bantes were all eunuchs: and that hence Catullus, in his Atys, always uses feminine epithets in speaking of them. Diodorus Siculus says, that Corybas, son of Jason and Cybele, passing into Phrygia with his uncle Dardanus, there instituted the worship of the mother of the gods, and gave his own name to the priests.

CORYBA'NTICK, adj. From corybantes. Inflamed with a mad fury, like the priests of Cybele.

The divine zeal is no corybantick fury, but a calm and regular heat, guided and managed by light and prudence.

CORYCOMACHIA, among the ancients, was a sort of exercise in which they pushed forwards a ball, suspended from the ceiling, and at its return either caught it with their hands, or suffered it to meet their body.

CORYLUS, the hazel, a genus of the polyandria order, and monœcia class of plants; natural order fiftieth, amentaceæ. Male CAL. monophyllous, scale-like, trifid, and unitlorous: COR. none: STAM. eight. Female CAL. diphyllous and lacerated: no COR. two styles; and an egg-shaped nut. Mr. Miller reckons three species, other botanists only two They are all of the large shrub kind, hardy and deciduous; and have several varieties valuable for their nuts, as also for their variety in large wildernesses and shrubbery works. They prosper in any soil or situation, and turn out to good account in coppices to cut as underwood, and as poles for various uses, as hoops, spars, hurdles, handles to husbandry implements, walking sticks, fishing rods, &c. for which purposes they may be cut every fifth, seventh, or eighth year. The best method of propagating them is by layers, though they may also be raised from the nuts.

CORYMBIUM, in antiquity, an ornament of hair worn by the women.

CORYMBIUM, in botany, a genus of the monogamia order, and syngenesia class of plants; natural order forty-ninth, composite: CAL. diphyllous, uniflorous, and prismatical: COR. monopetalous and regular: there is one woolly seed below each floret. Species, four; natives of Africa.

CORY'MBUS, n. s. Lat. Amongst the CORY'MBIATED, adj. ancient botanists,' CORYMBI FEROUS, adj. says Quincy, COrymbus was used to express the bunches or clusters of berries of ivy; amongst modern botanists it is used for a compounded discous flower, whose seeds are not pappous, or do not fly away in down; such are the flowers of daisies, and common marygold.' Corymbiated signifies garnished with branches of berries. Corymbiferous, plants are distinguished into such as have a radiated flower, as the sun-flower; and such as have a naked flower, as the hemp-agrimony, and mugwort: to which are added those a-kin hereunto, such as scabious, teasel, thistle, and the like.' See BOTANY.

CORYNOCARPUS, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, and pentandria class of plants: CAL. a pentaphyllous perianth: COR. five roundish, erect, and hollow petals: STAM. five subulated filaments arising from the base of the petals: ANTII. erect and oblong: PERICARP.

a monospermous, turbinate clavated nut. Spe. cies, one only; a native of New Zealand.

CORYPHA, mountain palm, or umbrella tree, in botany, a genus of plants of the order of palmæ: coR. tripetalous: STAM. six, with one pistil: the fruit a monospermous plum. There are two species; the chief is C. umbracula, a native of the West Indies, where it is called coddapana. It rises to a considerable height, and produces at the top many large palmated, plaited leaves, the lobes of which are long, and placed regularly round the end of a long spiny foot-stalk, in a manner representing a large umbrella. The flowers are produced on a branched spadix, from a compound spatha; they are hermaphrodite, and each consists of one petal, divided into three oval parts, and contains six awl-shaped stamina, surrounding a short slender style, crowned with a simple stigma. The germen is nearly round, and becomes a large globular fruit of one cell, including a large round stone. These plums having a pleasant smell are esteemed by the Indians.

CORYPHÆNA, in ichthyology, a genus belonging to the order of thoracici. The head is declined and truncated; the branchiostege membrane has six rays; and the back fin runs the whole length of the back. There are nineteen species, most of them natives of foreign seas. The most remarkable are the blue and parrot fishes.

CORYPHÆUS, from kopvpn, the top of the head, in the ancient tragedy, was the chief or leader of the company that composed the chorus. Hence coryphæus became a general name for the chief of any company, corporation, sect, opinion, &c. Thus Cicero calls Zeno the coryphæus of the stoics; and Eustatius of Antioch is called the coryphæus of the council of Nice.

