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to Cloy, to glut, fill, satiate. Cy. 1, 7. 4, 4. Cockleshell, badge of a pilgrim, worn usu5, 4. Rb. 1. 3. aHf. 2, 5. He. 2, 2. Rc. 4, 4. ally in the front of the hat. It was a proCloyment, satiety, repletion. TN. 2, 4. where tection and served oft as a disguise. H. 4, 3. it is joined to surfeit and revolt. Kin to claw, Cockney, person that affects, fondling, coxclee, fr. clouer. comb.. TN. 4, 1. KL. 2, 4. From Cocaigne, coquaine, pays de cocagne, ital. Cucagna, a fantastical country of good cheer; kin to cook, cock, S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 151. Cock-on (or a-) hoop, chief or topping person, all in all. RJ. 1, 5. denoting the excess of mirth and jollity, from the practice of laying on extraordinary occasions of festivity the cock, or spigot, on the hoop of the barrel and letting the ale flow without intermission. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. VI, 226.

Clubs! the cry in any public affray by way of calling for persons with clubs (prentices and journeymen. S. Douce's Ill." of Sh. II, 51.) to part the combatants. AL. 5, 2. Hh. 4, 2. 5, 5. aHf. 1, 3. TɅn. 2, 1. Also to appease the quarrel. Hh. 5, 3. Compare the lat. clava, celt. cluppa, gr. kalon, kēlon, kaulos, the germ. Kolbe, Keule, klopfen.

to Cluster, to heap or gather like bunches of grapes, by clusters, in tuffs, to throng. aHf. 4, 7. Compare the gr. klaō, klazō, kladeuō, klastazo, to strick off leaves, klaster, vintner, klon, klados, branch, clover.

to Clutch, to seize or grasp, as with claws. M. 2, 1. Co. 3, 8. KJ. 2, 2. end. Anglos. gelaeccan. S. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 357. gr. laō, lauō, labō, lachō, clinch. Coach fellow, horse employed to draw in the same carriage with another; metaph. a person intimately connected with another. MW. 2, 2. Coal. To carry coals, to put up tamely insults, to submit to any degradation. In every family the scullions, turnspits, carriers of wood and coals were esteemed the very lowest of menials. The latter in particular were called the black guard. RJ. 1, 1. He. 3, 2. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II. 169. Hence coal for coward. Decker in Hawkin's orig. of engl. dr. III, 116. to Coast, to approach, nearly the same as accost. cHf. 1, 1. Hh. 2, 4.

Coasting, amorous approach, courtship. TC. 4, 5.

Coat, shield in heraldry. MD. 3, 2. aHf. 1, 2; a kind of vesture. TN. 4, 1. 4, 2. Kin to the lowlat. cota, cotta, germ. Kutte, Kittel, fr. cotillon, gr. kitōn, chitōn, germ. Haut, Hut, Hütte, cottage, from the gr. keuthō, to con

ceal.

Cockpit, the scaffold or place, where cocks do combat; contemptibly the theatre, as too narrow for Henry's battles. He. 1. ch. Cocksure, shotfree, musket proof. aHd. 2, 1. Cockshut, cockshoot, a large net, stretched across a glade, and so suspended upon poles as to be easily drawn together, being employed to catch or shut in, woodcocks, chiefly in the twilight of the evening, when woodcocks go out to feed. Hence cockshut time, or light, the evening twilight. Rc. 5, 3. Cf. batfowling. Gifford's Ben Jons. VI, 473.

Codding spirit, Tan. 5, 1. Love of bedsports; from cod, in Yorkshire a pillow. Perhaps cogging? wh. s.

Codling, codlin, quodling, a mere deminutive of cod, means an involucrum or kell, and was used by the old writers for that early state of vegetation, when the fruit, after shaking off the blossom, began to assume a globular and determinate form. TN. 1, 5. Then it is also a sportive appellation for a young quilldriver, derived from the quods and quids of legal phraseology, which have given so many other cantterms to the language. S. Gifford's Ben Jonson IV, 24.

Codpiece, slit of breeches, a part of male dress, formerly made very conspicuous and put to various nses, as pocket etc. TG. 2, 7. MM. 3, 2. MA. 3, 3. LL. 3, 1. WT. 4, 3. KL. 3, 2. 0.2, 1. Kin to coat wh. s. and assonating piss. Remember petticoat!

