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Cotter. (as Accoter.) To vnderset, sustaine, vnderprop, hold vp the side of.

Cottereaux: m. Takers, outlawes, freebooters, highway-robbers, peasant-fleecers, church-ransackers; (an old word; See Cotereaux.) Cotterie: f. A base, ignoble, and seruile tenure, or tenement, not held in fee, and yeelding only rent, or if more, but cens, or surcens at most; as Possession Roturiere, or de main-ferme. Cottice: f. A Cottice, or Battune; a third part lesse than a Bend, in Blazon.

Cottier: m. ere: f. as Roturier; Or, yeelding only rent, and cens, or surcens, and no better dueties, nor seruices; also, base, ignoble, seruile, not held in fee; or, held, or holding, by a seruile, base, and ignoble tenure; (for this word is euer opposed vnto feudal, noble, & franc; and, like enough, is an originall to our cottager.)  Iuge Cottier. Before whom a Cottier is, or ought to be, tried.

Cottierement. Ignobly, basely, Roturier-like, seruily, not in fee, onely for rent, or cens, or at most, surcens. Cottir. To iurre, butt, rush, iustle, knocke heads together.

Cottisation: f. A Cottisation, assessement, or taxation.

Cottisé: m. ée: f. Taxed, assessed, rated at his part.

Cottiser aucun. To tax, assesse, rate, or set downe his part of paiment.

Cottité: f. A particular mans rate, part, or portion of an assessement, or imposition.

Cottization; &, Cottizer. as Cottisation; & Cottiser. Cottoire (de Perles.) A chaine (of Pearle.

Cotton: m. Bumbasie, cotton.  L'herbe à cotton. as Cottonniere. Manne de cotton. The worst kind of Manna, resembling flockes of bumbasie.

Cottonné: m. ée: f. Bumbasted, or stuffed with cotton.

Cottonner. To bumbast, or stuffe with cotton.  Cottonner le moule du pourpoint. To feed soundly, or excessiuely.

Cottonneux. Cottonnie; full of cotton; soft as cotton; ouergrowne with a white, soft, or cotton-like downe.

Cottonniere: f. The hearbe Chaffeweed, Cudwort, Cudweed, Cotton-weed, pettie Cotton.

Cottouere. as Cottoire. Coturniqué: m. ée: f. Bebuskined, in buskins: Rab. Cotyle. An ancient measure containing about 24 spoon-*fuls.

Cotyledons: m. The mouthes, or ends of the Menstruall veines, whereby the superfluous bloud of all the bodie falls into the wombe, & giues nourishment vnto the child there (if there be any.)

Cou: f. A whetstone.

Couäné: m. ée: f. All foamie, or froathie.

Coüanne. as Couënne. Coüard: m. A coward, a dastard, a cow.  Ia coüard n'aura belle amie: Prov. Faint heart neuer woon faire Ladie.  Mieux vaut coüard que trop hardi: Prov. Tis better to be a coward than foole-hardie.

[**Gallica image looks like the following entry might be Coüard, but the dots are faint; also, Gallica shows 1 dot over the u in the first sub-entry. PPer should check better images -P3] Couard: m. arde: f. Cowardlie, dastardlie, vnmanlie; timerous, fearfull, white-liuered, heartlesse, faint hearted. Plus couard qu'un Lievre. More heartlesse than a Hare. Hardie langue couärde lance: Prov. as in Langue.

Coüardement. Cowardly, dastardly, heartlesly, time-*
 * rously, fearfully.

Coüarder. To be a coward, or play the coward.

Coüardise: f. Cowardise, dastardie, cowardlinesse, vnmanlinesse, faint-heartednesse, timerousnesse.

Couät: m. The vnderling, writling, starueling, or dwarfe, of any beast, or bird.

Coubde: m. as Coude; The Elbow.

Coubdée. as Coudée. Couble. chevaux de couble. Paires, or couples of horses; coach-horses; draught-horses.

Coubte. The Elbow.

Couchable: com. Fit, easie, or possible to be lien on.

Couchant. Couchant, couching, lying; laying along.

Couche: f. A bedstead; also, a couch, or bed; also, a (square high) bed in a garden; also, a womans lying in (child-bed;) also, the Post, or most of a sute, at cards; also, a set, lay, or stake, at any game.  Couches. A childes clowts; also, receptacles, or ponds for sea-water (as in Amezeau;) also, a womans lying in.  Vn lict à triple couche de plumes. A bed stuffed with three course of feathers one aboue the other.  Panneau de couche. as Sommier. I'entends le pair & la couche. I vnderstand the matter throughly.  Prins au pair, & à la couche. Beset, intangled, indaungered, ouertaken, at loße, in extremitie, on all hands.

Couché: m. ée: f. Couched, layed along, lying; also, couched, mentioned, or set downe in writing; also, staked, or set, at play.  Couché à quatre pattes. Prostrated, layed all along, or vpon all foure.  Couché en estat. Being made Officer; qui n'est couché en l'estat: Baulked, omitted, passed in election, and not chosen.  Couché entre l'enclume & les marteaux. Seated in the middest of dangers; or, inuironed on all sides, with dangerous mischiefes; pestered, perplexed, afflicted which way soeuer he turne him.

Couchement: m. A couching, lying, or laying downe.

Couche-m'-icy. The weed called Dodder.

Couchenil: m. Cuchannele.

Coucher. To couch, or ly (also, to lay) downe, or along; to goe (also, to get, bring, or haue) to bed; also, to mention, or set downe in writing; also, to plant, or set a root, or slip, flat along within the ground; also, to stake, at play.  Coucher de belles. Ils en couchent de belles. They write goodlie matters sure; tis sweet stuffe that they set downe; ironically.  Coucher en chappon. To go earely to bed.  Coucher soubs corde. To stake downe readie coine; See Corde. Coucher à l'enseigne de l'estoille. To lye without doores all night.  Coucher tout à bander & à racler. To venture all on desperat tearmes, to set all on sixes and seuens.  Se coucher abouchon. To lie groueling, to sleepe on the face.  Se despouiller avant que se coucher. Said of him that in his life time giues his heires absolute possession of all he hath.  Qui se couche avec les chiens se leue avec des puces: Prov. From filthie companie what can one bring but filth?

Couchette: f. A little bed; a couch, or bed of ease.