CORYVREKAN, a dangerous whirlpool on the west coast of Scotland, between the isle of Scarba and the north point of Jura. Its vortex extends about a mile in circuit, and at full tide its numerous eddies form watery pyramids, which rise to a great height in the air, and, bursting with the noise of thunder, overwhelm all small vessels that come within the sphere of its attraction.

COS, or Coos, in ancient geography, an island on the coast of Caria, in Asia, fifteen miles west of Halicarnassus, and seventy in compass, called also Meropis; and hence Thucydides joins both names together, Cos Meropis. It was fruitful and produced good wine. It was the birthplace of Hippocrates, Apelles, and Philetas. The vestes Coac, made of silk, were famous for their fineness and color.

Cos, a town in the above island, mentioned by Homer, and originally called Astypalea.

COSCINOMANCY, n. s. KoσKIVOV, a sieve, and μavrea, divination. The art of divination by means of a sieve, &c.

COSCINOMANCY, or divination by a sieve, was used, as appears from Theocritus, to discover the secrets of known persons, as well as to find out the unknown. The sieve being suspended, after rehearsing a formula of words, it was taken between two fingers only; and the names of the parties suspected repeated: he at whose name

the sieve turned, trembled, or shook, was reputed guilty of the evil in question. It was sometimes also practised by suspending the sieve by a thread, or fixing it to the points of a pair of shears, giving it room to turn, and naming the parties suspected.

COSE'CANT, n. s. in geometry, the secant of an arch, which is the complement of another to ninety degrees.

CÓSENAGE, in law, a writ that lies where the tresail, that is, the tritavus, the father of the besail, or great-grandfather, being seized in fee at his death of certain lands or tenements, dies; a stranger enters, and abates; then shall his heir have writ of cosenage.

COSENING, in law, an offence whereby any thing is done deceitfully, in or out of contracts, which cannot be fitly termed by any especial name. In the civil law it is called stellionatus.

COSENZA, a town of Naples, the capital of Calabria Citra, and sometimes giving name to that province, is built on seven small hills at the foot of the Apennines. It is the residence of a royal governor, an archbishop's see, and has a fort. The metropolitan is the only church within the walls; but there are three parish churches in the suburbs, and twelve convents in the town. The environs are beautiful, populous, and well cultivated, producing abundance of corn, fruit, oil, wine, and silk. Cosenza has often suffered by earthquakes, particularly in 1638. It is seated on the river Crate, ten miles from the sea coast, and 150 south east of Naples. Population about 12,000.

CO'SHERING, n. s. Irish.

Cosherings were visitations and progresses made by the lord and his followers among his tenants; wherein he did eat them (as the English proverb is) out of house and home. Davies.

CO'SIER, n. s. Old Fr. cousu, from couldre, to sew. A botcher, says Johnson; but Minsheu defines it a cobbler.

Do you make an alehouse of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your cosiers' catches, without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Shakspeare. Twelfth Night.

COSIGNIFICATIVE, adj. from con and significative. Having the same meaning.

CO'SINE, n. s. in geometry, the right sine of an arch, which is the complement of another to ninety degrees.

COSMETIC, n. s. & adj. Fr. cosmetique; COSMETICAL, adj. κοσμητικός, from Kooμεw, to adorn. A preparation to improve beauty. Having the power of improving beauty; beautifying.

No better cosmeticks than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. Ray on the Creation.

First robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetick powers. Pope. LIEUT. Oh, hang fortune, let that take its chance; there is a beauty in Lauretta's simplicity, so pure a bloom upon her charms.

DOCT. So there is, so there is. You are for beauty as nature made her, hey! No artificial graces, no cosmetic varnish, no beauty in grain, hey! Sheridan,

Κοσμος. Relating to

COSMICAL, ad the world; rising or set

Co'sMICALLY, adv.

ting with the sun; not acronycal with the sun; not acronycally.

The cosmical ascension of a star we term that, when it ariseth together with the sun, or in the same degree of the ecliptic wherein the sun abideth. Browne's Vulgar Errours.

From the rising of this star not cosmically, that is, with the sun, but heliacally, that is, its emersion from the rays of the sun, the ancients computed their canicular days. fd.

COSMO'GONY, n. s. ? Kooμos and γονη. COSMO'GONIST, n. s. SThe birth of the of the creation. world; the creation. He who gives an account

The world is in its dotage, and yet the cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.

