No edit summary Tag: rte-source |
No edit summary |
||
(23 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
|Coal ||n||The glowing portion of a match. 2. hot, live, quick coal(s). 3. piece of burnt wood, capable of re-igniting. |
|Coal ||n||The glowing portion of a match. 2. hot, live, quick coal(s). 3. piece of burnt wood, capable of re-igniting. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Coal ||phr||" |
+ | |Coal ||phr||"Blow Hot Coals" - to rage fiercely, stir up trouble, ill-feeling or strife. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Coal ||phr||" |
+ | |Coal ||phr||"Call Over the Coals" - haul over the coals: reprimand. |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Coal ||phr||"Heap Coals of Fire on the Head" - to produce remorse by requiting evil with good. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Coal ||phr||"Rake Over the Coals" - criticize, reprimand; haul or call over the coals. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Coal-bearing ||adj||Producing or abounding in coal. |
|Coal-bearing ||adj||Producing or abounding in coal. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Coal bed ||n||A coal seam. |
+ | |Coal bed ||n||A coal seam. 2. a receptacle or place for coal, as in a forge. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Coal black ||adj||Of a black colour, like that of coal. |
|Coal black ||adj||Of a black colour, like that of coal. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Coal dust ||n||Powdered coal. |
||
− | |Coaler ||n||A ehicle used for the carrying or supplying coal |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Coaler ||n||A vehicle used for the carrying or supplying coal |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Coalfield ||n||Any region containing deposits of coal which may be mined. |
|Coalfield ||n||Any region containing deposits of coal which may be mined. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Coal-fired ||adj||Heated or driven by coal. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Coalfish ||n||A dark-colored food fish of the cod family; the saithe. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Coalish ||adj||Somewhat like coal, like a glowing, fiery. |
|Coalish ||adj||Somewhat like coal, like a glowing, fiery. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Coal- |
+ | |Coal-laden ||adj||Full of, or rich in coal. |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Coal-less ||adj||Without coal or not having coal. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Coal-like ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of coal. |
|Coal-like ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of coal. |
||
Line 28: | Line 40: | ||
|- |
|- |
||
|Coalman ||n||A coal-miner, as distinguished fro other types of miners. |
|Coalman ||n||A coal-miner, as distinguished fro other types of miners. |
||
− | |- |
||
− | |Coalmine ||n||A mine from which coal ore with minerals are mined. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Coalmonger ||n||A trader and dealer of coal. |
|Coalmonger ||n||A trader and dealer of coal. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Coal-sack ||n||A sack or bag used for carrying coal. 2. a dark nebula in the Milky Way, esp. one near the Southern Cross. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Coalworks ||n||A place where coal is dug, inclding the machinery for raising the coal mined. |
|Coalworks ||n||A place where coal is dug, inclding the machinery for raising the coal mined. |
||
Line 51: | Line 63: | ||
|Cobweb ||vb||To cover with cobwebs or hanging with cobwebs. |
|Cobweb ||vb||To cover with cobwebs or hanging with cobwebs. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cobweb ||phr||" |
+ | |Cobweb ||phr||"Blow the Cobwebs Away" - refresh oneself (in the open air). |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Cobweb ||phr||"Have a Cobweb in the Throat" - to be thirsty with a desire to drink. |
||
− | |Cobwebbed ||adj||Covered with cobwebs. 2. covered with thick interwoven pubesence, arachnoid. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | | |
+ | |Cobwebbed ||adj||Covered with cobwebs. 2. covered with thick interwoven cover. 2. pubesence 3. arachnoid. |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cobwebby ||adj||Full of cobwebs; covered with cobwebs. 2. resembling cobwebs; of the nature of cobwebs. 3. thick, confused, of thought or reasoning. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cobwebless ||adj||Lacking or without cobwebs. |
|Cobwebless ||adj||Lacking or without cobwebs. |
||
Line 69: | Line 83: | ||
|Cock ||n||Game bird of the male gender, the cockbird, esp. of the pheasant. 2. a male bird, especially a domestic fowl; rooster. 3. a male chicken or other gallinaceous bird. 4. a male pigeon. 5. vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. 6. a chief man; a leader or master. 7. the crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. |
|Cock ||n||Game bird of the male gender, the cockbird, esp. of the pheasant. 2. a male bird, especially a domestic fowl; rooster. 3. a male chicken or other gallinaceous bird. 4. a male pigeon. 5. vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. 6. a chief man; a leader or master. 7. the crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Cock ||phr||"At Full Cock" - (of a gun) with the cock lifted to the position at which the trigger will act. |
||
− | |Cock ||n||Hill, usually in placenames as 'Cockham.' |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cock ||phr||"Cock an Ear" - erect one's ear. 2. start to listen attentively. 3. have one's interest aroused by something heard. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cock ||phr||"Cock of the Walk" - a person in a group who exercises most authority in it, whom the others obey, defer to, and are careful to keep on good terms with. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cock ||phr||"Cock Up Your Head" - lift or turn up your head. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cock ||phr||"Cock Your Eye" - to shut one eye and look withe the other n a smewhat cheeky fashion; to glance at questioningly. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cock ||phr||"Every Cock Crows on its Own Dunghill" - it is very easily to brag of your deeds on your own patch when safe from the danger and not likely to be put to proof. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cock ||phr||"Live Like fighting Cocks" - to live in luxury. 2. fighting cocks were highly fed to increase heir mettle and powers of endurance. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cock ||phr||"That Beats Cock-fighting" - that is most extraordinary and improabable. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cock ||n||Hill, usually in place names as 'Cockham.' |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cockcrow ||n||The time of day at which the first crow of the rooster is heard; dawn, daybreak, first light. |
+ | |Cockcrow ||n||The time of day at which the first crow of the rooster is heard; dawn, daybreak, first light; sunrise, dayrew; sun-up. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cocked ||adj||Tilted, slanted, oblique, askewed. |
|Cocked ||adj||Tilted, slanted, oblique, askewed. |
||
Line 91: | Line 121: | ||
|Cock-of-the-walk ||n||A proud or conceited person. |
|Cock-of-the-walk ||n||A proud or conceited person. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cockscomb ||n||The fleshy red crest of a rooster; coxcomb. 2. a conceited fop or dandy. |
+ | |Cockscomb ||n||The fleshy red crest of a rooster; coxcomb. 2. a conceited fop or dandy. 3. piece or section of hair styled upwards, resembling a cock’s comb (typically worn by a man); a hairstyle consisting of this. 4. a foolish person; also: fools collectively . |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cocksparrow ||n||A male sparrow. 2. a quarrelsome, confident, somewhat arrogant person. |
|Cocksparrow ||n||A male sparrow. 2. a quarrelsome, confident, somewhat arrogant person. |
||
Line 97: | Line 127: | ||
|Cock up ||phr||"To Cock up One's Ears." - to prick up, raise up, or listen attentively. |
|Cock up ||phr||"To Cock up One's Ears." - to prick up, raise up, or listen attentively. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cod ||n||A bag, scrip. 2. a civet bag or musk bag. 3. a husk or outer covering of any fruit or seed. 4. pod, husk or seed vessel of a plant, esp. of peas, beans and their ongeners. 5. the belly, stomach. 6. scrotum; cocoon. 7. the |
+ | |Cod ||n||A bag, scrip. 2. a civet bag or musk bag. 3. a husk or outer covering of any fruit or seed. 4. pod, husk or seed vessel of a plant, esp. of peas, beans and their ongeners. 5. the belly, stomach. 6. scrotum; cocoon. 7. the center of a spider's web. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cod ||vb||To produce cods or pods. |
|Cod ||vb||To produce cods or pods. |
||
Line 116: | Line 146: | ||
|Cold ||adj.||Feeling no warmth |
|Cold ||adj.||Feeling no warmth |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold ||phr||"A Cold Day In Hell" - something that will not happen or is likely to happen, (Before hell freezes over) |
+ | |Cold ||phr||"A Cold Day In Hell" - something that will not happen or is never likely to happen, (Before hell freezes over) |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Be a Cold Fish" - to be an unemotional person. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Be in a Cold Sweat" - to be afraid. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Be Stone Cold" - very cold. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Blow Hot and Cold" - alternate. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Cold All Over" - fright. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cold ||phr||"Cold as Ice" - very cold; unemotional and unfeeling of response. |
|Cold ||phr||"Cold as Ice" - very cold; unemotional and unfeeling of response. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Cold as the Light of Day" - common, sensical, logical analysis. |
||
− | |Cold ||phr||"Cold Hands, Warm Heart" - having cold hands is an indication of warm-heartedness, used as a quick respnse if one finds that another's hands are cold. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold ||phr||" |
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Cold Hands, Warm Heart" - having cold hands is an indication of warm-heartedness, used as a quick response if one finds that the hands of another are cold. |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Come In From Out of the Cold" - to gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, esp. where there was not any before. 2. return to safety and shelter. 3. come in out of the rain. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cold ||phr||"Get Cold Feet" - to lose one's nerve; to have doubts about taking on an activity. |
|Cold ||phr||"Get Cold Feet" - to lose one's nerve; to have doubts about taking on an activity. |
||
Line 132: | Line 174: | ||
|Cold ||phr||"In Cold Blood" - to do deliberately and without excitement or sudden passion. 2. in a cold unemotional way. |
|Cold ||phr||"In Cold Blood" - to do deliberately and without excitement or sudden passion. 2. in a cold unemotional way. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold ||phr||" |
+ | |Cold ||phr||"In the Cold light of Day" - in an unemotional atmosphere at a later stage. |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Leave Out in the Cold" - to be intentionally neglected, to be left care for oneself. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Leave Someone's Cold" - be unaffected (emotionally). |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Send a Cold Shiver Down Someone's Spine" - to horrify a person. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold ||phr||"Throw Cold Water On"- of a suggestion, ideas, emotion, achievement, etc. - to belittle or dismiss, cast doubt upon, debunk. |
+ | |Cold ||phr||"Throw Cold Water On"- of a suggestion, ideas, emotion, achievement, etc. - to belittle or dismiss, cast doubt upon, debunk. 2. be unenthusiastic about something. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cold-blood ||n||Blood(physically) cold or not warmer than the external air or water; esp. said of fish & reptiles. |
|Cold-blood ||n||Blood(physically) cold or not warmer than the external air or water; esp. said of fish & reptiles. |
||
Line 166: | Line 214: | ||
|Coldheaded ||adj.||Wanting in sensibility or natural affection; unkind. |
|Coldheaded ||adj.||Wanting in sensibility or natural affection; unkind. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold-hearted ||adj.||To be aloof and unfeeling. |
+ | |Cold-hearted ||adj.||To be aloof and unfeeling. 2. cruel, mean or unmoved. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cold-heartedly ||adv||In a cold-hearted manner. |
|Cold-heartedly ||adv||In a cold-hearted manner. |
||
Line 178: | Line 226: | ||
|Coldlike ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a cold (viral illness) |
|Coldlike ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a cold (viral illness) |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Coldliness ||n||The realtive lack of heat. 2. the sensation resulting from exposure to low temperature. 3. having limited enthusiasm, |
+ | |Coldliness ||n||The realtive lack of heat. 2. the sensation resulting from exposure to low temperature. 3. having limited enthusiasm, coolness. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Coldly ||adj||In a cold manner or state. 2. calmly, cooly, dispassionately. 3. without ardour, enthusiasm. 4. without heat, impatience. |
|Coldly ||adj||In a cold manner or state. 2. calmly, cooly, dispassionately. 3. without ardour, enthusiasm. 4. without heat, impatience. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold meat ||n||( |
+ | |Cold meat ||n||(slang) a corpse. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold meat box ||n||( |
+ | |Cold meat box ||n||(slang) a coffin. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold meat cart ||n||( |
+ | |Cold meat cart ||n||(slang) a hearse. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Coldness ||n||The state or condition of being cold. 2. the |
+ | |Coldness ||n||The state or condition of being cold. 2. the lack of heat. 3. the sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures. 4. limited or little enthusiasm or affection, coolness. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cold one ||n||Slang term for a beer. |
|Cold one ||n||Slang term for a beer. |
||
Line 210: | Line 258: | ||
|Cold shoulder ||phr.||To Give Someone the Cold Shoulder" -ostentatiously ignore someone; as in, to give someone the cold shoulder |
|Cold shoulder ||phr.||To Give Someone the Cold Shoulder" -ostentatiously ignore someone; as in, to give someone the cold shoulder |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold sleep ||n||A deep |
+ | |Cold sleep ||n||A deep sleep during which the body is stored at a very cold temperature to preserve it, cryonic sleep. 2. suspended animation, hibernation. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold sore ||n||A small sore or blister on the lip, |
+ | |Cold sore ||n||A small sore or blister on the lip, resulting from infection by the herpes virus. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Cold start ||n||An attempt to start a vehicle engine when it is cold. 2. a military doctrine designed to make a rapid and limited penetration into enemy territory. It is not a plan for comprehensive invasion or occupation. 3. a colder than usually start to a season, as 'a cold start to winter.' 4. in computing, the reloading of a program or operating system. |
||
− | |Cold spot ||n||A sensory area on the skin that responds to decrease in temperature. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Cold Steel ||n||An edged sword. |
||
− | |Cold start ||n||An attempt to start a vehicle engine when it is cold. 2. a military doctrine designed to make a rapid and limited penetration into enemy territory. It is not a plan for comphrensive invasion or occupation. 3. a colder than usually start to a season, as 'a cold start to winter.' 4. in computing, the reloading of a program or operating system. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cold sweat ||n||A physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; it maybe associated with fever or anxiety and stress. |
|Cold sweat ||n||A physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; it maybe associated with fever or anxiety and stress. |
||
Line 222: | Line 270: | ||
|Cold War ||n||The unfriendly relations between the communist nations and the capitalist nations. |
|Cold War ||n||The unfriendly relations between the communist nations and the capitalist nations. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Coldware ||n||Appliances and equipment used in the refrigeration of food and beverages etc. |
||
− | |Coldware ||n|| |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cold water ||adj|| |
+ | |Cold water ||adj||Designating a room, apartment, flat, that is not provided with hot water or sometimes a bathroom, as a 'cold water flat.' |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cold wave ||n||A short period of very cold weather; a cold snap. |
|Cold wave ||n||A short period of very cold weather; a cold snap. |
||
Line 260: | Line 308: | ||
|Comb ||vb||Especially of hair or fur): to groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. 2. to separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. |
|Comb ||vb||Especially of hair or fur): to groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. 2. to separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. |
