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Chorus :: Chorus (n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus..

Drawbolt :: Drawbolt (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

Copulate :: Copulate (a.) Joined; associated; coupled.

Coupable :: Coupable (a.) Culpable.

Couple-closes :: Couple-closes (pl. ) of Couple-clos.

Recoup :: Recoup (v. t.) Alt. of Recoup.

Spanner :: Spanner (n.) An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose..

Boss :: Boss (n.) The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another..

Uncouple :: Uncouple (v. i.) To roam at liberty.

Copula :: Copula (n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler..

Mismate :: Mismate (v. t.) To mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple..

Yoke :: Yoke (v. t.) To couple; to join with another.

Coupling :: Coupling (n.) A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts..

Iambus :: Iambus (n.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n..

Coupling :: Coupling (n.) The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.

Couple-close :: Couple-close (n.) A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised..

Villanelle :: Villanelle (n.) A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close..

Couplet :: Couplet (n.) Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

Couple :: Couple (a.) See Couple-close.

Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause..

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