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[Lat.] ends of a fractured bone, and holding them in pos i. Surgery: An apparatus for fitting together the tion while the bony junction is proceeding. arc to =to draw or pre close together; from arctus co-arct, v . t . [Lat. coarcto ; from co con , and narrow, strait; arceo =to shut up, to inclose.] contract, to restrain. 1. To confine, to inclose in a narrow compa ; to 2. To constrain, to restrain, to confine. he must blame and impute it to himself, that he has thus "If a man coarcts himself to the extremity of an act, coarcted or straitened himself so far." -Auliffe . *co-arc-tāte, v . t . [COARCTATE, a.] The same as COARCT (q. v.). Venner: Via Recta ad Vitam Longam, p. 182. "They coarctate the breast, and astringe the belly." co-arc-tā te, *cō-arc-tā-těd, a. [Lat. coarc tatus, pa. par. of coarcto.] [COARCT.] I. Ord. Lang.: Pre ed together; straitened, confined, shut in. II. Technically : IMG:content-0021.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The state or condition of being confined or restrained. 3. The act of contracting, straitening, or narrow- ing; that which contracts, straitens, or narrows. II. Fig .: A restraint or restriction of liberty. "Election is opposed not only to coaction, but also to *cō-arc-těd, pa . par . or a . [COARCT.] co-arc-türe, s. [From Lat. coareto =to pre together.] The neck of a plant. IMG:content-0022.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small] Thomson: Spring. (2) Mean, disagreeable; not delicate. "From this coarse mixture of terrestrial parts, Desire and fear by turns po e their hearts." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid. rough and rude : "These epithets are equally ap(1) Crabb thus distinguishes between coarse, sense coarse refers to the composition and materials plied to what is not polished by art. In the proper rough respects the surface of bodies, as rough wood of bodies, as coarse bread, coarse meat, coarse cloth; and rough skin; rude respects the make or fashion of things, as a rude bark, a rude utensil. Coarse is opposed to fine, rough to smooth, rude to polished. in a similar manner: coarse language is used by In the figurative application they are distinguished persons of naturally coarse feeling; rough language ant of any better." (Crabb: Eng. Synon .) ally rough ; rude language by those who are ignorby those whose tempers are naturally or occasion (2) For the difference between coarse and gro , see GROSS. IMG:content-0023.png:[blocks in formation] coarse-haired, a. Having coarse hair. long-haired and coarse - haired animals are apt."- Dar to have, as is a erted, long or many horns win: Origin of Species (ed. 1859), ch. i., p. 12. coarse-metal, s. Metal.: A brittle non-crystalline, more or le granular vesicular bronze-colored regulus, which contains about 33 per cent. of metallic copper. It is obtained by fusing the calcined copper pyrites with slag. Composition: Copper, 33'7; iron, 33.6; nickel, cobalt and manganese, 1'0; tin, 07; arsenic, 0-3; sulphur, 29.2, and slag mechanically mixed, 1.1. coarse-stuff, s . Plastering: The first coat of inside plaster-work. cöarse-lý, adv. [ Eng.coarse; -ly.] 1. Lit .: In a coarse manner; not finely or deli cately. refinement or delicacy, gro ly. 2. Fig .: Roughly, rudely, inelegantly, without "There is a gentleman, that serves the count, Reports but coarsely of her." Shakesp. All's Well , iii. 5. coarse-mind-ěd, a. [ Eng.coarse , and minded .] Having a coarse, low, unrefined mind. coarse minded and ignorant men Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvi. ."