Cobloaf, large loaf, clumsy loaf, implying awkwardness and deformity. TC. 2, 1. where the true reading is Th. Shouldst thou strike. him, Ajax, cobloaf, He would thee etc. pun Cob is kin to the gr. kepphos, kephos, and Coffin, box or chest for dead bodies. Rb. 5, 6;

kuphos.

Cock, cockboat, by boat, bybark. KL. 4, 6; leader, head, chief of a club. TA.2,2; a vulgar corruption or purposed disguise of the name of god, in favour of pious ears. Hence by cock and pye. MW. 1, 1. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 471. cock's passion. TS. 4, 1. H. 4, 5. Cockatrice, basilisk, an imaginary creature supposed to be produced from a cock's egg, in form like a serpent, with the head of a cock, supposed to have so deadly an eye, as to kill by the very look. TN. 3, 6. RJ. 3, 2. Rc. 4, 1. It is also a cantname for a strumpet. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 540. VIII, 158.

to Cocker, to train up in a fondling manner, to pamper. KJ. 5, 1.

Cockerel, young cock. T. 2, 1. RJ. 1, 3. Cockle, agrostemma githago L., a weed often troublesome in cornfields. An old proverb, alluded to LL. 4, 3., implied that he who sowed cockle, could not expect to reap corn. In Co. 3, 1. the metaphor cockle of rebellion is borrowed from North's Plutarch, Cockled, inclosed in a shell. LL. 4, 3.

the raised crust or cavities of pies, or custards. TS. 4, 3. TAn. 5, 2. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 3. V, 209. Kin to coffer, chopin, gr. kophinos, skaphos, skyphos, kypellon, fr. 80

belet.

to Cog, to lie, cheat, flatter. MW. 3, 3. MA. 5, 1. Rc. 1, 8. TA. 5, 2. Co. 3, 2. TC. 5, 6. 0. 4, 2; to falsify dice. LL. 5, 2. perhaps to be restored. TAn. 5, 1. for codding, wh. s., since there follows' as sure a card, as ever won the set.' Kin to cox; isl. gygur, sorcerer, lowgerm. begyggeln to deceive by sorcery, germ. gaukeln, Gaukler, fr. jongleur, gr. kyklos, circle of sorcerers.

Cognizance, token, badge or mark of distinction which retainers, servants etc. usually wore on the shoulder or sleeve of their coats that it might be known, to whom and what they belonged. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 36. corrupted in cullisen ib. VI, 894. token, sign, symbol. aHf. 2, 4. JC. 2, 2. Cy. 2, 4.

Cohorts, KL. 1, 2. Johnson and Voss read dissipation of courts for diss. of cohorts, which reading however might suffer the explanation: dispersion, desertion of armies.

missure, or deviated too far from the meaning' missing the metaphor too evident and continued. Almost in a like manner commixtion is used. TC. 4, 5.

Co
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Coigne, cornerstone, finish of a building at
the angle. Co. 5, 4. corner, M. 1, 6. From the
french coin.
Coil, noise, tumult, bustle, stir. T. 1, 2. CE.
3, 1. MA. 3, 3. KJ. 2, 1. TA. 1, 2. TAn. 3, 1.
impediment, obstruction, difficulty. H. 3, 1.
unless the passage should require a correction,
like foil, or clay, coil might put in mind words
like the germ. Hall, gellen, the lat. clamare.
Colbrand, a danish giant killed by Guy of
Warwick. KJ. 1, 1. Hih. 5, 3.

Collection, gathering, conclusion, consequence.
H. 4, 5. Cy. 5, 5.

Collier, seller of coals, or charcoal. Formerly
in bad repute, from the blackness of their ap-
pearance often assorted to the devil. TN. 2, 4.
Hence the proverb. 'Like will to like, as the
devil with the collier.'

Commodity, ware, merchandise, article of traffic. CE. 4, 8; c. of brown paper refers to the practice of young prodigals, who bought brown paper or any trumpery, which they could turn into ready money with some loss. MM. 4, 8; interest, advantage. KJ. 2, 2. MV. 3, 3. WT. 3, 2. bHd. 1, 2. KD. 4, 1. Commons, the people, third estate. Rb. 2, 1. 2, 2. bHf. 3, 2. 4, 2. Co. 2, 1; common pasture ground. bHf. 1, s. JC. 4, 1.

Compact, comart, wh. s., contract. JC. 3, 1. AL. 5, 4. H. 1, 1; close. KL., 12. Compare the gr. pegō, lat. pango.

a

Companion, said in contempt, a fellow, scurvy fellow. Co. 4, 5. JC. 4, 3. Comparative, rival, one who compares himself with another. aHd. 3, 2.

