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 Courge de Turquie. The Turkie Gourd.  Grande courge. The great round Gourd.  Petite courge. The bottle Gourd, or lesse Gourd.

Courier: m. A Post, &c; as Courrier. Courin. as Cousin. Courir. To runne; post, gallop; make speed, hye apace, goe verie hastily, passe verie swiftly; runne on; proceed fast in; also, to ride a running horse, or (as in posting) runne on horseback; also, to hunt, course vp and down, follow hard, pursue hastily, giue hot chase vnto; also, to ouerrun, rauage, ransack, make hostile incursions vpon; also, to haue course, or be currant; to be in date, vse, request, or fashion.  Courir les champs en pourpoint. To play the Bedlam; to runne vp and downe like a mad man.  Courir les choses legierement. To runne, or passe ouer things verie sleightly; to take a snatch, and be gone; to giue onely a touch, and away.  Courir danger. To be in danger, or, in a doubtfull estate; to be as like to speed ill as well.  Courir au deuant de. To meet with.  Courir l'esguillette. To play the impudent, or importunate, whore; extreamly to lust, or maddingly to run, after a P.  Courir fortune. To be in danger of shipwracke; or, to abandon a ship, in a great storme, vnto the mercie and conduction of the wind and waues.  Courir fortune avec; ou, courir la fortune de. To imbarke himselfe, or take part, with another, in all his attempts, or hazards whatsoeuer.  Courir la lance. To tilt, or, to run at tilt.  Courir la lance S. Crespin sur vn escabelle à trois pieds. To play the Shoomaker.  Courir vn livre; To runne ouer a booke with the eye, noting onely the words, and neglecting the matter; or, to read a booke sleightly, and hastily ouer, without much respect had, or heed taken, either to the phrase, or matter.   Courir vn office. To ride post for the getting of an Office.  Courir apres son ombre. To spend his time idly, fondly, vainely; or, to loose time.  Courir la poule. To forrage, rauage, ransacke, spoyle, or make pillage of, euery thing that comes in his way; (Said of a disorderlie, and ill-gouerned, souldior, who in his march, or residence in a countrey, twitches vp euery poore mans henne that peepes out.)  Courir comme vne rasle, viz. Very swiftly.  Courir les rues. To play the Bedlam; to range, roame, or gad vp and downe, like a mad man.  Courir sus à. Furiously to inuade, assaile, or set vpon; also, to vsurpe, or incroach on, to interrupt, or inter-*meddle with, another mans profit, or imployment.  Ce n'est pas tout de courir, Il faut partir à temps: Prov. Tis not enough to pursue diligently, vnlesse we haue begun discreetly.  Il ne faut iamais courir apres son esteuf: Prov. One must neuer let go a thing, which he hath, and may hold, with a purpose to follow, or for any hope to recouer, it; Looke Esteuf. L'eau qui dort est pire que celle qui court: Prov. Standing waters are much worse then running ones; sleepie dispositions of lesse worth (or more dangerous) then giddie ones.

Courle: f. as Courge; a Gourd. Courle sauvage. Wild Nep, white Bryonie, the wild or white Vine; also, the wild flegme-purging Gourd, Coloquintida. Courlis: m. A Curlue.

Courmaran: m. A Cormorant.

Couronne: f. A Crowne; the Diademe, or circlet wherwith Princes be crowned; also, a wreath, garland, or chaplet of flowers, &c, for the head; also, the coyne so called; also, the crowne, top, or beginning of a horses hoofe; the place, or part whereat it ioynes vnto the leg; also, a round, or a ring made by many persons that stand close, or hold hands, together; (In Architecture) also, the Corona, crowne, or member of greatest sayle, in a Cornish.  Couronne de Clercs. The crowne of a Shaueling, or, a Priests shauen crowne.  Couronne Imperiale. The Imperiall Crowne; (a goodlie flower.)  Couronne de Prestre. Dandelyon, Piss-a-bed; (an hearbe.)  Lettre de couronne. A cup; or as Tasse. ¶Barrag. Enter en petite couronne. Seeke Enter. Femme bonne vaut vne couronne: Prov. A vertuous dame is worth a Diadem.

Couronné: m. ée: f. Crowned.

Couronnement: m. A crowning; also, the outward mouth of the wombe, so tearmed by Midwiues.

Couronner. To crowne; to set a crowne, diadem, circlet, or garland vpon (the head.)

Couronneure: f. The broad-spread, and crowne-resembling, top of a Deeres head.

Couroye, & Couroyer. See Courroye, & Conroyer. Cour-pendu. Pomme de cour-pendu. The short-*start, or short-shanke; (an excellent apple.)

Courquaillet: m. A Quayle-pipe.

Courracteur. See Courratier. ¶Rab. Courrail: m. as Courreau. Courratage: m. Brokage; scoursing, horse-scoursing; See Courretage. Courraterie: f. as Courratage. Courratier: m. A Broker; one that sels other mens stuffe for them; also, a foot-post, messenger, or carrier.  Courratier de chevaux. A horse-courser.

Courratiere: f. A Brokeresse; or Brokers wife.

Courre. as Courir; laisser courre; to let slip, or, to hound a dog, at.

Courreau d'une huisserie. The bolt, or barre of a dore.

Courretage: m. Brokage; horse-scoursing; busie dealing or intermedling betweene partie and partie.

Courretier: m. as Courratier. Courrier: m. A Post, or, a Poster; also, a horse-rider; also, a Broker.  Courrier de mer. ''A kind of very swift fish. Looke'' Poste de Mer. Courroucé: m. ée: f. Angrie, offended, fuming, displeased, in a great chafe; also, vexed, grieued, afflicted; impatient, out of quiet.  Bien courroucé de peu pleure: Prov. He thats throughly angred hardly weepes.  Il n'est pas aise qui est courroucé: Prov. Hee's not at ease thats in a chafe.

Courroucéement. Angrily, chafingly; as one that is offended, or in a fume.

Courroucer. To anger; offend, moue, displease; vex, grieue, afflict, put out of quiet. Se courroucer. To fret, fume, chafe, be angrie, take pet, or pepper, in the nose. Se courroucer contre ses morceaux. To be angrie at his own morsels; rather to starue then chaw his own meat, rather to want then vse his owne meanes.