Calicoback :: Calicoback (n.) The calico bass.

Calicoback :: Calicoback (n.) An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.

Cob :: Cob (n.) The top or head of anything.

Cob :: Cob (n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person..

Cob :: Cob (n.) The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.

Cob :: Cob (n.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.

Cob :: Cob (n.) A young herring.

Cob :: Cob (n.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.

Cob :: Cob (n.) A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle..

Cob :: Cob (n.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus)..

Cob :: Cob (n.) A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone..

Cob :: Cob (n.) A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut..

Cob :: Cob (n.) Clay mixed with straw.

Cob :: Cob (n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

Cob :: Cob (n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d..

Cob :: Cob (v. t.) To strik.

Cob :: Cob (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions..

Cob :: Cob (v. t.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like..

Cobaea :: Cobaea (n.) A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers..

Cobalt :: Cobalt (n.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co..

Cobalt :: Cobalt (n.) A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.

Cobaltic :: Cobaltic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide..

Cobaltiferous :: Cobaltiferous (a.) Containing cobalt.

Cobaltine :: Cobaltine (n.) Alt. of Cobaltit.

Cobaltite :: Cobaltite (n.) A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt..

Cobaltous :: Cobaltous (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence..

Cobbed :: Cobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Co.

Cobbing :: Cobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Co.

Cobbing :: Cobbing (a.) Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2..

Cobble :: Cobble (n.) A fishing boat. See Coble.

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