||
3. to search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. 4. to roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. 5. to comb out, disentangle. |
3. to search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. 4. to roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. 5. to comb out, disentangle. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Comb ||phr||"Comb Out" - remove knots, tangles in hair and fibers. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Combe ||n||A long, narrow hill or ridge having steep sides. 2. crest or ridge of roof. 3. crest of a house. |
|Combe ||n||A long, narrow hill or ridge having steep sides. 2. crest or ridge of roof. 3. crest of a house. |
||
Line 281: | Line 331: | ||
|Come ||vb||To move from further away to nearer to. 2. to move towards the speaker. 3. to move towards the listener. 4. to move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. 5. to move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. 6. to move towards an unstated agent. 7. to arrive. 8. to appear, to manifest itself. 9. to take a position to something else in a sequence. 10. to approach a state of being or accomplishment. 11. (fig., with to) to take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something. 12. to become, to turn out to be. 13. to be supplied, or made available; to exist. 14. (slang) to carry through; to succeed in. 15. happen. 16. to have a social background. 17. to be or have been a resident or native, as 'where did you come from?' 18. to have been brought up by or employed by. |
|Come ||vb||To move from further away to nearer to. 2. to move towards the speaker. 3. to move towards the listener. 4. to move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. 5. to move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. 6. to move towards an unstated agent. 7. to arrive. 8. to appear, to manifest itself. 9. to take a position to something else in a sequence. 10. to approach a state of being or accomplishment. 11. (fig., with to) to take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something. 12. to become, to turn out to be. 13. to be supplied, or made available; to exist. 14. (slang) to carry through; to succeed in. 15. happen. 16. to have a social background. 17. to be or have been a resident or native, as 'where did you come from?' 18. to have been brought up by or employed by. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||prp|| |
+ | |Come ||prp||Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Come ||intj||An exclamation to express annoyance. 2. an exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request. |
|Come ||intj||An exclamation to express annoyance. 2. an exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"As Tough As They Come" - typically or supremely as tough as they come. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"Come |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Aboard" - board, come on board (esp. a ship or plane). 2. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come About" - happen, occur, take place. 2. change direction of movement. 3. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Above (another)" - to be thought of in a better light. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr|| |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come After" - follow in sequence, succeed, replace. 2. to pursue, follow in pursuit, track, seek. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Again" - be reborn, come a second time, repeat what you said; pardon. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Alive" - become interested or interesting ; show animation, purpose. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Along" - present oneself, come along. 2. to move onward, hurry up (to or with a speaker), often used as an exhortation. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Along to" - come from one place to another, often a short distance. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come A Long Way" - make considerable progress or improvement. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Along With" an instruction, request to move somewhere quickly. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Amiss" - be unwelcome, unsuitable. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come and Go" - to leave and return; arrive and depart; move in and move out; to wander without an aim. 2. comings and goings. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come As One" - pay a visit , attend a function or performance without dressing formally, without taking any special pains about one's appearance. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come At" - reach, ascertain facts, truth, causes. 2. to make a threatening move towards someone or something; attack. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Away" - an invitation to someone to enter a room. 2. break off, dislodge. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Back" - return to fame or prominence. 2. soon shortly, in a reasonable time. 3. become fashionable again. 4. return (in memory). 5. be restored. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Back Empty-handed - to achieve long, fail. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Back To" - to return, remember. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Back To Earth" - to face reality. 2. come down to earth. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Before" - to precede. 2. to stand before, as alleged offender before a court. 3. be presented for consideration, decision, judgement. 4. have greater importance than something else. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come Back To" - to return, remember. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Beneath" - to be in a less successful position. 2. to be considered inferior to another or others. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Beside" - to approach and become beside or parallel with another. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Between" - lit. to be in-between two persons. 2. fig. to interfere in the affairs of, etc as to break up a romance of lovers. 3. to have a position between one thing and another. 4. to cause a relationship to be less close. 5. prevent somebody from doing or enjoying something. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come By" - pass, especially of something or somebody towards the speaker. 2. obtain usually as a result of effort, as job, wealthy, a rare coin. 3. receive by accident; happen to get. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come Beside" - to approach and become beside or parallel with another. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Clean (with some about something)" - to be honest about something; confess everything. 3. tell the truth often about something you wish to keep secret. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come Between" - lit. to be in-between two persons. 2. fig. to interfere in someone else's romance, to break a pair of lovers. 3. to have a position between one thing and another. 4. to cause a relationship to be less close. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come, Come" - used to urge somebody to be sensible, to talk to, behave reasonably, with a stronger suggestion of reproach or rebuke, than; come now. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down" - collapse, fall in on, drop, fall. 2. fall to the ground as an aircraft. 3. be reduced in price, weight, costs, expenditure. 4. reach a decision, decide to exert one's influence. 5. come to a place to live. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come Clean (with some about something)" - to be honest about something; confess everything. 3. tell the truth often about something you wish to keep secret. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down (from)" - leave a University, college etc. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down in the World" - suffer a change for the worse in one's economic circumstance, economic conditions; become needy, somewhat poor. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down On" - reprimand, rebuke, criticize, or punish severely; come down hard on. 2. voice one's opposition, oppose; have your opinion on something. 4. demand financial redress. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come Down the Pike" - appear, become prominent: to happen, occur, appear. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down the Pike" - appear, become prominent: to happen, occur, appear. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down On The Side Of" - make a choice or decision in favour of. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down To" - mean in essence; boil down to, reduce to a simpler form. 2. have one's standard of living, self-confidence etc reduced to a level normally beneath one . 3. pass on to, as myths, legends, stories, traditions. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come Down With Us" - to travel together to a specific location. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down to Earth" - return to reality. 2. comeback to earth. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down To Us" - to be handed down or bequeathed (from previous generations.) |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down Upon" - to reproach, to punish severely, to make a peremptory. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Down With Us" - to travel together to a specific location. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come Forward" - to approach, come from the background to the front. 2. to present oneself before the public, tribunal, or the like. 3. to make advances. 4. to volunteer. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Fast and Thick" - see 'come thick and fast.' |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come For (something or someone)" - to arrive to get something. 2. to arrive to convey someone another location. 3. to come to kill someone. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Forth" - to advance out of a place of shyness. 2. come out, emerge; be produced often as an encouraging or challenging. 3. emerge, as of an idea, opinion, proposal suggestion. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come From Far and Wide" - come from everywhere. 2. to arrie from many positions and directions. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Forward" - to approach, come from the background to the front. 2. to present or make oneself known before the public, tribunal, or the like. 3. to make advances; progress. 4. to undertake as a volunteer. 5. raise for discussion at a meeting. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come From Nowhere" - to come as a surprise with no warning. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come From" - to come from or originate from somewhere. 2. be a native of; be a product or result of. 3. be descended from. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come From Behind" - to improve one's position relative to the position of another person or thing. 2. to advance from a losing position. 3. advance from the rear on a losing position. 4. win after trailing or lagging behind for most of a contest, sporting event. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come Good" - prove eventually to be helpful, talented or succeesful. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come From Far and Wide" - come from everywhere. 2. to arrive from many positions and directions. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come From Nowhere" - to come as a surprise with no warning. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come From the Shadows" - to come from obscurity. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Good" - prove eventually to be helpful, talented or successful. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Hell and High Water" - to do something no matter what happens. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come in For" - to be inclined among those who recieve a share of anything. 2. to recieve incidentally. 3. to become subject to or recieve. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Hither" - flirtatious, seductive. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Home To" - to be affected by a previous(bad) action. 2 be painfully clear. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come In From the Cold" - to gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, esp. where there was not any before. 2. return to safety and shelter. 3. come in out of the rain. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come In" - enter hither, esp. into a house or enclosure. 2. to enter the arena or field. 2. be fashionable. 3. become seasonable or available, as fruit. 4. gain power. 5. finish in an event or contest. 6. receive an income. 7. move towards the land. 8. receive a story, radio communication, commentary, details, news, information, news, news broadcast, etc. 9. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come in Handy" - to be or find useful or opportune. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come in For" - to be inclined among those who receive a share of anything. 2. to receive incidentally. 3. to attract or e the object of. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr|| |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come In For It" - to incur punishment or rebuke. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come In From the Cold" - to gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, esp. where there was not any before. 2. return to safety and shelter. 3. come in out of the rain. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come Into Its (or Ones) Own" - show at ones best; achieve rightful recoognition. 2. get rightful possession of something. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come in Handy" - to be, prove or find useful or opportune. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come In On" - join, have a share or part in. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come In On the Ground Floor" - join a venture at the start. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into" - to enter some enclosed place or area. 2. to get something by good fortune; to receive money or property from someone who has died; inherit; inheritance. 3. to attain some state or condition. 4. to accede to power or office. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come In With" - to overtake, to meet, fall in with. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr|| |
+ | |Come ||phr||Come Into Being" - to come into existence. 2. to be created, start, begin or established. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into Blossom" - open, show in bloom. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into Its (or Ones) Own" - show at ones best; achieve rightful recognition. 2. get rightful possession of something. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into Leaf" - of a bud, leaf, on a bush: appear, show itself. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into Line* with" - conform with the rules etc of a movement, party etc. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into One's Head" - to come to one, to realize, to come into one's knowledge. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into One's Own" - reach fulfillment of one's own personality, capabilities. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into Play" - become involved, start to have an influence. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into Sight" -appear, become visible. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into Something" - to receive money, or property from someone who has died. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into the Open" - be frank, speak freely, become obvious, made public. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Into the World" - to be born. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come In With" - to overtake, to meet, fall in with. 2. join someone in a n undertaking, partnership, firm. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" to |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Near To" - to approach in person, order, qualities, etc. 2. to come nigh. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Now" - used as mild expression or reproach, urging somebody to be sensible, to talk or behave reasonably. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come of" - be descended from. 2. be the result. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Off" - fall from, be detached from, be removable. 2. happen, fare well or badly. 3. finish, complete; to succeed, achieve. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come Thick and Fast" - to appear repeatedly. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Off It" - you expect me to believe that. 2. not say things which one's knows can't be true. 3. stop trying to mislead others. 4. said when vigorously expressing disbelief. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come of Good Stock" - to be descended from a good family. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come On" - be quick, make an effort, try harder. 2. make progress; grow. 3. leave a place in order to arrive at a destination later than somebody else. 4. be cheerful; pull yourself together. 5. starting up, as a cold coming on. 6. start to rain, snow, thunder. 7. walk on to a stage. 8. take place a certain time. 9. be considered by a court or tribunal. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come To a Head" - (fig.) - of a problem: to reach a critical or crucial stage. 2. to reach a stage in a difficult situation when someone takes a strong action to deal with it. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come On" - to advance thither forward often implying hostile intent. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come On Down" - come over and visit me. 2. a more persuasive invitation than 'Come In' |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come One, Come All' - anybody that cares to do so can come, take part, etc; it makes no difference how many people come; if one everyone comes. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come To Blows" - to fight. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come One's Way" - found, met with, without deliberate attention or effort. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Online" - to log on to a computer. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come On Over" - to pay a casual visit to. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come On Strong" - emphasis, exaggerate, one's speech or behavior for effect, speak very, unduly, forcefully about something. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come To Mind" - to remember. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come On to" - begin, start. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come On Top of" - follow (often as a complicated or aggravating factor). |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out" - from a place: emerge, issue. 2. to publish, utter, give vent to; be spoken. 3. stop work, strike. 4. be released from prison. 5. formally enter society. 6. flower, blossom, bloom. 7. appear, become visible. 8. appear in shops, stores. 9. be revealed or shown up clearly. 10. be clear or explicit. 11. emerge, elicited. 12. produce a satisfactory answer. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come To Oneself" - to begin behaving and thinking like one normally does. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out At " cost, be calculated at, work out at. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out In" - become (partially) covered with an skin eruption. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out In the Wash" -eventually have a satisfactory outcome |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out Of" - to issue or emerge from; leave a place. 2. to be bought or exported from. 4. disappear from a surface with cleaning. |
