They who have skill to compare, in the original, certain passages in the Books of Chronicles, with the correspondent places in the Book of Kings, will be able to find instances of these things, and very often also to see plainly how and whence they happened.-Clark. On the Evidences, Prop. 14.

The correspondencies of types and antitypes, though they are not themselves proper proofs of the truth of a doctrine, yet they may be very reasonable confirmations of the foreknowledge of God; of the uniform view of Providence under different dispensations; of the analogy, harmony, and agreement between the Old Testament and the New.-Id. Ib.

The practice of benignity, of courtesie, of clemency do at first sight, without aid of any discursive reflection, obtain approbation and applause from men; and correspondently uncharitable dispositions and practices (malignity, harshness, cruelty) do offend the mind with a disgustful resentment of them.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 28.

There to perform

Their various motions, corresponding all
To one harmonious plan, which fablers feign
The mystic music of the distant spheres.

Cooper. The Harmony of Music, Poetry, &c.

You accuse me, then, of being a negligent correspondent; but, believe me, I have never once omitted writing, whenever any of your family gave me notice that a courier was setting out to you.-Melmoth. Cicero, b. xi. Let. 26.

Having no general apostolical mission, being a citizen of a peculiar state, and being bound up in a considerable degree by its public will, I should think it at least improper and irregular for me to open a formal publick correspondence with the actual government of a foreign nation, without the express authority of the government under which I live.

Burke. On the French Revolution.

I make bold to tell him, that a similitude and correspondency between the event and the transaction which prefigured it, is not enough to shew this dependency, to the satisfaction of unbelievers.

Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. vi. Note K.

CORRIVAL. See CORIVAL.

CO'RRIVATE, v. Į Lat. Con, and rivus; CORRIVA'TION. Gr. 'Pe-ew, to flow. To flow or cause to flow together; to conflow, (qv.)

And rare devises to corrivate waters.

Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 276.

Admirable cost and charge is bestowed in the low coun tries on this behalfe, in the Dutchy of Milan, territory of Padua, in France, Italy, China, and so likewise about corrivations of waters to moisten and refresh barren grounds, to drean fennes, bogges, and moores.

Id. Ib. Democritus to the Reader, p. 57.

CORROBORA'TION.

CORROBORATIVE, n.

CORROBORATIVE, adj.

Fr. Corroborer; Sp. Corroborar; It. Corroborare;

Corroborare,

Lat. (con,

and robur, strength.) To strengthen, to confirm, to establish; to make strong, firm, stable, or steadfast.

Then Barnes answered, I spake nothing but the truth out of the Scriptures, according to my cocience, and according to the olde doctours: and then he deliuered him vi. sheetes of paper written, to confirme and corroborate his sayinges. Barnes. Works. Life, p. 3. This, with all other such matter as may serve to the purpose, ye shall extend as well as ye can, and by that meanes get and attain as much to your purpose for the corroboration and surety of all things to be done here as is possible.

Burnet. Rec. b. ii. No. 23. Dispatch to the Cardinal.

Our Saviour himself when in his agony was corroborated by an angel.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. v. c. 4.

A decoction thereof doth corroborat any member or part of the bodie which groweth to bee sencelesse or benummed, if the same be fomented therewith.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxiv. c. 4.

And therefore as Machiavel well noteth (though in an illfavoured instance) there is no trusting to the force of nature, nor to the bravery of words, except it be corroborate by custom.-Bacon. Ess. Of Custom and Education.

There be divers sorts of bracelets fit to comfort the spirits; and they be of three intentions; refrigerant; corroborant; and aperient. For corroboration and comfortation, take such bodies as are of astringent quality, without manifest cold.-Bacon. Naturall History, § 961-2.

Nay what shall the Scripture itselfe? Which is like an apothecaries shop, wherein are all remedies for all infirmities of minde, purgatives, cordialls, alteratives, corroboratives, lenitives, &c.-Burton. Anat. of Melancholy, p. 280. Besides its medicinal virtues, it [silphium] was a wonderful corroborater of the stomach.-Evelyn. Acetaria.

And this shall suffice for an example of the errors which are brought into the church, from the entities and essences of Aristotle which it may be he knew to be false philosophy; but writ it as a thing consonant to and corroborative to their religion; and fearing the fate of Socrates. Hobbs. Leviathan, pt. iv. c. 46.

The absence of such assurances [of innocence] at a time when a person is laying his heart open to his friends, and professedly shewing them where the strength of his defence must lie, is undeniably a corroborating evidence, and a very strong one, of his own consciousness that the accusation against him is true.

Hoadly. Letters signed Britannicus, Let. 32. We shall endeavour to make appear: 1st, that wit and humour are corroborative of religion, and promotive to true faith.-Shaftesbury. Characteristics, vol. iii. Misc. 2. Joy amidst ills corroborates, exalts; 'Tis joy and conquest; joy and virtue too.

Young. The Complaint, Night 9. Having considered the evidence given by the plays themselves, and found it in their favour, let us now enquire what corroboration can be gained from other testimony. Johnson. Gen. Obs. on Shakspeare's Plays.

Now he that goeth about to quiet his conscièce, and to iustifie him selfe with the law: doth but heale hys woundes with freatyng coroseis.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 10.