The relation seems to have been in some mea sure approved by the sacred cosmogonist himself,

Coventry,

COSMO'GRAPHY, n. s. Κοσμος and γραCOSMO'GRAPHER, n. s. ow. A description COSMOGRAPHICAL, of the visible COSMOGRAPHICALLY, adv. world; a science showing the frame of the universe, distinct from geography, which lays down the situation and boundaries of particular countries. A cosmographer is one who is skilled in cosmography; one who writes a cosmographical description of the world.

The ancient cosmographers do place the division of the east and western hemisphere, that is, the first lands, conceiving these parts the extremest habitations term of longitude, in the Canary and Fortunate IsBrowne's Vulgar Brown. The terrella, or spherical magnet, cosmographically set out with circles of the globe.

westward.

Here it might see the world without travel; it being a lesser scheme of the creation, nature contracted, a little cosmography, or map of the universe. Smith.

COSMOLABE, from rooμos, world, and λapBavw, I take; an ancient mathematical instrument, and on the earth. The cosmolabe is in great serving to measure distances, both in the heavens measure the same with the astrolabe. It is also

called pentacosm, or the universal instrument, by L. Morgard, in the treatise upon it, printed

in 1612.

COSMOPLA'STICK, adj. кooμos, and wλas τικός. Relative to the formation of the world. He being no better than a cosmoplastick atheist.

Hallywell.

Gr. κόσμος and COSMOPOLITAN, n. s. Į COSMO'POLITE, N. s. 4 πολιτης. Α citizen of the world; one who is at home in every place.

COSNE, a town of France, in the department of Nievre, and ci-devant province of Nivernois, seated at the confluence of the Loire and Noain, made here; and its cutlery wares and gloves are 110 miles south of Paris. Anchors for ships are much esteemed. Population 4700.

COSSPORE, a town and small district of Hindostan, tributary to the Birmans, bounds the district of Selhat in Bengal on the east. Gold is

found in some of its mines. Great part of the trade between Bengal and Assam formerly passed through this place. The inhabitants are Hindoos, governed by their own rajah.

COSSACKS. See DoN and RUSSIA, SOU

THERN.

CO'SSET, n. s. A lamb brought up without the dam.

And if thou wilt bewail my woeful teen, I shall thee give yon cosset for thy paine. Spenser. Shepherd's Calendar, COSSIMBAZAR, a considerable manufacturing town of Bengal, adjoining the southern suburbs of Moorshedabad. It is situated on the south-east bank of the Bhagarutty, and has both English, Dutch, and French factories. Silk and cotton stockings are its staple articles. Early in the eighteenth century the East India Company paid 25,000 rupees for the liberty of forming their establishment here; but it was not till 1742, that they obtained permission to fortify it. It was taken and plundered in 1756 by the nuwab Suraje Addouleh. The vicinity abounds with mulberry trees and game, and is watered by the Bhagarutty, Jellingy, and Ganges rivers.

COSSOVA, an extensive plain between Bulgaria and Rascia, memorable for two great battles fought on it, viz. 1st. between Lazarus prince of Servia and Amurath I.; and, 2d. between John Huniades and Mahomet II.; in both of which the Turks were victorious.

OST, v. n. & n. s. Arm. const; Welsh, CoʻSTLESS, adj. cost; old Fr. coresté ; Co'sTLINESS, n. s. Ital. costo; Ger. & Dut. Co'sTLY, adj. kost; Swed. kosta; Lat. To be purchased for or with a price. The price of a thing; luxury; expense; detriIn law, used in the plural, the expense of a suit. Costly is high priced; expensive; sump

consto.

ment.

tuous.

Have we eaten at all of the king's cost; or hath he given us any gift?

2 Samuel xix. 42. And of a mirthe I am right now bethought, To don you ase, and it shall coste you nought. Chaucer. Prol. to Cant. Tales. And thoughe it have costed me, yit wol I do my peyn,

For to pike hir purs to nyghte, and win my cost ageyn.
Id. Cant. Tales.

For living wit, I weere, cannot display
The roiall riches and exceeding cost,
Of every pillour and of every post,
Which all of purest bullion framed were.

Spenser. Faerie Queene.