||
− | |Come ||phr||"To Come to Words" - to argue, dispute. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out of One's Ears" - to be plentiful. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out of One's Shell" - to be more confident and less shy. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out of the Woodwork" - to appear after being hidden or not active for a long while, esp. in order to do something unpleasant. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out On Strike" - to take industrial action by leaving one workplace as a protest or demand. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out On the Right Side" - not lose money; experience apositive result. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out On the Wrong Side" - lose money; experience a negative result. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out On Top" - succeed eventually; win, overcome difficulties, prove superior to others. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out Swinging" - to strongly defend about something you believe in. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out To" - leave home for an excursion, drive, walk (with a friend). |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Come ||phr||" |
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out Well" - be revealed as behaving in a good way. 2. achieve a positive result. |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Out With" - to say, utter, blurt out. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Over" - to effect, or become, or make an impression, persuade etc. by assuming a false manner or behavior. 2 visit, usually after a long journey. 3. reach a destination. 4. overtake, seize, effect. 5. suddenly feel sick, faint, weak; dizzy, angry, bad-tempered. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Over to" - change side; allegiance. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Rain, Come Shine" - whatever the weather is like; what ever happens; in any case, event wet or fine. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Right" - have a succesful, happy outcome. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Short" - not to be sufficient. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Thick and Fast" - to appear repeatedly. 2. come etc in large numbers or great quantity. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Through" - to emerge successfully. 2. to survive (an illness, setback etc.) |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Through On" - make communications with somebody, (by means of); (by); or receive by a message, communication, news. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Through the Side Door" - to be born as an illegitmate child. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To" - to regain consciousness; awake from sleep and regain awareness. 2. of a boat; heave to. 3. be equal to, reach, a total amount to, of a bill purchase, goods. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to a Dead End" - reach a point beyond which no progress can be made. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to a Full Stop" - to completely cease activity. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To an End" - conclude, terminate, finish. 2. all things good or bad come to an end. 3. come to an untimely end. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To a Head" - (fig.) - of a problem: to reach a critical or crucial stage. 2. to reach a stage in a difficult situation when someone takes a strong action to deal with it. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to a Standstill" - (of the movement or progress of something): stop or be unable to progress further. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Bear" - something, usually, important that soon or later will impact upon some aspect of ones life. 2. to bring to bear. |
||
+ | |-|- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Together" - to meet, to attend something together, to catch up. 3. to come together in opinion, to agree. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to Grips With"- engage in, struggle with a problem, question, disease, life. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to Ground" - fall down, as a pole, tent, chimney. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to Hand" - obtain, get, have. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to Harm" - be hurt, harmed; fall under the bad influence. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to It" - reach a state (usually unpleasant) as a result of change in a age, strength, ability, wealth, etc. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Life" - lit. to act as if alive after a time of seeming not to be alive. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Light" - to be discovered, revealed. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Mind" - to remember. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Nothing" - fail, after much endeavor. 2. have no useful or interesting result; be a complete failure. 3. never come to anything. 4. never come to much. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Nought" -fail, after much endeaour. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Oneself" - to begin behaving and thinking like one normally does. 2. come to one's normal state. 3. return to normal consciousness. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to One's Feet" - stand up quickly, as an audience, crowd at a match. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to Rest" - stop, reach a final position. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Somebody's Help" - give aid, etc to somebody else. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Somebody's Ears" - come to somebody's attention. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Something" - be surprized, strange. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to That" - in fact, if this is the case. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To the Fore" - fig. to be well-known or prominent, to be important or growing in importance. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to the Same Thing(as)" - equal, be equivalent to, one another. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To Think of It" - to remember and consider a matter on reflection. 2. now that the person, event etc just mentioned or just about to be mentioned has been thought of or recalled. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To This" - to result in a negative situation. 2. reach a certain state or result. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come To With" - approach, tackle (with) enthusiasm, ardor. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come to Words" - to argue, dispute. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come True" - actually happens as foretold, dreamed, hoped for. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Under" - classified with, or subordinate to. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Undone" to disintegrate; fall to pieces, meet with disaster, come to grief, fall apart (lit. and fig.) |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Unhinged" - to become deranged or mentally unbalanced. 2,. to be thrown into turmoil and confusion. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Unstuck" - fail, or encounter an unexpected problem. 2. met with a mishap, misfortune, reverse. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Unto" - to attempt to seduce sexually. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up" - to ascend, rise up, be elevated above the surface. 2. occur, arise, happen; happen by chance. 3. appear above the soil. 3. travel to a place, town etc. 4. arise, be mentioned. 5. come to be considered (by a court); appear in court. 6. vomit, retch, spew. 7. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up Against" - to oppose; be faced with, contest with, knock or bump into. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up As Far As" - reach, extend to the road, chin etc. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up For" - to be eligible for something; to be in line or in sequence for something. 2. be considered as an applicant, candidate. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up for Sale" - come onto the market, become available for purchase. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Upon" - find, discover, encounter, come on (by chance). |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Upon One" - (of something not welcomed): arrive, strike, effect; come on. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up Smelling Roses" - happen in the best, most desired way possible. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up Smiling" - emerge bravely and cheerfully from an unpleasant experience. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up the Hard Way" - reach one's position through hard work. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up To" - equal. 2. encounter. 3. come up to an acceptable level or standard. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up to One's Chin" - as tall as the height of another person's chin. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Up With" - to be equal or level with. 2. to bring forth, produce, find 3. discover or produce. 3. to suggest. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come What May" - no matter what. 2. in spite, disregarding, whatever (else) may happen (while doing something or a result of doing something). |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Come Within" - come near enough to be seen, heard, reach. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Coming Right Up" - an expression used by someone (such as a waiter) to explain that something ordered will be served or delivered very quickly. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Have It Coming to One" - deserve what is about to happen. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"How Come/" - how did that occur? |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"I don't Know What Came Over Me' - said as an excuse for one's irrational behavior, often in the expression 'as I don't know what came over me, I was thinking clearly. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"If It Comes (Down) To That" - in that event. 2. if it is, were, a question of that. 3. in fact, (said to introduce an additional point.) 4. of a situation or outcome, being dependent on a specified factor. 5. if a situation or decision comes down to something, that is the thing that influences it most. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"If It Comes To This" - summarized; 'if it comes to this.' |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Let Them All Come" - an expression of confidence in the face of a challenge by others. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Not Come to Much" - not do anything of any importance, or consequence. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Not Have Enough Brain to Come In Out of the Rain" - be very stupid or foolish. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"Not Know Whether One Is coming Or Going" - be confused. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"This is Where We Come In" - our knowledge or knowing dates from this point. 2. we are back where we started. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Come ||phr||"Until the Cows Come Home" - for a very long time. |
|Come ||phr||"Until the Cows Come Home" - for a very long time. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"When it Comes Down to" - when it is a question of. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come ||phr||"When One's Ship Comes In" - when one has plenty of money to spend; largesse, good luck or fortune. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Come-again ||n||A direction to come again. 2. a deferring of attention. |
|Come-again ||n||A direction to come again. 2. a deferring of attention. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Come-all-Ye ||n||A street-ballad, or folksong, whose opening words were 'come all ye maidens; young men, etc.. |
|Come-all-Ye ||n||A street-ballad, or folksong, whose opening words were 'come all ye maidens; young men, etc.. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come-a-long ||n||A hand operated winch with a ratchet used to pull objects. The drum is wrapped with wire rope. A similar tool that uses a nylon strap is used to straighten trees in Texas, as it straightens gradually over time, therefore not splitting the trunk |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Come-and-Go ||n||A passing backwards and forwards. |
|Come-and-Go ||n||A passing backwards and forwards. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Comeback ||n||An act or retaliation, a reply, a verbal retort. 2. a recovery, return |
+ | |Comeback ||n||An act or retaliation, a reply, a verbal retort. 2. a recovery, return to a former state or position. 3. to stage a comeback, reinstatement to a former position. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Come-backer ||n||A retaliator. 2. one who retorts or replies. 3. one who makes a comeback to a profession, sport or other cativity. |
|Come-backer ||n||A retaliator. 2. one who retorts or replies. 3. one who makes a comeback to a profession, sport or other cativity. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Comeback-king ||n||A man who finds success after a series of setbacks or failures. 2 a man who makes several comebacks. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Comeback-queen ||n||A woman who finds success after a series of setbacks or failures. 2. a woman who makes several comebacks. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Come-between ||n||An intervention, one who or that which intervenes. |
|Come-between ||n||An intervention, one who or that which intervenes. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Comedown ||n||A descent, a downfall, a notable reverse. 2. now, esp. a fall ir drop in social or official position or status. |
|Comedown ||n||A descent, a downfall, a notable reverse. 2. now, esp. a fall ir drop in social or official position or status. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Comefrom ||n||An obscure control flow structure used in some programming languages, originally as a joke. COMEFROM is roughly the opposite of GOTO in that it can take the execution state from any arbitrary point in code to a COMEFROM statement. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Come-hither ||n||An invitation to approach, an enticement, as a come-hither look. |
|Come-hither ||n||An invitation to approach, an enticement, as a come-hither look. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come-hithery ||n||Inviting or enticing quality, behaviour, etc.; specifically sexual seductiveness or allure. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Come-in ||n||An entrance, ingress. 2. an arrival, immigration. |
|Come-in ||n||An entrance, ingress. 2. an arrival, immigration. |
