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   cap off
         v 1: finish or complete, as with some decisive action; "he
               capped off the meeting with a radical proposal"

English Dictionary: cobwebby by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cap-a-pie
adv
  1. at all points from head to foot; "he was armed cap-a-pie"
    Synonym(s): cap-a-pie, from head to toe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chebab
n
  1. a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chip off
v
  1. break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped" [syn: chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chop off
v
  1. remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
    Synonym(s): cut off, chop off, lop off
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chop up
v
  1. cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat" [syn: chop, chop up]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cobweb
n
  1. a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
  2. filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
    Synonym(s): cobweb, gossamer
  3. a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cobwebby
adj
  1. so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
    Synonym(s): diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby
  2. covered with cobwebs
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coop up
v
  1. confine in or as if in a coop; "she coops herself up in the library all day"
    Synonym(s): coop up, coop in
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
copaiba
n
  1. an oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments [syn: copaiba, copaiba balsam, balsam capivi]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cubeb
n
  1. spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes
  2. tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
    Synonym(s): cubeb, cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba
  3. a cigarette containing cubeb
    Synonym(s): cubeb, cubeb cigarette
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cabob \Ca*bob"\, n. [Hindi kab[be]b]
      1. A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer;
            -- so called in Turkey and Persia.
  
      2. A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and
            sweet herbs. --Wright.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cabob \Ca*bob"\, v. t.
      To roast, as a cabob. --Sir. T. Herbert.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Capape \Cap`*a*pe"\, adv.
      See {Cap-a-pie}. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Capivi \Ca*pi"vi\, n. [Cf. {Copaiba}.]
      A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See {Copaiba}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Copaiba \Co*pai"ba\ (?; 277), Copaiva \Co*pai"va\, n. [Sp. &
      Pg., fr. Brazil. cupa[a3]ba.] (Med.)
      A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin
      of several species of {Copaifera}, a genus of trees growing
      in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and
      diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous
      membranes; -- called also {balsam of copaiba}. [Written also
      {capivi}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Capivi \Ca*pi"vi\, n. [Cf. {Copaiba}.]
      A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See {Copaiba}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Copaiba \Co*pai"ba\ (?; 277), Copaiva \Co*pai"va\, n. [Sp. &
      Pg., fr. Brazil. cupa[a3]ba.] (Med.)
      A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin
      of several species of {Copaifera}, a genus of trees growing
      in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and
      diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous
      membranes; -- called also {balsam of copaiba}. [Written also
      {capivi}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cobweb \Cob"web`\, n. [Cob a spider + web.]
      1. The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
  
      2. A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant
            and unwary.
  
                     I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in
                     the cobwebs of the schools.               --Cowper.
  
      3. That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and
            worthless; rubbish.
  
                     The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age. --Sir P.
                                                                              Sidney.
  
      4. (Zo[94]l.) The European spotted flycatcher.
  
      {Cobweb lawn}, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in
            pieces of fifteen yards. --Beck. Draper's Dict.
  
                     Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn.      --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {Cobweb micrometer}, a micrometer in which threads of cobweb
            are substituted for wires.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cobwebby \Cob"web`by\, a.
      Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Copaiba \Co*pai"ba\ (?; 277), Copaiva \Co*pai"va\, n. [Sp. &
      Pg., fr. Brazil. cupa[a3]ba.] (Med.)
      A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin
      of several species of {Copaifera}, a genus of trees growing
      in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and
      diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous
      membranes; -- called also {balsam of copaiba}. [Written also
      {capivi}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Copaiba \Co*pai"ba\ (?; 277), Copaiva \Co*pai"va\, n. [Sp. &
      Pg., fr. Brazil. cupa[a3]ba.] (Med.)
      A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin
      of several species of {Copaifera}, a genus of trees growing
      in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and
      diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous
      membranes; -- called also {balsam of copaiba}. [Written also
      {capivi}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cubeb \Cu"beb\ (k?"b?b), n. [F. cub[?]be (cf. It. cubebe, Pr.,
      Sp., Pg., & NL. cubeba), fr. Ar. kab[?]bat.]
      The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper ({Piper
      Cubeba}; in med., {Cubeba officinalis}), native in Java and
      Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The
      dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant
      and purgative.
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