coexistence, coexistency

[Pref. co = con, and existence (q. v.).] The state or quality of being coexistent, or existing at the same time with another. "There was co-existence without contact."- Buckle: Hist. Civilization in England , vol. ii., ch. vi. †cō-ěx-těn-sive-ne , s . [Eng. coextensive; bility of extending equally with another. ( Ben tham.) *cof, *cofe, *cove, *kafe, *kof, a. & adv . [A.S. caf.] A. As adj .: Quick, active, nimble. "Comaunded hir to be cof and quyk at this onez." E. Eng. Allit . Poems; Cleanne , 623. B. As adv.: Quickly, readily, soon. "I-come sum cofer , sum later."-O. E. Homilies , p. 231. *coff (1), s . [Etym. doubtful.] The accumulated waste or offal of pilchards. *coff (2), *cofe, s. [COFF, v.] 1. A merchant, a peddler. "Ane scroppit cofe quhen he begynnis." Bannatyne: Poems, p. 170. 2. Bargain; perhaps strictly by barter or ex change. *coff, v . t . & i . [A. S. ceapan ; Ger. kaufen ; Dut. köpen ; Icel. kaupa .] [CHEAP, CHOP.] A. Transitive : 1. To buy. "I sought the fair, for honester employ, To coff what bonny trinkets I mith see.' Shirref: Poems, p. 40. coffee 2. To procure or obtain in any way, not nece arily by purchase. "This ladie coft the Ladie Car is toun of her etage, and gave in mariage to her sones secund sone, call it John, and coft also the lands of Foul strut her. . " - Blue Book of Seton, be Sir Richard Maitland of Ledington; V. Edin. Mag. and Rev. for Sept. , 1810, pp. 327, 328, 330. B. In trans.: To barter, to exchange. cof-fe-a, s. [Mod. Lat.] [COFFEE.] Botany: 1. A genus of plants, order Cinch on aceæ, tribe Coffee, family Psycho tride. The corolla is tubular, with four or five spreading segments, the stamens coming from its throat, the berry succulent, with two cells, each with a single seed. About forty or fifty species are known, the majority from the Western hemisphere. Coffea arabica is the coffee tree or shrub. It is an evergreen, with oval, shining, sharp-pointed leaves, and five-cleft white fragrant corolla with projecting stamens; the berry is first red and then purple. Though called arabica and abundant in Arabia, yet it is said to have been brought at first from Aby in i a. Now it is cultivated in the West Indies, Bermuda, and the hotter parts of America, as well as in many parts of the East. [COFFEE.] 2. ( Pl . Coffee ): A section of Cinch on aceæ, containing those whose ovary has only one or two seeds in each cell, whereas the Cinchonese proper have a many-seeded ovary.