||
Line 515: | Line 725: | ||
|Comeliness ||n||The quality of being comely. 2. suitableness, becomingness, seemliness, decency, propriety. |
|Comeliness ||n||The quality of being comely. 2. suitableness, becomingness, seemliness, decency, propriety. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Comeling ||n||One who has come to a place, as distinguished from its permanent residents. 2. an immigrant, stranger, |
+ | |Comeling ||n||One who has come to a place, as distinguished from its permanent residents. 2. an immigrant, stranger, foreigner, sojourner. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Comelingness ||n||State of quality of |
+ | |Comelingness ||n||State of quality of sojourning, immigrating etc. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Comely ||adj||Fair, pretty, beautiful, nice. 2. of things: expressing decent, sober or quiet beauty. 3. pleasing - in modern use a more homelier style of beauty which pleases, but does not excite admiration. 4. applied to those of noble station, 'as God and Jesus.' 5. pleasing in a moral sense to notions of propriety or esthetic taste, decent, proper, decorous. 6. befitting the purpose, appropriate. |
|Comely ||adj||Fair, pretty, beautiful, nice. 2. of things: expressing decent, sober or quiet beauty. 3. pleasing - in modern use a more homelier style of beauty which pleases, but does not excite admiration. 4. applied to those of noble station, 'as God and Jesus.' 5. pleasing in a moral sense to notions of propriety or esthetic taste, decent, proper, decorous. 6. befitting the purpose, appropriate. |
||
Line 523: | Line 733: | ||
|Comely ||adv||Handsomely, nicely, suitably, in a seemly or becoming manner. |
|Comely ||adv||Handsomely, nicely, suitably, in a seemly or becoming manner. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Comely-looking ||adj|| |
+ | |Comely-looking ||adj||Having comely looks. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Comely maidens ||n||Young, attractie, nubile women. |
|Comely maidens ||n||Young, attractie, nubile women. |
||
Line 546: | Line 756: | ||
|Comet-tail ||n||The fiery afterburn of a comet. |
|Comet-tail ||n||The fiery afterburn of a comet. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Come-to-bed ||adj||Extremely good looking, sexually dazzling in looks. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Come-to-bed-eyes ||adj||Sexually alluring in facial expression and gesture. |
||
+ | |-l |
||
|Comet-year ||n||A year in which a notable comet appears, as in Halley's Comet. |
|Comet-year ||n||A year in which a notable comet appears, as in Halley's Comet. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Coming ||n||A sprouting, esp. of barley in malting. 2. that or something that comes; approaching in space in time or space. 3. inclination to make a meeting; an advance, readiness, eagerness, |
+ | |Coming ||n||A sprouting, esp. of barley in malting. 2. that or something that comes; approaching in space in time or space. 3. inclination to make a meeting; an advance, readiness, eagerness, complaisant. 4. a rising in prominence, likelihood to attainment or to distinction. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Coming ||phr||"Not Know Whether One Is Coming Or Going" - to be confused. |
|Coming ||phr||"Not Know Whether One Is Coming Or Going" - to be confused. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Coming ||phr||" |
+ | |Coming ||phr||"Have It Coming" - to get what one deserves; to deserve what one gets. |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Coming ||phr||"Not Know Whether One Is Coming Or Going" -be in a state of great confusion, uncertainty. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Coming on ||adv||Almost, nearly, nigh on. |
|Coming on ||adv||Almost, nearly, nigh on. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Comings-and-goings ||n||Busy, active movements of many persons, especially in and out of a place. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Coming-together ||n||A union. 2. a collision. |
|Coming-together ||n||A union. 2. a collision. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Coming up ||adj||Soon to appear, imminent, soon. |
||
− | |Cook ||n.||One whose occupation is the preparation of fopod for the table. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cook ||n.||One whose occupation is the preparation of food for the table. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cook ||vb.||To prepare food ; to make it fit for eating by application of heat, as by boiling, roasting, broiling. |
|Cook ||vb.||To prepare food ; to make it fit for eating by application of heat, as by boiling, roasting, broiling. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cook ||phr||" |
+ | |Cook ||phr||"Cook the Books" - an obsolete metaphor for cooking, where ingredients are changed, altered and improved by the process. Thus financial statements can be also be modified to the benefit of the "cook'. 2. to manipulate accounts information, especially illegally. 3. to falsify an account of an event. |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cook ||phr||"Cook One's Goose" - spoil or ruin one's own or the chance of another of success either in general or in a particular way. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cook ||phr||"Cook Up" - concoct, invent, often in haste. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cook ||phr||"There are Many Ways to Cook an Egg" - there are many ways to achieve an objective. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cook ||phr||"What's Cooking" - what in hand, what's doing. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cookbook ||n||A book of recipes with cooking directions. |
|Cookbook ||n||A book of recipes with cooking directions. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cookdom ||n||The office or position of a cook. 2. the domain of cooks. |
|Cookdom ||n||The office or position of a cook. 2. the domain of cooks. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cook-chill ||n||Of food which has been cooked and refrigerated by the manufacturer ready for reheating by the consumer. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cooked ||adj||Of articles of food prepared by heat for eating. 2. combinations, such as half-cooked, ill-cooked, well-cooked. |
|Cooked ||adj||Of articles of food prepared by heat for eating. 2. combinations, such as half-cooked, ill-cooked, well-cooked. |
||
Line 588: | Line 818: | ||
|Cook-off ||vb||In military terms: to pull the pin from the grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing it. 3. to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates. 4. to accidentally (or sometimes cause) a grenade to detonate as the result of excess heat. |
|Cook-off ||vb||In military terms: to pull the pin from the grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing it. 3. to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates. 4. to accidentally (or sometimes cause) a grenade to detonate as the result of excess heat. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cookout ||n||An outdoor gallery at which food is cooked; |
+ | |Cookout ||n||An outdoor gallery at which food is cooked; barbeque. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cookroom ||n||A kitchen. |
|Cookroom ||n||A kitchen. |
||
Line 597: | Line 827: | ||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cook top ||n||An assembly of burners for cooking, designed to fit onto the surface, such as the top of a table. |
|Cook top ||n||An assembly of burners for cooking, designed to fit onto the surface, such as the top of a table. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cookware ||n||Utensils for cooking , esp. dishes, pans. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cook wench ||n||A girl working at a cookshop, restaraunt, eating-house. (beer wench.) |
|Cook wench ||n||A girl working at a cookshop, restaraunt, eating-house. (beer wench.) |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cook up ||vb||To prepare a meal. 2. to manufacture, fabricate, to |
+ | |Cook up ||vb||To prepare a meal. 2. to manufacture, fabricate, to devise an elaborate. 3. to prepare a heroin dose by heating.43. to make a large amount of illegal drugs. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cookware ||n||Various objects, such as pots, pans, baking dishes, etc. used for cooking. |
|Cookware ||n||Various objects, such as pots, pans, baking dishes, etc. used for cooking. |
||
Line 611: | Line 843: | ||
6. calmly audacious. 7. (informal) of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others. 8. (informal) in fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang. 9. (informal) of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem. 10.(informal) a dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless. 11. (informal) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting. 12 applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. |
6. calmly audacious. 7. (informal) of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others. 8. (informal) in fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang. 9. (informal) of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem. 10.(informal) a dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless. 11. (informal) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting. 12 applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cool ||phr||" |
+ | |Cool ||phr||"Cool Down" - to be cooler, reduced in temperature. 2. to cause to cool down. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cool ||phr||" |
+ | |Cool ||phr||"Cool It" - to calm or quiten down. |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cool ||phr||" |
+ | |Cool ||phr||"Cool off" - become, or make less warm, excited, ardent or interested. |
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Cool ||phr||"Cool One's Heels" - to wait, esp. impatiently and restlessly |
||
− | |Cool box||n||Car-fridge, eskie, ice-chest. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cool ||phr||"Keep a Cool Head' - remain calm. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cool ||phr||"Play It Cool" -take a low key and rational approach. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cool box||n||Car-fridge, eskie, ice-chest; chillbin. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cooled ||adj||Made cool; lowered in temperature. 2. refrigerated at a lower or reduced state of coolness. |
|Cooled ||adj||Made cool; lowered in temperature. 2. refrigerated at a lower or reduced state of coolness. |
||
Line 661: | Line 899: | ||
|Coomb ||n||A vessel, cup or perhaps a small measure. 2. brewing tub, vat. 3. a dry measure of capacity, equal to four bushels. |
|Coomb ||n||A vessel, cup or perhaps a small measure. 2. brewing tub, vat. 3. a dry measure of capacity, equal to four bushels. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cop ||n.||Summit, top, peak, brow, esp of a hill, 2. top of anything, esp. of a hill, 3. the head. 4. bird's crest; crest on the head of a bird. 5. heap, mound, tumulus. 6. ridge. 7. an enclosing mound or bank; a hedge bank. 8. a centre ridge of a butt of ploughed land. 8. spider. |
+ | |Cop ||n.||Summit, top, peak, brow, esp of a hill, 2. top of anything, esp. of a hill, 3. the head, crown. 4. bird's crest; crest on the head of a bird. 5. heap, mound, tumulus. 6. ridge. 7. an enclosing mound or bank; a hedge bank. 8. a centre ridge of a butt of ploughed land. 8. spider. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cop ||vb||To pile up in a tumulus, heap or mound, to bank up. 2. to plough in ridges. |
|Cop ||vb||To pile up in a tumulus, heap or mound, to bank up. 2. to plough in ridges. |
||
Line 678: | Line 916: | ||
|- |
|- |
||
|Copper ||adj||Reddish-brown in colour. 2. made of copper |
|Copper ||adj||Reddish-brown in colour. 2. made of copper |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Copper-belt ||n||A copper-mining area |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Copper-bit ||n||A soldering-tool pointed with copper. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Copper-bottomed ||adj||Haing the bottom covered with copper. 2. fig. thoroughly sound, genuine, authentic, trustworthy. |
|Copper-bottomed ||adj||Haing the bottom covered with copper. 2. fig. thoroughly sound, genuine, authentic, trustworthy. |
||
Line 685: | Line 927: | ||
|Copperen ||adj||Made of copper. |
|Copperen ||adj||Made of copper. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
+ | |Copper-fastened ||adj||Fasten with copper bolts. |
||
− | |Copper-head ||n||A snake with copper coloured head. 2. a nickname given, during the American Civil War, to a northern sympathizer by Secessionists of the south. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Copper-head ||n||A snake with copper coloured head. 2. a nickname given, during the American Civil War, to a northern sympathizer by Secessionists of the south. 3.a ginger headed person. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Copperish ||adj||Somewhat coppery in colour. |
|Copperish ||adj||Somewhat coppery in colour. |
||
Line 699: | Line 943: | ||
|Copperware ||n||Utensils made of copper. |
|Copperware ||n||Utensils made of copper. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | | |
+ | |Coppery ||adj||Characterized by the presence, quality or application of copper |
|- |
|- |
||
|Copse ||n.||OE. ? a shackle for any part of the body. '''Foot-copse''': leg iron; '''Hand-copse''': manacle; '''Wear-copse''': neck-copse; 2. '''Hapse''' for fastening a gate or door; fastener. |
|Copse ||n.||OE. ? a shackle for any part of the body. '''Foot-copse''': leg iron; '''Hand-copse''': manacle; '''Wear-copse''': neck-copse; 2. '''Hapse''' for fastening a gate or door; fastener. |
||
Line 723: | Line 967: | ||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cornish ||adj||Of the corn kind. |
|Cornish ||adj||Of the corn kind. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Corn-loft ||n||A granary. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cornmonger ||n.||Corndealer, (monger of corn) often contemptous implication of greed and extortion |
|Cornmonger ||n.||Corndealer, (monger of corn) often contemptous implication of greed and extortion |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cornstalk ||n||A tough, fibrous |
+ | |Cornstalk ||n||A tough, fibrous of corn (maize), often ground for silage after harvest. 2. in colonial Australia, a young person born in New South Wales of immigrant parents. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Corn thistle ||n||A perennial herb, Cirsulum arvense |
|Corn thistle ||n||A perennial herb, Cirsulum arvense |
||
Line 744: | Line 990: | ||
|Costening ||n.||Temptation, costnung, testing, trial, tribulation. |
|Costening ||n.||Temptation, costnung, testing, trial, tribulation. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cot ||n.||Small house, little cottage, '''poetical connoting smallness''', humbleness, (rather than meanness or rudeness expressed by hut.) That is: cot-folk, cot-town. 2. a finger stall |
+ | |Cot ||n.||Small house, little cottage, a small shelter'''poetical connoting smallness''', humbleness, (rather than meanness or rudeness expressed by hut.) That is: cot-folk, cot-town. 2. a finger stall |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cote ||n.||OE: parallel form of cyte: cell. - a small detached house occupied by the poor, and labourers. Note: '''Cottage''': a slight building for the shelter of animals (pigcote, hen-cote, fowl-cote, sheepcote) 2. small building for storage, shed, stall. |
|Cote ||n.||OE: parallel form of cyte: cell. - a small detached house occupied by the poor, and labourers. Note: '''Cottage''': a slight building for the shelter of animals (pigcote, hen-cote, fowl-cote, sheepcote) 2. small building for storage, shed, stall. |
||
Line 760: | Line 1,006: | ||
|Cotland ||n.||A piece of land (about 5 acres) held by a cotman, cotlander, cotter along with his cot. |
|Cotland ||n.||A piece of land (about 5 acres) held by a cotman, cotlander, cotter along with his cot. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cotlif||n.||Life or living, dwelling in a cot, see: '''mynster-lif''': a monastery. 2. a house, cottage, possibly a village. |
+ | |Cotlif||n.||Life or living, dwelling in a cot, see: '''mynster-lif''': a monastery. 2. a house, cottage, possibly a village. 3. secular life as opposed to religious life.. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cotly ||adv||Quickly, keenly, boldly, fiercely |
|Cotly ||adv||Quickly, keenly, boldly, fiercely |
||
Line 790: | Line 1,036: | ||
|Cough ||n||A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. 2. a condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough; tussification. |
|Cough ||n||A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. 2. a condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough; tussification. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cough ||phr||" |
+ | |Cough ||phr||"Cough Up" - give up reluctantly. 2. spit up, expectorate, tussive. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Coughy ||adj||Pertaining to coughing, tussive, expectorative, spitty. |
|Coughy ||adj||Pertaining to coughing, tussive, expectorative, spitty. |
||
Line 796: | Line 1,042: | ||
|Could ||vb||From Middle English coude, from Old English cūþe, past indicative and past subjunctive form of cunnan (“to be able”). The addition of the silent 'l' was likely a misappropriation attempting to normalize with modal verbs will/would and shall/should. However, while the letter l was historically pronounced in the latter two, can never did have an l sound in it. Verb: 1. simple past tense of can. 2. conditional of can. 3. used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact). 4. used to politely ask for permission to do something. 5. used to politely ask for someone else to do something. 6. used to show the possibility that something might happen. 7. used to suggest something. |
