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 Manche de cousteau. as Cousteau marin (in the first sence.)  Pied de cousteau. A Play at Shuffleboord with keyes, a knife being the marke.  Au pain, & au cousteau avec. Familiar, conuersant, a daylie companion, hayle fellow well met, with.  Se couper de son propre cousteau. To cut himselfe with his owne knife; See Couper. Iouër des cousteaux. To fight, combat, bicker, battaile; to come to open warre; to lay lustily about him; also, to feed eagerly, bestirre himselfe at a Table, fall hotly to his victuals.  Les cousteaux de Iehan Colot, l'un vaut l'autre: Prov. See Colot. Dans vne gaine d'or vn cousteau de plomb: Pro. A leaden sword in a golden sheath; a foule heart in a faire bodie.  Peu peut bailler à son escuyer qui son cousteau leche: Prov. Where the Maister pinches the seruants pine; or, he can spare others but little that hath but little for himselfe.  Selon la gaine le cousteau: Prov. An inside answerable vnto the outside.  Selon le pain il faut le cousteau: Prov. (Like our) the coat according to the cloth.  Vn mesme cousteau me coupe le pain, & le doigt: Pro. One knife both cuts me bread, and my finger; (said of any thing that one while helpes, and another while hurts.)

Coustelet: m. A little knife; or sword.

Cousteleux. Full of, or furnished with, kniues.  Gaine cousteleuse. A sheath which is neuer without kniues. Coustelier: m. A Cutler, or maker of kniues.

Coustellerie: f. A Cutlers shop, or worke-house.

Coustemens: m. Costs, and charges. Couste-pointe: f. A counterpoint, or double couerlet.

Couster. To cost, in price; (Cecy me cousta cent livres; I gaue a hundred pounds for this; Telle chose ne me couste gueres. I haue such a thing for little, or nothing.)  Couste & vaille. Whatsoeuer come of it, howsoeuer I come by it; at what price, or perill soeuer I buy it; or, I care not what I pay for it so it be good.  Compere de la Pouille, couste, & despouille: Pro. (Said of a dangerous companion) one that will both feed on you, and filch from you, and at length wholly fleece you; See Pouille. Cousteux: m. euse: f. Costlie, chargeable, very deere.

Coustier: m. ere: f. Wide, aside, or of one side; also, as Cottier. Coustil. as Coutil; a ticke for a bed. Coustilier. as Coustillier. Coustillade. See Coutillade. Coustille: f. A kind of long Ponniard, vsed heretofore by Esquires.

Coustillé: m. ée: f. Oft strucken, or stabbed with a Coustille. Coustiller. To strike, or stab, often with a Coustille. Coustilleur. as Coustillier. Coustillier: m. An Esquire of the bodie; an Armour-*bearer vnto a Knight; the seruant of a man at Armes; also, a groome of a stable, a horse-keeper.

Coustre. as Coultre.

Coustume: f. Custome, vse, vre, vsage, wont, guise; habit, manner; continuall fashion, or order; also, an aun-*
 * cient Law, or Custome in a countrey; also, a Custome, Imposition, Tax, Toll; also, a customarie Rent, Seruice, or Tenure; also, the vse of, or freedome in, another mans woods, or grounds.  La petite coustume. is (in most places) a pennie for an Ox, Cow, Pipe of wine, or load of corne sold, and carried out of the Territorie belonging to a Lord Iusticer; for other lesse beasts, as Hogs, and Sheep, a halfepennie, or Maille; for a cart-load of moueables iiij d. Tourn: for a Horseload, ij d; for a mans burthen, a pennie.   Droict de coustume. is (in Normandie) the Toll thats payed for commodities vttered in the Market place; and by the custome of grand Perche, a pennie Tourn: due vnto the Lord (that hath low Iurisdiction) for euery foure-footed beast (not milch) that hath beene bred, bought, and deliuered, within his Territorie.   Droict de grosse coustume. Looke Droict.   Prendre heritage en coustume. That is on condition to pay yearely a certaine quantitie of Corne, or Hennes; which if they be vnpayed (hauing beene demaunded) three yeares together, the Landlord may reenter; as he may also, if the thing be aliened, or sold without his consent; or if the Tenant die without issue lawfully begotten.   Gasteau, & mauvaise coustume se doivent rompre: Prov. (For the one does no good, the other much hurt, if it be kept.)   Le loup alla à Rome, & y laissa de son poil, mais rien de ses coustumes: Prov. The Wolfe went vnto Rome, and there left part of his coat, but none of his ill conditions, behind him.

Coustumerie: f. A custome-taking, or custome-leuying; also, a Place, Passage, or Libertie, whereunto custome is due.

Coustumier: m. A customarie tenant, or tenant by custome; a Copie-holder; See Coustumiers. Coustumier: m. ere: f. Customarie, vsuall, wonted, inueterate.  Aides coustumiers. as Aides chevels. Looke Aides. Bourse coustumiere. A purchase of land made, or price giuen for a purchase, by a yeoman, Roturier, or ignoble person.  Païs coustumier. A countrey thats altogether gouerned by particular customes; (as most of the Prouinces in France be.)  Quint coustumier. The portion of younger brethren in the inheritance left by their father; which is (by the custome of diuers places) as fift part onely, diuided among them.

Coustumierement. Ordinarily, vsually, commonly, customarily; after, or according to, the ordinarie vse, and custome. Coustumiers. Auncient, and experienced Lawyers, who are able to informe the Court what the Law, and locall customes are in any case.

Cousture: f. A Seame.  Cousture incarnatiue. Looke Incarnatif. Herbe sans cousture. Adders tongue, Serpēts tongue.  Desfait à plate cousture. Vtterly defeated; ouer-*throwne horse and man.  Harenguer à plate cousture. To make a rude, plaine, or homelie, Oration.  De forte cousture dure deschirure: Pro. A strong seame strongly rent asunder.

Cousturier: m. A Taylor, or Botcher; a Seamster; also, a little red worme, or fly, of the kind of Moathes. À ce drap cousturiers. To this geare, to it, set to it my maisters; lets roundly about this businesse; Looke Drap.