Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CO'HORT
CO-HOES', or CO-HOZE'CO-HORT-A'TION
CO'HORT, n. [L. cohors; Fr. cohorte; It. coorte; Sp. cohorte; Port, id.]
- Among the Romans, a body of about five or six hundred men; each cohort consisted of three maniples, and each maniple, of two centuries; and ten cohorts constituted a legion. – Adam, Rom. Ant.
- In poetry, a hand or body of warriors. – Milton.
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