Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: COD'DER – COE'LI-AC, or CE'LI-AC
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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.]
- 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,
- 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.
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.]
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.
- That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect.
- 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.
- 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.