|Could ||vb||From Middle English coude, from Old English cūþe, past indicative and past subjunctive form of cunnan (“to be able”). The addition of the silent 'l' was likely a misappropriation attempting to normalize with modal verbs will/would and shall/should. However, while the letter l was historically pronounced in the latter two, can never did have an l sound in it. Verb: 1. simple past tense of can. 2. conditional of can. 3. used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact). 4. used to politely ask for permission to do something. 5. used to politely ask for someone else to do something. 6. used to show the possibility that something might happen. 7. used to suggest something. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Could ||phr||" |
+ | |Could ||phr||"Could Do With" - I would like to have |
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Could ||phr||" |
+ | |Could ||phr||"Could Do Without" - I don't wish to have. |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Could ||phr||"Could Go Something" - could enjoy something; would like to have something, esp food or drink. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Could ||phr||"Could Swear (that)" - perfectly sure (that). |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Couldn't ||vb||Negative form of 'could.' |
|Couldn't ||vb||Negative form of 'could.' |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Couldn't ||phr||" |
+ | |Couldn't ||phr||"Couldn't Care Less" - used to express an uncaring opinion. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Coulter ||n.||The iron blade fixed at the front of a share plough; also attributively. |
|Coulter ||n.||The iron blade fixed at the front of a share plough; also attributively. |
||
Line 812: | Line 1,062: | ||
|Courtleet ||n.||Court record. 2. a court district or jurisdiction or district which jurisdiction extends. See: court. |
|Courtleet ||n.||Court record. 2. a court district or jurisdiction or district which jurisdiction extends. See: court. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Couth ||adj.||A back -formation of 'uncouth' - as of a quality of things: known, (wide couth: well known, familiar, famous, acquainted, renown. 2. of persons and their actions: kind, affable, agreeable, pleasant, well-mannered. 3. comfortable, smug, cosy. antonym: uncouth. |
+ | |Couth ||adj.||A back -formation of 'uncouth' - as of a quality of things: known, (wide couth: well known, familiar, famous, acquainted, renown. 2. of persons and their actions: kind, affable, agreeable, pleasant, well-mannered. 3. comfortable, smug, cosy. antonym: uncouth. 4. knowing how to handle oneself socially. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Couth ||adv||Clearly, manifestingly, familiarly. |
|Couth ||adv||Clearly, manifestingly, familiarly. |
||
Line 828: | Line 1,078: | ||
|Couthy ||adj||Action as befits a person well known to everyone. 2. full of friendly familarity warm and friendly, kindly, pleasantly, genial. 3. of things: agreeable, pleasant, nice. |
|Couthy ||adj||Action as befits a person well known to everyone. 2. full of friendly familarity warm and friendly, kindly, pleasantly, genial. 3. of things: agreeable, pleasant, nice. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cove ||n.||In a rock hollow or recess in a rock. 2. recess in a precipitious mountain side. 3. Sheltered place or recess in forest, hills, woods. 4.cell in a pigeon coup. 5. a nook. |
+ | |Cove ||n.||In a rock hollow or recess in a rock. 2. recess in a precipitious mountain side. 3. Sheltered place or recess in forest, hills, woods. 4. cell in a pigeon coup. 5. a nook. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cow ||n.||The female of the domestic or of any bovine animal. The female of some other large animals, eg, elephant, whale. |
|Cow ||n.||The female of the domestic or of any bovine animal. The female of some other large animals, eg, elephant, whale. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cow ||phr||"Till the Cows Come Home" - not for a very long time, if not at all. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cow ||phr||"The Cow With An Iron Tail" - a pump. |
|Cow ||phr||"The Cow With An Iron Tail" - a pump. |
||
Line 839: | Line 1,091: | ||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cowed ||adj||Depressed or disappointed through fear; overrawed. |
|Cowed ||adj||Depressed or disappointed through fear; overrawed. |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cow-fish ||n||One of the various cetaceans, as a grampus, dolphins. 2. a trunk-fish. 3. a sirenian. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cowflesh ||n||Beef. |
|Cowflesh ||n||Beef. |
||
Line 862: | Line 1,116: | ||
|Cowkeeper ||n||A diary man and/or beef farmer. |
|Cowkeeper ||n||A diary man and/or beef farmer. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cowl ||n.||A garment with a hood, esp worn by monks; occasionally the hood alone. Sometimes |
+ | |Cowl ||n.||A garment with a hood, esp worn by monks; occasionally the hood alone. Sometimes: a monk. |
|- |
|- |
||
|Cowled ||adj||Furnished with or wearing a cowl. |
|Cowled ||adj||Furnished with or wearing a cowl. |
||
Line 884: | Line 1,138: | ||
|Cow's-lungwort ||n||Mullein, fellwort, flannel leaf. |
|Cow's-lungwort ||n||Mullein, fellwort, flannel leaf. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
− | |Cow-shard ||n||Cow dung, cow turd, cowslip. 2. cow dung; cow |
+ | |Cow-shard ||n||Cow dung, cow turd, cowslip. 2. cow dung; cow-sharn. |
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cow soapwort ||n||Cowherb |
||
+ | |- |
||
+ | |Cow tree ||n||One of several trees yielding a milky juice which can be used as a food, mostly in South America. |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|Cowy ||adj||Bovine; pertaining to a cow, characteristic of cows. |
|Cowy ||adj||Bovine; pertaining to a cow, characteristic of cows. |
Revision as of 08:47, 29 October 2019
Old English | sb | English |
Coal | n | The glowing portion of a match. 2. hot, live, quick coal(s). 3. piece of burnt wood, capable of re-igniting. |
Coal | phr | "Blow Hot Coals" - to rage fiercely, stir up trouble, ill-feeling or strife. |
Coal | phr | "Call Over the Coals" - haul over the coals: reprimand. |
Coal | phr | "Heap Coals of Fire on the Head" - to produce remorse by requiting evil with good. |
Coal | phr | "Rake Over the Coals" - criticize, reprimand; haul or call over the coals. |
Coal-bearing | adj | Producing or abounding in coal. |
Coal bed | n | A coal seam. 2. a receptacle or place for coal, as in a forge. |
Coal black | adj | Of a black colour, like that of coal. |
Coal dust | n | Powdered coal. |
Coaler | n | A vehicle used for the carrying or supplying coal |
Coalfield | n | Any region containing deposits of coal which may be mined. |
Coal-fired | adj | Heated or driven by coal. |
Coalfish | n | A dark-colored food fish of the cod family; the saithe. |
Coalish | adj | Somewhat like coal, like a glowing, fiery. |
Coal-laden | adj | Full of, or rich in coal. |
Coal-less | adj | Without coal or not having coal. |
Coal-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of coal. |
Coaly | adj | Abounding in coal; covered by coal, carbonaceous; coally. |
Coalman | n | A coal-miner, as distinguished fro other types of miners. |
Coalmonger | n | A trader and dealer of coal. |
Coal-sack | n | A sack or bag used for carrying coal. 2. a dark nebula in the Milky Way, esp. one near the Southern Cross. |
Coalworks | n | A place where coal is dug, inclding the machinery for raising the coal mined. |
Coane | n. | Chawn, gap, deft, chink |
Coath | vb. | To swoon, faint. |
Coathe | n | Pains of childbirth, cothe. |
Coathed | adj. | Diseased |
Coathy | adj | Diseased, sick, ill. |
Cobweb | n | From the Middle English coppeweb, from coppe (“spider”), from attercoppe, from Old English āttercoppe, from ātor (“poison”) + copp (“head”) + web (“web”). 2. a spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads. 2. one of its filaments; gossamer. 3. (fig.) something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish. 4. an intricate plot to catch the unwary. 5. (internet, rare, slang) 6. a web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited. 7. the European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata. |
Cobweb | n | Fig. fanciful, finespun reasoning. 2. a thing of flimsy, unsubstanstive nature. |
Cobweb | vb | To cover with cobwebs or hanging with cobwebs. |
Cobweb | phr | "Blow the Cobwebs Away" - refresh oneself (in the open air). |
Cobweb | phr | "Have a Cobweb in the Throat" - to be thirsty with a desire to drink. |
Cobwebbed | adj | Covered with cobwebs. 2. covered with thick interwoven cover. 2. pubesence 3. arachnoid. |
Cobwebby | adj | Full of cobwebs; covered with cobwebs. 2. resembling cobwebs; of the nature of cobwebs. 3. thick, confused, of thought or reasoning. |
Cobwebless | adj | Lacking or without cobwebs. |
Cobweblike | adj | Characteristic, resembling or like cobwebs. |
Cobweb morning | n | A misty morning. |
Cobweb-spider | n | Any species of the world-spanning family 'theridiidae', that build tangle space webs, and have a comb of serrated bristles on the tarsus of the fourth leg. |
Cobweb morning | n | Misty weather. |
Cock | n | Game bird of the male gender, the cockbird, esp. of the pheasant. 2. a male bird, especially a domestic fowl; rooster. 3. a male chicken or other gallinaceous bird. 4. a male pigeon. 5. vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. 6. a chief man; a leader or master. 7. the crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. |
Cock | phr | "At Full Cock" - (of a gun) with the cock lifted to the position at which the trigger will act. |
Cock | phr | "Cock an Ear" - erect one's ear. 2. start to listen attentively. 3. have one's interest aroused by something heard. |
Cock | phr | "Cock of the Walk" - a person in a group who exercises most authority in it, whom the others obey, defer to, and are careful to keep on good terms with. |
Cock | phr | "Cock Up Your Head" - lift or turn up your head. |
Cock | phr | "Cock Your Eye" - to shut one eye and look withe the other n a smewhat cheeky fashion; to glance at questioningly. |
Cock | phr | "Every Cock Crows on its Own Dunghill" - it is very easily to brag of your deeds on your own patch when safe from the danger and not likely to be put to proof. |
Cock | phr | "Live Like fighting Cocks" - to live in luxury. 2. fighting cocks were highly fed to increase heir mettle and powers of endurance. |
Cock | phr | "That Beats Cock-fighting" - that is most extraordinary and improabable. |
Cock | n | Hill, usually in place names as 'Cockham.' |
Cockcrow | n | The time of day at which the first crow of the rooster is heard; dawn, daybreak, first light; sunrise, dayrew; sun-up. |
Cocked | adj | Tilted, slanted, oblique, askewed. |
Cocker | n | OE: coccor, originally, a receptacle; a case for arrows, a quiver. 2. casing for the legs. 3. gaiters or legging. 4. coarse stockings. 5. cf 'quiver' |
Cock-eyed | adj | Having both eyes facing inwards. 2. crooked or askewed. 3. absurd, silly, or stupid, usu. in reference to ideas rather than people. 4. drunk. |
Cockfight | n | Contest, in a cockpit, between game roosters fitted with cockspurs. |
Cockfight | vb | To participate in (as a rooster) or organize and run as a gambler or bookie) a cockfighting event. |
Cockily | adv | In a cocky manner: arrogantly, extremely confidently, boastfully. |
Cockiness | n | The quality of being cocky; overly confident, arrogant and boastful. 2. strutting like a rooster. |
Cockle | n | Darnel, sleepies: plants whose seeds have or produce a narcotic effect. 2. injurious plant growing amongst corn (tares). 3. corn-cockles. |
Cock-of-the-walk | n | A proud or conceited person. |
Cockscomb | n | The fleshy red crest of a rooster; coxcomb. 2. a conceited fop or dandy. 3. piece or section of hair styled upwards, resembling a cock’s comb (typically worn by a man); a hairstyle consisting of this. 4. a foolish person; also: fools collectively . |
Cocksparrow | n | A male sparrow. 2. a quarrelsome, confident, somewhat arrogant person. |
Cock up | phr | "To Cock up One's Ears." - to prick up, raise up, or listen attentively. |
Cod | n | A bag, scrip. 2. a civet bag or musk bag. 3. a husk or outer covering of any fruit or seed. 4. pod, husk or seed vessel of a plant, esp. of peas, beans and their ongeners. 5. the belly, stomach. 6. scrotum; cocoon. 7. the center of a spider's web. |
Cod | vb | To produce cods or pods. |
Codded | adj | Having or bearing pods |
Codder | n. | Leather-worker, saddler |
Codweed | n | Centaurea nigra. |
Cofe | adv | OE cove, cafe, cof. - quickly, sharply, eagerly, promptly, soon. |
Cold | n | (Of a thing) Having a low temperature. 2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold. 3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort. 4. unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling. 5. dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial. 6.completely unprepared; without introduction. 7. unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness. 8. (usually with "have" or "know" ): perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart. 9. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for. 10. (obs.) not pungent or acrid. 11.(obsolete) unexciting; dull; uninteresting. 12. affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour. 13. (obs.) Not sensitive; not acute. 14. distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. 15. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour. synonyms: (of a thing, having a low temperature): chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool. 16. (of the weather): nippy, parky, taters
(of a person or animal). 17. (unfriendly): aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming. 18.(unprepared): unprepared, unready. 19. (medicine) a common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever; (illness): common cold, coryza, head cold. |
Cold | adv | With no warmth. |
Cold | adj. | Feeling no warmth |
Cold | phr | "A Cold Day In Hell" - something that will not happen or is never likely to happen, (Before hell freezes over) |
Cold | phr | "Be a Cold Fish" - to be an unemotional person. |
Cold | phr | "Be in a Cold Sweat" - to be afraid. |
Cold | phr | "Be Stone Cold" - very cold. |
Cold | phr | "Blow Hot and Cold" - alternate. |
Cold | phr | "Cold All Over" - fright. |
Cold | phr | "Cold as Ice" - very cold; unemotional and unfeeling of response. |
Cold | phr | "Cold as the Light of Day" - common, sensical, logical analysis. |
Cold | phr | "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" - having cold hands is an indication of warm-heartedness, used as a quick response if one finds that the hands of another are cold. |
Cold | phr | "Come In From Out of the Cold" - to gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, esp. where there was not any before. 2. return to safety and shelter. 3. come in out of the rain. |
Cold | phr | "Get Cold Feet" - to lose one's nerve; to have doubts about taking on an activity. |
Cold | phr | "Give Someone the Cold Shoulder" - to treat with neglect and disdain. |
Cold | phr | "Have A Handshake Like a Cold Fish" - to have a handshake lacking vigour, or emotion. |
Cold | phr | "In Cold Blood" - to do deliberately and without excitement or sudden passion. 2. in a cold unemotional way. |
Cold | phr | "In the Cold light of Day" - in an unemotional atmosphere at a later stage. |
Cold | phr | "Leave Out in the Cold" - to be intentionally neglected, to be left care for oneself. |
Cold | phr | "Leave Someone's Cold" - be unaffected (emotionally). |
Cold | phr | "Send a Cold Shiver Down Someone's Spine" - to horrify a person. |
Cold | phr | "Throw Cold Water On"- of a suggestion, ideas, emotion, achievement, etc. - to belittle or dismiss, cast doubt upon, debunk. 2. be unenthusiastic about something. |
Cold-blood | n | Blood(physically) cold or not warmer than the external air or water; esp. said of fish & reptiles. |
Cold-blooded | adj. | Having blood(physically) cold or not warmer than the external air or water; esp. said of fish & reptiles. 2. without excitement, feelings or sensibility; deliberately cruel; ruthless, merciless, heartless, dispassionately. 3. without compunction or human feeling. |
Cold-bloodedness | n | An abscence of concern for others feelings or sufferings; cold-hearted, cold-heartedness, emotionless. |
Cold bloodly | adj | In a manner without concern for the feeling and welfare of others; unemotionally. |
Cold-bloodness | n | State of being cold-blooded, having an unregulated temperature; ectothermic. 3. state of lacking emotion or compunction. |
Cold boot | vb | To reboot a computer by turning it and on. |
Cold call | n | A sales call either by phone or in person made without referral or request by the recipient. |
Cold calling | n | The calling of someone without preparation or referral. 2. a sales call unsolicited. |
Cold chill | n | An ague fit. |
Cold chips | n | Potato chips, ccrisp. |
Cold fish | n | An emotionless person. 2. a heartless individual person, one lacking emotion. 3. (sl) a sexual partner who, during copulation, lacks vigour and emotional reciprocity. |
Cold fish handshake | n | A handshake lacking vigour and emotional reciprocity. |
Cold-handed | adj | Unemotional, lacking or without feeling. |
Cold-handedness | n | State of being cold-handed. |