Collop, slice, small portion of meat; child as
being part of the father's flesh. T. 1, 2. aHf.
5, 5. It seems a term of endearment. Compare
the greek kollops, the thick skin of the neck to
of an ox, horse etc., kollabos, a kind of cake,|
kollix, kolobos, maimed.

to Colly, to blacken with coal, to dark, dim.
0. 2, 3. MD. 1, 1.

Colmeskill, for Icolmkill, a small island at the southwestern point of Mull, in the Hebrides, once the metropolitan seat of a bishop at the first establishment of Christianity. M. 2, 4. Colours, banners, standards. KJ. 2, 2.5, 2. 5, 5. alf. 4, 2. cHf. 2, 2. Hence to fear no colours, to fear no enemy. TN. 1, 5; pretence. WT. 4, 8. bHf. 3, 1. JC. 2, 1. falsehood. Cy. 3, 1.

Colt, a young male horse. Hh. 1, 8; a witless,
heady, gay youngster, a madbrained, unbroken
young fellow. Rb. 2, 1. MD. 5, 1. old fellow
with youthful desires. LL. 3, 1. Kin to the
german Zelter, lat. tolutarius equus, oldsp.
thieldo.

to Colt, to fob, banter, jeer, trick, befool,
deceive. aHd. 2, 2. Cy. 2, 4.
Columbine, aquilegia vulgaris L., anciently
termed by some a thankless flower. H. 4, 5.
Comart, a word found only H. 1, 1. meaning
bargain, or covenant between two. From mart,
wh. s.

Comb, honeycake. bHd. 4, 4.

Combined, bound by agreement. MM. 4, 8.
to Come by, to acquire. MV. 1, 2.
to Come off, to come down with a sum of
money, to produce it as a gift or payment. MIV.
4, 8; also as a term in painting, to describe
figures, that came out, or apparently projected
from the canvas. TA. 1, 1; hence general term
of applause, being well executed, or performed.
MM. 2, 1.

to Come short, to miss the opportunity. AW.
5, 3.

Comedy, play in general. H. 3, 2.
Coming on, mild, lovely. AL. 4, 1.

to Commence, to give or assume a degree in
university. bHd. 4, 3.

Commends, commendations, regards, com-
pliments. Rb. 3, 3.

Commission, authority. RJ. 4, 1, 0. 2, 1.
to Commit, to trast with. AL. 4, 3. to pen
up, to close up, shut up. WT. 2, 8. bHd. 1,
2. 5, 2; to be guilty of incontinence. KL. 3, §.
Commixture, compound, mass, frame. cf.
2, 6. where Schlegel translating starke Klam-
mern, seems to have read something like com-

Compass, to surround, inclose. TS. 4, 3. to seize, gain, obtain. He. 4, 1. TN. 1, 2. 0.1, 3. 2, 1.

Compassed, drawn with a compass, as being the segment of a circle, round; hence comp. window what we now call a bowwindow. TC. 1, 2.

Compassionate, complaining, exciting compassion, plaintive. Rb. 1, 3.

to Compeer, to be like, to fit. KL.5, 3. From the lat. par.

Competitor, one who seeks the same object, who unites in the same design, an associate, confederate. AC. 1, 4. 5, 1. TG. 2, 6. LL. 2, 1. Complement, what renders any thing complete; heuce ornament, accomplishment. He. 2, 2. LL. 3, 1. 1, 1.

Complexion, temper, temperament, humour, native character, disposition and mixture of an individual. T. 1, 1. MM. 3, 1. (twice) MA. 2, 1. AL. 3. 2. (where good my complexion! is an exclamation meaning, as Steevens says, o my female inquisitive, curious disposition, can'st thon endure this?); colour of the face. CE. 3, 2. LL. 1, 1. MV. 2, 1. AL. 4, 8. He. 2, 2. TC. 1, 2.

to Comply, to compliment. H. 5, 2. Composition, agreement, harmony, composure. MM. 1, 2. 5, 2. AW. 4, 3. Co. 3, 1; subsistence, value, durableness. KL. 1, 2. where it is joined with fierce quality.

to Compound, to frame, mould. TA. 4, 3;
to mix. H. 4, 2. bld. 4, 4; to decide, agree
by contract. KJ. 2, 1. KL. 1, 2. He. 2, 1.
4,3. 6; to compose, adjust, appease. Rc. 2, 1.
From the lat. componere.

