Vocabulary : Cousinly to Cove

Cousinly : Like or becoming a cousin.
Cousinry : A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.
Cousinship : The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood.
Coussinet : A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch. ;; That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
Couteau : A knife; a dagger.

Couth : Could; was able; knew or known; understood.
Couvade : A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
Couveuse : An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.
Covariant : A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.
Cove : A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore. ;; A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain. ;; A concave molding. ;; A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight. ;; To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. ;; To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. ;; A boy or man of any age or station.

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