The law driueth out the disease, and maketh it appeare, and is a sharpe salue, and a freatyng corsey.-Id. Ib. p. 383. For so he might procure wealepublick by his paine:

It was no corsie to this knight long trauaile to sustaine.

Turberville. Of the Death of Sir John Tregonwell. Wote you not why? corrosyue style,

is corsey to the eye. Drant. Horace, b. i. Sat. 4. Statesmen purge vice with vice, and may corrode The bad with bad, a spider with a toad.

Donne. To the Countess of Bedford.

Those evil lucks in numbers many are,
That to thy footsteps do themselves apply;
And still thy conscience corrosiv'd with grief,
Thou but pursu'st thyself, both robb'd and thief.

Drayton. The Barons' Wars.
And more than all the rest, this griev'd him chief,
And to his heart a corsive was eternall,
To think that Avarice should her entice,
Vpon her chastity to set a price.

Harrington. Orlando, b. xliii. s. 83. The soft delicious air

To heal the scarr of these corrosive fires Shall breathe her balme.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. The physick of the good Samaritan in the Gospel, wherein there was a corrodent and a lenient compunction, and consolation.-Bp. of London. Vine Palatine, (1614,) p. 17.

Styx is a fountain of Arcadia, whose waters are so deadly, that they presently kill whatsoever drinks thereof; so corrodiating that they can only be contained in the hoof of a mule. Sandys. Christ's Passion. Notes, p. 95.

And this is that the chymists mainly drive at in the attempt of their aurum potabile; that is, to reduce that indigestible substance into such a form as may not be ejected by siege, but enter the cavities, and less accessible parts of the body, without corrosion.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 22.

How much corrosive salts may dulcify themselves by corroding some bodies, you may easily try, by pouring distilled vinegar, or moderate spirit of vitriol, upon a competent proportion of corals, or crabs' eyes, or pearls. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 374.

Salad-oil is generally reputed to consist of fat and unctions particles, and therefore to be a greater resister of corrosion. Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 188.

Corrosibility being the quality, that answers corrosiveness, he that has taken notice of the advertisement I formerly gave about the use of the term corrosiveness, in these notes, may easily judge in what sense I employ the name of the other quality.-Id. Ib.

Though at first it tasted somewhat corrosively (perhaps because the proportion betwixt the nitrous spirit and the pot-ashes was not duly observed) yet after it had a while remained upon the tongue, the taste of it much emulated that of saltpetre.-Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 363.

I presume to employ corrosiveness in a greater latitude, so as to make it almost equivalent to the solutive power of liquors, referring other menstruums to those, that are cor rosive or freting, (though not always as to the most proper, yet) as to the principal and best-known species. Id. Ib. vol. iv. p. 314.

I have seen men between twenty and thirty, whose fore teeth have been consumed almost down to the gums, though no two of them were exactly of the same length and thickness, but irregularly corroded like iron by rust.

Cook. Voyage, vol. ii. b. iii. e. 9. Though it [peevishness] breaks not out in paroxysms of outrage, nor bursts into clamour, turbulence, and bloodshed, it wears out happiness by slow corrosion, and small injuries incessantly repeated.-Rambler, No. 74.

The rough file grates; yet useful is its touch,
As sharp corrosives to the schirrous flesh,
Or to the stubborn temper, keen rebuke.

CORRUGATE, v. CO'RRUGATE, adj. CORRUGATION.

Jago. Edge-Hill, b. iii. Fr. Corrugation; a wrinkling or furrowing of the skin, (Cotgrave.) Lat. Corrugare, (con, and rugare, from ruga, a wrinkle ;) which Vossius thinks is from 'Pu-e epv-ev, trahere; for ruga is nothing more than the skin contracted into wrinkles or furrows.

To wrinkle or furrow; to draw or contract into wrinkles or furrows.

Cockeram has," Corruge,-to frown, to wrinkle." The cramp (no doubt) commeth of the contraction of sinews; which is manifest in that it commeth either by cold or drinesse; as after consumptions, and long agues; for co and drinesse do (both of them) contract and corrugate. Bacon. Natural History, s. 964

And this rising of it is also further'd by the wrinkling up and shortning of the upper part of the stomach; which stil returns into its natural corrugation, as the masse of liqui meat leavs soaking it.-Digby. Of Bodies, c. 34.

Extended views a narrow mind extend; Push out its corrugate, expansive make, Which, ere long, more than planets shall embrace. Young. Complaint, Night! The full lips, the rough tongue, the corrugated cartila ginous palate, the broad cutting teeth of the ox, the det the horse, and the sheep, qualify this tribe for browsin upon their pasture.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 12. COR-RUPT, v. CORRUPT, adj. CORRUPTER, or CORRUPTOR. CORRUPTFUL. CORRUPTIBLE. CORRUPTIBILITY. CORRUPTIBLY. CORRUPTING, N. CORRUPTION. CORRUPTIVE, adj. CORRUPTLESS. CORRUPTLY. CORRUPTRESS. CORRUPTRICE.

Fr. Corrompre; It. Co rompere; Sp. Corrompir Old Eng. Corrump; La Corrumpere, ruptum, (co and rump-ere, to break to break or destroy. Co rupt, from the past part.