Compound, compact, mass. aHd. 2, 4; mix-
ture of drugs. Cy. 1, 6. RJ. 5, 1.
Comptible, submissive. TN. 1, 5.

Comptrol, control, blame, rebuke. TN. 2,5;

compulsion, restraint. KJ. 1, 1. From the middlelat. contrarotulum.

to Comptroll, to confute. T. 1, 2; to hinder. KL. 2, 4.

to Con, to study, to learn by heart. MD. 1, 2. LL. 5, 2. MD. 5, 1. Co. 4, 1. AL. 3, 2. TN. 1, 5. 2, 8. He. 3, 6. TC. 2, 1. to con thanks. TA. 4, 3. AW. 4, 3. Kin to the gr. konōein, konein, gnōein, lat. cognosco, germ. kennen. Conceit, notion, opinion. Hh. 2,3. TG. 3, 2. LL. 2, 1. MV. 3, 4; fancy. AL. 2, 6. whim Rb. 2, 2. Rc. 3, 4; endowing. AL. 5, 2.

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Content, compass, circuit, district. AC. 3, 6. Continent, that in which any thing is contained. LL. 4, 1. MD. 2, 2. MỸ. 3, 2. cHd. 2, 4. AC. 4, 12. KL. 3, 2. H. 4, 1. 5, 2: the summary, contents, complement. II. 5, 2. In this. meaning a courtcant. S. article.

to Conceive, to imagine, apprehend, and to Contemptible, slanderous, injurious, calumtake up in the womb. KL. 1, 1. Fr. concevoir, nious, offensive. MA. 2, 3. 7. lat. concipere. Concernancy. H. 5, 2. of an ambiguous meaning, being a word of courtcant, as article wh. s. Perhaps it means: it is the fault of a too studied expression or pregnance of concern. Conclusion, experiment, something from which a conclusion may be drawn. Cy. 1, 6. H. 3, 4. MV. 2, 2; riddle. P. 1, 1. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 121. sedate countenance, settled composure, stoutness, as the germ. Abgeschlossenheit, state in which the external things don't affect a man beyond the due measure. AC. 4, to 13. where Nares explains 'deep but secret censure,' Johnson 'sedate determination, silent coolness of resolution,' both, I fear, too much deviating from the propriety of the word. Concupy, an abbreviation or corruption of concupiscence. TC. 5, 2.

Condition, temper, nature, qualities, char-
acter, disposition. MV. 1, 2. AL. 1, 2. aHd.
1, S. AW. 4, 3. S. Gifford's Ben Jonson II, 17.
Conduct, conductor, guide. T. 5, 1. RJ. 5, 8.
bHf. 2, 1. S. Gifford's Ben Jonson II, 74.
Confection, sweet-meat, the same with con-
fect, comfit. It was extended to various com-
pounds, so that confectionarius meant an apo-
thecary or compounder of drugs. Cy. 1, 6;
drug. Cy. 5, 5.

Confiner, borderer, one who lives on the
confines of another country. Cy. 4, 2.
Confineless, boundless. M. 4, 8.
to Confound, to spend the time, to waste.
a Hd. 1, 5. Co. 1, 6. JC. 1, 1. AC. 1, 4.
to Congeal, to concrete by cold. Hence it is
joined with to cool. KJ. 2, 1. 3, 4. Rc. 4, 2.
Hh. 1, 2. Rb. 1, 1. bHf. 3, 1. From the lat.
gelu.

Congealment, congealing blood. AC. 4, 8.
to Congee, to bow, make a reverence. Hh. 4, 2.
AW. 4, 3. From the fr. congé.

Conger, muraena conger L. Hd. 2, 4; a cant-
word for a hoggish fellow. ib.

to Congree, to agree together. He. 1, 2. where
modern editors arbitrarily changed congruing.
From the fr. gré, lat. gratia, gr. charis.
to Conject, to conjecture. O. 3, 4. The first
folio changed conceits.

Conjectural, suspicious. AW. 5, 3.
to Conjure, conjure, to agree. H. 4, 8. To
conjure, to bind by asseveration, and to conjure,
to use magical arts, were not distinguished
from each other anciently. CE. 3, 1. 4, 3. MA.
2, 1. MD. 3, 2. AL. 5, 4. WT. 1, 2. aHd. 4, 3.
He. 5, 2. alf. 1, 5. Co. 5, 2. TC. 2, 3. RJ.2, 1.
Consent, concent, musical accord. He. 1, 2.

Lat. concentus. False spelling no doubt. Douce's
Ill. of Sh. II, 1.

