Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COG-NOS'CI-BLE, a.

That may be known. [Little used.] – Hale.

COG-NOS'CI-TIVE, a.

Having the power of knowing. – Cudworth.

COGNOVIT-ACTIONEM, n. [L.]

In law, terms used when the defendant acknowledges the justice of the plaintif's claim, or a part of it. – Blackstone.

CO'GUAR, n.

A carnivorous quadruped of America.

CO-GUARD'I-AN, n.

A joint guardian. – Kent.

COGUE, n.

A small wooden vessel; a dram. [Local.]

COG'-WHEEL, n.

A wheel with cogs or teeth.

CO-HAB'IT, v.i. [L. con, and habito, to dwell.]

1. To dwell with; to inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place, or country. – Stiles. South.
2. To dwell or live together as husband and wife; usually or often applied to persons not legally married.

CO-HAB'IT-ANT, n.

One who dwells with another or in the same place. – Decay of Piety.

CO-HAB-IT-A'TION, n.

The act or state of dwelling together or in the same place with another. – Stiles, Elect. Serm. The state of living together as man and wife, without being legally married. – Bacon.

CO-HEIR', n. [coa'ir; L. cohæres; con and hæres, an heir. See Heir.]

A joint heir; one who succeeds to a share of an inheritance, which is to be divided among two or more.

CO-HEIR'ESS, n. [coa'iress.]

A female who inherits a share of an estate, which is to be divided among two or more heirs or heiresses; a joint heiress.

CO-HER'ALD, n.

A joint herald.

CO-HERE', v.i. [L. cohæreo; con and hæreo, to stick or cleave together.]

1. To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass, or as two substances that attract each other. Thus, particles of clay cohere; polished surfaces of bodies cohere.
2. To be well connected; to follow regularly in the natural order; to be suited in connection; as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning. To suit; to be fitted; to agree. – Shak.

CO-HE'RENCE, or CO-HE'REN-CY, n.

1. A sticking, cleaving or hanging together; union of parts of the same body, or a cleaving together of two bodies, by means of attraction; applied to all substances, solid or fluid. – Locke. Bentley.
2. Connection; suitable connection or dependence, proceeding from the natural relation of parts or things to each other, as in the parts of a discourse, or of any system; consistency. – Hooker. Locke.

CO-HE'RENT, a.

1. Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies, solid or fluid. – Arbuthnot.
2. Connected; united, by some relation in form or order; followed by to, but rather by with. – Locke.
3. Suitable or suited; regularly adapted. – Shak.
4. Consistent; having a due agreement of parts; as, a coherent discourse. Or observing due agreement; as, a coherent thinker or reasoner.

CO-HE'RENT-LY, adv.

In a coherent manner; with due connection or agreement of parts.

CO-HE-SI-BIL'I-TY, n.

The tendency which one part of matter evinces to unite with another part of matter, so as to form, out of different bodies, one common mass. It is opposed to Divisibility. – Good.

CO-HE'SI-BLE, a.

Capable of cohesion.

CO-HE'SION, n. [s as z. Ir. coesione; from L. cohæsi, pret. of cohæreo.]

1. The act of sticking together; the state of being united by natural attraction, as the constituent particles of bodies which unite in a mass, by a natural tendency; one of the different species of attraction. – Newton. Arbuthnot.
2. Connection; dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas. But in this sense, see Coherence. – Locke.

CO-HE'SIVE, a.

That has the power of sticking or cohering; tending to unite in a mass, and to resist separation. – Nicholson.

CO-HE'SIVE-LY, adv.

With cohesion.

CO-HE'SIVE-NESS, n.

The quality of being cohesive; the quality of adhering together; as particles of matter.

CO-HIB'IT, v.t. [L. cohibeo.]

To restrain.

CO-HIB'IT-ED, pp.

Restrained.