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 [**Note to F1: Lindahl deleted the line breaks. I reinserted them in P2 for proofing the text. However, I left the space at the end of each line, so you need only remove my line breaks—not add in the space between words. -P2] Colobe: m. A short, and sleeuelesse garment, or iacket, in fashion among the auncient Romanes; also, a furred hood, or tippet, worne by graduate Priests.

Colocasie. The hearbe Aaron, wake Robin, Calues-foot, Cuckoe-pint, Priests-pintle; also, the root of the Ægyptian beane.

Colocinthe. as Coloquinte. Colom: m. The fift, or great gut Colon, wherein the Chollicke breedeth; also, a colume, or member of a sentence.

Colom: m. A Doue, Pigeon, Culuer.  Grand colomb. A Queest, or Stockdoue.

Colombage: m. Boord-worke on th' outside of walls, &c; or, the boording, or boords, betweene which mudde walls, &c, are made.

Colombain: m. ine: f. Doue-like; of the nature of Doues; of, or belonging to, Doues.

Colombe: f. A henne Pigeon, or, female Pigeon.  Colombe de Tonnelier. A toole of his, which resembles a plane turnd vpside-downe.  Pied de colombe. A kind of Cranes-bill, or Pinke-needle called, Pigeons-foot, or Doues-foot.

Colombeau: m. A little yong Pigeon.

Colombelle: f. A Pigeon, or yong doue.

Colombier: m. A doue-cote.  Cela chassera les pigeons du colombier. That will driue away your (sillie) clients, or Customers; or that will force irresolute folke out of their hold.

Colombin. The hearbe Colombine; also, Colombine, or doue-colour; or, the stuffe whereof tis made.

Colombine: f. A whitish, and spungie stone, found in leaden mines; also, a delicate Italian peare, thats ripe in August.

Colomne: f. A columne, or piller.  La colomne du nez. The bridge of the nose; or the whole bone thereof.

Colomneux: m. euse: f. Full of columnes, full of pillers.

Colonie: f. A colonie; a countrey, or citie, which people are sent to inhabite; also, the people so sent, and setled; also, a Grange, Farme-house, or Farmers house.

Colonnation: f. A pillering, or making of pillers.

Colonnel: A Colonell, or Coronell; the Commaunder of of a Regiment.  Colonnel general de l'Infanterie Francoise. The Coronell Generall of the French foot; whose place was in old time conferred, at the beginning of a warre, on some valiant, and experienced Captaine (therefore tearmed le grand Capitaine des gens de pied) and againe taken from him as soone as th' armie was cassed; But it hath since beene made an office perpetuall, or ordinarie, and of the Crowne.

Colophone. The hearbe Scammonie; also, as Resine Colophonienne. Colophonien: m. enne: f. Resine Colophonienne. Clarified, or hard Rozen; such as wee rub Violl stickes withall.

Coloquinthe: f. The wild, and flegme-purging Citrull Coloquintida. Coloration: f. A colouring; a shadowing.

Coloré: m. ée: f. Coloured; shadowed.  Tiltre coloré (en matiere de Benefices) est reputé celuy qui vient du vray, & ordinaire Collateur, duquel l'incapacité n'est cogneuë; & la possession prise en vertu d'iceluy est ditte colorée: ¶Code Henry. Colossal: m. ale: f. Huge, mightie, Colossus-like.

Colosse: m. A Colosse, or Colossus; a huge image, or statue.

Colossien: m. enne: f. Colossus-like; of, or belonging to, a Colossus; also, as Colossal; and hence;  Fais colossien. A most heauie, or mightie burthen.

Colostration: f. Colostration; or, the indisposition of infant-stomacks, by the sucking of beest.

Colostre: m. The first milke, tearmed beest, or beestings; accompted dangerous for some two, or three dayes, in which time it vsually is drawne out.

Colot. Iean Colot; The name of a certaine merie Artificer in Troyes, who ordinarily wore about him three kniues in one sheath, all not worth a good sheath; wherof the Prouerbe;  Les cousteaux Iean Colot, l'un vaut l'autre. Like to our; Neither barrell better herring .

Colouvrine: f. A Culuerin.

Colporté. Carried on the neckes, or shoulders of men.

Colporter. To carrie vpon the necke, or shoulders (as a coarse vnto buriall, &c.) Colporteur: m. A paultrie Pedler; as Bisouart. Columb. as Colomb. Columelle. The vuula; or a spungious flesh resembling a cockes spurre, and hanging downe in the bottome of the roofe of the mouth; also, the swelling thereof.

Colure: m. An imperfect circle in the Spheare, wherof there be diuers (all imagined to meet in the Poles) but the two principall ones, are;  Le colure des equinoxes. Goes through the beginnings of Aries, and Libra. Le colure des solstices. Goes through the beginnings of Cancer, and Capricornus. Colure: f. The necke, or crest, of a horse.  Colure de vignes. as Coulure. Colymbades. Oliues (as we haue them) preserued in pickle.

Combat: m. A combat, conflict, battell, bickering, fight; strife, debate, contention, extreame iarring.

Combatant: m. A combatant, combater, fighter; a champion, that is to fight a combat; or souldiour inrolled, and readie for the battell.

Combatant; part. Combating; fighting, bickering, battelling.

Combateur. as Combatant; A combater; &c.

Combatre. To combate, fight, bicker, battell; to conflict, skirmish, contend, scuffle with; also, to ouercome in combate.  Combatre son ombre. To fight with his owne shadow; to be angrie without cause, or, hee knowes not at what; also, to revile, or slaunder the absent; also, to forge, or deuise things, & afterwards disgrace, or raile at them.  Combatre contre la plume. To striue in vaine.  Qui combat avec armes d'argent est asseuré de vaincre: Prov. Those that with siluer weapons fight are sure to ouercome.  Qui se combat n'est pas mort: Prov. He that doth fight's not dead.

Combatu: m. uë: f. Combated, fought, bickered, battelled; contended, striuen, conflicted, skirmished.

Combe: f. A narrow valley, or passage betweene two hills; wherein commonly theeues do lurke.

Combiberon: m. A fellow drunkard, or companion in drinking.

Combien. How; how much, how great, how many; &c. Combien que. Although, albeit that, howsoeuer that. Non combien mais comment bien; not how much, or how long, but how well.