Conserve, preserve, comfit, sweet meat. TS.

ind. 2.

Conspectuity, sight, faculty of seeing, in comical sense. Co. 2, 1.

Constant, grave. MV. 3, 2. S. Douce's III. of Sh. I, 264.

to Conster, for to construe. TN. 3, 1. S. Six old
pl. I, 28.

Construction, interpretation. Co. 5, 5. TN.
2, 3.
Consummate, verbal adjective, for the parti-
ciple consummated, or being consummated.
MM. 5, 1. 3, 2.

to Contrary, to oppose, counteract. RJ. 1, 5.
to Contrive, to wear out, to pass away. TS.
1, 2. From the lat. contrivi, conterere;_to
devise, plan, design, plot. aHf. 1, 1. KL.
3, 4. H. 4, 7. O. 1, 2. From the fr. trouver.
Convey, a more decent term for to steal.
MW. 1, 3. cf. Hawkins orig. of the engl. dr.
1, 86. Hence

Conveyance, dishonesty. alf. 1, 3.
Conveyer, robber. Rb. 4, 1.

to Convince, to overcome. M. 1, 7.
to Convive, to feast together, to be convivial.
TC. 4, 5.

to Conycatch, to deceive a simple person, to
cheat, defraud, impose; a cony or rabbit being
considered as a very simple animal. TS. 4, 1.
MIV. 1, 3. 1, 1. S. Gifford's Ben Jonson V,
350.

Conycatcher, sharper, cheat.
Cooling card, a phrase probably borrowed
from primero, or some other game, in which
money was staked upon a card; a card so de-
cisive, as to cool the courage of the adversary;
met. something to damp or overwhelm the hopes
of an expectant. aHf. 5, 4.

to Coop, to severe. KJ. 2, 2; to pen up. cHf.
5, 1. From the fr. couper.

Copatain, high crowned, with a conical crown.
TS. 5, 1. From cop, kin to the germ. Kopf,
Giebel, Gipfel, gr. kephale. So a cop is a
conical terminating in a point in Gifford's Ben
Jonson. IV, 88.

to Cope, to struggle, fight, strive, encounter,
engage with. AL. 2, 1. bHf. 3, 2. cHf. 1, 3.
Rc. 5, 3. KL. 5, 8. RJ. 4, 1. (In this meaning
it is kiu to the gr. koptein, engl. cut.); to
barter, truck, met. to lye with. O. 4, 1. Then
it is related to cheap, cauponate, gr. kapē-

leuō.

Cophetua, an imaginary African king, of whom the legendary ballads told, that he fell in love with the daughter of a beggar, Penelophon, or Zenelophon, and married her. RJ. 2, 1. LL. 1, 2. Rb. 5, 3. bHd. 5, 3.

Coranto, a swift and lively dance. He. 3, 5.
TN. 1, 8. From currere, to run. Spelt also
corranto. AW. 2, 3.

Core, kernel, in side. H. 3, 2; sore. TC. 2, 1.
From the indian sahaer,, pers. zoar, bane,
isl. sourra,
for blood murdering the mind,
because being corporeal.
Corinthian, wencher, debauched man; Corinth
being a place of resort for loose women. aHd.
2, 4. whence Corinth a current name for a
house of ill repute. TA. 2, 2. S. Douce's Ill.
of Sh. 1, 426.

Cormorant, voracious, much devouring, gree-
dy. LL. 1, 1. Rb. 2, 1. Co. 1, 1. TC. 2, 2.
From corvus vorans, and the fr. gourmand,
gr. gastrimargos.

Cornet, squadron, square. aHf. 4, 8. From corona, whence coronarius, and colonel, coronel.

a quibble alluding to Compter prison, in CE 4, 2.

Corollary, something added, or superfluous.
T. 4, 1.
Coroner, examiner of deads. TN. 1, 5. H.5, 1.
Cf. chronicler.

Countercheck, a military word meaning opposition, resistance, opposite host. KJ. 2, 1. AL. 5, 4.

5, 1; false image. KJ. 3, 1, AW. 4, 3. feigning, dissembling. MA. 2, S. AL. 4, 8; cheat. 0. 5, 1; trick. RJ. 2, 4.

