单词 | co |
释义 | † cocoen.1 Obsolete. A jackdaw. Cf. caddow n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus monedula (jackdaw) choughc1305 coc1325 kae1340 caddow1440 daw?a1475 jay1484 jackdaw1543 caddesse1565 pilledow1603 Jack1651 sea-crow1897 c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. 145 La chouwe, a co-brid [Camb. MS. the co]. c1400 Rowl. & O. 286 Coo ne pye that there come none. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 84 Coo byrde, or schowhe, Monedula. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 272/1 Keo, or chowghe, supra in cadaw, et infra in koo, bryd, monedula. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 280 Koo bryd, or schowghe. 14.. Voc. Harl. MS. 1587 in Promptorium Parvulorum 84 Monedula, coo. a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. B.iv We may not well for go The countrynge of the coe. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 237/1 Koo, a byrde. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † con.2 Obsolete Cant. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Fiiii A Kynchen Co is a young boye..that when he groweth two yeres, he is better to hang then to drawe forth. 1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. A3 A Kitchin Co is called an ydle runagate Boy. 1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 304 Doxies..and their coes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). Con.3 1. a. = company n.; esp. in the sense: the partners or members of a firm whose names do not appear in the style or title. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] company1532 society1623 office1647 Co1679 concern1681 business1728 establishment1832 outfit1833 business administration1852 customer relations1920 enterprise1930 label1968 MNC1971 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [noun] > partner > not named in title and Company1569 trading company1648 comp1677 compa1677 Co1759 1679 J. Verney Let. 14 July in M. M. Verney Memoirs (1899) IV. vii. 258 We pay off our debts that if the Co: be broke nobody may be sufferers but those that are of it. 1759 Compl. Let.-writer (ed. 6) London: Printed for Stanley Crowder, and Co. 1778 Whitehead's Newcastle Directory 49 Sugar-houses: Atkinson and Co., Quay-side. Forster and Co., Close. 1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master v. 98 He swore he'd give John Co. the slip. 1823 T. Moore Fables Holy Alliance v. 61 This most ill-matched unholy Co. From whence the ills we witness flow. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxi. 265 Don't have my name in it..I must be Co., I must. b. colloquial in and Co.: and the rest of that set, and things of a similar nature or appearance. ΚΠ 1757 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 30 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) V. 2246 He is resolved to make a push at the Duke of Newcastle, Pitt and Co. 1848 A. H. Clough Corr. 4 Sept. (1957) I. 216 She is terribly given to Maurice and Co, and of the Co specially to Kingsley. 1888 Nation (N.Y.) 5 July 3/2 In the case of Newfoundland Messrs. Frye, Tugalls & Co. consider the claim presumptuous. 1896 G. B. Shaw Let. 16 Nov. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 124 How did it go? Not, like Cymbeline and Co., by dint of everybody in the theatre making believe..that they were witnessing a great work, but really. 1911 T. E. Lawrence Let. 26 Aug. (1938) 120 I hope by quinine & co. to stave off any more attacks. 1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xv. 199 Almost in the shadow of such giants as the Jungfrau, Weisshorn and Co. 1959 Listener 24 Dec. 1121/1 What Khrushchev and Co. might do is one thing. c. in Co. (with), in company (with). U.S. colloquial ? Obsolete. ΚΠ 1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1916) 11 147 This morning..in Co.: with Doctor William Lee Brook, traverses Janesville. 1838 A. Ganilh Mexico v. Texas 11 Two foreign physicians, the one a Frenchman, the other an American, exercised the healing art in Co. 2. = county n.1 ΚΠ 1866 R. Tate Plain & Easy Acct. Mollusks Great Brit. iv. 109 Recorded from Clifden, co. Galway. 3. colloquial. Also co-. A co-respondent (in a divorce suit). ΚΠ 1900 E. Wells Chestnuts xx. 199 More divorce made easy. As usual the co-, a well-known actor, was very friendly with both husband and wife. 1902 ‘N. Gubbins’ Dead Certainties 21 ‘We [sc. a firm of solicitors] have already drafted an advertisement, with the object of obtaining a “co”.’ ‘A what, sir?’.. ‘A co-respondent.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : co-prefix > as lemmasC.O. C.O. n. Commanding Officer. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > commanding officer commanding officer1758 thanadar1802 company commander1820 old man1830 C.O.1889 skipper1906 commandant1915 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 3/2 C.-O., Commanding-Officer. 1890 R. Kipling Many Inventions (1893) 29 ‘Who was your C.O.?’ said Boileau. 1915 F. H. Lawrence in Home Lett. T. E. Lawrence (1954) 701 One officer was C.O., and the other four company commanders. C.O. C.O. n. conscientious objector. Π 1916 Tribunal 23 Mar. 4/1 (heading) Treatment of C.O.'s. 1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast i. 30 ‘Launcelot's a C.O., you know,’ said Miss Doria... I remembered that the letters stood..for ‘Conscientious Objector’. 1968 War Resistance II. xxiv. 27 Nazarene leaders have made petitions to Marshal Tito for the release of the COs. Co Co n. cobalt. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > cobalt > [noun] Co1814 cobalt1863 1814 tr. J. J. Berzelius in Ann. Philos. 3 52 Co = cobaltum (cobalt). 1968 A. White et al. Princ. Biochem. (ed. 4) xxiii. 534 Mucosal extracts also contain dipeptidases... An example is glycylglycine dipeptidase, which requires Co++ or Mn++ for its action. < n.1c1325n.21567n.31679 see also as lemmas |
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