To destroy, (sc.) th soundness, the integrit the purity; to deprave. vitiate, to spoil, to putrify be, or cause to be or b come, putrid or rotten, rot; (met.)—

To destroy or depra or vitiate, (sc.) soundness of mind, purity heart; to beguile, to be, or cause to be, beguile wicked or vicious.

Wiclif and Chaucer write Corrump, immediat from the French.

Te distrie hem that corrumpiden the erthe.

Wiclif. Apocalips, c. But these men blasfemen whateuer thingis thei know not, for whateuer thingis thei knowe kyndeli as dour beestis in these thei ben corrupt.-Id. First Ep. Judas,

But these speake euil of those thinges which they ki not: and what thyng they know naturally: as beastes why are wythout reaso, in thō thinges thei corrupt the selues Bible, 1551.

COSMETICK, adj.

COSMETICK, N.

COSMETICAL.

Gr. Koguos, ornatus, adorned. Gr. Kooμnins; Lat. Cosmeta, (which in Juvenal, vi. 477, is rendered by Holliday, "The tiring maids.")

That which can or may, that which is used to, adorn, deck, beautify.

Evelyn (Fop. Dict.) says,-here used for any effeminate ornament. Also, artificial complexions and perfumes.

The learned Vossius says, his barber us'd to comb his head in Iambicks. And indeed in all ages, one of this useful profession, this order of cosmetick philosophers, has been celebrated by the most eminent hands.-Tatler, No. 34.

No better cosmeticks than a severe temperance and purity, a real and unaffected modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit, a sincere and universal charity. No true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii.

Sir, may I be so happy as to see again some lines from your hands, to continue or rather begin a correspondence, as to the cosmetical (but to my aims truly vital) parts of it.

Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 77. From Hartwell, an. 1647. I was never permitted to sleep till I had passed through the cosmetick discipline, part of which was a regular lustration performed with bean-flower water and May-dews. Rambler, No. 130.

This oil [of the cashew] is used as a cosmetick by the ladies to remove freckles and sun-burning; but the pain they necessarily suffer makes its use not very frequent.

Granger. The Sugar Cane, Note on v. 137.

First, your lordship knoweth that the cosmographers haue

Cosmographers,

By charts and maps exactly that have shown,
All of this earth that ever can be known.

Drayton. To the Noble Lady. The Lady J. S.

I would correct those errors in navigation, reforme cosmographical chartes, and rectifie longitudes, if it were possible.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 244.

And this [is] no more than what it doth upon the loadstone, and that more plainly upon the terrella or spherical magnet cosmographically set out with circles of the globe. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 2. Besides I came tumbling out into the world a pure cadet, a true cosmopolite; not born to land, lease, house, or office. Howell, b. i. s. 6. Let. 60.

We insist largely, upon an artificial, regular, and plastick nature, devoid of express knowledge and understanding, as subordinate to the Deity: chiefly in way of confutation, of those cosmoplastick, and hylozoick atheisms.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, Pref. p. 10

I shall express what I call general nature by cosmical mechanism, that is, a comprisal of all the mechanical affections (figure, size, motion, &c.) that belong to the matter of the great system of the universe.-Boyle. Works, vol.v. p.178.

We shall pass by what a cosmographer would perhaps except against in his doctrine about the generation and motion of the wind upon the surface of the earth, and shall only take notice in the remaining part of that section of thus much.-Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 693.

Now the proper introduction, as well as foundation and support, of this kind of history, is a theistical cosmogony. Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. iii. s. 3. Certain it is, that, according to the Hebrew cosmologist, the earth was, before the six days' creation, a desolate waste. Geddes. Translation of the Bible, vol. i. Pref. CO'SSET, n. A cosset is said, in the Glosse to the Shepheard's Calendar, November, to be "a lambe brought up without the dam." Florio has "Casiccio, cassiccio, a tame lamb bred up by hand in a house." (Casa, a cottage.) To the same purport are Ray and Grose. Moor (Suffolk Words and Phrases) adds, that the term is extended to a much indulged child. ""Twas cossetted too much by half."

The fairest May she was that euer went,
Her like she has not left behind I weene.
And if thou wilt bewail my wofull teene,
I shall thee giue yond cosset for thy paine.
Spenser. Shepheard's Calendar. November.

COST, v. Cost, n.

CO'STAGE.

CO'STIOUS.

CO'STLESS.

CO'STLY. CO'STLINESS.

Ger. and Dut. Kost; Ger. Kosten; Sw. Kosta; Fr. Couster; It. Costare, which the etymologists, with the exception of Junius, derive from the Lat. Constare. Junius thinks the A. S. Cyste, arca, a chest, is the

longitude, vnder the which is comprehended all the roundnes of the earth.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 215.

I and my partener haue one thousand foure hundred duckets that we employed in the sayde fleete, principally for that two English men friends of mine, which are somewhat learned in cosmographie, should goe in the same shippes, to bring me certaine relation of the situation of the country, and to be expert in the nauigation of those seas.-Id. Ib.

I haue often times (sayd he) and many wayes looked into the state of earthly kingdomes, generally the whole world over, (as farre as it may be yet knowen to Christian men commonly) being a studie of no great difficultie, but rather a purpose somewhat answerable to a perfect cosmographer, to finde himselfe cosmopolites, a citizen and member of the whole and onely one misticall citie universall, and so consequently to meditate of the cosmopolitical gouernment thereof, vnder the King almightie, passing on very swiftly toward the most dreadfull and most comfortable terme prefixed.-Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 6.

