coat armor, cote armure, coote armour, coote armure

I. Ordinary Language: *1. A coat of mail, armor. " Cote armure. Bal the us."- Prompt . Parv . 2. A loose vestment worn by knights over their armor; it was frequently of the richest material, and was embroidered with their armorial bearings. "His coote armour was of cloth of Tars." Chaucer: C. Т., 2162. II. Her .: So called because it was embroidered upon the surcoat of the wearer. It is now used for the escutcheon or shield of arms wheresoever represented. (See Glo ary of Heraldry .) "And painted with a livelier red The Landlord's coat - of -arms again." Long fellow: The Wayside Inn. , cœ = ē; ey = ā. qu = IMG:content-0030.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] "Coatle , shoele , and ragged." - Kingsley: Alton Locke , ch. xxi. *co-at-test', v. t. [Pref. co con, and attest (q. v.).] To attest in conjunction with another. *co-at-tes-tā-tion, s. [Pref. co = con , and uttes- tation (q. v.).] A joint attestation or bearing wit- *co-aug-men-tā-tion, s . [Pref. co con, and augmentation (q. v.).] An augmentation, an in- crease, an addition. *co-aug-men-těd, a. [Pref. co con, and aug- mented (q. v.).] Increased, augmented. "Virtue coaugmented thrives." "She them dismi ed to their contented coates ." Brown: Brit. Pastorals , ii. 4. wood says the old English cokes was a simpleton, a gull, probably from the French coca e , one who says or does laughable or ridiculous things. (Tre- voux.) Coca e , plaisant, ridicule; coco e , niais, imbécille. ( Hécart .) To cokes or coax one then is to make a cokes or fool of him, to wheedle or gull him into doing something. Mahn refers it to Wel. coeg; Low Lat. coquinus; Fr. coquin =a rogue, a rascal.] A. Trans.: To wheedle or cajole; to persuade to any action by means of wheedling or flattery. wheedle , to cajole and to fawn : "The idea of using mean arts to turn people to one's selfish purposes is common to all these terms: coax has something childish in it; wheedle and cajole that which is knavish; fawn that which is servile. The act of coaxing consists of urgent entreaty and whining supplication; the act of wheedling consists of mostly of trickery and stratagem, disguised under smooth and winning entreaty; cajoling consists a soft addre and insinuating manners; the act of fawning consists of supplicant grimace and antics, such as characterize the little animal from which it derives its name; children coax their parents in order to obtain their wishes; the greedy and covetous wheedle those of an easy temper; knaves cajole the simple and unsuspecting; parasites fawn upon those who have the power to contribute to their gratifications." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) "Go! you're a brainle coax , a toy, a fop." Beaum. & Flet.: Wit at Sev . Weapons. 2. One who coaxes, wheedles, or cajoles; a coaxer. 13. An enticement. "He held out by turns coaxes and threats." - Marryat : Frank Mildmay , ch. ii. to croak as a frog; Gr. koax ; used by Aris toph anes cō-ax-ā-tion, s. [Lat. coaxatio, from coaxo = in the "Frogs," to represent the noise or croaking of frogs.] The croaking or noise of frogs. "The importunate, harsh, and disharmonious coax a- tions of frogs."-H. More: Myst. of Iniquity, bk. i., ch. vi., § 16. (Trench: On some Def. in our Eng. Dict ., pp. 6, 7.) coax-er, s. [Eng. coax ; -er.] One who coaxes, dler. wheedles, or cajoles; a coax, a flatterer, a whee- "Coaxing will do it if the right coaxer can be found."- Mrs. Cent livre: The Ba ett Table . coat'-Ing, pr . par., a. & 8. [COAT, v.] A. & B. As pr . par. & particip . adj.: (See the verb.) IMG:content-0031.png:[blocks in formation] "There was a rough earnest in the request, though it was put coazingly ."