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Cochin

a small native state of India, on the S. S. W. or Malabar coast, connected with the presidency of Madras, intersected by numerous rapid streams. Chief products: Timber, rice. Area, 1,361 square miles; pop. about 1,000,000, partly belonging to the Jacobite and Nestorian Churches established here in early times.

The capital is Ernakolam.

Cochineal Fig

a name given to species of cacti, natives of Mexico and the West Indies, the plants on which the cochineal insect lives. its shape, which resembles that of a part of the internal ear, so called from snail-shell. its

Cochlearia

a genus of cruciferous common scurvy-grass.

Cockatrice

a fabulous monster anciently believed to be hatched from a cock's egg. It is often simply another name for the basilisk.

Cock Chafer

the popular name of a lamellicorn beetle, Melolontha vulgaris, found in England. The larvæ are found in dung or in decaying vegetable matter or buried in the ground.

COCKRAN

Cocker

a dog of the spaniel kind, allied to the Blenheim dog, used for raising woodcocks and snipes from their haunts in woods and marshes.

Cockpit

in a ship of war, the name still given to the compartment in the lower part of the ship where the wounded are attended to during action.

Cocles

HORATIUS, a hero of ancient Rome, who alone, in 506 B. C., opin 506 в. c., opposed the whole army of Porsenna at the head of a bridge, while his companions were destroying it behind him. This effected, though wounded, he leaped into the Tiber and swam safely across.

COCOA. See CACAO.

Coda

in music, an adjunct to the close of a composition, for the purpose of enforcing the final character of the movement.

Codicil

a supplement to a will, whereby anything omitted is added, or any change demanded by the altered circumstances of the testator or the beneficiaries, is affected. A codicil is authenticated in the same manner as a will, and possesses the same privileges when holograph, or written by the hand of the testator himself.

Cod-Liver Oil

an oil obtained from the liver of the common cod. There are three kinds known in commerce, viz., dark-brown, the last possessing a very disagreeable d smell. Cod-liver oil was first recom- COEDUCATION (1876); "Round Trip by Way of Panama, etc." (1879); "Winter Sketches from the Saddle" (1888); etc. He died in Boston, Mass., April 6, 1900.

Coe College

a coeducational institution in Cedar Rapids, Ia.; organized in 1881, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 61; students, 1,032; president, J. A. Marquis, D. D., LL. D.