Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COD'DER, n.

A gatherer of cods or peas. – Johnson.

COD'DY, a.

Husky. – Sherwood.

CODE, n. [L. codex or caudex; Fr. code; It. codice; Sp. codigo. The Latin word signifies the stem of a tree, and a board, or number of boards united, on which accounts were kept. So the Greeks used σχεδη, a board, for a like purpose, from σχιζω, to cut or split; whence L. scheda, a sheet.]

1. A collection of the laws and constitutions of the Roman emperors, made by order of Justinian, containing twelve books. The name is also given to other collections of Roman laws; as, the Theodosian code. Hence in general,
2. Any collection or digest of laws. – Pope. Blackstone.

CO-DE'I-NA, or CO-DE'IA, n. [or CO-DE'INE. Gr. κώδεια, a poppy-head.]

An alkaloid, obtained from opium, and one of its medicinal active principles.

COD'GER, n. [Sp. coger, to catch. Chalmers. Hence he defines the word by miser. But the primary sense is by no means obvious. I take it to be a corruption of cottager, Norm. cotier.]

A rustic; a clown; a miserly man.

COD'I-CIL, n. [L. codicillus, dim. of codex.]

A writing by way of supplement to a will.

COD-I-CIL'LA-RY, a.

Of the nature of a codicil.

CO-DI-FI-CA'TION, n.

The act or process of reducing laws to a code or system.

CO'DI-FI-ED, pp.

Reduced to a code.

CO'DI-FI-ER, or CO'DIST, n.

One who forms or reduces to a code.

CO'DI-FY, v.t. [code and facio.]

To reduce to a code or digest, as laws.

CO'DI-FY-ING, ppr.

Forming into a code.

CO-DILLE, n. [codill'; Fr. codille; Sp. codillo, the knee, a joint; codo, the elbow, that is, a turn or a fastening.]

A term at ombre, when the game is won. – Pope.

COD'LE, or COD'DLE, v.t.

To parboil, or soften by the heat of water.

COD'LE, v.t.

To make much of. [Not in use.]

COD'LING, or COD'LIN, n.

An apple codled; or one suitable for codling, or used for that purpose. – Bacon. Mortimer.

COD'LING, n.

A young cod.

CO-EF'FI-CA-CY, n. [con and efficacy, L. efficio.]

Joint efficacy; the power of two or more things acting together to produce an effect. – Brown.

CO-EF-FI'CIEN-CY, n. [con and efficiency, L. efficio.]

Cooperation; joint power of two or more things or causes, acting to the same end. – Glanville.

CO-EF-FI'CIENT, a. [con and L. efficiens.]

Cooperating: acting in union to the same end.

CO-EF-FI'CIENT, n.

1. That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect.
2. In algebra, a number or known quantity put before letters, or quantities, known or unknown, and into which it is supposed to be multiplied; as, in 3 x and a x, 3 and a are the coefficients of x.
3. In fluxions, the coefficient of any generating term is the quantity which arises from the division of that term by the generated quantity. – Chambers. Bailey.

CO-EF-FI'CIENT-LY, adv.

By cooperation.

CO-ELD'ER, n.

An elder of the same rank. – Trapp.

CO-E-LEC'TION, n.

Joint election.

COE'LI-AC, or CE'LI-AC, a. [CŒ'LI-AC, or CE'LI-AC. Gr. κοιλιακος, from κοιλια, the belly; allied perhaps to κοιλος, hollow.]

Pertaining to the belly, or to the intestinal canal. Cœliac artery, is the artery which issues from the aorta just below the diaphragm. – Encyc. Cœliac passion, the lientery, a flux or diarrhea of undigested food. – Coxe. Cœliac vein, a vein of the intestinum recutm. – Coxe.