Coldheaded | adj. | Wanting in sensibility or natural affection; unkind. |
Cold-hearted | adj. | To be aloof and unfeeling. 2. cruel, mean or unmoved. |
Cold-heartedly | adv | In a cold-hearted manner. |
Cold-heartedness | n | State of being cold-hearted or without sympathy, feeling of compassion, callous, or heartless. |
Coldish | adj | Somewhat cold, rather cold. |
Coldishly | adv | In a somewhat cold-hearted or unfeeling, unemotional manner. |
Coldlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a cold (viral illness) |
Coldliness | n | The realtive lack of heat. 2. the sensation resulting from exposure to low temperature. 3. having limited enthusiasm, coolness. |
Coldly | adj | In a cold manner or state. 2. calmly, cooly, dispassionately. 3. without ardour, enthusiasm. 4. without heat, impatience. |
Cold meat | n | (slang) a corpse. |
Cold meat box | n | (slang) a coffin. |
Cold meat cart | n | (slang) a hearse. |
Coldness | n | The state or condition of being cold. 2. the lack of heat. 3. the sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures. 4. limited or little enthusiasm or affection, coolness. |
Cold one | n | Slang term for a beer. |
Cold read | n | Performance of a script without preparation. 2. the act of cold reading. 2. cold-reading. |
Cold read | vb | To perform a script without preparation. |
Coldrife | adj | Full of cold. |
Cold room | n | A room that is used to chill or freeze food stuffs. |
Cold sell | n | To make a sale to a client who is not the primary target of a sales pitch. 2. a sale made by phone to a person ('cold call') made without referral or request by the recipient. |
Cold selling | n | The act of making a sale to a client who is not the primary target of a sales pitch. |
Cold-short | adj | Brittle when cold, said of metals, such as iron. |
Cold shot | adj | Brittle when cold, as metal. |
Cold shoulder | phr. | To Give Someone the Cold Shoulder" -ostentatiously ignore someone; as in, to give someone the cold shoulder |
Cold sleep | n | A deep sleep during which the body is stored at a very cold temperature to preserve it, cryonic sleep. 2. suspended animation, hibernation. |
Cold sore | n | A small sore or blister on the lip, resulting from infection by the herpes virus. |
Cold start | n | An attempt to start a vehicle engine when it is cold. 2. a military doctrine designed to make a rapid and limited penetration into enemy territory. It is not a plan for comprehensive invasion or occupation. 3. a colder than usually start to a season, as 'a cold start to winter.' 4. in computing, the reloading of a program or operating system. |
Cold Steel | n | An edged sword. |
Cold sweat | n | A physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; it maybe associated with fever or anxiety and stress. |
Cold War | n | The unfriendly relations between the communist nations and the capitalist nations. |
Coldware | n | Appliances and equipment used in the refrigeration of food and beverages etc. |
Cold water | adj | Designating a room, apartment, flat, that is not provided with hot water or sometimes a bathroom, as a 'cold water flat.' |
Cold wave | n | A short period of very cold weather; a cold snap. |
Cole | n | Generic name for Brassica. 2. pottage. |
Colewort | n | Originally, a general name for any plant of the cabbage kind, genus Brassica. |
Collow | vb. | To make black or dirty with soot or coal dust. 2. to blacken, smut, begrime |
Collow | n. | Soot, smut, grime of coal, coal dust. |
Collowed | adj | Covered with smut, soot and general grime. |
Collowing | n | The condition of becoming covered in soot and/ or grime. |
Colly | vb | To blacken in character, blacken, denigrate. 2. to make black with blows; beat, thrash. |
Colt | n | A young horse. 2. a cunning fellow, cheat. 3. a third swarm of bees in summer. 4. youthful tastes or desires; inclination to wantoness. |
Colt | vb | To frisk and run wild as a colt (usu. implying wantonness. 2. to befool, cheat, take. 3. to swarm a third time as bees in summer. |
Colthood | n | The state or quality of being a colt. 2. the colt stage ogf life. |
Coltish | adj | Of, pertaining to, or resembling a colt or colts. 2. transfig. wild, friskly, untrained, untamed. 3. lustful, salacious, wanton. |
Coltishly | adv | In a manner wildly unrestrained, wantonly, untamed. |
Coltishness | n | The state or quality of being untamed, wild frisky, wanton. |
Coltsfoot | n | Tussilage forfora. |
Comb | n | A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. 2. machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. 3. fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest, cocckscomb; (skin on head of birds): caruncle, snood, wattle. 4. structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb. 5.an old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter. 6. the top part of a gun’s stock. 7. the toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings. 8. (music) the main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached. 9. a former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre. 10. toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. 11. the notched scale of a wire micrometer. 12. the collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. 13. one of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions. 14. the curling crest of a wave; a comber. 15. toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis. 16. (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave. |
Comb | vb | Especially of hair or fur): to groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. 2. to separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
3. to search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. 4. to roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. 5. to comb out, disentangle. |
Comb | phr | "Comb Out" - remove knots, tangles in hair and fibers. |
Combe | n | A long, narrow hill or ridge having steep sides. 2. crest or ridge of roof. 3. crest of a house. |
Combed | adj | Of hair, wool and other fibres: combed or groomed. 2. searched, or gone through thoroughly. 3.disentangled. |
Comber | n | A person who, or a machine that which combs wool or other fibres. 2. a long running wave breaking on the shore. |
Combing | n | The act of combing. 2. combing etc. fragments of hair rmoved with a comb. |
Comb-footed-spider | n | A spider of the Therididae family, which has combed-like structure on their hindmost feet. |
Combless | adj | Without or lcking a comb, as some birds. |
Comblike | adj | Resembling or like a comb in some aspects. |
Comb-maker | n | The maker of arious types of combs. |
Come | n | Arrival, coming, advent. 2. applied to the flow or flood or come of water. |
Come | vb | To move from further away to nearer to. 2. to move towards the speaker. 3. to move towards the listener. 4. to move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. 5. to move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. 6. to move towards an unstated agent. 7. to arrive. 8. to appear, to manifest itself. 9. to take a position to something else in a sequence. 10. to approach a state of being or accomplishment. 11. (fig., with to) to take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something. 12. to become, to turn out to be. 13. to be supplied, or made available; to exist. 14. (slang) to carry through; to succeed in. 15. happen. 16. to have a social background. 17. to be or have been a resident or native, as 'where did you come from?' 18. to have been brought up by or employed by. |
Come | prp | Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time. |
Come | intj | An exclamation to express annoyance. 2. an exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request. |
Come | phr | "As Tough As They Come" - typically or supremely as tough as they come. |
Come | phr | "Come Aboard" - board, come on board (esp. a ship or plane). 2. |
Come | phr | "Come About" - happen, occur, take place. 2. change direction of movement. 3. |
Come | phr | "Come Above (another)" - to be thought of in a better light. |
Come | phr | "Come After" - follow in sequence, succeed, replace. 2. to pursue, follow in pursuit, track, seek. |
Come | phr | "Come Again" - be reborn, come a second time, repeat what you said; pardon. |
Come | phr | "Come Alive" - become interested or interesting ; show animation, purpose. |
Come | phr | "Come Along" - present oneself, come along. 2. to move onward, hurry up (to or with a speaker), often used as an exhortation. |
Come | phr | "Come Along to" - come from one place to another, often a short distance. |
Come | phr | "Come A Long Way" - make considerable progress or improvement. |
Come | phr | "Come Along With" an instruction, request to move somewhere quickly. |
Come | phr | "Come Amiss" - be unwelcome, unsuitable. |
Come | phr | "Come and Go" - to leave and return; arrive and depart; move in and move out; to wander without an aim. 2. comings and goings. |
Come | phr | "Come As One" - pay a visit , attend a function or performance without dressing formally, without taking any special pains about one's appearance. |
Come | phr | "Come At" - reach, ascertain facts, truth, causes. 2. to make a threatening move towards someone or something; attack. |
Come | phr | "Come Away" - an invitation to someone to enter a room. 2. break off, dislodge. |
Come | phr | "Come Back" - return to fame or prominence. 2. soon shortly, in a reasonable time. 3. become fashionable again. 4. return (in memory). 5. be restored. |
Come | phr | "Come Back Empty-handed - to achieve long, fail. |
Come | phr | "Come Back To" - to return, remember. |
Come | phr | "Come Back To Earth" - to face reality. 2. come down to earth. |
Come | phr | "Come Before" - to precede. 2. to stand before, as alleged offender before a court. 3. be presented for consideration, decision, judgement. 4. have greater importance than something else. |
Come | phr | "Come Beneath" - to be in a less successful position. 2. to be considered inferior to another or others. |
Come | phr | "Come Beside" - to approach and become beside or parallel with another. |
Come | phr | "Come Between" - lit. to be in-between two persons. 2. fig. to interfere in the affairs of, etc as to break up a romance of lovers. 3. to have a position between one thing and another. 4. to cause a relationship to be less close. 5. prevent somebody from doing or enjoying something. |
Come | phr | "Come By" - pass, especially of something or somebody towards the speaker. 2. obtain usually as a result of effort, as job, wealthy, a rare coin. 3. receive by accident; happen to get. |
Come | phr | "Come Clean (with some about something)" - to be honest about something; confess everything. 3. tell the truth often about something you wish to keep secret. |
Come | phr | "Come, Come" - used to urge somebody to be sensible, to talk to, behave reasonably, with a stronger suggestion of reproach or rebuke, than; come now. |
Come | phr | "Come Down" - collapse, fall in on, drop, fall. 2. fall to the ground as an aircraft. 3. be reduced in price, weight, costs, expenditure. 4. reach a decision, decide to exert one's influence. 5. come to a place to live. |
Come | phr | "Come Down (from)" - leave a University, college etc. |
Come | phr | "Come Down in the World" - suffer a change for the worse in one's economic circumstance, economic conditions; become needy, somewhat poor. |
Come | phr | "Come Down On" - reprimand, rebuke, criticize, or punish severely; come down hard on. 2. voice one's opposition, oppose; have your opinion on something. 4. demand financial redress. |
Come | phr | "Come Down the Pike" - appear, become prominent: to happen, occur, appear. |
Come | phr | "Come Down On The Side Of" - make a choice or decision in favour of. |
Come | phr | "Come Down To" - mean in essence; boil down to, reduce to a simpler form. 2. have one's standard of living, self-confidence etc reduced to a level normally beneath one . 3. pass on to, as myths, legends, stories, traditions. |
Come | phr | "Come Down to Earth" - return to reality. 2. comeback to earth. |
Come | phr | "Come Down To Us" - to be handed down or bequeathed (from previous generations.) |
Come | phr | "Come Down Upon" - to reproach, to punish severely, to make a peremptory. |
Come | phr | "Come Down With Us" - to travel together to a specific location. |
Come | phr | "Come Fast and Thick" - see 'come thick and fast.' |
Come | phr | "Come For (something or someone)" - to arrive to get something. 2. to arrive to convey someone another location. 3. to come to kill someone. |
Come | phr | "Come Forth" - to advance out of a place of shyness. 2. come out, emerge; be produced often as an encouraging or challenging. 3. emerge, as of an idea, opinion, proposal suggestion. |
Come | phr | "Come Forward" - to approach, come from the background to the front. 2. to present or make oneself known before the public, tribunal, or the like. 3. to make advances; progress. 4. to undertake as a volunteer. 5. raise for discussion at a meeting. |
Come | phr | "Come From" - to come from or originate from somewhere. 2. be a native of; be a product or result of. 3. be descended from. |
Come | phr | "Come From Behind" - to improve one's position relative to the position of another person or thing. 2. to advance from a losing position. 3. advance from the rear on a losing position. 4. win after trailing or lagging behind for most of a contest, sporting event. |
Come | phr | "Come From Far and Wide" - come from everywhere. 2. to arrive from many positions and directions. |
Come | phr | "Come From Nowhere" - to come as a surprise with no warning. |
Come | phr | "Come From the Shadows" - to come from obscurity. |
Come | phr | "Come Good" - prove eventually to be helpful, talented or successful. |
Come | phr | "Come Hell and High Water" - to do something no matter what happens. |
Come | phr | "Come Hither" - flirtatious, seductive. |
Come | phr | "Come Home To" - to be affected by a previous(bad) action. 2 be painfully clear. |
Come | phr | "Come In" - enter hither, esp. into a house or enclosure. 2. to enter the arena or field. 2. be fashionable. 3. become seasonable or available, as fruit. 4. gain power. 5. finish in an event or contest. 6. receive an income. 7. move towards the land. 8. receive a story, radio communication, commentary, details, news, information, news, news broadcast, etc. 9. |
Come | phr | "Come in For" - to be inclined among those who receive a share of anything. 2. to receive incidentally. 3. to attract or e the object of. |
Come | phr | "Come In For It" - to incur punishment or rebuke. |
Come | phr | "Come In From the Cold" - to gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, esp. where there was not any before. 2. return to safety and shelter. 3. come in out of the rain. |
Come | phr | "Come in Handy" - to be, prove or find useful or opportune. |
Come | phr | "Come In On" - join, have a share or part in. |
Come | phr | "Come In On the Ground Floor" - join a venture at the start. |
Come | phr | "Come Into" - to enter some enclosed place or area. 2. to get something by good fortune; to receive money or property from someone who has died; inherit; inheritance. 3. to attain some state or condition. 4. to accede to power or office. |
Come | phr | Come Into Being" - to come into existence. 2. to be created, start, begin or established. |
Come | phr | "Come Into Blossom" - open, show in bloom. |
Come | phr | "Come Into Its (or Ones) Own" - show at ones best; achieve rightful recognition. 2. get rightful possession of something. |
Come | phr | "Come Into Leaf" - of a bud, leaf, on a bush: appear, show itself. |
Come | phr | "Come Into Line* with" - conform with the rules etc of a movement, party etc. |
Come | phr | "Come Into One's Head" - to come to one, to realize, to come into one's knowledge. |
Come | phr | "Come Into One's Own" - reach fulfillment of one's own personality, capabilities. |
Come | phr | "Come Into Play" - become involved, start to have an influence. |
Come | phr | "Come Into Sight" -appear, become visible. |
Come | phr | "Come Into Something" - to receive money, or property from someone who has died. |
Come | phr | "Come Into the Open" - be frank, speak freely, become obvious, made public. |
Come | phr | "Come Into the World" - to be born. |
Come | phr | "Come In With" - to overtake, to meet, fall in with. 2. join someone in a n undertaking, partnership, firm. |
Come | phr | "Come Near To" - to approach in person, order, qualities, etc. 2. to come nigh. |
Come | phr | "Come Now" - used as mild expression or reproach, urging somebody to be sensible, to talk or behave reasonably. |
Come | phr | "Come of" - be descended from. 2. be the result. |
Come | phr | "Come Off" - fall from, be detached from, be removable. 2. happen, fare well or badly. 3. finish, complete; to succeed, achieve. |
Come | phr | "Come Off It" - you expect me to believe that. 2. not say things which one's knows can't be true. 3. stop trying to mislead others. 4. said when vigorously expressing disbelief. |
Come | phr | "Come of Good Stock" - to be descended from a good family. |
Come | phr | "Come On" - be quick, make an effort, try harder. 2. make progress; grow. 3. leave a place in order to arrive at a destination later than somebody else. 4. be cheerful; pull yourself together. 5. starting up, as a cold coming on. 6. start to rain, snow, thunder. 7. walk on to a stage. 8. take place a certain time. 9. be considered by a court or tribunal. |
Come | phr | "Come On" - to advance thither forward often implying hostile intent. |
Come | phr | "Come On Down" - come over and visit me. 2. a more persuasive invitation than 'Come In' |
Come | phr | "Come One, Come All' - anybody that cares to do so can come, take part, etc; it makes no difference how many people come; if one everyone comes. |
