Chapter Cobbing to Cock-a-hoop of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Cocagne
(Coc*agne") n. [F. cocagne, pays de cocagne; of uncertian origin, cf. Prov. F. couque cake, Catal. coca, L. coquere to cook; as if the houses in this country were covered with cakes. Cf. Cook, Cockney.]

1. An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.

2. The land of cockneys; cockneydom; — a term applied to London and its suburbs. Smart.

Cocaine
(Co"ca*ine) n. (Chem.) A powerful alkaloid, C₁₇H₂₁NO₄, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.

Cocciferous
(Coc*cif"er*ous) a. [L. coccum a berry + -ferous. See Coccus.] Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants.

Coccinella
(||Coc`ci*nel"la) n. [NL., fr. L. coccineus scarlet-colored. See Cochoneal.] (Zoöl.) A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larvæ feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.

Coccobacterium
(||Coc`co*bac*te"ri*um) n.; pl. Coccobacteria [NL., fr. Gr. a grain + NL. bacterium. So called from its round shape.] (Biol.) One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

Coccolite
(Coc"co*lite) n. [Gr. a grain, seed + -lite: cf. F. coccalite.] (Min.) A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.

Coccolith
(Coc"co*lith) n. [Gr. a grain, seed + -lith.] (Biol.) One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

Coccosphere
(Coc"co*sphere) n. [Gr. a grain, seed + E. sphere.] (Biol.) A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.

Coccosteus
(||Coc*cos"te*us) n. [NL., from Gr. grain, seed + bone.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

Cocculus Indicus
(||Coc"cu*lus In"di*cus) n. [NL. cocculus (dim. of L. coccum kermes berry) + L. Indicus of India.] (Bot.) The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.

Coccus
(||Coc"cus) n.; pl. Cocci [NL., fr. Gr. grain, seed. See Cochineal.]

1. (Bot.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.

2. (Zoöl.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect

3. (Biol.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.

Coccygeal
(Coc*cyg"e*al) a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebræ.

Coccygeal glands (Zoöl.) , glands situated at the base of the tail of birds. They secrete the oil with which the plumage is dressed.

Coccygeous
(Coc*cyg"e*ous) a. Coccygeal. [R.]

Coccyx
(||Coc"cyx) n.; pl. L. Coccyges [L., cuckoo, Gr. cuckoo, coccyx. So called from its resemblance to the beak of a cuckoo.] (Anat.) The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebræ more or less consolidated.