Coronet, crown. MD. 4, 1. aHf. 5, 5. Corrigible, corrective, having the power of cor-Counterfeit, portrait, likeness. TG. 2, 4. TA. rection. 0.1, 3; that may be corrected. AC. 4, 12. Corslet, armour for the breast of a pikeman, cuirass. Co. 5, 4. Middlelat. corsetus. Costard, head; crabstick. MW. 3, 1. LL. 3, 1. Rc. 1, 4. KL. 4, 6. Gifford's Ben Jons. IV, 120. Kin to the gr. koros, gyros, bowed, crooked, whence korrhe, korso, korydos, kossyphos, head, scion.

Costard monger, fruiterer, seller of apples; one generally, who kept a stall. As adjective, any thing meanly mercenary, like a petty dealer in apples. bild. 1, 2.

to Cote, old spelling of quote; to overtake, outstrip, pass by, to pass the side of another. H. 2, 2. LL. 4, 3. Compare to coast, fr. costoyer; perhaps the gr. koptesthai. Douce Ill. of Sh. I, 231. explains to mark, note.

Cotquean, for cockquean, i. a male quean, a man who troubles himself with female affairs. RJ. 4, 4. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 481. Kin to the fr. cocu, coquin, gr. kokkyx. Cotsale, corr. of Cotswold in Gloucestershire, hills or a large tract of downs famous for their fine thurf, and therefore excellent for cursing, whence there were annually celebrated games, consisting of rural sports and exercises. MW. 1, 1. cf. TS. prol. 2.

Covenant, agreement, compact. Rb. 2,3. From the lat. convenire.

to Cover, to couple with, to fructify, properly speaking of beasts. O. 1, 1. From the fr. couvrir, lat. cooperio.

to Covet, to desire, crave, request, solicit, sue, long for. M. 4, 3. Rc. 3, 7. From the fr. convoiter; compare the gr. biotos, biotē, biōsimos. Counsel, secrecy. AW. 3, 7. Hence to keep counsel, to keep secret. RJ. 2, 4. MA. 3, 8. JC. 2, 4. S. Gifford's Ben Jonson, II, 271. Perhaps paronomastically for conceal. Counselkeeper, memorandum table, notebook. bld. 2, 4.

Countconfect, count of confect, or that loves confect. MA. 4, 1. in every way a mockname meaning an effeminate, womanish count. Countenance, a lawterm, french contenement, lat. contenementum, credit and reputation, which a person has by reason of his freehold, and most commonly what is necessary for his support and maintenance, according to his condition of life. MW. 2, 2. H. 1, 3. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 111. IV, 14; face, looks. MA. 5, 4. TS. 5, 1. Co. 4, 6. TC. 4, 5.

to Countenance, to give countenance, to support, to make accomplished. bHd. 5, 1. M. 2, 3.

Counter, a flat piece of brass or base metal for paying and marking in game, and for calcalating. AL. 2, 7. where for a counter means I hold the belt of a counter, and is a ludicrous offering (so it is from the french compte, lat. computus); false way, opposite scent, or trail by mistaking the course of the animal pursued; cf. to draw dryfoot. H. 4, 5. A hunting term, metaphorically used in this passage, and occasioned by the words trail and dog, meaning you are in the wrong, you do the contrary of what you should. From the lat. contra. With

Counter gate, some known place in Windsor; probably a gate which went out by the counterguard of the Castle, consequently by the fosse or ditch. MIV. 3, 3.

Counterpoint, counterpain, counterpane, covering for a bed, formed in regular divisions, anciently composed of patchwork and so contrived that every pane or partition in them was contrasted with one of a different colour, though of the same dimensions. TS. 2, 1. In French it is courtepointe. After all it is the german kunterbunt, chequered.

County, count, or nobleman in general. AW'. 3, 7. TN. 1, 5.

to Courb, to bend, stoop. H. 3, 4. fr. courber. Courtcupboard, a kind of moveable closet or buffet, in which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed. RJ. 1, 5.

Court holy water, proverbial phrase for flattery, and fine words without deeds. KL. 3, 2. Fr. eau bénite de la cour. Coward, timorous, timid. T. 3, 2. Of all derivations of this word partly ridiculous the best and most natural is that of Horne Tooke Div. of Purl. II, 42. from cower, to stoop down, to squat (bHf. 3, 2.) before the enemy, kin to the gr. kyō, to be hollow, round, vaulted, as animals, that squat. For, although cow occurs for coward, cowish for dastardly, timid (KL. 4, 2.), to cow, to terrify. M. 5, 7. yet these words are related rather to bo. S. bopeep and bug.

