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    "verified_text": "cohoes, a city of albany county, new york, u.s.a., about 9 m. n. of albany, at the confluence of the mohawk and hudson rivers. pop. (1890) 22,509; (1900) 23,910, of whom 7303 were foreign-born; (1910) 24,709. it is served by the new york central & hudson river and the delaware & hudson railways, by electric lines to troy and albany, and by the erie and champlain canals. it is primarily a manufacturing city. hosiery and knit goods, cotton cloth, cotton batting, shoddy, underwear and shirts and collars are the principal products, but there are also extensive valve works and manufactories of pulp, paper and paper boxes, beer, pins and needles, tools and machinery, and sash, doors and blinds. the value of the factory products in 1905 was $10,289,822, of which $4,126,873, or 40.1%, was the value of hosiery and knit goods, cohoes ranking fifth among the cities of the united states (of 20,000 inhabitants or more) in this industry, and showing a higher degree of specialization in it than any other city in the united states except little falls, n.y. the falls of the mohawk, which furnish power for the majority of the manufacturing establishments, are 75 ft. high and 900 ft. broad, a large dam above the falls storing the water, which is conveyed through canals to the mills. below the falls the river is crossed by two fine iron bridges. the city has a public library, a normal training school and the st bernard's (roman catholic) academy. cohoes was a part of the extensive manorial grant made to killian van rensselaer in 1629 and it was probably settled very soon afterwards. it was incorporated as a village in 1848 and was chartered as a city in 1870. cohort (lat. _cohors_), originally a place enclosed: in the roman army, the name of a unit of infantry. the troops of the first grade, the legions, were divided into cohorts, of which there were ten in each legion: the cohort thus contained 600 men. among the troops of the second grade (the _auxilia_) the cohorts were independent foot regiments 500 or 1000 strong, corresponding to the _alae_, which were similar regiments of cavalry; they were generally posted on the frontiers of the empire in small forts of four to eight acres, each holding one cohort or _ala_. the special troops of rome itself, the praetorian guard, the urbanae cohortes, and the vigiles (fire brigade), were divided into cohorts (see further roman army). the phrase _cohors praetoria_ or _cohors amicorum_ was sometimes used, especially during the roman republic, to denote the suite of the governor of a province; hence developed the praetorian cohorts which formed the emperor's bodyguard. in biology, \"cohort\" is a term for a group of allied orders or families of plants or animals. coif (from fr. _coiffe_, ital. _cuffia_, a cap), a close-fitting covering for the head. originally it was the name given to a head-covering worn in the middle ages, tied like a night-cap under the chin, and worn out of doors by both sexes; this was later worn by men as a kind of night-cap or skull-cap. the coif was also a close-fitting cap of white lawn or silk, worn by english serjeants-at-law as a distinguishing mark of their profession. it became the fashion to wear on the top of the white coif a small skull-cap of black silk or velvet; and on the introduction of wigs at the end of the 17th century a round space was left on the top of the wig for the display of the coif, which was afterwards covered by a small patch of black silk edged with white (see a. pulling, _order of the coif_, 1897). the random conjecture of sir h. spelman (_glossarium archaiologicum_) that the coif was originally designed to conceal the ecclesiastical tonsure has unfortunately been quoted by annotators of blackstone's _commentaries_ as well as by lord campbell in his _lives of the chief justices_. it may be classed with the curious conceit, recorded in brand's _popular antiquities_, that the coif was derived from the child's caul, and was worn on the advocate's head for luck.",
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