Coun"try club. A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
Coun"try cousin. A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.
||Coup (k), n. 1. A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal at rouge et noir. [Cant]
2. Among some tribes of North American Indians, the act of striking or touching an enemy in warfare with the hand or at close quarters, as with a short stick, in such a manner as by custom to entitle the doer to count the deed an act of bravery; hence, any of various other deeds recognized by custom as acts of bravery or honor.
While the coup was primarily, and usually, a blow with something held in the hand, other acts in warfare which involved great danger to him who performed them were also reckoned coups by some tribes.
G. B. Grinnell.
Among the Blackfeet the capture of a shield, bow, gun, war bonnet, war shirt, or medicine pipe was deemed a coup.
G. B. Grinnell.
Coup. v. i. To make a coup.
Woe to the Sioux if the Northern Cheyennes get a chance to coup !
F. Remington.
Coup"stick` (k"stk`), n. [Coup + stick.] A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup.
Court, n. -- Court of claims (Law), a court for settling claims against a state or government; specif., a court of the United States, created by act of Congress, and holding its sessions at Washington. It is given jurisdiction over claims on contracts against the government, and sometimes may advise the government as to its liabilities.
||Cou`veuse" (?), n. [F.] (Med.) An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.
Cov"er*age (?), n. The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.
Cov"er crop. A catch crop planted, esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as for the benefit of the soil when plowed under in spring.
Cov"er*side` (?), n. A region of country having covers; a hunting country.
Cov"ing (?), n. (Arch.) (a) A cove or series of coves, as the concaved surface under the overhang of a projecting upper story. (b) The splayed jambs of a flaring fireplace.
Co`walk"er (?), n. A phantasmic or "astral" body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelgänger.
Cow"pea`, n. (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Vigna Sinensis, syn. V. Catjang) found throughout the tropics of the Old World. It is extensively cultivated in the Southern United States for fodder, and the seed is used as food for man.
Coyote State. South Dakota; -- a nickname.
||Co`yo*til"lo (?), n. [Mex. Sp. dim. See Coyote.] A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.
C Q D. In radiotelegraphy, the letters signified by the code call formerly used (cf. S O S) by ships in distress, formed by combining the code call C Q (formerly used as a general call for all stations) with D for distress.
Crack"a*jack` (?), n. 1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. [Slang]