COB

n. Ko"b. 1. An ear of maize deprived of its grains. 2. Clover-seed. [A, 505.] C.-nut. See COBNUT. COB^EACE^} (Lat.). n. f. pi. Ko-be(bas-e!l)-a(a3)'se(ke1!)-e- (a3-e2). Of Don, a family of plants (of Link, a suborder of the Convolvulacece; of Mei ner, a tribe of the Polemoniacece), consisting of the single genus Cobaea. [B, 121 (o, 24).] [s. 322]