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 Couvre-ordure. Gold; also, a womans Maske.

Couvre-rive. Banke-couering, shoare-surrounding.

Couvrir. To couer; vayle, cloake; hide, conceale, stop, or close vp; to hoodwinke, ouerspread, ouercast, ouershadow; also, to cloath, apparrell, attire all ouer; also, a dog (or such like beast) to lyne a bitch; (Jn which sence, Aligner is the word for Wolues; and Saillir for Horses, Bulls, and such other great beasts.)  Couvrir le feu de son fivatier. A Lord to seise, or make an entrie vpon, his tenants land for default of payment of the rents, rights, and seruices due vnto him; which, as it seemes, is done by raking out, or couering ouer, the fire found in the tenement.  Couvrir la jouë à. To giue a box on the eare vnto.  Couvrir son mommon à. To tickle a wench.  Couvrir leur rastelier. Seeke Rastelier. Se couvrir d'un sac mouillé. To colour his hard, or ill dealing with idle, and insufficient pretences; to alledge for himselfe excuses, which rather condemne, then cleere, him.

Couyol: m. as Coyon. Coy: m. A Sinke; or, as Fosse coye. Coy: m. coye: f. Quiet, still, peaceable, calme, restfull, husht; See Quoy. Fosse coye. A Priuie, Jakes, house of Office.

Coyau: m. A returned, or hip, Rafter.

Coyed. as Cayer. ¶Pic. Coyement. Quietly, peaceably, stilly, calmely; soberly; patiently.

Coymeaux: m. A kind of Cherries.

Coyon: m. A coward, cullion, scowndrell, base fellow, faint-hearted companion.

Coyonnade: f. A cowardlie, or cullionlie tricke, a base, or dastardlie part.

Coyonnerie: f. Base roguerie, cowardise, cullionnerie.

Coypellé: m. ée: f. Chipped; also, thwyted, whitled, or cut as a sticke, &c.

Coypeller. To chip; also, to thwyte, or cut a sticke, &c.

Coyraul. See Coiraux. Coyté: f. Quietnesse, calmenesse, peaceableneße, gentlenesse; patience; soberneße.

Coytes: f. Tackes; great Ropes vsed about the (maine) sayle of a ship.

Coytis. as Coytes. Ticke; or, the blew-rewed stuffe whereof Tickes for beds are made; also, a bed-Ticke.

Coyts. as Coytes. Crabbat: m. ate: f. Comelie, proper, decent, handsome, gracious, of a sweet presence, pleasing to the eye.

Crabron: m. A Hornet.

Crac: m. A cracke, or thing that crackes.

Crachard. as Crachat. Crachat: m. Spittle, or spit; also, a spitting.

Craché: m. ée: f. Spet, or spatled out; spattered, bespawled.  C'estoit luy tout craché. He resembled him in euerie part; he was as like him as if he had beene spit out of his mouth.

Crache-en-ruelle. A spawling, or spattering fellow.

Crache-fil. Thread-spinning (the Epithete of a spider.)

Crachement: m. A spitting, spatling, spattering, spawling.

Cracher. To spit; spawle; spattle, bespatter. Cracher au bassin. To pay downe readie coyne; to giue readie money; to come off with round fees; to bestow a reward in hand; also, to spit (as a man may doe with his mouth shut) into a fleshlie basen; also, to play a mad, fond, retchlesse, or carelesse, part.  Cracher vn Iacobin. Looke Iacobin. Cracheur: m. A spitter, spawler, spatterer.

Cracquer. as Craquer. Crage: f. as Croye. Chalke; (a rusticall word.)

Craie: f. as Croye. Chalke.

Craies. Wild Peares, choake Peares.

Craignant. Dreading, fearing, doubting, redoubting, standing in awe of.

Craillement: m. The croaking of a Rauen, or Toad.

Crailler. as Croailler. Craindre. To dread, feare; doubt, redoubt; stand in awe of.  Il ne craind ny les rez, ny les tondus. He respects no man, feares no bodie, is awed by no creature liuing; Looke Rez. Craine: m. The skull, or braine-pan of the head.

Crainser. To shrinke in, or together; (also, to crackle) as Parchement, &c, throwne into the fire.

Craint: m. ainte: f. Dreaded, feared; doubted, redoubted.

Crainte: f. Feare, dread; awe, doubt of, redoubting.

Craintif: m. iue: f. Fearefull, dreading, timerous; bashfull, cowardlie, dastardlie, faint-hearted, white-liuered.

Craintivément. Fearefully, timerously, with a faint heart.

Craïon. See Crayon. Cramaillere: f. The pot-hanger, or pot-hookes.

Cramas: m. Stones torne from rockes by tempests, inundations, or the violent working of the sea.

Cramoisi: m. Crimson colour.  Sot en cramoisi. An Asse in graine.

Cramoisi: m. ie: f. Crimson, Crimson-coloured, of a Crimson hue.

Crampe: f. The Crampe.  La crampe du pied d'un cheval. A horses hoofe.  Les gouttes crampes. Convulsions; tensions, or stiffenesse of the muscles, caused by sharpe, and große vapors inclosed among the Membranes.

Crampelle: f. A Grampell, Grit, or Pungar-fish.

Crampon: m. A Cramp-yron; a hooke, or crampe of yron, &c.  Crampon de cuir. A loope, or tab, of leather.  Les crampons d'un fer de cheval. Caulkes; or, caulkings.

Cramponné: m. ée: f. Ioyned, or fastened with Cramp-yrons; also, tatched, hasped, hooked; looped; caulked.

Cramponner. To ioyne, or fasten together with Cramp-yrons; also, to tatch, haspe, hooke; loope; caulke.

Cramponnet: m. A little Cramp-yron; tacke, or loope.

Crane: m. The skull, braine-pan, or bone of the head.

Cranequin: m. The Gaffle of a Crosse-bow; or, as Crennequin; also, an Engin for batterie, vsed in old time.

Cranequinier: m. A Croße-bow man (whether he serue on horseback, or on foot) or, as Crennequinier; also, an (inferior) Officer, that had, in old time, the conduction of warlike Engines.

Crannequin. as Cranequin.

Crapaud: m. A Toad. Crapaud de mer. The sea-Toad; an ouglie, and vnholesome fish; or, the full-rowed bellie of the Dog-fish, &c. La danse des crapauds. A State, or Gouernment wherein knaues, and fooles are supported. Il en estoit chargé comme vn crapaud de plumes. He was little burthened, nothing troubled, withall.