-Lamb: Letter to Barton. cob, *cob be, s . & a. [Wel. cob a tuft; cop =a summit; cop a =a top, tuft, or crest; Dut. kop =a Ital. coppa ; Sp. & Port. cop a .] [Cor.] head, a pate; Ger. kopf a head; O. H. Ger. chopp ; I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally : . (2) A spider, so called from its round ball-like shape. (11) A punishment inflicted by flogging on the buttocks. (12) A small swan. [COBSWAN.] 2. Figuratively : leader, a chief. (1) One who holds his head above others; a "Sustenyd is not by person is lowe But cobb is grete this note sustene." IMG:content-0032.png:[blocks in formation] Fontainebleau. "Such a rider as you wants a strong cob."- Keefe: IMG:content-0033.png:[blocks in formation] which fowls are fed. 5. Poultry : A round ball or pellet of food, with IMG:content-0034.png:[blocks in formation] 19.08 to 20-86; arsenic, 42-53-44-75; cobalt, 8-67-33-10; and iron, 1-63-24·99. Dana makes two varieties, (1) the ordinary, and (2) ferriferous. [FERROCOBALT- ITE.] cobalt-green, s. A permanent green pigment pre. pared by precipitating a mixture of sulphates of cobalt and zinc, by carbonate of sodium, washing and igniting the precipitate. Also called Rinman's IMG:content-0035.png:[blocks in formation] Black Cobalt Asbolite; Bright -white cobalt =Coacid solution of cobalt nitrate. Its composition Cobalt Erythrite; Arsenical Cobalt = Smaltite; trated solution of pota ium nitrite KNO2 to an balt-glance; Carbonate of Cobalt =Rem ing tonite; varies. Earthy Cobalt Asbolite; Gray Cobalt Smaltite; Red Cobalt Erythrite; Sulphate of Cobalt =Bieber- ite; Sulphuret of Cobalt =Syepoorite, Linnæite; White Cobalt =Smaltite; Cobalt and Lead Selenite =Tilkerodite. cobaltic oxide in acids. They are not important, and easily decompose. Cobalt acts as a tetrad in these compounds, the two atoms of Co being united to each other by one pair of bonds. IMG:content-0036.png:[blocks in formation] co-balt-i-çy-an-ide, s. [Eng., ., cobalt ; -i connective; and cyanide .] [COBALT I CYANOGEN.1 Chem.: Cobalt i cyanide of pota ium KCO2(CN) K (CN) 12 12 is obtained by di olving cobaltous cyanide Co(CN)2, in exce of pota ium cyanide KCN and boiling it for some time. Cobalt i cyanide of potasits better portions. sium crystallizes in anhydrous flattened yellow IMG:content-0037.png:[blocks in formation] ( Min .) (q. v.). COBALT-GLANCE (g.v.); see also COBALTINE IMG:content-0038.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0039.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To pave with cobble-stones. 2. To shake or move as a stone when trodden on. 3. To play at the game of cobble (q. v.). "Reject the nauseous praises of the times; Give thy base poets back their cobbled rhimes." Dryden. IMG:content-0040.png:[blocks in formation] "Here Hans Sachs, the cobbler - poet , laureate of the Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters, in huge folios sang and laughed." Long fellow: Nuremberg. cobb'-ling, pr . par ., a. & s. [COBBLE (1), v.] A. As pr. par .: (See the verb.) †B. As adj .: Cobbler-like, awkward, clumsy. "Such cobbling verses no poetaster before ever turned out."- Lamb : Letter to Barton. "Many underlayers, when they could not live upon their trade, have raised themselves from cobbling to fluxing."- Sir R. L'Estrange. cob-by, a . [Eng. cob ; -y.] 1. Like a cob. *3. Unreasonably determined, obstinate. clean coal, also called cobbles (q. v.). cob-coals, s. [Eng. cob , and coal.] †co-běl-lig-er-ent, a. & s. [Pref. co con, and belligerent (q. v.).] A. As adj .: Waging war in conjunction or all i- ance with another. iron.] An andiron with a knob at the end. cob-iron (iron as i-urn), s. [Eng. cob , and "The implements of the kitchen, as spits, ranges, cob- irons, and pots." -Bacon: Physical Remains . (q. v.).] An a istant or coadjutor bishop. cō-bishop, 8. [Pref. co = con, and bishop not qualified to preach in the Latin tongue, made use of "Valerius, advanced in years, and a Grecian by birth, Hippo."