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 Cogneu: m. euë: f. Knowne, kenned, discerned, perceiued, vnderstood; noted, notable, notorious, of note; acknowledged, owned, aduowed.  Chose perduë est lors cogneuë: Prov. The worth of things is knowne when they be lost.

Cognil: m. The bastard Tunnie fish; or, as Coguoil. Cognoissance: f. Knowledge; acquaintance, familiaritie with; skill, cunning, experience in; a notice, or notion; an intelligence, vnderstanding, or apprehension of; also, a deed, or scedule of acknowledgement, or confession of a debt, &c; also, a badge, or cognisaunce.

Cognoissant. Knowing; vnderstanding; apprehending, perceiuing; also, wise, cunning, learned, expert, skilfull, well seene, in.

Cognoistre. To know; vnderstand; skill, wot well, or be assured, of; be fully acquainted with; to kenne, discerne, apprehend, perceiue; also, to confesse, acknowledge; aduow.  Cognoistre d'vne cause. To take notice of, deale in, or intermeddle with, a suit, or cause, depending in law.  Qui ne te cognoistroit (bonne beste!) If a man knew thee not thou wouldst make him beleeue thou wert a verie Saint; I know thee but too well.   Se cognoistre en Medecine. To haue insight, or prettie skill, in Physicke.  L'herbe qu'on cognoist on la doit lier à son doigt: Prov. (For it is most vnsafe to deale with vnknowne medicines.)  La Maison fait cognoistre le Maistre: Prov. By the house one may ghesse at the owner; by the fashion, or gouernement thereof, what his abilitie, and humor is.  On cognoist le diable à ses griffes: Prov. Looke Diable. Qui bien se cognoist peu se prise, qui peu se prise Dieu l'avise: Prov. Who knowes himselfe himselfe despises, the selfe-despiser God aduises.

Cognoscitive: f. The facultie of knowing, vnderstanding, discerning; an apprehensiue propertie.

Coguoil: m. A fish like vnto a Mackerell, but greater, and thicker; or as Cognil. Coherence: f. A coherence, or coherencie; a cleauing, or sticking of matters together; a hanging thereof one vpon another; a knitting, vniting, or fastening thereof one vnto the other.

Cohertion: f. as Coërtion. Cohibé: m. ée: f. Restrained, stopped, repressed; curbed, held in, kept vnder.

Cohiber. To restraine, stop, let, represse; curbe, hold in, keepe short or vnder.

Cohier: m. The female oake; (which beares a longer and broader leafe, and a shorter and lesse nourishing acorne, than the male.

Cohorte: f. A cohort, or companie, band, or troupe, of souldiours.

Cohourde f. A goord.

Cohüe: f. A hall to plead in; a Sessions-house, or shire-*hall: ¶Brett. & Norm. Coi: m. The crie, or grunting, of pigges, and young swine.

Coi. as Coy; Quiet, still.

Coiaux: m. Returned, or hip, rafters (in Building.)

Coiche: f. The feathering of an arrow. (v. m.)

Coiffant. Putting on a coife; or any other thing as a coyfe; also, besotting; or gulling, beguiling, deceiuing; (Looke se Coiffer.

Coiffe: f. A coife, cawle, or cap, for the head: also, the fat pannicle, or kell, wherein the bowels are lapped.  Coiffe d'une tour. The couering, or highest out-set windowes, of a tower.

Coiffé: m. ée: f. Coifed, attired with a coife; also, gulled, beguiled, abused; also, filled, or possessed; and, pestered, or besotted, with.  Cailles coiffées. Women.  Il est né tout coiffé. Borne rich, honourable, fortunate; borne with his mothers kercher about his head; wrapt in his mothers smocke, say we; also, hee is verie maidenlie, shamefac'de, heloe.

Coiffer. To coife, or put a coyfe vpon; also, to beguile, gull, cousen, deceiue.  Se coiffer de folles opinions. To intertaine, or put on fond opinions; to besot himselfe, or to fill, possesse, or pester his head, withall.

Coignacier: m. The great, or peare, Quince tree.

Coignant: m. ante: f. Wedging, fastening with a wedge, driuing, or knocking fast in.

Coignasse: f. A female Quince, or peare Quince; the greatest kind of Quince.

Coignaufond. Knocking, leacherie, Venerie: ¶Rab. Coigné: m. ée: f. Wedged; driuen, or knocked in; stamped, coyned.

Coigneau. Priuet, or Primprint; called so at Fontainebleau. Coignée: f. An hatchet, or axe.  Ietter le manche apres la coignée. To throw the helue after the hatchet; to loose courage in aduersitie; or after one losse to make wilfull shipwracke of all.  Contre coignée serrure ne peut: Pro. Weake locks cannot resist strong hatchets.

Coigne-festu: m. An idle fellow; one that spends his time and trauell to no purpose; or, one, that will neither do good himselfe, nor suffer others to do any.

Coigner. To wedge, to fasten with a wedge; to driue hard, or knocke fast in, as with a wedge; also, to stamp, or coine.  Coigner festus. To loose his time, or spend it to no purpose.  Coigner ses larmes. To suppresse, or hold in his teares by force.

Coignet. A litle wedge; also, a little cone, or corner.

Coigniaux. A kind of small, and bright-greene vermine, which sharke off, and cut in peeces, the tendrels, and grapes, of Vines.

Coignier: m. A Quince tree.

Coignoir: m. A wedging toole; a Wedger.

Coin as Coing; also, the cry, or grunting off pigs, and yong Swine; also, the spawne, row, or egs, of fish, Caterpillers; &c.  Coin de beurre. A cake, or dish (of the ordinarie fashion of our pound) of butter.  Coin de mer. A kind of Mullet fish.

Se Coincher. as, se Conchier. Coine. as, Coënne; The skinne of Bakon; also, a thick filme, or skumme, such as is vsually on a standing, and stinking pudle.

Coing: m. A wedge; also, a quince; also, an angle, nooke, or corner; also, a coyne, or stamp, vpon a peece of coyne. Coing de beurre: See Coin. Enter au coing. To lodge a graffe in the clefted top of a stocke. Pour fendre le bois il fit des coings du bois mesme. Looke Bois. Tous frappez à vn mesme coing. All made in one*