cotillon (lon as yon), cotil11on

[Fr.= a petticoat, dim in. of cotte a coat, a frock.] 1. A woolen fabric in black and white for ladies' skirts. 2. A kind of dance in which eight performers take part; also an elaborate French dance consisting of a number of figures. IMG:content-1075.jpg:[ocr errors] cot-land, s. [Eng. cot (1), s., and land .] A piece of land allotted or belonging to a cottage. who keeps a horse for plowing his small piece of cot-land-er, [Eng. cotland ; -er.] A cottager land. A cockloft, a garret. *cot-loft, a . [A corruption of cockloft (q. v.).] "Houses indeed like cotlofts ."- Fuller : Holy State , I. xiv. 2. (Davies.) *cot'-lyf, s. [A. S. cotlif .] A cot, a little house. Miscell . (ed. Morris), p. 118. "Wo is him that vuel wif bryngeth to his cotlyf."-0. E. cot-man, s. [Eng. cot , and man .] A cottager. ."-Caled. Merc., IMG:content-1076.jpg:[blocks in formation] Chem.: C21H2008. A crystalline substance con- tained in coto-bark, which is used in South America as a substitute for quinine. Cotoin forms yellow- ish-white crystals, which melt at 124°. Concentrated tion. nitric acid di olves it, forming a blood-red solu- co-ton-e-as-ter, s. [Lat. cotonius = pertaining to the quince cydonia; Gr. Kydonion [supply melon ]=the quince; Kydonios Cydonian, pertain- ing to Cydonia in Crete; and Lat. aster ; Gr. aster IMG:content-1077.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1078.jpg:[blocks in formation]