If therefore the dog-star had this effectuall heat which is ascribed unto it, it would afford best evidence thereof and the season would be most fervent, when it ariseth in the probablest place of its activity, that is, the cosmical ascent; for therein it ariseth with the sun, and is included in the same irradiation.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 13.

This name hath bene taken vp in honour of Saint Swithin, the holie bishop of Winchester about the yeare 860, and called the Weeping Saint Swithin, for that about his feast Præsepe and Aselli, rainie constellations do arise cosmically, and commonly cause raine.-Camden. Remaines. Names.

It was a most ancient and in a manner universally received tradition amongst the Pagans, as hath often been intimated, that the cosmogonia or generation of the world took its first beginning from a chaos, (the divine cosmogonists agreeing herein with the Atheistick ones;) this tradition having been delivered down from Orpheus and Linus (among the Greeks) by Hesiod, and Homer, and others.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 248.

In

And of a mirthe I am right now bethought,
To don you ese, and it shall coste you nought.

Chaucer. Prologue, v. 770

For more solempne in every mannes sight
This feste was, and greter of costage,
Than was the revel of hire mariage.

Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8980.

Alas! may not a man see as in our daies, the sinnefal costlewe array of clothing, and namely in to moche superfluitee, or elles into disordinate scantnesse? Id. The Persones Tale.

That other point I understode,
Whiche most is worth, and most is good,
And costeth least a man to kepe:
My lorde, if ye woll take keepe,

I sale it is humilitee.-Gower. Con. A.
The seconde is, what most is worth,
And of costage, is least put foorth.-Id. Ib.

Some law would bee made, such as the lawe was in Rome called Oppius lawe, to bridle and measure women's costnesse.-Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, T. 8. Nor in costuouse pearles in their copes, and chysibylles, when they be in theyr prelately pompouse sacrifices. Bale. Image, b. v. pt. iii.

The whiche Marquys of Suffolke soon after, with his wyfe and other honourable personages, as well of men as of women, wt great apparayll of chayris and other costives ordenaunce for to conueye the forenamed Lady Margarete into Englande, sayled into Frauce.-Fabyan, an. 1563.

Miserable was Hermon, who, when he had onely dreamed that he had disbursed money, died for woe: likewise Phedon, who wept not for that he should dye, but that his burial would cost four shillings.-Camden. Remaines. Epitaphs. I know thy trains Though dearly to my cost, thy ginns, and toyls. Milton. Samson Agonistes What! had he nought whereby he might be knowne, But costly pilements of some curious stone.

Bp. Hall, b. iii. Sat. 2. Indeed those who were content to live among the Jews,

and enjoy their priviledges and immunities, were bound to

undergo the burden and costliness of the offerings and san fices which, as St. Paul saith, was so great, that they were both to themselves and their forefathers intolerable.

Chillingworth, Ser. &

Glad that so little loyal blood it cost,
He grieves so many Britons should be lost:
Taking more pains, when he beheld them yield,
To save the flyers, then to win the field.

Waller. Duke of Monmouth's Expedition

But as he got it freely, so

He spent it frank and freely too;

For saints themselves will sometimes be,

of gifts that cost them nothing, free.-Hudibras, pt. i. c. I.

I have known many (saith Saint Basil) who have fasted, and prayed, and groaned, and expressed all kind of coalies piety who yet would not part with one doit to the afflicted Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 31. lent musick, both Eusebius and 1, chancing to cast our eyes After we had awhile enjoyed this costless, and yet excel towards Eugenius, obserued, that his eye did very attentively wait upon the motions of a lark.

Boyle. Occasional Reflections, Dis. 2. s. 4. Sir John Gates, vice chamberlain to the king, who was now grown into great favour, obtained another part: for the costly household stuff.-Strype. Mem. Edw. VI. an. 1551.

or value.

Fy a debles," quath the kyng, "wo sey so vyl dede, Kyng to werye eny cloth, bote yt costenede more?"

Id. p. 390.

He said for the barons, that non of ther homage Suld passe for somons, bot at ge kyng's costage. R. Brunne, p. 292. What thanne is my meede? that I prechynge the gospel putte the gospel withoute otheris cost, that I use not my power in the gospel.-Wiclif. 1 Corynth. c. 9.

And which of you that bereth him best of alle,
That is to sayn, that telleth in this cas
Tales of best sentence and most solas,
Shal have a souper at youre aller cost.

aerd, natura, (q.d.) cibus naturalis; springing spontaneously from the earth. Pomarius, is rendered by Drant, Costerdmonger.

The prodigall, by witte worde hath
ten talentes: in his heate,
He biddes the costerdmongers, and

thappothycaries neate.-Drant. Horace, b. ii. Sat. 3.

Nay, come not neere th' old man: keepe out, che vor'ye, or ice try whither your costard, or my ballow be the harder. Shakespeare. Lear, Act iv. sc. 6.

Fal. Upon my life he means to turn costermonger, and is projecting how to forestall the market; I shall cry pippins rarely.-Ford. The Sun's Darling, Act iv. sc. 1.

Lady. Pray sister do not laugh, you'll anger him, And then he'll rail like a rude costermonger.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Scornful Lady, Act iv. sc. 1. CO'STIVE, adj. Į Probably a corruption of CO'STIVENESS. the Fr. Constipe; It. Costipare, costipato, constipated, (qv.)

