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 Fouëtter quelqu'un en chien courtaut. To whip one extreamely.

Court-baston. A truncheon, or short cudgell; See Courbaston. Court-d'aleaume. The name of a certaine bitter sweet apple.

Courte-pointe: f. A Quilt, or quilted counterpoint.

Courtes-fesses. A Button-breech; one that is pin-buttockt; or hath but small or slender buttocks.

Court-festu: m. Drawing of cutts.

Courtiban; or Courtibau. A coat-armour, long cassock, or horsemans coat, worne by a Prince, or Commander in an armie.

Courtier. as Courratier; a Broker; Horse-scourser, Messenger.

Courtil: m. A backe-yard; or garden.

Courtilliere: f. A kind of Palmer, or yellowish, and many-legd vermine, that abides almost euer in the ground, and is a great enemie to hearbes (especially Onions) whose roots she gnawes asunder.

Courtinages: m. Curtaines; hangings for beds, or windowes.

Courtine: f. A Curtaine; and (in fortification) the plainenesse of the wall betweene bulwarke and bulwarke.  Sous la courtine. Secretly, closely, priuately, vnder-*hand, in corners, in hugger-mugger.

Courtineau: m. A little Curtaine; also, the head-peece, or peece that hangs downe at the head, of a stuffe-*bed.

Courtisan: m. A Courtier.

Courtisane: f. A Ladie, Gentlewoman, or waiting-woman of the Court; also (but leße properly) a curtizan, profeßed strumpet, famous (or infamous) whore.

Courtisanie: f. Court-ship; courtlie behauiour, or humour.

Courtisanne: f. as Courtisane. Courtisanneau: m. A young, little; paultrie, or scuruie, Courtier.

Courtisanner. To play the Courtier.

Courtisé: m. ée: f. Courted, sued vnto; intertained with respectiue complements; also, flattered, fawned on, cogged with.

Courtiser. To court, make court vnto; intertaine with all complements, or offices of respect, and obseruance; also, to flatter, sooth, fawne on, cog with.

Courtois: m. ise: f. Courteous, gentle, debonaire; ciuile; gratious, benigne, affable; tractable, faire-conditioned; complementall.  Chambre courtoise. An Aiax; or, as Chambre aisée. Lance courtoise. A tilting-staffe; or, launce with a blunt, or buttoned, head.  Qui fut François si fut courtois: Pro. The French were euer full of courtesie.

Courtoisement. Courteously, gently, affably, benignely, ciuilly, gratiously.

Courtoisie: f. Courtesie, ciuilitie, affabilitie, gentlenesse, humanitie, debonaritie, benignitie, graciousnesse; also, a kindnesse, fauour, good office; whence;  Courtoisie tardiue est discourtoisie: Pro. A fauour long in comming proues disfauour.  Courtoisie qui ne vient que d'un costé ne peut longuement durer: Prov. Courtesies vnrequited continue not.

Couru: m. uë: f. Runne, coursed, hyed, speeded, posted, gallopped; also, hunted, chased, followed hard, hotly pursued; also, ouerrun, ransacked, rauaged. Fortune luy a couru sus. Fortune hath assaulted, or afflicted him; a great misfortune is befallen him.

Courvé. as Courbé. Courvée: f. ''A dayes worke, due by a Tenant vnto his Lord. See'' Corvée. Il a fait vne grande courvée. He hath done a great dayes worke, he hath made a long dayes iourney; or, he hath dispatched the matter with verie much toyle.

Courver. To crooke, bow, bend, arch, vault.

Cousant. Sewing, or sowing.

Couse: f. A ieast, a toy, a sleight matter.

Cousement: m. A sewing; or, a seame.

Cousin: m. A cousin, or kinsman; also, a Gnat, or Midge.  Au prester cousin, au rendre fils de putain: Prov. Some, when they would borrow giue good wordes, but when they should repay, most bad ones.

Cousinage: m. Kindred, consanguinitie, cousinship.

Cousiner. To clayme kindred for aduantage, or particular ends; as he, who to saue charges in trauelling, goes from house to house, as cousin to the owner of euerie one.

Cousinette. The name of a certaine little red apple.

Coussegail: m. Messelin, corne mingled. ¶Langued. Cousser. To butt, or iurre, as Rammes doe.

Cousseur: m. A butter, a iurrer.

Coussi: m. The name of a small (but excellent) blacke Grape.

Coussin: m. A cushion to sit on.

Coussinet: m. A cushinet, or little cushion; also, a stuffing, or boulstering vsed in womens garments, when one shoulder is higher then another, to make them seeme straight though they be not; also, a cushinet, or boulster of folded linnen, layed on the plaister of a wound.  Coussinet de la fesse. The fleshie tip, or muscle of the buttockes.  Coussinet de la trompe. The first bed, or couching of stones, on the right hand of the vault of the out-iuttying roome Trompe. Coussineux: m. euse: f. Full of, or stored with, cushions; also, soft as a cushion; fit to vse as a cushion.

Cousson: m. The gußet of a shirt, or smocke; also, a Mite, or Weeuill.

Coust: m. Cost, charges, expence.

Coustange: m. as Coust. Coustangeux: m. euse: f. Deere, costlie, chargeable.

Coustau: m. A little hill, or rising of ground; a Downe, or high ground.  Coustau de montaigne. The side, or skirt of a mountaine. Cousté. (The Participle of Couster;) cost.

Cousteau: m. A knife, or whittle; also, a sword, or any such cutting weapon; also, the principall feather in a Hawkes wing, tearmed by our Faulkoners (in short-*winged Hawkes) the Cut, or Cuttie. Cousteau marin, ou de mer. The Pyrot, or Hag-*fish; a long and round shell-fish, of a bright, and shining colour; Jn some parts of France, the Sleeue-fish, and by some French Authors, the Sword-fish, are also called so. Cousteau des moissons. Corne-Sedge, Corne-Flags, Corne-Gladen, the right Gladen. Cousteau à pied. A Shoomakers round cutting-knife. Cousteau à rongner. The knife wherewith Booke-*binders cut the leaues of their bookes. Cousteau de tripiere. A (fashion of) two-edged knife; and by Metaphor, one that playes Iacke on both sides.