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Definition of Coshes
1. cosh [v] - See also: cosh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coshes
Literary usage of Coshes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reminiscences of Albert Pell, Sometime M.P. for South Leicestershire by Albert Pell (1908)
"If the crop under the flail was beans, the shepherd paid frequent visits to the
thresher, complaining of " ne'er a bean being left in the coshes for the ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"... have such a many coshes ;" hence also Cosh'd: as " How well the beans are
cosh'd." COT, v.—To mat, become entangled. Her tail cots so with the dirt. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"... or ' nine holes,' as they did in Bishop Latimer's time ; or they '
titter-cum-totter ' (seesaw on a plank). They are fond of ' coshes ' (sweetmeats) or ..."
4. Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics: With Special by Joseph William Mellor (1902)
"... 1 + 2sinh-x = 2 coshes + 1. . . (6) sinh x - sinh y = 2 cosh \(x + y).
sinh ±(x - y), (7) and so on. These have been summarised in the chapter, ..."
5. Annals of the American Pulpit: Or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished by William Buell Sprague (1858)
"WILLIAM D. SNODGRASS, DD coshes, February 27,1852. My dear Brother: Your favour
of the 21st inst., renewing the ..."
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