Close or closed, stopped.

Egges longe and white, be nutritiue, much better then the round: Egges roasted hard be costiue, yea

nholsome and vnsounde.-Ďrant. Horace, b. ii. Sat. 4.

I would she should knowe remedies for such diseases as come often, as the cough, the murre, and gnawing in the bellie, the laske, costifnes, the wormes, the head ache, &c. Fives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. ii. c. 10. He that courts others ears, may use designs, Be coy and costive; but my harmless lines, If they produce a laughter, are well crown'd.

Brome. Epistles.

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.-Prior. Epigrams. There is reason to suspect, that children being usually intent on their play, and very heedless of any thing else, eften let pass those motions of nature, when she calls them but gently; and so they, neglecting the seasonable offices, do by degrees bring themselves into an habitual costiveness. Locke. Of Education, s. 27.

Tis true, sometimes to costive brains A couplet costs exceeding pains.—Lloyd. On Rhyme. COSTUME. Fr. Coutume, custom. Habit, manner; continual fashion or order. Sergius Paulus wears a crown of laurel; this is hardly reconcileable to strict propriety, and the costume of which Rasele was in general a good observer. Sir J. Reynolds, Dis. 12.

CO-SUFFERER. A fellow-sufferer. For those who yet write on our poet's fate, Should as co-sufferers commisserate.

Wycherly. Prologue to Love in a Wood.

CO-SUPREME. A fellow-supreme.
Whereupon it made this threne,
To the phenix and the dove,
Co-supremes and stars of love;
As chorus to their tragic scene.

COTE.

Shakespeare. Passionate Pilgrim. To cite, now written to quote, (qv.)

But as touching the labour nowe lastly bestowed on thys present woorke, thou shalt vnderstande most ientle reader, that the text is throughout coted in the margin with much more diligence and treuth, than I haue yet seen in any Newe Testament hitherto sette forth in any tongue. Udal, Pref. "A. S. Cote, domuncula, casa, tugurium, a cote, a cottage; such as that we call a sheep-cote, or the like, forensi nostratium latinitate

COTE, v. COTE, n.

COT, n.

COTSWOLD.

COTTAGE, R.

COTTAGELY.

COTTAGED, adj. cota, cotta, cottagium, it. spelunca, cubile, sella. denne, a cave, a bed, a couch,

COTTAGER.

Co'TTER, or CO'TTIER.

ferarum.

A

a nest," (Somner.) In A. S. it is also written Cyte. Spel

man says, primarie a Græco KOLT, cubile, lustrum him) seems to think that cote (coat), a garment, Verstegan (see the quotation from may have been transferred from cot; as to the

little house or cote of the body.

The common

Any thing which covers, shelters or protects the human or any other body,-whether applied to a small place for men to dwell or rest in, or for the shelter and protection of sheep, pigeons, or other animals.

Bothe princes paleis. and poure menne cotes.
Piers Plouhman, p. 166.
For hire hadde a childe in the chapon cote [capon or fowl-
house.]-Id. p. 94.

To comforte suche cotzers.-Id. p. 152.

It ne semeth not by likeliness
That she was borne and fed in rudenesse,
As in a cote, or in an oxes stall,
But nourished in an emperoures hall.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8274.
The foming flood-
Whoes rage of waters beares away what heapes
Stand in his way, the coates, and eke the herdes.
Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii.

At the concludyng of whiche amitie he granted lycence and libertie for certayn cotteshold shepe to be transported into the countie of Spayne (as people report) which haue so there multiplied and encreased that it hath turned ye commoditie of England, moche to the Spanish profit, & to no small hynderance of the luere and gayne whiche was beforetymes in England, raysed of wolle and fell. Hall. Edw. IV. an. 4.

Moche rather is that servaunt to be commended, whiche hauinge a lyttell reward of his mayster, wyll in a small cotage make hym hartye chere, with moche humble reuerence. Sir T. Elyot. Governovr, b. iii. c. 2.

And albeit a cote in our language is a little slight built country habitation (such as after the French we call a cottage) yet as all things begin little, so that which first bore the name of a cote, might afterwards come to be the habitation of a worshipfull family, and yet retaine the name of cote still, which being no other originally in itselfe than is aforesaid, yet carrieth it honour in the antiquity thereof. We also use this word cote, for a garment, but it seemith to have been at first metaphorically brought in use, in regard of being shrowded therein, as in the little house or cote of the body, but anciently we so used it not, for our ancient word for a cote in this sence, was a reaf.

Verstegan. Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, c. 8. Diuerse discourses in their way they spent; Mongst which Cymochles of her questioned, Both what she was, and what that vsage ment, Which in her cote she daily practiced.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6.

As when a prowling wolfe,
Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey,
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eeve
In hurdl'd cotes amid the field secure,
Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fould.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv.
But if to my cottage thou wilt resort
So as I can, I will thee comfort.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calendar. Sept. They enuy others whatever they enjoy of estates, houses, or ornaments of life, beyond their tenuity or cottagely obscurity. Bp. Taylor. Artificial Handsomeness, p. 172.

Himself goes patched like some bare cottyer
Lest he might ought the future stocke appeyre.
Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 2.