- Auliffe . Austin as a cobishop , for the benefit of the church of a sea-fish, a goby.] contains the Loaches. Cobitis barbatula is the Ichthy.: A genus of fishes, family Cyprinide. It Loach or Groundling. It is much le common. Loach, Loche, or Beardie. C. tænia is the Spined *cob-le, v . t . [COBLE, 8., 2.] To steep malt. "Craig, p. 186, calls aquam , et ignem pat i ; that is, kill- ing and cobleing ." -Fountain hall: Decis., i, 25. cob-le (1), s . [COBLE (2), v . t .] A place for steep- ing malt. IMG:content-0041.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A mender or patcher of shoes. "Clowter or cobelere. Sartorius, rebroccator ."- Prompt . "Smith, cobbler , joiner, he that plies the shears, All learned and all drunk."-Cowper. Task, iv. 476. "As if what we esteem in cobblers base Would the high family of Brutus grace." With a cobswan , or a high-mounting bull, As foolish Leda and Europa were." IMG:content-0042.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Any trap or snare; especially such as may be calculated or likely to catch the inexperienced or or Coeken, who was born at Bremen, on August 9, IMG:content-0043.png:[blocks in formation] cob'-wěbbed, a. [Eng. cobweb ; -ed.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Covered with or full of cobwebs. "The cobwebb'd cottage, with its ragged wall Of moldering mud, is royalty to me." 1603, and died, Profe or of Divinity at Leyden, in 1665.] Ch. Hist .: The followers of John Cocceius [etym.] He believed that the whole Old Testament history mirrored forth the history of our Savior and of His Church. It was said that Cocceius finds Christ ment. The statement about Cocceius was correct: that regarding Grotius was not so. The followers of Cocceius were for a considerable time numerous and influential. (Mosheim: Ch. Hist., Cent. XVII ., .) coc-çi, s . pl . Plural of coccus (q. v.). coc-çi-dæ, s . pl . [From Lat.coccum; Gr. kokkos =a kernel, the cochineal berry, i. e., insect, and fem. pl. adj. suff. -ide .] coc-çid-I-Id-e-a, s. pl . [Eng. coccid i(um); -idea .] Bacteriology : A subcla of the Sporozoa , contain- ing minute parasitic organisms, frequent in the cells of the biliary ducts of rabbits and in man. coc-çid-1-ŭm (pl. coccidia), s. [Gr. kokkis , gen it. kokkidos , dim in. of kokkos .] [Coccus.] Bot .: A form of conceptacle consisting of a glob- ular tubercle with a free or confluent cellular wall, and not as a rule opening by a terminal pore. It occurs in the rose-spored Alge. coc-çif-er-ous, a . [Lat. coccum ; Gr. kokkos =a berry, and Lat. fero =to bear.] Bearing or produc- ing berries; bacciferous. coc-çi-ną, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. coccus (q. v.), and neut. pl. adj. suff. -ina .] Entom .: A tribe of the sub-order Homoptera, type Coccide. *coc-çin'-e-an, a. [Lat. coccineus.] Dyed scar let or crimson color. ( Blount .) coc-çin-ěl-lạ, s. Bot. & Pharm.: The dried leaf of Erythroxylon Coca , a shrub, 4-8 feet high, growing wild in Peru, and cultivated there on the Andes, between 2,000 and 5,000 feet high. It constitutes a stimulant which clavate. The animals when takens feign death. tends to enslave those who use it to a greater They are known as Lady-birds, and sometimes extent, it is said, than opium in China or strong appear in large numbers. They are not merely liquor here. It is used chiefly by the Peruvian harmle but useful to man, feeding on the Aphides, IMG:content-0044.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0045.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0046.png:[blocks in formation] coc-co-neis, s . [From Gr. kokkos =a kernel a berry, and neis unpracticed in a thing, or powerle , feeble(?).] Bot.: A genus of Diatomacese. There are numer- ous species, some fresh-water, others marine. căc-cô-nê-mạ, s. [From Gr. kokkosa kernel a berry, and nema =that which is spun, IMG:content-0047.png:[blocks in formation] France, furnishes a crimson dye which has long been known to mankind. C. polonicus is used by the Turks as a red dye. C. Lacca yields lac. [LAC.] 2. Bot .: A shell; a carpel separating elastically from an axis common to it and other carpels. 