Come | phr | "Come One's Way" - found, met with, without deliberate attention or effort. |
Come | phr | "Come Online" - to log on to a computer. |
Come | phr | "Come On Over" - to pay a casual visit to. |
Come | phr | "Come On Strong" - emphasis, exaggerate, one's speech or behavior for effect, speak very, unduly, forcefully about something. |
Come | phr | "Come On to" - begin, start. |
Come | phr | "Come On Top of" - follow (often as a complicated or aggravating factor). |
Come | phr | "Come Out" - from a place: emerge, issue. 2. to publish, utter, give vent to; be spoken. 3. stop work, strike. 4. be released from prison. 5. formally enter society. 6. flower, blossom, bloom. 7. appear, become visible. 8. appear in shops, stores. 9. be revealed or shown up clearly. 10. be clear or explicit. 11. emerge, elicited. 12. produce a satisfactory answer. |
Come | phr | "Come Out At " cost, be calculated at, work out at. |
Come | phr | "Come Out In" - become (partially) covered with an skin eruption. |
Come | phr | "Come Out In the Wash" -eventually have a satisfactory outcome |
Come | phr | "Come Out Of" - to issue or emerge from; leave a place. 2. to be bought or exported from. 4. disappear from a surface with cleaning. |
Come | phr | "Come Out of One's Ears" - to be plentiful. |
Come | phr | "Come Out of One's Shell" - to be more confident and less shy. |
Come | phr | "Come Out of the Woodwork" - to appear after being hidden or not active for a long while, esp. in order to do something unpleasant. |
Come | phr | "Come Out On Strike" - to take industrial action by leaving one workplace as a protest or demand. |
Come | phr | "Come Out On the Right Side" - not lose money; experience apositive result. |
Come | phr | "Come Out On the Wrong Side" - lose money; experience a negative result. |
Come | phr | "Come Out On Top" - succeed eventually; win, overcome difficulties, prove superior to others. |
Come | phr | "Come Out Swinging" - to strongly defend about something you believe in. |
Come | phr | "Come Out To" - leave home for an excursion, drive, walk (with a friend). |
Come | phr | "Come Out Well" - be revealed as behaving in a good way. 2. achieve a positive result. |
Come | phr | "Come Out With" - to say, utter, blurt out. |
Come | phr | "Come Over" - to effect, or become, or make an impression, persuade etc. by assuming a false manner or behavior. 2 visit, usually after a long journey. 3. reach a destination. 4. overtake, seize, effect. 5. suddenly feel sick, faint, weak; dizzy, angry, bad-tempered. |
Come | phr | "Come Over to" - change side; allegiance. |
Come | phr | "Come Rain, Come Shine" - whatever the weather is like; what ever happens; in any case, event wet or fine. |
Come | phr | "Come Right" - have a succesful, happy outcome. |
Come | phr | "Come Short" - not to be sufficient. |
Come | phr | "Come Thick and Fast" - to appear repeatedly. 2. come etc in large numbers or great quantity. |
Come | phr | "Come Through" - to emerge successfully. 2. to survive (an illness, setback etc.) |
Come | phr | "Come Through On" - make communications with somebody, (by means of); (by); or receive by a message, communication, news. |
Come | phr | "Come Through the Side Door" - to be born as an illegitmate child. |
Come | phr | "Come To" - to regain consciousness; awake from sleep and regain awareness. 2. of a boat; heave to. 3. be equal to, reach, a total amount to, of a bill purchase, goods. |
Come | phr | "Come to a Dead End" - reach a point beyond which no progress can be made. |
Come | phr | "Come to a Full Stop" - to completely cease activity. |
Come | phr | "Come To an End" - conclude, terminate, finish. 2. all things good or bad come to an end. 3. come to an untimely end. |
Come | phr | "Come To a Head" - (fig.) - of a problem: to reach a critical or crucial stage. 2. to reach a stage in a difficult situation when someone takes a strong action to deal with it. |
Come | phr | "Come to a Standstill" - (of the movement or progress of something): stop or be unable to progress further. |
Come | phr | "Come To Bear" - something, usually, important that soon or later will impact upon some aspect of ones life. 2. to bring to bear. |
Come | phr | "Come Together" - to meet, to attend something together, to catch up. 3. to come together in opinion, to agree. |
Come | phr | "Come to Grips With"- engage in, struggle with a problem, question, disease, life. |
Come | phr | "Come to Ground" - fall down, as a pole, tent, chimney. |
Come | phr | "Come to Hand" - obtain, get, have. |
Come | phr | "Come to Harm" - be hurt, harmed; fall under the bad influence. |
Come | phr | "Come to It" - reach a state (usually unpleasant) as a result of change in a age, strength, ability, wealth, etc. |
Come | phr | "Come To Life" - lit. to act as if alive after a time of seeming not to be alive. |
Come | phr | "Come To Light" - to be discovered, revealed. |
Come | phr | "Come To Mind" - to remember. |
Come | phr | "Come To Nothing" - fail, after much endeavor. 2. have no useful or interesting result; be a complete failure. 3. never come to anything. 4. never come to much. |
Come | phr | "Come To Nought" -fail, after much endeaour. |
Come | phr | "Come To Oneself" - to begin behaving and thinking like one normally does. 2. come to one's normal state. 3. return to normal consciousness. |
Come | phr | "Come to One's Feet" - stand up quickly, as an audience, crowd at a match. |
Come | phr | "Come to Rest" - stop, reach a final position. |
Come | phr | "Come To Somebody's Help" - give aid, etc to somebody else. |
Come | phr | "Come To Somebody's Ears" - come to somebody's attention. |
Come | phr | "Come To Something" - be surprized, strange. |
Come | phr | "Come to That" - in fact, if this is the case. |
Come | phr | "Come To the Fore" - fig. to be well-known or prominent, to be important or growing in importance. |
Come | phr | "Come to the Same Thing(as)" - equal, be equivalent to, one another. |
Come | phr | "Come To Think of It" - to remember and consider a matter on reflection. 2. now that the person, event etc just mentioned or just about to be mentioned has been thought of or recalled. |
Come | phr | "Come To This" - to result in a negative situation. 2. reach a certain state or result. |
Come | phr | "Come To With" - approach, tackle (with) enthusiasm, ardor. |
Come | phr | "Come to Words" - to argue, dispute. |
Come | phr | "Come True" - actually happens as foretold, dreamed, hoped for. |
Come | phr | "Come Under" - classified with, or subordinate to. |
Come | phr | "Come Undone" to disintegrate; fall to pieces, meet with disaster, come to grief, fall apart (lit. and fig.) |
Come | phr | "Come Unhinged" - to become deranged or mentally unbalanced. 2,. to be thrown into turmoil and confusion. |
Come | phr | "Come Unstuck" - fail, or encounter an unexpected problem. 2. met with a mishap, misfortune, reverse. |
Come | phr | "Come Unto" - to attempt to seduce sexually. |
Come | phr | "Come Up" - to ascend, rise up, be elevated above the surface. 2. occur, arise, happen; happen by chance. 3. appear above the soil. 3. travel to a place, town etc. 4. arise, be mentioned. 5. come to be considered (by a court); appear in court. 6. vomit, retch, spew. 7. |
Come | phr | "Come Up Against" - to oppose; be faced with, contest with, knock or bump into. |
Come | phr | "Come Up As Far As" - reach, extend to the road, chin etc. |
Come | phr | "Come Up For" - to be eligible for something; to be in line or in sequence for something. 2. be considered as an applicant, candidate. |
Come | phr | "Come Up for Sale" - come onto the market, become available for purchase. |
Come | phr | "Come Upon" - find, discover, encounter, come on (by chance). |
Come | phr | "Come Upon One" - (of something not welcomed): arrive, strike, effect; come on. |
Come | phr | "Come Up Smelling Roses" - happen in the best, most desired way possible. |
Come | phr | "Come Up Smiling" - emerge bravely and cheerfully from an unpleasant experience. |
Come | phr | "Come Up the Hard Way" - reach one's position through hard work. |
Come | phr | "Come Up To" - equal. 2. encounter. 3. come up to an acceptable level or standard. |
Come | phr | "Come Up to One's Chin" - as tall as the height of another person's chin. |
Come | phr | "Come Up With" - to be equal or level with. 2. to bring forth, produce, find 3. discover or produce. 3. to suggest. |
Come | phr | "Come What May" - no matter what. 2. in spite, disregarding, whatever (else) may happen (while doing something or a result of doing something). |
Come | phr | "Come Within" - come near enough to be seen, heard, reach. |
Come | phr | "Coming Right Up" - an expression used by someone (such as a waiter) to explain that something ordered will be served or delivered very quickly. |
Come | phr | "Have It Coming to One" - deserve what is about to happen. |
Come | phr | "How Come/" - how did that occur? |
Come | phr | "I don't Know What Came Over Me' - said as an excuse for one's irrational behavior, often in the expression 'as I don't know what came over me, I was thinking clearly. |
Come | phr | "If It Comes (Down) To That" - in that event. 2. if it is, were, a question of that. 3. in fact, (said to introduce an additional point.) 4. of a situation or outcome, being dependent on a specified factor. 5. if a situation or decision comes down to something, that is the thing that influences it most. |
Come | phr | "If It Comes To This" - summarized; 'if it comes to this.' |
Come | phr | "Let Them All Come" - an expression of confidence in the face of a challenge by others. |
Come | phr | "Not Come to Much" - not do anything of any importance, or consequence. |
Come | phr | "Not Have Enough Brain to Come In Out of the Rain" - be very stupid or foolish. |
Come | phr | "Not Know Whether One Is coming Or Going" - be confused. |
Come | phr | "This is Where We Come In" - our knowledge or knowing dates from this point. 2. we are back where we started. |
Come | phr | "Until the Cows Come Home" - for a very long time. |
Come | phr | "When it Comes Down to" - when it is a question of. |
Come | phr | "When One's Ship Comes In" - when one has plenty of money to spend; largesse, good luck or fortune. |
Come-again | n | A direction to come again. 2. a deferring of attention. |
Come-all-Ye | n | A street-ballad, or folksong, whose opening words were 'come all ye maidens; young men, etc.. |
Come-a-long | n | A hand operated winch with a ratchet used to pull objects. The drum is wrapped with wire rope. A similar tool that uses a nylon strap is used to straighten trees in Texas, as it straightens gradually over time, therefore not splitting the trunk |
Come-and-Go | n | A passing backwards and forwards. |
Comeback | n | An act or retaliation, a reply, a verbal retort. 2. a recovery, return to a former state or position. 3. to stage a comeback, reinstatement to a former position. |
Come-backer | n | A retaliator. 2. one who retorts or replies. 3. one who makes a comeback to a profession, sport or other cativity. |
Comeback-king | n | A man who finds success after a series of setbacks or failures. 2 a man who makes several comebacks. |
Comeback-queen | n | A woman who finds success after a series of setbacks or failures. 2. a woman who makes several comebacks. |
Come-between | n | An intervention, one who or that which intervenes. |
Comedown | n | A descent, a downfall, a notable reverse. 2. now, esp. a fall ir drop in social or official position or status. |
Comefrom | n | An obscure control flow structure used in some programming languages, originally as a joke. COMEFROM is roughly the opposite of GOTO in that it can take the execution state from any arbitrary point in code to a COMEFROM statement. |
Come-hither | n | An invitation to approach, an enticement, as a come-hither look. |
Come-hithery | n | Inviting or enticing quality, behaviour, etc.; specifically sexual seductiveness or allure. |
Come-in | n | An entrance, ingress. 2. an arrival, immigration. |
Comelily | adv | In a comely manner, prettily, decently, becoming, suiyably. |
Comeliness | n | The quality of being comely. 2. suitableness, becomingness, seemliness, decency, propriety. |
Comeling | n | One who has come to a place, as distinguished from its permanent residents. 2. an immigrant, stranger, foreigner, sojourner. |
Comelingness | n | State of quality of sojourning, immigrating etc. |
Comely | adj | Fair, pretty, beautiful, nice. 2. of things: expressing decent, sober or quiet beauty. 3. pleasing - in modern use a more homelier style of beauty which pleases, but does not excite admiration. 4. applied to those of noble station, 'as God and Jesus.' 5. pleasing in a moral sense to notions of propriety or esthetic taste, decent, proper, decorous. 6. befitting the purpose, appropriate. |
Comely | adv | Handsomely, nicely, suitably, in a seemly or becoming manner. |
Comely-looking | adj | Having comely looks. |
Comely maidens | n | Young, attractie, nubile women. |
Comely-wise | adv | In a comely way. |
Come-off | n | A coming off the field of action. 2. a conclusion, finish-up, an issue. 3. a conclusion of an argument, discourse. 4. a getting-off a task or duty, an evasion, excuse for non-performance. 5. something that has been tried and has 'come-off.' or succeeded. |
Come-on | n | A swindle, swindling. 2. an inducement, enticement, lure; an invitation to approach. 2.something intended to attract, as in an advertisement.
3. statement or sometimes action reflecting sexual or relational interest. |
Come-outer | n | One who 'comes out' or separates h/self on principle from an established society or organisation; originally applied to certain religious dissenters or radiacl reformers. |
Comeover | n | Arrival, approach. |
Come-'o'-will | n | "Come-of-will" - any person or thing that comes of his own accord without being invited. 2. a plant that springs up spontaneously. 3. a bastard child. 4. a pidgin or trade language. |
Comer | n | A visitor, an arrival. 2. in combination, first-comer, newcomer, all-comers; up-and-comer. 3. anybody or somebody that comes or chooses to come. 4. a grower or springer-up, said of a plant. 5. a person or animal that shows promise of development or achieving success. |
Comet | n | Late Old English comēta, from Late Latin, from Latin comētēs, from Greek komētēs, long-haired (star), comet, from komē, hair. A celestial body, observed only in that part of its orbit that is relatively close to the sun, having a head consisting of a solid nucleus surrounded by a nebulous coma up to 2.4 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) in diameter and an elongated curved vapor tail arising from the coma when sufficiently close to the sun. Comets are thought to consist chiefly of ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide, and water. 2. a tail-star. |
Comet-tail | n | The fiery afterburn of a comet. |
Come-to-bed | adj | Extremely good looking, sexually dazzling in looks. |
Come-to-bed-eyes | adj | Sexually alluring in facial expression and gesture. |
Comet-year | n | A year in which a notable comet appears, as in Halley's Comet. |
Coming | n | A sprouting, esp. of barley in malting. 2. that or something that comes; approaching in space in time or space. 3. inclination to make a meeting; an advance, readiness, eagerness, complaisant. 4. a rising in prominence, likelihood to attainment or to distinction. |
Coming | phr | "Not Know Whether One Is Coming Or Going" - to be confused. |
Coming | phr | "Have It Coming" - to get what one deserves; to deserve what one gets. |
Coming | phr | "Not Know Whether One Is Coming Or Going" -be in a state of great confusion, uncertainty. |
Coming on | adv | Almost, nearly, nigh on. |
Comings-and-goings | n | Busy, active movements of many persons, especially in and out of a place. |
Coming-together | n | A union. 2. a collision. |
Coming up | adj | Soon to appear, imminent, soon. |
Cook | n. | One whose occupation is the preparation of food for the table. |
Cook | vb. | To prepare food ; to make it fit for eating by application of heat, as by boiling, roasting, broiling. |
Cook | phr | "Cook the Books" - an obsolete metaphor for cooking, where ingredients are changed, altered and improved by the process. Thus financial statements can be also be modified to the benefit of the "cook'. 2. to manipulate accounts information, especially illegally. 3. to falsify an account of an event. |
Cook | phr | "Cook One's Goose" - spoil or ruin one's own or the chance of another of success either in general or in a particular way. |
Cook | phr | "Cook Up" - concoct, invent, often in haste. |
Cook | phr | "There are Many Ways to Cook an Egg" - there are many ways to achieve an objective. |
Cook | phr | "What's Cooking" - what in hand, what's doing. |
Cookbook | n | A book of recipes with cooking directions. |
Cookdom | n | The office or position of a cook. 2. the domain of cooks. |
Cook-chill | n | Of food which has been cooked and refrigerated by the manufacturer ready for reheating by the consumer. |
Cooked | adj | Of articles of food prepared by heat for eating. 2. combinations, such as half-cooked, ill-cooked, well-cooked. |
Cooker | n | A stove or other apparatus, designed for cooking. 2. a vessel in which food is cooked. 2. a fruit, etc, that cooks well. 3. one who cooks up or doctors something; manipulation of financial accounts ('to cook the books') 4. (sl) a finisher. |
Cook-house | n | A building or room in which the cooking is done. 2. an outdoor cooking kitchen. |
Cooking | n | The act of preparing something (as food)by the application of heat; |
Cooking-apple | n | An apple siutable for cooking, such as the "Granny Smith: apple." |
Cooking pot | n | A pot which food is cooked in. |
'Cooking-shop | n | an eating house. |