But what plain fare her cottage did afford,
A hearty welcome at a humble board,
Was freely hers; and to supply the rest,
An honest meaning, and an open breast.

Dryden. Hind & Panther.

to point out the etymology of the verb to be from the Fr. Côté, the side," (Steevens.)

"Fr. Coste a coste,-equally, in even rank, side by side, cheek by jowl," (Cotgrave.)

She, of the gods and goddesses
Before the wanton noted,

Was of the gods and goddesses
For wantonnesse out-coted.

Warner. Albion's England, b. vi. c. 30.
Ethe, Agamemnonides that was so richly maind,
Gat strength still, as she spent; which words, her worth
had prou'd with deeds,

Had more ground beene allow'd the race; and coted farre his steeds

No question leaving for the prise.

Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiii. Rosin. To thinke, my lord, if you delight not in man, what lenton entertainment the players shall receive from you: we coated them on the way, and hither are they comming to offer you seruice.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 2.

CO/TERIE. Fr. Coterie, company, society, association of people. Menage writes Cotereux, coterie; Mid. Lat. Coterellus; and this he, with Spelman, thinks is from the Low Lat. Cota, a cot; cota seu tugurii habitator. (See Menage, Du Cange, Spelman, and Vossius, de Vitiis.) Skinner has "Cottarells, clientes seu beneficiarii omnium vilissimi, a nostro cote." See also Cotterie in Cotgrave, for the earlier usage of the word.

Fine B- observes no other rules
Than those the coterie prize;

She thinks, whilst lords continue fools

'Tis vulgar to be wise.-Lovibond. On a very fine Lady. COTQUEAN. Mr. Gifford says, is a corruption of Cuck-quean, (qv.) a woman whose husband is unfaithful to her bed. But in Hall it is evidently applied as explained in Philips's New World of Words, quoted by the editor of Hall's works: viz. "A man that is too busy in meddling with women's affairs." See also the citation below

from the Spectator.

Scold like a cot-quean, that's your profession. Ford. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Act i. sc. 2. Nur. Go you cot-queane go, Get you to bed, faith you'll be sicke to-morrow For this night's watching.

Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act iv. sc. 4. Whose mannish hus-wives like their refuse state And make a drudge of their uxorious mate; Who, like a cot-queene, freezeth at the rocke, Whiles his breech't dame doth man the forrein stock.

Hall, b. iv. Sat. 6. Ovid. We tell thee thou anger'st us, cot-queane; and we will thunder thee in peeces, for thy cot-queanilie.

B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act iv. sc. 4.

You have given us a lively picture of that kind of husband who comes under the denomination of hen-pecked; but I do not remember you have ever touched upon one that is of the quite different character, and who, in several places of England, goes by the name of a cott-quean.

COTTON, v. COTTON, n. COTTON, adj. COTTONOUS. COTTONY.

Hail independence-never may my cot Till I forget thee, be by thee forgot.

There through the dusk but dimly seen,
Sweet evening objects intervene:
His wattled cotes the shepherd plants,
Beneath her elm the milk-maid chants.-Warton, Ode 11.
Where'er from time thou court'st relief,
The muse shall still, with social grief,
Her gentlest promise keep:
Ev'n humble Harting's cottag'd vale,
Shall learn the sad repeated tale,
And bid her shepherds weep.

Collins. On the Death of Col. Ross.
Resolve me, why the cottager and king,
He whom sea-sever'd realins obey, and he
Who steals his own dominions from the waste,
Repelling winter blasts with mud and straw,
Disquieted alike, draw sigh for sigh,

In fate so distant, in complaint so near?

Young. Complaint, Night 7. COTE. "To cote, is to overtake. In the laws of Mr. Tollett 'To cote is when a

To be, or cause to be, like cotton; as soft, as easy, as yielding as cotton; and thus, to take any thing easily, or quietly; to soothe or soften, to assuage, to mitigate, to yield, to accede or agree to, (qv.)

So feyneth he, things true and false so alwayes mingleth he

That first with midst, and midst with laste maye collen, and agree.

Drant. Horace. The Arte of Poetry.

The poorer sort do line their clothes with cotto-cloth, which is made of the finest wool they can pick out, & of the courser part of the said wool, they make felt to couer their houses and their chests, and for bedding also.

Hackluyt. Voyages. The Tartars, vol. i. p. £8. King Juba saith that this cotton groweth about the Gossampines) Holland. Plinie, b. xii. c. 11.

protect; and thus, cot, cote, or coat, may mean

and gives the hare a turn. This quotation seems

He meanes whatever horseman next he spide, To take his horse of frend or else a foe, At this is Discord pleas'd, and said to Pride That she was glad their bus'nes cotned so. Harrington. Orlando, b. xvii. s. 17. William Cotton (of another family) was made bishop of Exeter; the queen merily saying (alluding to the plenty of clothing in those parts)" that she hoped that she had well cottened the west."-Fuller. Worthies. Hant-shire.

Oaks bear also a knur, full of a cottony matter, of which they antiently made wick for their lamps and candles. Evelyn. On Forest Trees, c. 3. There is a salix near Darking in Surrey, in which the julus bears a thick cottonous substance. Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 19. s. 8. There are two sorts of cotton-trees [on the river St. Jago]; one is called the red, the other the white cotton-tree; the white cotton-tree grows like an oak, but generally much bigger and taller than our oaks. The red cotton-tree is like the other, but hardly so big.-Dampier. Voyage, an. 1681.