3. Biol .: A spherical bacterium; a micrococcus. anterior and posterior coccygeal nerves, . along the back of the coccygeal bones."- Darwin: Descent of Man (1871), pt. i., ch. i., vol. i., p. 30. coccygeal gland, s. Anat .: A gland varying in size from that of a lentil to that of a small pea, occupying a hollow at the tip of the coccyx. coc-çỹg-ě-ŭs, s . [COCCYGEAL.] Anat.: The muscle which retains the coccyx in its place, and prevents it from being forced back ward during the expulsion of the fæces. ( Dungli- son.) *coc-çýn, s . [Lat. coccinum.] A red or scarlet color. căc-çỹ-zŭs, s . [From Gr. kokkyx =a cuckoo.] Ornith.: The typical genus of the sub-family Coccyzine (q. v.). The species are natives of this country. Coccyzus american us, the American Yellow-billed Cuckoo. [In Fr. cochenille; Ital. cocci- coçh-i-neal, s. niglia , dim in. of Sp. cochin a=a fat little female pig.] 1. Comm .: Properly the dried female of the Coch- ineal insect, Coccus cacti . [COCHINEAL INSECT.] A single pound of cochineal is supposed to contain no fewer than 70,000 distinct individuals. It is used in dyeing scarlet, and in the manufacture of scarlet and carmine, the color being brought out and fixed by chloride of tin. 2. Historical : The Spaniards first discovered its value in 1518. It was introduced into Europe about 1523 and into India in 1795. cochineal fig, s . A cactus, Opuntia cochin ill if era . cochineal insect, s . Cochineal Insect on Cactus. illifera is another plant on which the insect feeds. The cochineal insect has been introduced from 1. Entom .: The typical genus of the family Coccide (q. v.). Many species are hurtful to plants in greenhouses and elsewhere. Gardeners call them bugs. Coccus adonidum (the Mealy Bug) does damage in hothouses, as does C. Testudo. C. Vitis 1. Mach .: An ancient engine of a spiral form; a (the Vine-scale) injures vines, and C. Hesperidum screw-jack. oranges. They may be destroyed by painting the branch on which they congregate with spirits of introduced by Arch i me des into Egypt. 2. Hydraul .: A spiral pump for raising water, 3. Anat .: The anterior division of the internal coch-lě-ạ, s . [Lat. cochlea =a snail, a snail's shell; from Gr. kochlos a mollusk with a spiral shell, used for dyeing purple, murex.] turpentine, fumigating them with turpentine, tobacco, or sulphur. Other value ear. It consists of a gradually tapering spiral tube, as dyes. C. Cacti , founder of the the inner wall of which is formed by a central Cochineal Insect. [COCHINEAL.] C. Ilicis , found on column or modiolus, around which it winds. Quercus coccifera , an evergreen oak in the south of ( Quain .) IMG:content-0048.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0049.jpg:[graphic] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia cock The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia said to be cock - hight , i. e., as high as the cock. *(3) The call or cry of the male of the domestic fowl; cock-crow. cock-a-hoop, adv . [Fr. huppe a crest; cock -a- hoop a crested cock: hence, a proud fellow, .] Proudly, exultingly. "You'll make a mutiny among my guests! You will set cock - a - hoop ! you'll be the man!" Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet, i. 5. *cock-ale, s. A kind of ale celebrated for its superior quality. cock-a-pentie, s. One whose pride makes him live and act above his income. cock-bead-plane, s. A plane for making a mold- the timber. Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ." Shakesp.: Lear , iii. 2. The cock is the symbol of France, as the bull is of England and the eagle is of the United States. "The name of this cock was 'Le coq de la gloire,' He crowed over Seine and he strutted in Loire, And he drank the blue waters of Rhone and Garonne, And where'er there was fighting, was sure to make one. From Egypt's hot sands, to the wide steppes of snow, This cock o'er all sorts of winged rivals would crow." Punch (1849). "... a cock - brained solicitor." --Milton: Col aster i on, *cock-bread, s. Food for game-cocks. "You feed us with cock-bread."