cot

n. [ OE. cot, cote, AS. cot, cote, cottage; akin to D. & Icel. kot, G. koth, kot, kothe. Cf. Coat. ] 1. A small house; a cottage or hut. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger. See also finger cot. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Cf. Ir. cot. ] A small, rudely-formed boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bell cot. (Arch.) See under Bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For co. tangens, an abbrev. of L. complementi tangens. See Tangent. ] (Trig.) The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. narcotine, by transposition of letters. ] (Chem.) A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Quote. ] To quote. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Cot. ] 1. A cottage or hut. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves. [ 1913 Webster ]

Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve,
In hurdled cotes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Prob. from F. côté side, OF. costet, LL. costatus, costatum, fr. L. costu rib, side: cf. F. côtoyer to go or keep at the side of. See Coast. ] To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Coteaux /plu>. [ F., a hill. ] [ Canada & U. S. ] 1. A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The side of a valley. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ See Contemporaneous. ] Living or being at the same time; contemporaneous. -- Co*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Co*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]