And all the floore was underneath their feet Bespredd with costly scarlett of great name. Id. While he found his daughter maintained without

his cost, he was content to be deaf to any noise of in

famy.

Sidney. Though not with curious costliness, yet with cleanly sufficiency, it entertained me.

Id.

Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting the outward walls so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shakspeare. Sonnet cxlvi.

I shall never hold that man my friend, Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost To ransom home revolted Mortimer.

What they had fondly wished, proved afterwards to
their costs over true. Knolles' History of the Turks.
And wilt thou, O cruel boast!
Put poor nature to such cost?
O! 'twill undo our common mothe
To be at charge of such another.

Let foreign princes vainly boast
The rude effects of pride and cost
Of vaster fabricks, to which they
Contribute nothing but the pay,

Crashaw.

Waller.

Nor have the frugaller sons of fortune any reason to object the costliness; since they frequently pay dearer for less advantageous pleasures. Glanville's Scepsis.

It is strange to see any ecclesiastical pile, not by ecclesiastical cost or influence, rising above ground; especially in an age in which men's mouths are open against the church, but their hands shut towards it. South's Sermons.

It is to be remembered, that no man borrows money, or pays use, out of mere pleasure; it is the want of money drives men to that trouble and charge of borrowing; and proportionably to this want, so will every one have it, whatever price it cost him.

Locke.

The dagger and poison are always in readiness; but to bring the action to extremity, and then recover all, will require the art of a writer, and cost him many a pang. Dryden. He whose tale is best, and pleases most, Should win his supper at our common cost. Id. Leave for awhile thy costly country-seat;

And, to be great indeed, forget
The nauseous pleasures of the great.

id.

Fourteen thousand pounds are paid by Wood for the purchase of his patent; what were his other visible costs, I know not; what his latent, is variously conjectured.

Swift. The chapel of St. Laurence will be perhaps the most costly piece of work on the earth, when completed.

Addison.

He is here speaking of Paradise, which he represents with things not only useful and convenient, but even as a most charming and delightful place; abounding the most rare and valuable, the most costly and desirable. Woodward's Nat. Hist. Thee could no costly gem ensnare, No trinket to adorn thy hair : No Carian slave didst thou request, No precious chain, no Tyrian vest. Sheridan. An ivory inlaid table spread with state

Before them, and fair slaves on every side; Gems, gold, and silver, formed the service mostly, Mother-of-pearl and coral the less costly

Byron. Don Juan. COSTS, in law, imply the expenses of a suit recovered by the plaintiff, together with damages. Costs were not allowed by the common law, the amercement of the vanquished party being his only punishment; but they are given by statute. Costs are allowed in Chancery for failing to make answer to a bill exhibited, or making an insufficient answer; and if a first answer be certified by a master to be insufficient, the defendant is to pay 40s.; £3. for a second insufficient answer; £4 for the third, &c. But if the answer be reported good, the plaintiff shall pay the defendant 40s. costs.

COST, n. s. Old Fr. coste; Lat. costa.
CO'STAL, adj. A rib or side. Belonging to

the ribs.

Id. Henry IV.

Betwixt the costs of a ship.

Ben Jonson.

Hereby are excluded all cetaceous and cartilaginous fishes; many pectinal, whose ribs are rectilineal; and many costal, which have their ribs embowed. Browne's Vulgar Errours. COSTA (Christopher), a celebrated botanist of the sixteenth century, born in Africa. His father was a native of Portugal. Christopher, to perfect himself in the knowledge of simples, went into Asia, where he was taken prisoner, but found means to make his escape, and after several voyages, practised physic at Burgos. He wrote, 1 A Treatise on Indian Drugs and Medicines. 2. His Voyages to the Indies. 3. A book in praise of Women; and other works.

