Imagine, I can still remember the definition from trigonometry.
cotangent
n.
5ModL cotangens < co. tangens, short for complementi tangens, lit., tangent of the complement6 Trigonometry the reciprocal of the tangent; specif. a) the ratio of the adjacent side of a given acute angle in a right triangle to the opposite side (see SINE, illus.) b) an equivalent, positive or negative ratio for certain related angles (Ex.: the cotangent of 57U or 237U is .6494, of 123U or 303U is /.6494) or real numbers representing radians (Ex.: the cotangent of .9948 radians (57U) is .6494)
Coucal
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print)
Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:45:33
Cou"cal (k??"k?l), n. [Prob. native name.] Zool.
A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.
coulomb
n.
5after C. A. de Coulomb (1736-1806), Fr physicist6 the meter-kilogram-second unit of electric charge equal in magnitude to the charge of 6.28 1 1018 electrons; charge transported through a conductor by a current of one ampere flowing for one second
Dear WW: these are just more of the spellingbee words. Not chosen by me.
Incidentally, in searching to find it it had been used before in AWADtalk, found it in a poem
about spring flowers, translated by Bobyoungbalt. A really remarkably find piece of work
in my humble opinion. You can find it by searching as I did for "couleur".
One wall built against another.
In rough carpentry, after drilling a hole for a woodscrew, a bit with taper similar to that of
the head of the screw is used to enlarge the top of the drill hole, so that when the screw
is tightened, the top of the screw will be flush with the surface of the work. Also when I
worked in foundry machine shop, castings for school seats had to have tapered holes
for head of screws that fastened them to the floor were cast slightly undersized, and had to
be reamed out so screw heads were flush with the surface of the base of the casting.
The only place I could find this word was in a cocktail recipe, where a presumably small
amount of salt was added. So, perhaps a "coupette of salt" is a "pinch of salt". I welcome
correction by cocktail authorities, of which I am not one.
A horse suitable for a knight in armour, as in jousting.
A skilled creator of feminine stylish garments.
crake
n.,
pl. crakes or crake 5ME crak < ON kraka, CROW16 any of several rails with long legs and a short bill; esp., the corncrake
Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles, 1979, defines cravenette as a "Registered
trademark of Crown Metro Inc., The Cravenette Company Division, for a
durable and renewable water repellent treatment applied to woolen and worsted
fabrics and apparel. The term was coined by a Bradford, England, manufacturer
named Wiley who, for want of a better name, used the street on which he lived,
Craven Street, London. The original method was discovered about 60 years
ago."
Creance
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print)
Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:47:42
Cre"ance (kr?"ans), n. [F. cr'eance, lit., credence, fr. L. credere to trust. See Credence.]
1.
Faith; belief; creed.
[Obs.]
Dear WW: many of those spelling bee words are quite inappropriate in my estimation.
The sponsors seem to think they have to play dirty to eliminate very able contenders
in order to finally get a winner.