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 [**Formatters: Once again, left space at end of line when inserting page breaks. Hope it helps; apologies if it's more trouble. -P2/Karen B.] La Cour des monnoyes. as, La Chambre des monnoyes. La Cour des Pairs. A Court Leet, or Baron.  La Cour de Parlement. Looke Parlement. Cour personnelle. See Personnel. Cours souverains. The highest Courts, from which there is no appealing.  Retraict de barre, ou de Cour. See Retraict. De par la Cour. By the opinion, consent, or sentence of the Iudges, in Court.  En pleine Cour. In the hearing of the whole Court; when all the Iudges and Officers thereof were present.

Courage: m. Courage; mettall, spirit, hart, stomacke; valour, stoutnesse, bouldnesse, hardinesse, forwardnesse; also, confidence, assurance, hopefulnesse; also, liuelinesse, alacritie, iolitie, cheerefulnesse; also, willingnesse; also, the mind, will, humor, fancie, affection, disposition.  Courage de brebis. (A merrie forme of incouraging, or cheering vp; wherein tis meant that, Le nez en terre, should follow) On with a sheepes heart.  Dur courage. A rude, stiffe, obdurate, inflexible, humor.  Felon courage. A fiercenesse, rigor, crueltie, an vntractable, or vnsociable disposition.  Franc courage. Opennesse, plainnesse, freeheartednesse; de franc courage''. Cheerefully, freely, willingly, with a heart.''  Lasche courage. Negligence, carelesnesse, faintnesse; slacknesse, weaknesse; abiection, lowlinesse.  Petit courage. Weaknesse, feeblenesse, pusillanimitie; slender wit, little spirit, poore mettall.  De courage. as Courageusement. Sans courage. Dully, slackly, cowardly.  Tu cognois mon courage. Thou knowest my minde, thou art well acquainted with my humor.  I'ay bon courage mais les jambes me faillent. My heart is verie good, but my heeles (viz. my meanes) doe faile me.  À grand danger grand courage: Prov. Courage, when danger is, had need be great.

Courageusement. Couragiously, stoutly, valiantly, boldly, forwardly, hardily; confidently, with great assurednesse.

Courageux: m. euse: f. Couragious, valiant, hardie, bold, stout, manlie, aduenturous, forward; full of confidence, full of assurance, full of assurednesse.

Couramment. Swiftly, glibly, readily, without stop.

Courance: f. A flux, or laxatiuenesse in the bodie; the Squirt.

Courans. as Coulans. Courant: m. A current, or swift course of waters; also, an vpper Mill-stone, called (also by our Millers) the runner.

Courant. Running, speeding, poasting; coursing, chasing.  Cordeau courant. See Cordeau. Queste courant. Such an imposition as may be layed by a Lord on his tenants, when, and in what proportion he list.  Rente courant. A rent-secke, or charge; raised of, or bought with, money.

Courante: f. A Curranto.

Courbassé: m. ée: f. Hulch-backed, or crooke-shouldered.

Cour-baston: m. A truncheon, or short cudgell; also (in a ship) a crooked peece of tymber, tearmed a Knee, or Futtocke. Courbatu: m. uë: f. Tyred, ouertoyled, worne out, growne crooked, with extreame labour; also, beaten till he stoope againe, or so much, that he is grown crooked withall; also, foundered.

Courbature: f. The foundering of a horse, or heating of his feet, by ouer-much trauell.

Courbe: f. A bought; also, a crooked, or bowing peece of tymber; and (more particularly) a compasse, or moulded, Rafter; also, the Curbes (in a horses hinder legs.)  Courbes d'un navire. The ribs of a ship; called by Mariners, the Futtocks, or Nauell tymbers.  Courbes d'une voulte. The arching of a Vault.

Courbé: m. ée: f. Crooked, bowed, plyed, vaulted, arched, bent arch-wise.  Les bras courbez en anse. With armes a-kemboll.

Courbée: f. as Courvée. ¶Gasc. Courbe-espine. The name of a delicate Normand apple.

Courbement: m. A crooking, bowing; vaulting, arching; plying, or bending, arch-wise.

Courber. To crooke, bow; vault, arch; ply, or bend, arch-wise.

Courbes: f. The legs; ¶Barrag; also, the plurall vnto Courbe. Courbette: f. A small crooked Rafter, or peece of Tymber; also, a curuet, or, the curuetting of a horse.

Courbure: f. as Courbement; or, a bought. Courcaillée de cailles. The calling of Quayles.

Courcie: f. Part of a Galley tearmed, the Coursey.

Courde: f. A Gourd.

Courdier: m. A Gourd-plant.

Courée de mouton: f. A Sheepes Plucke; the intrailes, or inwards of a Mutton.

Courement: m. A running; poasting, coursing, passing on apace.

Coureur: m. A runner; a courser; a Poaster, a Poste; also, a roamer, or wanderer abroad; one whose shooes are made of running leather; one that neuer keepes at home, or where he should be; also, a courror, outrider, rank-rider; and hence;  Coureurs. Light horsemen, imployed in the ouerrunning, rauaging, or forraging, of an enemies countrey.

Coureuse: f. A gadding huswife; also, a common, publicke, notorious, whore.

Courge: f. The fruit called, a Gourd; also, a wide, and deepe Lymbecke, made somewhat Gourd-like; also (and the more properly) the wide bellie, or lower part of such a Lymbecke; also, a Stang, Pale-staffe, or Colestaffe, carried on the shoulder, and notched (for the hanging of a Pale &c) at both ends. Courge blanche. The white Gourd, a very holesome fruit either boyled, fryed, or preserued. Courge d'hyver. The ordinarie great round Pompion, or Gourd, hung vp in Kitchins for Winter prouision. Courge d'Inde. as Courge d'hyver; so called, because the first seedes thereof came out of the Indies; ¶Mathiolus; (yet are there, besides this, three seuerall kinds of Indian Pompions; a small round one; a cornered one; and the Mushrome Pompion. ¶Gerard.) Courge longue. The Snakes Gourd, or long Gourd. Courge marine. The sea Gourd, whereof there be diuers kinds; (though Gerard haue none.) Courge sauvage. The wild Gourd; some also call so the wild Citrull, or fleame-purging Coloquintida.