Coast

The edge or margin of a coun- cers of the custom-house to merchants, as a try bounding on the sea. It is held that the warrant that their merchandises are entered; term includes small islands and reefs natulikewise a sort of measure, Fleta, lib. 2, ¢. rally connected with the adjacent land, and ix, rising above the surface of the water, although their composition may not be sull- COCKPIT. A name which used to be ciently firm and stable to admit of their be- given to the judicial committee of the privy ing inhabited or fortified; but not shoals council, the council-room being built on the which are perpetually covered by the water. old cockpit of Whitehall Place. § C. Rob. Adm. 385e,