And every sultry clime [yields] the snowy down
Of cotton bursting from its stubborn shell
To gleam amid the verdure of the grove.

COUCH, v. COUCH, n. Co'vCHANT, adj. Co'UCHED.

Dyer. The Fleece, b. ii. Dut. Koetsen; Ger. Kutschen; Fr. Coucher, which latter Junius thinks is from the It. Colcare, pro collocare; for colcarsi Italis est conferre se in cubitum, collocare se in lecto. And see a collection of similar usages of the verb, collocare, in Menage. Vossius (de Vitiis) says, Culca, pro quo nunc eliso L, pronuntiant, couche. And see COACH.

Co'UCHEE.

Co'UCHER.

CO/UCHING, n.

The Dut. and Ger. are derived by Wachter from Kutten, to cover (see Cot); for what, he asks, is kutsche, (a coach, qv.) but a covered vehicle or carriage? To couch and to cower have similar applications, and probably the same origin. (See COWER, and COVE.) To Couch is

To lay, or lye, down; to lower, to stoop, to bend down; to set, or put or place, to press low, down, flat; to deject, to depress; to depose, to repose; to lie or lay hidden; to lurk; to hide, to cover, to cloak, to clothe, to invest.

Coucher,-one who couches; one who lies, (sc.) in wait, or on watch, or on duty. The word in the latter usage occurs in Stat. 37 Edw. III. c. 16. (See in Rastal, fol. 535.)

"Couched with perles,-laid or trimmed with perles," (Tyrwhitt.)

Couch is used, by Wiclif, as equivalent to chamber, (or cot.)

To couch the lance,-to lay or place it in the

rest.

Couching, in surgery, the operation by which a cataract is depressed.

But whanne thou schalt prei, entre into the couche, and whanne the dore is schitt, prei thi fadir in hidlis, and thi fadir that seeth in hidlis schal yelde to thee. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 6. Thei broughten our syke men into stretis, and leiden in litel beddis and couchis.-Id. Dedis, c. 5.

In jealousie I rede eke thou him binde,
And thou shalt make him couche as doth a quaille.
Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 9082.

His coat armure was of a cloth of Tars,
Couched with perles, white, and round, and grete.
Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2163.
Now how the fire was couched first with stre,
And then with drie stickes cloven a-three.-Id. Ib. v. 2936.
His almagest, and bokes gret and smale,
His astrelabre longing for his art,
His angrim stones, layen faire apart
On shelves couched at his beddes hed.

Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3211. He meant as in his bed or in his couch.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5670.

My father ye shall well beleue
The yonge whelpe, which is affaited
Hath not his maister better awaitted
To couche, when he saith go lowe
Than I anone.

Gower. Con. A. b. i.

The memorie therefore must be cherished, the which is a fast holding both of matter and words couched together to confirm any cause.-Wilson. The Arte of Rhetorique, p. 6.

And this I sing, in corner closely coucht
Like Philomene since that the stately courts,
Are now no place, for such poor byrds as I.

Gascoigne. The Steele Glas.

Whan Palinurus quick from couche himself to stere be

gonne

To feele the winde, and quarters all with eares attentif
harks.
Phaer. Virgill. Eneidos, b. iii.
Her couched harth she steeres [stirs.]-Id. Ib. b. viii.
Than Juno Queene
Enforst with furious rage vprose: why dost thou me con-
straine,

Deepe silence now to breake, and to disclose my couched
paine.
Id. Ib. b. X.

These things she spake, but he remembring Joue's commandment still:

Dyd stand with fixed eyes, and couchyd care his hart dyd fill. Id. Ib. b. iv.

She with well sett and cowched wordes, declared and ac cumylated the grete benefites and gratuities, whiche your highnes in her perplexitie, hevenes, and adversite had exhibite and shewed to her.

State Papers. Wolsey to Hen. VIII. 1527.

And there was a squyer called Albert of Colayne, he turned and couched the spere in the rest, and came rennying agaynst the lorde of Poytrell, and gaue him suche a stroke on the targe that the spere flewe all to peaces.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 48. In these woordes M. Harding hath priuily cowched sundrie arguments, which of what value or force they be, I pray thee (gentle reader) to vnderstande.

Jewell. Replie to M. Hardinge, p. 101. Great towers of stone strongly couched Haue heauie falls when they be vndermin'd.

Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 327.

One that distinctly observes the watry humour of the eye; is so much wiser than one who observes it not; as to know where a cataract is bred; and that by couching it, the sight may be restored.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. v. c. 5.

The emperor's ban was already formally couched, and ready to put to the print.-Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 521. Gan eft-soones prepare Himselfe to battell with his couched speare. Loth was that other, and did faint through feare To test th' vntryed dint of deadly steele.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 3. Mean while in Rome (the Mistris once Of all the world) they view Such wonders couch't in ruins, as Vnseene might seem vntrew.

Warner. Albion's England, b. ii. c. 74.
This said, he shakes aloft his Roman blade,
Which like a faulcon tow'ring in the skies,
Coucheth the fowl below with his wings shade,
Whose crooked beak threats, if he mount, he dies.
Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece.
1 Qu.
Oh, if thou couch
But one night with her, ev'ry hour in't will
Take hostage of thee for a hundred.