--Southey: Doctor, ch. clxiv. cock-bree, cock-broo, s. [Eng., ., cock; Scotch bree (q.v.).] The same as COCK-BROTH (q.v.). cock-broth, s. A broth made by boiling down a cock. "Diet upon spoon-meats; as veal or cock - broths prepared with French barley."- Harvey : On Consumptions. cock-crow, *cockes-crow, cock-crowing, s . 1. The call or cry of a cock. 1. Ord. Lang.: A squinting or crooked eye. 2. Technically : (2) Saddlery: An iron loop on the end of a trace, adapted to catch over the pin on the end of a single- tree. cock-eyed, a . Having a crooked or squinting eye. "A merry, cock - eyed , curious-looking sprite Upon the instant started from the throng." IMG:content-0052.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0053.png:[blocks in formation] "All we have seen, compar'd to his experience, Has been but cudgel-play or cock - fighting ." IMG:content-0054.png:[blocks in formation] cock-a-tôo, *cac-a-to, *cock-a-toon, *coto fondle; cocr =a coaxing, a fondling; cocraeth =a ca-to, s . [Fr. kakatou , kakatoes ; Ger. kakadu ; fondling; and Fr. coqueliner =to dandle, to cocker from the Malay kak atúa a cockatoo, an onoma- to poetic word.] IMG:content-0055.png:[blocks in formation] cock-a-triçe, *coc'-a-tryse, *kök-a-triçe, s . [O. Fr. cocatrice a crocodile; Sp. cocotriz ; from Low Lat. cocatricem , acc. of cocatrix =a crocodile, a basilisk: a corruption of Low Lat. coco drill us a crocodile. "Ther being dropped, as in Sp. coco- drilo, Mid. Eng. coke drill , the fable that the animal cock (2), *coke, v. i . & t . [Coск (3), 8.] 1. In trans.: To set hay up in cocks or small was produced from a cock's egg was invented to piles. IMG:content-0056.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0057.png:[blocks in formation] account for it." ( Skeat .)] [BASILISK, CROCODILE.] I. Ordinary Language: to fondle, to pamper, to make a wanton of a child.] To pamper or indulge children; to treat with too great tenderne and care; to fondle, to spoil. †cock-er (2), v . i. [Perhaps from cock (1), s.; suff. -er.] To be in a tottering state. 2. A kind of spaniel trained to start woodcocks and other game. cock-er (2), *cok-er (1), s . [COCK (2), v.] One who puts hay into cocks. "Canstow seruen he seide Other coke for my cokers , other to the cart picche." Lang land: P. Plowman , c. vi. 12. cock-er (3), *coc-ur, *cok-er (2), *cok-yr, *cok- ar, s. [A. S. cocor, cocur; O. Fries. koker ; Ger. köker ; O. H. Ger. chochar; Sw. koger; Dan. kog- ger.) A kind of coarse half-boot worn by rustics. It properly signifies gaiters and leggings, and even coarse stockings without feet, used as gaiters. "Now doth he inly scorne his Kendal green, And his patch'd cockers now despised been." Bp . Hall : Sat. , bk. iv., § 6. cock-er (4), *cok'-ker, s . A quarrelsome fellow. "Thise cokkers and thise bollars." Towneley Myst., p. 242. cock'-ēred, pa . par . or a. [COCKER, V.] cock-er-ěl, *cokerelle, s . [A double dim in. of cock , s. (q.v.)] IMG:content-0058.png:[blocks in formation] by a serpent. Its breath and even its look were believed to have been fatal to any who came within their influence. "Cocatryse. Basil i so us, coco drill us."-Prompt. Parv. "For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices , among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord." -Jer . viii. 17. pent, hence a serpent itself. Tsepha, which is from the same root, is a serpent's progeny. It evidently means a very venomous serpent, but it will be observed that no countenance is given in Scripture to the fable about the origin of the cockatrice, or to any other of the myths that of old clustered so IMG:content-0059.png:[blocks in formation] cock-er-non-ỹ, cock-er-non-le, s . [Etym. doubtful.] The gathering of a young woman's hair under the snood or fillet; a cap. (Scotch.) "I doubt the daughter's a silly thing-an unco cocker. ."