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 Clouët: m. A little nayle; a tacke nayle.

Clouëur: m. A nayler.

Clouëure: f. A nayling.

Clouïr. To open, and produce young ones, as egges that haue beene sitten on their full time.

Clouïsse: f. as Pelarde. ¶Marseillos. Clousser. as Closser. Clousseuse: f. A clocking henne, or henne that vses to clocke much.

Cloutier: m. A nayler, a nayle-smith; a seller or maker of nayles.

Cloye. as Claye. A hurdle, &c.

Clucher. as Closser. To clocke.

Clye. as Claye; a hurdle, or lattice of wicker, &c.

Clypsedrie. Looke Clepsydre. Clystere: m. A glister.  Ie luy appresteray vn clystere barbarin. I will prouide for her bellie a plaister of warme guts. ¶Rab. Clysterisé: m. ée: f. Clisterized; applied as, or, made into, a glister; conueyed by a glister vp into the guts.

Clysteriser. To applie a glister; to conuey by glister vp into the guts; also, to make, or put a thing into, a glister.

Clytoris: m. as Clitoris. Coäc: m. The croaking, or crie of frogs.

Coäcervation: f. A coaceruation, or heaping together.

Coädjuteur: m. A coadiutor, helping fellow, or fellow helper.

Coädunation: f. A coadunation, gathering, assembling, vniting, ioyning together.

Coägulation: f. A coagulation, congealing, or curding; a turning vnto curd.

Coäguler. To coagulate; curd, or congeale into a curd; to ioyne together, or make to ioyne.

Coäille: f. Course wooll; mot Berruyer. Coäine. as Coenne. Coälescer. To close, ioyne, or grow together again.

Coärcté: m. ée: f. Strained, pressed, or thrust hard together; restrained, or brought within a narrow compasse.

Coärcter. To straine, presse, or thrust hard together; to restraine, or bring within a narrow compasse.

Coässer. To croake, or crie as a toad, or frog.

Coät: m. The vnderling, starueling, or writling of a beast; the wrecking, or nest-cockle, of birds.

Coäugmenté: m. ée: f. Increased together; or, much increased.

Coäxer. as Coasser. Cobbir. To bruise, or breake into peeces. ¶Rab. Cobeter vne cloche. To toule a bell; or, to ring it not full out, but so, as it strikes onely the one side.

Cobter. as Cobeter, or Copter. Coc: m. See Coq. Cocard: m. ''A nice doult, quaint Goose, fond, or saucie cokes, proud, or forward Meacocke. See'' Coquard. Cocarde. bonnet à la cocarde. ''A Spanish cap; or cap made after the old fashion. See'' Coquarde. Cocardeau: m. A proud Asse, pert Gull, shitten Sauce-*box; one that hath better store of clothes on his backe, then of wit in his head.

Coccognide. The blacke Cameleon thistle.

Coche: m. A Coach.

Coche: f. A nocke, notch, nicke, snip, or neb; (and hence) also, the Nut-hole of a Crosse-bow; also, a young Sow, or Sow-pig; also, a fustilugs; a woman growne fat by ease, and lazinesse; also, a spell, or splint.

Coché: m. ée: f. Nocked, notched, nicked, snipped; furrowed. Front bien coché. That is high on both sides of the foretop.  Pillules cochées. A certaine composition of Pills, which purge the head verie stronglie.

Cochelin: m. A kind of cake full of notches, and giuen in some parts of France (as about Blois) vnto children for New-yeares-gifts.

Cochenille. Cutchaneale, wherewith Skarlet is dyed.

Cochepierre. A bird like a Bull-finch, that feeds most on the kernels of cherristones.

Cocher: m. A Coachman.

Cocher: m. ere: f. Of a Coach, or Coach-house; whence;  Porte cochere. A Coach-house dore.

Cocher. To nicke, nocke, or make notches, as on a tally; (also, to haue to doe with a woman. ¶Pic.)  Cochet: m. A Cockerell, or cocke chicke; also, a shote, or shete, Pigge.

Cochevis: m. The copped Larke; the Larke that hath a little tuft standing on her head.

Cochier: m. A Coachman.

Cochiere: f. A Coach-woman; a woman that driues a Coach.

Cochin: m. A Pigge.  Poisson, gorret, & cochin, vie en l'eau, & mort en vin. Waterish Acates require much wine both for their dressing, and disgestion.

Cochon: m. A Pigge.  Gras comme vn cochon. (We say the same) as fat as a Pigge.  Manger le cochon ensemble. To complot, agree in a plot, ioyne in a conspiracie together; (belike in old time when conspirators met to conferre, and conclude, their principall dish was a Pigge).  Rappeler le cochon. To repeat the words wherwith he began; to come to the matter againe.

Cochonné: m. ée: f. Pigged, farrowed.

Cochonner. To farrow, to pigge; to breed, or bring forth pigges, as a Sow; also, to cocker, cherish, nourish daintily, make a fedle of.

Cochonnet: m. A shote, or shete pigge, a prettie big pigge.

Cochonniere: f. A Sow; or Sow-pigge.

Cocles. des c. as Coquelourdes. Cocluchon. as Coqueluchon. Cocodrille: m. See Crocodile; a Crocodile.

Cocque: f. A Cockle.  Cocque de Cyprés. A Nut, or Clog, of the Cypres tree.  Cocque d'oeuf. An egge-shell.

Cocqueter. as Coqueter.

Cocquillé: m. ée: f. Shellie, shell-like; or, as Coquillé.

Cocu: m. ''A Cuckoe; also a Gurnard, or Curre-fish; also, a Cuckold. (See'' Coucou.) Cocu cocuant. A Cuckold-maker, a Graffe-horne. Cocu cocuë. A Cuckold, or Wittall. Brayes de cocu. Cowslips, pettie Mulleins, Palsieworts. Pain à cocu. The smallest, and daintiest red Mushrome. Pain de cocu. Cuckoe-bread, Alleluya, Stubworte, soure Trefoile, Wood-sorrell, Wood-sower. Il vaut mieux estre cocu que coquin: Pro. See Coquin.

Cocu: m. cocuë: f. Cuckolded; made a Cuckold, or crooked. Mary cocu. The hedge-Sparrow; called so, because she hatches, and feeds the Cuckoes young ones, esteeming them her owne. À l'enfourner on fait les pains cocus: Pro. ''Loaues get their crookednesse at the setting in. Looke'' Pain.