Beaum. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act i. sc. 1.
As through fallow fields,

Blake oxen draw a well-joynd plough, and either evenly yeelds

plow

His thriftie labour; all heads coucht so close to earth they The fallow with their hornes, till out the sweate begins to flow.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xiii,

But when the purple morning night bereaues
Of late vsurped rule on lands and seas,
His loathed couch each wakeful hermit leaues.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. viii. s. 42.
His crest was couered with a couchant hound,
And all his armour seem'd of antique mold.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2.

Cas. I must preuent thee, Cymber, These couchings and these lowly courtesies Might fire the blood of ordinary men.

Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act iii. sc. 1. Wherefore, by the immediately proceeding consequence, we find that 125,000 parts of flame may be couched in the room of one least part of gunpowder.-Digby. Of Bodies, c.8. When to the heavens her spacious front she rais'd And bellow'd thrice, then backward turning gaz'd On those behind, till on the destin'd place She stoop'd, and couch'd amid the rising grass. Addison. Ovid. Metam. b. iii. His cataracts are couch'd, and then he has the ideas (which he remembers not) of colours, de novo, by his restor❜d sight convey'd to his mind, and that without any consciousness of a former acquaintance: and these now he can revive, and call to mind in the dark.

Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. i. c. 4.

We have the strength of the apostle's argument to prove the truth of this mysterious doctrine of the resurrection; although artificially couch'd by way of insinuation and address. Stillingfleet, vol. iv. Ser. 12.

When the sultan visits his friends, he is carried in a small couch on four men's shoulders, with eight or ten armed men to guard him.-Dampier. Voyage, an. 1686.

The king had scarce company about him to entertain him, when the duke's levees and couchees were so crowded that the antechambers were full.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1684. You wish my subject I wou'd wave, The preface is so very grave. Come then, my friend, I'll change my style, And couch instruction with a smile.

Cotton. Death and the Rake. Like some dread. Herald, tigers I'll compel In the same field with stags in peace to dwell, The rampant lion now erect shall stand, Now couchant at my feet shall lie depress'd.-Jenyns. Ode. COVE, v. Fr. Couver; It. Covare; Lat. COVE, n. Cubare, to brood, sit on, concre over. Holland renders, in secretis recessibus, within secret coves or noukes.

A cove, a nest or nook; a place so sheltered as to supply a secure nest; and thus applied to.small bays or inlets.

For a fortnight about the shortest day in the yeare, (to wit, during the time that the foules halcyones do lay, coure, and hatch their eggs in the sea) the winds lie, and the weather is more mild and temperate.

Holland. Plinie, b. xviii. c. 26.

But being not able to cove or sit upon them, nor to remain herself upon the land out of the sea any long time, she [the tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel, and afterwards covereth them with the lightest and finest sand that she can get. Id. Plutarch, p. 800.

To the end, that embarking himselfe into those vessels which were in readinesse for him within secret cover and noukes, against all doubtfull accidents that mought befall him, he might escape.-Id. Ammianus, p. 77.

When we had been here about a week, we hal'd our ship into a small sandy cove, at a spring tide, as far as she would float. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1688.

The watering place, which was in a small core a little within the south point of the bay, bore south by east, distant about a mile.-Cook. Voyages, vol. i. b. ii. c. 2.

The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians, are rounded into domes and coved roofs, with now and then a slender square minaret terminating in a ball or pine apple. Swinburne. Travels through Spain, Let.44. COVENABLE. "Fr. Convenable; conveCo'VENABLY. nient, apt, fit, meet for; agreeable, suitable, according to; proper, comely, decent, beseeming, seemly," (Cotgrave.) CONVENE, and COVENANT.

See

"The witnessingis weren not covenable," in Wiclif, is, in Bible 1551, "their witness agreed not together." Be thou bisi covenabli withouten rest," in Wiclif, is, in Bible 1551, "in ceason.'

For many seiden false witnessing agens him, and the witnessingis weren not covenable.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 14. Be thou bisi couenabli withouten rest.—Id. 2 Tim. c. 4. Dame, quod he, as yet unto this time ye han wel and covenably taught me, as in general, how I shal governe me in the chesing and in the withholding of my conseillours. Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus Then they agreed that the prelates shuld chose out twelfe persones amonge theym, who shulde haue power by theym; and by all the clergy, to ordayne and to deuise all thynges couenable to be done.-Berners. Frois. Cron, vol. i. c. 170.

So that if he and you togyther myght couenably and reasonably be conioyned, and meanes found to haue a conclusyon of peace, he wolde be therof right ioyfull. Id. Ib. vol. ii. c. 175. That Christe might vnite euery one of vs within our selues, and with God, although we be distant bothe in bodie and also in soule, yet he hath deuised a meane couenable to the counsel of the Father, and to his owne wisdome. Jewell. A Replie to M. Hardinge, p. 35. And, like as your grace thinketh the Earl of Essex to be covenable and proper for that room, so am I of semblable opinion.-Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. an. 1524.

However, in case the infant may assure this lady a covenable dower, we will not let to stretch ourselves to twice as much as her father left her by his testament, peradventure to an 100,000 crowns.-Id. Edw. VI. an. 1549.