-Scott: Old ment sealed and delivered by the officers of the Custom-house to merchants, as a warrant that their merchandises are customed. ( Blount : Law Dict .) Also an office of entry in the Custom-house, . "The greatest profit did arise by the cocket of hides; for wool and woolfells were ever of little value in this king- IMG:content-0060.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0061.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0062.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0063.png:[blocks in formation] "To curl the cockles of her new-bought head." Sylvester: The Decay , § 97. ( Davies .) B. Trans.: Τo wrinkle, to pucker up, to indent. cock'-led, pa.par.ora. [COCKLE (3), v .] shell. 1. Lit .: Shelled, inclosed in or furnished with a "Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , iv. 3. shell of a cockle. 2. Fig .: Wrinkled, puckered, ribbed, like the IMG:content-0064.png:[blocks in formation] the knights of which wore the scallop as their badge. This order was instituted by Louis XI. of France, who began to reign A. D. 1461. The dre is thus described from a MS. inventory of the robes at Windsor Castle in the reign of Henry VIII.: "A mantell of cloth of silver, lyned withe white satten, with scallope shelles. Item, a hoode of crymsin velvet, embraudeard with scallope shelles, lyned with crymson satten." (Strutt: Horda Angel-cyn- nan , vol. iii., p. 79. Gl . Complaint of Scotland .) fleise, the kyng of France makkis the ordour of the cokkil , "The empriour makkis the ordour of knychthed of the the kyng of In gland makkis the ordour of knychthede of the gart an." -Compl . S., p. 231. IMG:content-0065.png:[blocks in formation] "Casting cockle - demo is about in courtesie." Chapman: Masque of Mid - Temple. *cockle-hat, s. A pilgrim's hat, so called from shell in their hats. [COCKLE-SHELL.] "By his cockle - hat and staff, And his sandal shoon?" Shakesp.: Hamlet , iv. 5. *cockle-headed, a. Chuckle-headed, foolish. ".. but he's crack-brained and cockle headed about his nipperty-tipperty poetry nonsense ."- Scott : Rob "In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition, Which we ourselves have plough'd for, sow'd and scat- ter'd." Shakesp.: Coriol ., iii. 1. cockle-kind, s. The species of cockles or shell- fish generally. "The most recluse discreetly open'd find Congenial matter in the cockle - kind ." cockle-shell, s. The shell of the cockle; worn by palmers as a sign of their having performed the pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James at Compos- tello in Spain. "He shows Saint James's cockleshell, Of fair Montserrat, too, can tell." Scott : Marmion , i. 23. *cockle-stairs, s. Winding or spiral stairs. *cockle-stone, s. A fo il cockle. *cock-le (3), s. [Eng. cock (2), s., and dim in. suff. -le .] A young cock, a cockerel. cock-le (4), s. [COCKLE (2), v.] Mills : The instrument used in cockling the cogs of a mill. A. As substantive: *1. A young cock (?). Ne no cokeney , by Crist, coloppes for to make." Lang land: P. Plowman , 4,370. *2. An effeminate person; a coxcomb. "I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , iv. 1. fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, father; we, wet, here, camel, her, there; or, wöre, wolf, work, whô, sốn; mute, cub, cüre, unite, cür, rûle, füll; try, Syrian. æ, IMG:content-0066.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0067.png:[blocks in formation] "Lo! in a trice, The cock - pit , galleries, boxes, all are full." Leon: Digges. Sh. Supp ., i. 71. One of the London theaters, the Phoenix, in Drury Lane, was called the Cockpit , probably from being built on the site of a cockpit. 2. Naut .: The after-part of the orlop deck. It is below the water-line, and ordinarily forms the quarters for the junior officers, and in action is devoted to the surgeon and his patients.