COSTA FURTACO DE MENDOCA (Hippolyto Joseph da), a Portuguese freemason, and latterly chargé d'affaires for Brasil in England, was bachelor of divinity and doctor of laws in the university of Coimbra. He fled to England from the prison of the inquisition, and published in 1811, a work in 2 vols. 8vo, containing A Narrative of the Persecution of the Author, a native of Colonia da Sacramento, on the River La Plata, imprisoned and tried at Lisbon, by the Inquisition, for the pretended crime of Freemasonry. His book comprises the statutes of the holy office; but, though frequent allusions are made to his escape from captivity, the singular mode in which it was effected is omitted. This has been thus supplied: The door of the cell in which Da Costa was confined opening into a hall, which was the centre of the prison, he had opportunities for remarking that the daily labers of his jailors terminated with throwing a bundle of keys on a table where a lamp was left burning. By patience and perseverance with abundant exercise for circumspection, in the consciousness of spies, by daylight, through apertures in the walls and ceiling of his cell, he succeeded in forming, out of an old pewter plate, a key which would unlock its door. Upon making his final attempt, the bundle of keys proved to be a proper collection for threading the entire labyrinth, not excepting the outer gate. Besides the keys and lamp, there was a book, containing, among other records, the minutes of his own repeated examinations. This he took with him, and carefully closing and locking every door after him, he made his way, without interruption, to the outside of the prison walls. It was necessary for him to remain six weeks secluded and disguised in the neighbourhood, before he could venture to take shipping, as every bark in the port and on the neighbouring coasts was subjected to the unremitting scrutiny of the officers of the inquisition; and in the course of their victim's rides on horseback, he frequently recognised these his old acquaintance engaged in their search after him. At length he took his departure from Portugal, and reached England in safety, bringing with him the book and keys of the inquisitors, as trophies of his success.' M. da Costa published also in London, the Correio Braziliense, a monthly magazine in the Portuguese language, and a small ingenious tract on the Origin of Building. He died in the beginning of 1824, at Kensington.

COSTA RICA, i. e. the rich coast, a province of the new state of Guatimala, in what was formerly

Spanish North America, bounded on the southeast by Veragua, and extending from the Spanish Main to the Pacific Ocean, east and west. It is a very mountainous district, and but little known to Europeans; but is said to contain some considerable mines of the precious metals, and to be very fertile in some parts in cocoa and pasturage. The commerce consists of cattle, hides, wax, and honey. The capital is Carthage, and it has several good ports on the Pacific.

COSTANZO (Angelo di), an Italian historian and poet, lord of Catalupo, was born in 1507, of a noble and ancient family of Naples, and died about 1591. He wrote, 1. A History of Naples, from 1250 to 1489; the best edition of which is that of Aquila, in 1582, in folio, very scarce. 2. Italian Poems, which are esteemed, and have had several editions.

> From coster, a

CO'STARD, n. s.
CO'STARD-MONGER, n. s. head, says John-
CO'STER-MONGER, n. s. Sson, in which he

follows Skinner. The Ency. Met. however, affirms, that there is no authority for the word coster. Costard is the head; an apple round and bulky, like the head. Costard-monger, with which coster-monger is synonymous, is a dealer in apples; a fruiterer.

Take him over the costard with the hilt of thy sword. Shakspeare. Richard III. The wilding, costard, then the well-known pomDrayton.

water.

He'll rail like a rude coster-monger.

Beaumont and Fletcher. Many country vicars are driven to shifts; and if our greedy patrons hold us to such conditions, they will make us turn costard-mongers, grasiers, or sell ale. Burton on Melancholy.

COSTARD (George), a clergyman of the church of England, and author of several learned works, was born about 1710. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford; and took the degree of M. A. in 1733. He was first appointed curate of Islip, in Oxfordshire, and published, in 1747, some Observations on the Book of Job, 8vo. In 1750, Two Dissertations: 1. On the meaning of Job, chap. xlii. ver. 11. 2. On the Signification of the Word Hermes. In 1752 he published, in 8vo, at Oxford, Dissertationes II. Critico-Sacræ, quarum primâ explicatur, Ezek. xiii. 18. Altera vero, 2 Reg. x. 22. In 1755 he wrote a letter to Dr. Birch, which is preserved in the British Museum, respecting the meaning of the phrase sphæra barbarica. Some time after, he published a second edition of Dr. Hyde's Historia Religionis veterum Persarum, eorumque Magorum; which was printed under his inspection at the Clarendon Press. Mr. Costard's extensive learning having now recommended him to the notice of lord Chancellor Northington, he obtained in 1764, the vicarage of Twickenham in Middlesex, in which situation he continued till his death. In 1767 he published, in one vol. 4to. The History of Astronomy, with its applica tion to Geography, History, and Chronology; occasionally exemplified by the Globes. In 1778 he published, in 8vo, a Letter to Nathaniel Brassey Halhead, esq. containing some Remarks on his Preface to the Code of Gentoo Laws. This appears to have been the last of his separate pub

lications; but he wrote several papers in the Philosophical Transactions, on astronomical and chronological subjects. Mr. Costard died January 10th, 1782. He was a man of extensive learning, and eminently skilled in Grecian and oriental literature.