Cowslip, primula L. MD. 2, 1. He. 5, 2. Cy, 2, 2. in T. 5, 1. abode of the airy spirits. Cowlstaff, a staff used for carrying a large tub or basket with two handles. MW. 3, 3. Kin the gr. koilos, hollow. Coxcomb, cock's comb, head and comb of a cock terminating the top of the cap of the licenced fool; hence the cap itself, made out of welch materials. KL. 1,4; jocularly a head. TN. 5, 1. Co. 4, 6.; a foolish conceited fellow. LL. 4, 3. and often.

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Coy, to decoy, allure, flatter, to stroke, sooth with the hand. MD. 4, 1. Co. 5, 1. With Chaucer to coye is to allay, tranquillize, from quiescere, as it seems, but kin also to the lat. cavea, cage.

Coy, shy, modest, decent. MA. 3, 1. TG. 3, 1. Kin to eschew, germ. scheu. Coystril, coistrel, a paltry, or inferior groom, or lad employed by the esquire, to carry the knight's arms, and other necessaries. TN. 1,3. Per. 2. 129. From the fr. coustillier. to Cozen, to deceive. MV. 2, 9. TS. 3, 2. 5, 1. AW. 4, 2. 4, 5. MA. 2, 2. Rc. 4, 4. KL. 5, 8. S. cheater.

Cozier, one who sows, botcher, cobbler. TN. 2, 8. From the fr. coudre, cousu. Crab, roasted a wild english apple (T. 2, 2. LL. 4, 2. KL. 1, 4.) roasted before the fire and put into ale was a very favourite indulgence in early times. MD. 2, 1. It seems to be a metathesis of acerbus, germ. herb; hence the

allusion TS. 2, 1. here's no crab, therefore Cricket, gryllus domesticus L. WT. 2, 1. M. look not sour. 2, 2. aHd. 2, 4. Cy. 2, 2. Kin to the gr. krizein, krazein, gryzein.

Crabbed, sour, as unripe fruit; peevish, mɔrose, sad. T. 3, 1. MM. 3, 2. WT. 1, 2. Crack, a boy, a pert lively, sprightly, forward boy, one that cracks or boasts. bHd.3, 2. WT. 1, 2. bHd. 3, 2. Co. 1, 3. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 225. V, 72. From the icel. kraki, and kin also to the gr. krazō, to cry, klazō, to break.

to Crack, to break, split into chinks. Rb. 1, 2. H. 5, 2. TC. 4, 5. Cy. 4, 4. to boast. Crackhemp, crackrope, a wretch fated to the gallows. T'S. 5, 1.

to Crank, crankle, to run in flexures and windings. ald. 5, 1. Kin to cringe, crinkle, cracknel, icel. kringi, to encircle, kringla, circle, germ. Ring, ranken, renken, gr. kirkos, transposed krikos.

Crank, winding, turning and winding conduct. Co. 1, 1. where it is joined with offices. So 5, 1. the veins, these pipes and these conveyances of our blood.

Crants, garland. H, 5, 1. The germ. Kranz.
Crare, crayer, cray, small vessel. Cy. 4, 2.
lowlat. creyera, creyeris, crayera, kin to the
gr. keraia, sailyard, kraira, top, (from kara,
head) krairos, fleet.

Craven, recreant, beaten, coward. He. 4, 7
aHf. 1, 4. 4, 1. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II,
71. deems it the old participle of to crave,
to ask, desire with impetuosity, sax. crafian,
lowlat. gravare, cravare, germ. greifen, gr.
harpo, lat. rapio, compared to crawl, claw,
gripe, gr. chrio, chripto, chrimptō, grasp,
grapple, pers. giriften. It is therefore proper-
ly one who has craved, or grasped his life
from his antagonist. Hence a degenerate, dis-
pirited cock, a beaten cock. TS. 2, 1.
to Craven, to make cowardly. Cy. 3, 4.
to Crawl, to creep, crouch. MD. 3, 2. KL.
1, 1. Hh. 3, 2.

to Craze, to break, bruise; to distemper the
brain, to dissettle, disturb, unsettle. M. 3, 1.
Rc. 4, 4. KL. 3, 4. From the fr. écraser, kin
to crash, and grazing the gr. kraas, kara,
head.

Crazy, frail. aHf. 3, 2.

Credent, credible. WT. 1, 2. H. 1, 3.
Credit, belief. Cy. 1, 7. credulity. CE. 3, 2;
authority, reputation, trust. MV. 1, 1. TA.
3,2. aHf. 4, 1; account. TN. 4, 1; intercourse,
intelligence. MD. 2, 1.

