ets> that man, <ets>covi</ets> that woman.]</ety> <def>A boy or man of any age or station.</def> <mark>[Slang]</mark>