CO'STIVE, adj. Fr. constipé; Lat. conCO'STIVENESS, n. s. 3 stipatus. Having the intestinal excretions hardened and obstructed; backward in speech or composition; apt to become bound up; stiff; formal. Costiveness is, an obstructed state of the intestinal canal; coldness; formality; tardiness of expression, either oral or written.

When the passage of the gall becomes obstructed, the body grows costive, and the excrements of the belly white. Browne.

Costiveness has ill effects, and is hard to be dealt with by physick; purging medicines rather increasing than removing the evil. Locke on Education

Prior.

While faster than his costive brain indites, Philo's quick hand in flowing letters writes; His case appears to me like honest Teague's, When he was run away with by his legs. Clay in dry seasons is costive, hardening with the sun and wind, till unlocked by industry, so as to admit of the air and heavenly influences.

Mortimer's Husbandry. You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being costive. Chesterfield.

A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself. Wakefield

COʻSTMARY. A herb. See TANACETUM. The purple hyacinth, and fresh costmary.

Spenser. Virgil's Gnat. CO'STREL, n. s. Supposed to be derived from coster. A bottle.

COSTUME, n. s. Old Fr. and It. costume; low Lat. costuma. Distinctive dress, habit, or character.

COSTUS, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, and monandria class of plants; natural order eighth, scitamineæ: COR. interior, inflated and ringent, with the under slip trifid. There is but one species, viz. C. Arabicus, a native of the Indies. The root was formerly in some esteem as an attenuant, and serviceable in venereal complaints; but it is now rarely prescribed, or met with in the shops.

CO-SUFFERER, n. s. from con and sufferer. A companion in suffering.

Should as co-sufferers commiserate.

Wycherly.

and sheep. A cottager, cotter, or cottier, is one who resides in a cot, or cottage. Cotland is land attached to his dwelling. In law, however, cottager is the technical description of one that lives on the common without paying rent, and without any land of his own. Cotswold, from Ang.-Sax. core, a cottage, and pold, a place void of wood, signifies sheepcotes in an open country, and from this the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, have their name.

Hezekiah made himself stalls for all manner of beasts, and cots for flocks. 2 Chronicles xxxii. 28. The sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

Zeph. ii. 6.

Wher ther was swiche a congregatioun
Of peple, and eke so strait of herbergage,
That they ne founde as moche as a cotage
'n which they bothe might ylogged be.

Chaucer. Cant. Tales. Which hardly doen, at length she gon them pray, That in their cotage small that night she rest her may. Spenser. Faerie Queenc.

To things of riper season self applyd, And learned of timber lighter cotes to frame, Such as might save my sheep and me from shame, Id. Shepherd's Calendar.

They were right glad to take some corner of a poor cottage, and there to serve God upon their knees.

One who shares in supremacy.

The phenix and the dove, Co-supremes and stars of love.

COT, n. s.
COTE, n. s.
CO'TLAND, n. s.
CO'TSWOLD, n. s.
COTTAGE, n. s.
COTTAGED, adj.
COTTAGELY, adj.
COTTAGER, n. s.
CO'TTER, or
COʻTTIER, n. s.
VOL. VI.

Shakspeare. Pass. Pilgrim. Goth. kot; Ang.-Sax. cot, cote; Welsh, cwt. A small dwelling; hut; a mean habitation; a place for sheep or doves to live in. In the last sense, cote is the word commonly used. Cottage is synonymous with cot, except in as far as relates to doves

brothers' portions? or that a rich man who possessed a whole country, should from thence have a right to seize, when he pleased, the cottage and garden of his poor neighbour?

Locke.

A stately temple shoots within the skies; The crotchets of their cot in columns rise; The pavement, polished marble they behold; The gates with sculpture graced the spires and tiles of gold. Dryden. Baucis and Philemon. Beneath our humble cottage let us haste, And here, unenvied, rural dainties taste.

Pope's Odyssey

The most ignorant Irish cottager will not sell his cow for a groat. Swift's Address to Pariwment. 2 N