These are the meanings of the letters COEREUS when you unscramble them.
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Cereus (n.)
A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.
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Ceruse (n.)
White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.
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Ceruse (n.)
A cosmetic containing white lead.
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Ceruse (n.)
The native carbonate of lead.
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Course (n.)
The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
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Course (n.)
The ground or path traversed; track; way.
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Course (n.)
Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
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Course (n.)
Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.
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Course (n.)
Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
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Course (n.)
Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
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Course (n.)
Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
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Course (n.)
A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.
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Course (n.)
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
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Course (n.)
That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
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Course (n.)
A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
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Course (n.)
The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
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Course (n.)
The menses.
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Course (v. t.)
To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
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Course (v. t.)
To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
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Course (v. t.)
To run through or over.
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Course (v. i.)
To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
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Course (v. i.)
To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
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Crouse (a.)
Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent.
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Recuse (v. t.)
To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
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Rescue (v. t.)
To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
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Rescue (v.)
The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
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Rescue (v.)
The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
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Rescue (v.)
The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
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Rescue (v.)
The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
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Secure (a.)
Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.
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Secure (a.)
Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
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Secure (a.)
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.
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Secure (a.)
Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.
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Secure (v. t.)
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
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Secure (v. t.)
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.
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Secure (v. t.)
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.
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Secure (v. t.)
To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
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Source (n.)
The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
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Source (n.)
The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
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Source (n.)
That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.