Cogware
(Cog"ware`) n. A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth
century. Halliwell.
Cogwheel
(Cog"wheel`) n. A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.
Cohabit
(Co*hab"it) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cohabited; p. pr. & vb. n. Cohabiting.] [L. cohabitare; co- +
habitare to dwell, to have possession of freg. of habere to have. See Habit, n. & v.]
1. To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.
The Philistines were worsted by the captived ark . . . : they were not able to cohabit with that holy
thing.
South.
2. To dwell or live together as husband and wife.
The law presumes that husband and wife cohabit together, even after a voluntary separation has taken
place between them.
Bouvier.
By the common law as existing in the United States, marriage is presumed when a man and woman
cohabit permanently together, being reputed by those who know them to be husband and wife, and
admitting the relationship. Wharton.
Cohabitant
(Co*hab"it*ant) n. [L. cohabitans, p. pr.] One who dwells with another, or in the same
place or country.
No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Cohabitation
(Co*hab"i*ta"tion) n. [L. cohabitatio.]
1. The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. Feltham.
2. (Law) The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship.
That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted.
Lord Stowell.
Cohabiter
(Co*hab"it*er) n. A cohabitant. Hobbes.
Coheir
(Co*heir) n. A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.
Coheiress
(Co*heir"ess) n. A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.
Coheirship
(Co*heir"ship), n. The state of being a coheir.
Coherald
(Co*her"ald) n. A joint herald.
Cohere
(Co*here") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cohered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cohering ] [L. cohaerere, cohaesum;
co- + haerere to stick, adhere. See Aghast, a.]
1. To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together.
Locke.
2. To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically,
as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.
They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere.
Burke.