Cookish | adj | Like a cook. 2. somewhat cooked. |
Cookless | adj | Without a cook. |
Cook-off | vb | In military terms: to pull the pin from the grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing it. 3. to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates. 4. to accidentally (or sometimes cause) a grenade to detonate as the result of excess heat. |
Cookout | n | An outdoor gallery at which food is cooked; barbeque. |
Cookroom | n | A kitchen. |
Cookship | n | The function or position of a cook. |
Cookshop | n | A shop where food is cooked and sold; restaraunt, eating-house. |
Cook top | n | An assembly of burners for cooking, designed to fit onto the surface, such as the top of a table. |
Cookware | n | Utensils for cooking , esp. dishes, pans. |
Cook wench | n | A girl working at a cookshop, restaraunt, eating-house. (beer wench.) |
Cook up | vb | To prepare a meal. 2. to manufacture, fabricate, to devise an elaborate. 3. to prepare a heroin dose by heating.43. to make a large amount of illegal drugs. |
Cookware | n | Various objects, such as pots, pans, baking dishes, etc. used for cooking. |
Cool | n | That which is cool, the cool part, place, time, thus a 'cool breeze,' a light refreshing wind. |
Cool | vb. | To lose heat, to get colder. 2. to make cooler, less warm. 3.(fig.), to become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. 4. to make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate |
Cool | adj | Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold. 2. allowing or suggesting heat relief. 3. a cool grey colour. 4. of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control. 5. unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
6. calmly audacious. 7. (informal) of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others. 8. (informal) in fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang. 9. (informal) of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem. 10.(informal) a dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless. 11. (informal) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting. 12 applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. |
Cool | phr | "Cool Down" - to be cooler, reduced in temperature. 2. to cause to cool down. |
Cool | phr | "Cool It" - to calm or quiten down. |
Cool | phr | "Cool off" - become, or make less warm, excited, ardent or interested. |
Cool | phr | "Cool One's Heels" - to wait, esp. impatiently and restlessly |
Cool | phr | "Keep a Cool Head' - remain calm. |
Cool | phr | "Play It Cool" -take a low key and rational approach. |
Cool box | n | Car-fridge, eskie, ice-chest; chillbin. |
Cooled | adj | Made cool; lowered in temperature. 2. refrigerated at a lower or reduced state of coolness. |
Cooler | n | Anything that cools, such as a coolroom, eskie, cool-box, ice-chest, etc. 2. an insulated container with ice and freezer packs to keep ffood and drink cold when camping or other outdoor excursion. 3. a mixed drink, of alcoholic and non-alocoholic contents, served chilled. 4. (sl) a bouncer, ground-controller, doorman, security staff. 5. (sl) prison. |
Cool-headed | adj | Free from excitement, not easily excited in the mind. 2. having an even temper and being calm and in control. |
Coolheadedly | adv | In a coolheaded manner |
Coolheadness | n | The state or characteristic of being coolheaded: having an even temper and being calm and in control. |
Coolhunter | n | One who observes emerging trends and styles, usually involing street fashion, and sells the data to companies. |
Coolhunting | n | The observation of emerging trends and styles, usually involing street fashion, as a form of market research. |
Cooling | n | A decrease in tempature. 2. refrigeration, that which cools. |
Coolingly | adv | In a cooling manner or way. |
Cooling tower | n | A large device, in the form of a tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation carried by circulating currents of air. |
Coolish | adj | Somewhat cool, quite or rather cool. |
Coolness | n | The state of being cool, as in chilly. 2. the result or product of being cool, as in chilly. 3. the state or result of being cool, as in good or pleasurable. 4. in a state of composure, or control. |
Coolroom | n | In a laboratory, (chemical) a large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long term, stable storage. 2. in a restaurant, (chemical) a large, chilled container or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long term, stable storage of perishable foods. |
Coolth | n | Coolness. 2. a cold (malady) |
Coolwort | n | Saxifragacae. |
Cooly | adj | Of a cool, refreshing quality. |
Coom | n. | Soot formed on a fireplace (culm), blacksmith furnace, refuse |
Coom | vb | To begrime with smut, as in soot. |
Coomy | adj. | Covered or blackened by soot, dust, grime. 2. Soily, smirchy |
Coomb | n. | Small valley, hollow, deep hollow or valley in Old English times. 2. a valley, a steep short valley running up from the sea coast. |
Coomb | n | A vessel, cup or perhaps a small measure. 2. brewing tub, vat. 3. a dry measure of capacity, equal to four bushels. |
Cop | n. | Summit, top, peak, brow, esp of a hill, 2. top of anything, esp. of a hill, 3. the head, crown. 4. bird's crest; crest on the head of a bird. 5. heap, mound, tumulus. 6. ridge. 7. an enclosing mound or bank; a hedge bank. 8. a centre ridge of a butt of ploughed land. 8. spider. |
Cop | vb | To pile up in a tumulus, heap or mound, to bank up. 2. to plough in ridges. |
Cop-bone | n. | Kneebone |
Copen | vb. | Desire eagerly, long for, yearn deeply |
Copener | n. | Paramour |
Copped | adj | Haing the head cut off, polled. 2. rising to the top of the head. 3. heaped in tumulus. 4. crested, having a tuft on the head. 5. saucy, peeish, crabbed, heady. |
Copper | n | from Old English, from Late Latin cuprum, from Latin Cyprium (aes) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29. 2. a coin, usually of small denomination, made of copper or a copper alloy. 3. chiefly British a large cooking pot made of copper or often of iron. 4. any of various small butterflies of the subfamily Lycaeninae, having predominantly copper-colored wings. |
Copper | vb | To cover with copper. 2. to sheathe the bottom and sides with copper, as of a ship. |
Copper | adj | Reddish-brown in colour. 2. made of copper |
Copper-belt | n | A copper-mining area |
Copper-bit | n | A soldering-tool pointed with copper. |
Copper-bottomed | adj | Haing the bottom covered with copper. 2. fig. thoroughly sound, genuine, authentic, trustworthy. |
Coppered | adj | Of the colour of copper. 2. covered with copper, coated or copper plated. |
Copperen | adj | Made of copper. |
Copper-fastened | adj | Fasten with copper bolts. |
Copper-head | n | A snake with copper coloured head. 2. a nickname given, during the American Civil War, to a northern sympathizer by Secessionists of the south. 3.a ginger headed person. |
Copperish | adj | Somewhat coppery in colour. |
Copperless | adj | Without or lacking in copper. |
Coppersmith | n | An artificer in copper, one who manufactures copper utensils. |
Coppersmithing | n | The art of the coppersmith. |
Coppersmithy | adj | Pertaining to the art of the coppersmith and coppersmithing. |
Copperware | n | Utensils made of copper. |
Coppery | adj | Characterized by the presence, quality or application of copper |
Copse | n. | OE. ? a shackle for any part of the body. Foot-copse: leg iron; Hand-copse: manacle; Wear-copse: neck-copse; 2. Hapse for fastening a gate or door; fastener. |
Corn | n | The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
2. in US, Canada, Australia, maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays. 3. grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. 4. small, hard particle. |
Corn | vb | US, Canada: to granulate; to form a substance into grains. 2. to corn gunpowder. 3. in US, Canada, Australia: to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef. 4. in US, Canada): to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed. 5. to render intoxicated, as 'ale strong enough to corn one.' 6. short for corn snow, a type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions. as corny, something appealing to country folk in US, Canada something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion. |
Cornbread | n | Bread made from cornmeal |
Corn-cockle | n | Lynchis githago. In previous times cockle (tares) was used generally for an intrusive weed that grew in corn fields. |
Corn-dealer | n | Cornmonger. |
Corned | adj | Formed into grains or particles, granulated. 2. bearing seeds or grains; having seeds developed. 3. intoxicated. |
Cornfield | n | A field planted with corn. |
Cornhouse | n | Granary. |
Corning | n | The action or process of granulation. 2. pickling with salt, salting. 3. the growing or cultivation of grain. |
Cornish | adj | Of the corn kind. |
Corn-loft | n | A granary. |
Cornmonger | n. | Corndealer, (monger of corn) often contemptous implication of greed and extortion |
Cornstalk | n | A tough, fibrous of corn (maize), often ground for silage after harvest. 2. in colonial Australia, a young person born in New South Wales of immigrant parents. |
Corn thistle | n | A perennial herb, Cirsulum arvense |
Corn-tree | n | OE: corntreow. cornel tree. |
Corny | adj | As such a type as appeals to country-folk or unsophisticated, tiresomely or ridiculously old-fashioned or sentimental, hackneyed, trite, inferior. 2. producing corny, abounding in corn or grain. 3. intoxicated, tipsy. |
Cosp | n | OE: cosp - hasp, a shackle |
Cost | n. | Way, manner, available course, means, contrivance. 2. quality, condition, wont or habit, disposition, kind, charactristic. |
Cost | n. | The herb called Alecost or Costmary. |
Costen | vb. | To try, tempt. |
Costening | n. | Temptation, costnung, testing, trial, tribulation. |
Cot | n. | Small house, little cottage, a small shelterpoetical connoting smallness, humbleness, (rather than meanness or rudeness expressed by hut.) That is: cot-folk, cot-town. 2. a finger stall |
Cote | n. | OE: parallel form of cyte: cell. - a small detached house occupied by the poor, and labourers. Note: Cottage: a slight building for the shelter of animals (pigcote, hen-cote, fowl-cote, sheepcote) 2. small building for storage, shed, stall. |
Cote | vb. | To enclose and shelter animals in a pen, enclosure. |
Coteful | adj | As much as a cote can hold. |
Cot-folk | n | Cottar folk |
Cothe | n | Coathe: the pangs of childbirth. |
Cothouse | n | Cottage, a small cottage, working man's cottage. 2. a slight shelter, shed, shelter. |
Cotland | n. | A piece of land (about 5 acres) held by a cotman, cotlander, cotter along with his cot. |
Cotlif | n. | Life or living, dwelling in a cot, see: mynster-lif: a monastery. 2. a house, cottage, possibly a village. 3. secular life as opposed to religious life.. |
Cotly | adv | Quickly, keenly, boldly, fiercely |
Cotman | n | Cottager, cotter; a tenant of a cot(e). |
Cotquean | n | The housewife of a cot or labourer's hut. 2. opprobriously, a woman to whom the manners of such a housewife are attributed. 3. a scolding, coarse, vulgar, woman, low beldam, beldam, a fish-wife, tinker's wife. 4. a man who acts the housewife; often a man who has been cuckolded by his wife. |
Cotquean | vb | To play the cotquean, said of a man. |
Cotqueaned | adj | One, in modern use, a man who acts the housewife. |
Cotqueanish | adj | Rather or somewhat cotqueaned. |
Cotquean-like | adj | Characterized or resembling a cotquean. |
Cotset | n. | Cottage settler, (In Doomesday Book) 2. in OE: a villein who occupied a cot or cottage with an attached plot of land, held by service of labour. |
Cotted | adj | Dotted or lined with cottages. |
Cotter | n. | A peasant or tenant who occupies a cottage (cot-house) belonging to a farm (usu. 5 acres) as a sort of out-servant. |
Cottish | adj | Cotqueanish. |
Couch-grass | n. | a species of grass, Triticum repens, with long, creeping root-stalks |
Cough | vb | From Middle English coughen, coghen, apparently from Old English *cohhian (but not recorded) (compare Old English cohhetan (“to shout”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuh-. 1. to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion; to expectorate, spit, spit up. |
Cough | n | A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. 2. a condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough; tussification. |
Cough | phr | "Cough Up" - give up reluctantly. 2. spit up, expectorate, tussive. |
Coughy | adj | Pertaining to coughing, tussive, expectorative, spitty. |
Could | vb | From Middle English coude, from Old English cūþe, past indicative and past subjunctive form of cunnan (“to be able”). The addition of the silent 'l' was likely a misappropriation attempting to normalize with modal verbs will/would and shall/should. However, while the letter l was historically pronounced in the latter two, can never did have an l sound in it. Verb: 1. simple past tense of can. 2. conditional of can. 3. used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact). 4. used to politely ask for permission to do something. 5. used to politely ask for someone else to do something. 6. used to show the possibility that something might happen. 7. used to suggest something. |
Could | phr | "Could Do With" - I would like to have |
Could | phr | "Could Do Without" - I don't wish to have. |
Could | phr | "Could Go Something" - could enjoy something; would like to have something, esp food or drink. |
Could | phr | "Could Swear (that)" - perfectly sure (that). |
Couldn't | vb | Negative form of 'could.' |
Couldn't | phr | "Couldn't Care Less" - used to express an uncaring opinion. |
Coulter | n. | The iron blade fixed at the front of a share plough; also attributively. |
Coulterneb | n. | The local name for the Puffin, so called because of the shape of its bill. |
Court | n. | In OE. an assembly held by the sovereign at his residence. From OF. |
Courtleet | n. | Court record. 2. a court district or jurisdiction or district which jurisdiction extends. See: court. |
Couth | adj. | A back -formation of 'uncouth' - as of a quality of things: known, (wide couth: well known, familiar, famous, acquainted, renown. 2. of persons and their actions: kind, affable, agreeable, pleasant, well-mannered. 3. comfortable, smug, cosy. antonym: uncouth. 4. knowing how to handle oneself socially. |
Couth | adv | Clearly, manifestingly, familiarly. |
Couthily | adv | In a clear, manifestily manner |
Couthiness | n | Friendliness, familiarity, affability. 2. renownness, agreement, pleasance. 3. acquaintance. 4. smugness, cosiness, complacency. |
Couthlike | adj | Characteristic of friendship, kindness, etc. |
Couthly | adv | Familarly, friendly, kindly, as a friend. 2. in the knowledge of being familiar. |
Couth-ut-laughe | n | Couth-out-law: a term applied to a person knowingly harbouring or concealing an outlaw, or perhaps, more properly the offence of doing so. |
Couthy | adj | Action as befits a person well known to everyone. 2. full of friendly familarity warm and friendly, kindly, pleasantly, genial. 3. of things: agreeable, pleasant, nice. |
Cove | n. | In a rock hollow or recess in a rock. 2. recess in a precipitious mountain side. 3. Sheltered place or recess in forest, hills, woods. 4. cell in a pigeon coup. 5. a nook. |
Cow | n. | The female of the domestic or of any bovine animal. The female of some other large animals, eg, elephant, whale. |
Cow | phr | "Till the Cows Come Home" - not for a very long time, if not at all. |
Cow | phr | "The Cow With An Iron Tail" - a pump. |
Cowbane | n | Any of the several related poisonous plants of the genus, Cicuta; esp. the water hemlock. |
Cowberry | n | Vaccinum vitis; foxberry. |
Cowed | adj | Depressed or disappointed through fear; overrawed. |
Cow-fish | n | One of the various cetaceans, as a grampus, dolphins. 2. a trunk-fish. 3. a sirenian. |
Cowflesh | n | Beef. |
Cowhand | n | An worker who manages the general day to day handling of cows. |
Cow-hearted | adj. | Faint-hearted, timorous, meek and mild; cowardly. |
Cowherd | n | Cows in a herd or group. |
Cow-herder | n | One who herds or drives cows to specific locations; a drover. |
Cowhide | n | The skin of or outer dermic layer of a cow. |
Cowhiding | n | The process and preparation of turning cowhides into leather. |
Cowhouse | n | A building where cows are keeped for shelter and safety. 2. a milking shed. |
Cowing | n | Overawing, intimidation. |
Cowish | adj | Like a cow, characteristic of a cow. 2. somewhat or rather fearful, afraid, meekish. |
Cowkeeper | n | A diary man and/or beef farmer. |
Cowl | n. | A garment with a hood, esp worn by monks; occasionally the hood alone. Sometimes: a monk. |
Cowled | adj | Furnished with or wearing a cowl. |
Cowlish | adj | Characteristic of a monk, monkish. 2. adorned or attired in a cowl. |
Cow-leech | n. | Cow doctor |
Cowlness | n | The state of wearing a cowl. 2. monkhood. |
Cowmilk | n | Milk produced by a cow or cows in herd. |
Cowpath | n | A track used by cows usually leading to a milking-shed; a cowper. |
Cowshard | n. | Cowdung, sheard, sharn |
Cowshed | n | A shed or house where cows are kept. |
Cowslip | n. | Cow-dung. 2. the common name of Primula veris, a well known wild plant in pastures and grassy banks. also some plants of the genus 'carduus lanceolatus' |
Cow's-lungwort | n | Mullein, fellwort, flannel leaf. |
Cow-shard | n | Cow dung, cow turd, cowslip. 2. cow dung; cow-sharn. |
Cow soapwort | n | Cowherb |
Cow tree | n | One of several trees yielding a milky juice which can be used as a food, mostly in South America. |
Cowy | adj | Bovine; pertaining to a cow, characteristic of cows. |
Cowyard | n | A yard or enclosure where cows are held. |