Cresset, burning beacon, link, torch, taper,
light made of ropes wreathed, pitched and put
in open pots or pans. aHd. 3, 1. Fr. croi-

sette.

Crest, plume or bunch of feathers on the helmet
MM. 2, 4. TS. 2, 1. M. 5, 7. aHd. 4, 6. Co.
4, 5. TAn. 1, 2. TC. 2, 3. top, height. KJ. 4,
3. LL. 4, 3. From the lat. crista, kin to the
gr. krissein, rhissein, to bristle.
Crestfalln, abated, dejected, discouraged.
MW. 4, 5. Rb 1, 1. bHf. 4, 1.

to Crest, to deck like a crest. AC. 5, 2.
Crestless, without crest. aHf. 2, 4.
Crewel, a kind of fine worsted, chiefly used
for working and embroidering. Gifford's Ben
Jons. IV, 28. Hence a pun with cruel. KL.
2, 4. Kin to the gr. krokale, krokē, krokis,
krokys.

Crib, cottage. bHd. 3, 1. Germ. Krippe, cratch,
cradle, gr. rhips, rhōps,

to Cringe, to wrest, wrinkle, as boys the face in whining. AC. 3, 11. Kin to crank, wh. s. and to crinkle, groan, grin, germ. grinsen, greinen, gransen.

Crisp, curled, applied to hair, and billows, or water. aHd. 1, 3. clouds. TA. 4, 3. like curled. T. 1, 2. From the lat. crispus. Compare the sax. girps, girpsian. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 315. S. crest.

to Crisp, to curl, properly the hair. MV. 3, 2. Crispian and Crispin were two brethren at Rome, shoemakers, that did propagate the christian religion at Soissons, in the year 303. The governor ordered them to be beheaded. Hence the feast of Crispian the 25 of October. He. 4, 3. They were the tutelar saints of the shoemakers.

Crone, croan, old worn out woman. WT. 2, 3. Kin to the gr. grone, an old rock, and an old woman, grōthōne with Hesychius, therefore to gerōn, old man, and graus, old wife. Crooked, bent; an epithet of Age. Rb. 2, 1. Kin to crack, crutch, gr. gyros, kyros, koros, lat. curvus, crux, celt. crok, fr. croc, croix, engl. courb, curb.

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Crop, harvest. AL. 3, 5. TA. 4, 1. Kin to the gr. karpos, fruit; harpō, germ. raufen, raffen, reif.

to Crop, to cut off. Rb. 2, 1. to gather. bHf. 5, 1. AC. 2, 2.

Cropear, whose ear is cut off. aHd. 2, 3. Cross, a piece of money, many coins being marked with a cross on one side. LL. 1, 2. Gifford's Ben Jons. I, 185. Across meant also a misfortune or disappointment, cHf. 4, 4. hence many quibbles. AL. 2, 4. bHd. 1, 2. TA. 1, 2. Rc. 3, 1. KL. 5, 8.

Crossgarter'd, a fashion of wearing the
garters crossed on the leg. TN. 2, 5. 5, 1.
3, 4.

Cross-row, for Christ-cross-row, the alphabet.
Rc. 1, 1.

Crotchet, note, being the fourth part of a
breve. MA. 2, 3. RJ. 4, 5; fancy, whim, trick,
device. MM. 3, 2. MW. 2, 1.

to Crouch, to crawl (wh. s.) stoop, creep. KJ. 3, 2. JC. 4, 3. TA. 5, 6.

Crow, ironclaw, twibill, tool to break open
with. CE. 3, 1. RJ. 5, 2.

Crow keeper, person employed to drive the
crows from the fields. Hence a stuffed figure,
scare crow. KL. 4, 6. RJ. 1, 4.
Crown, iron. The putting on a crown of iron,
heated red hot, was occasionally the punish-
ment of rebels or regicides. Hence the allu-
sion. Rc. 4, 1.

Crown, french, corona Veneris, a head from
which the hair has fallen in one of the last
stages of the lues Venerea. MD. 1, 2. cf. MM.
1, 2; a piece of french money. He. 4, 1.
Crownet, diminutive of crown, as coronet. Both
this and crown are used occasionally as the
chief end, or ultimate reward and result of an
undertaking. AC. 4, 10. Cy. 1, 7.

Crupper, that part of the saddle, which is put under the horse's tail. CE. 1, 2. TS. 3, 2. 4, 1. to Crush a pot, or cup, a cantphrase for to finish a pot, to crack a bottle. RJ. 1, 2. S. 63.

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