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91camera obscura — /ob skyoor euh/ a darkened boxlike device in which images of external objects, received through an aperture, as with a convex lens, are exhibited in their natural colors on a surface arranged to receive them: used for sketching, exhibition… …
92chair — chairless, adj. /chair/, n. 1. a seat, esp. for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms. 2. something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair: The two men clasped hands… …
93coach — coachable, adj. coachability, n. /kohch/, n. 1. a large, horse drawn, four wheeled carriage, usually enclosed. 2. a public motorbus. 3. Railroads. See day coach. 4. Also called air coach. a class of airline travel providing less luxurious… …
94coffer — cofferlike, adj. /kaw feuhr, kof euhr/, n. 1. a box or chest, esp. one for valuables. 2. coffers, a treasury; funds: The coffers of the organization were rapidly filled by the contributions. 3. any of various boxlike enclosures, as a cofferdam. 4 …
95cold frame — a bottomless, boxlike structure, usually covered with glass or transparent plastic, and the bed of earth that it covers, used to protect plants. [1850 55] * * * …
96corf — /kawrf/, n., pl. corves /kawrvz/. Brit. 1. Mining. a. a small wagon for carrying coal, ore, etc. b. a wicker basket formerly used for this purpose. 2. a basket, cage, or boxlike structure with perforations for keeping lobsters or fish alive in… …
97crate — /krayt/, n., v., crated, crating. n. 1. a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc. 2. any completely enclosed boxlike packing or shipping case. 3. Informal. something rickety… …
98cubby — /kub ee/, n., pl. cubbies. 1. a cubbyhole. 2. any of a group of small boxlike enclosures or compartments, open at the front, in which children can keep their belongings, as at a nursery school. [1835 45; dial. cub stall, shed (akin to COVE1) +… …
99differential gear — Mach. 1. differential (def. 7). 2. any of various comparable arrangements of gears, as an epicyclic train. [1885 90] * * * In automotive mechanics, a gear arrangement that transmits power from the engine to a pair of driving wheels, dividing the… …
100dinosaur — /duy neuh sawr /, n. 1. any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals. 2. something that is… …
