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Jul 19, 2012 This week's theme Short words This week's words fey coze fisc cote purl Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg cote PRONUNCIATION: (koht) MEANING: noun: A shelter for animals. verb tr.: To pass by. ETYMOLOGY: For noun: From Old English cote (cottage). Earliest documented use: before 1034. For verb: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1555. USAGE: "The doves in the cote above flutter, as always, and settle down again." Brian Jackson; Streaming; Routledge; 2012. "We coted them on the way and hither are they coming to offer you service." William Shakespeare; Hamlet; 1603. Explore "cote" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Congratulation: The civility of envy. -Ambrose Bierce, author and editor (1842-1914)

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