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1,082,056.—New York Mail. You do the fair thing by Adam, brother, but you slight Eve. This poor smit 10-1-8-1-4-2 please the serpent, and Adam, of course, if he as good husbands do of-10-8-0-8-1-2-4-2 keep Eve company—total, 109,099,384.—Syracuse Journal. The American newspaper calculators, with the savagery of all other historians, meanly stigmatise the woman. Adam, a mere dupe, lacked the nobility to try a dangerous experiment first. Eve eat an apple for dinner: Adam, forgetting the injuries to many an unborn 1,000,000-8-1-4 millions more—the coward! True total, 1,000,000,814,000,000. Whoopee! Now is the time to subscribe.—-Polytechnic Magazine.

Codland, subs. (American).—Newfoundland. Cf., Cod-preserves.

Codlings.—See Cods.

Cod-Preserves, subs. (nautical).—The Atlantic Ocean. [An obvious allusion. Cf., Codland = Newfoundland; also Briney.]

Cods, subs. (venery).—1. The testicles. [From A.S. cod or codd = a small bag.] Also codlings.

English Synonyms. Bawbels, baubels, or bobbles; bollocks; balls; beef (the penis and testes); bird's-eggs; bobbies; bullets; bum-balls; cannon-balls; clock-weights; culls (old); dowsetts (old); gingambobs; jelly-bags (more properly in sing = the scrotum); knackers; love-apples; marbles; nick-nacks; pebbles; seals (Cf., watch-and-seals = the male pudenda); spunk-holders; stones; thingambobs.

French Synonyms. Les antilles (thieves': f. pl.); les virolets (obsolete: in allusion to a man's virility); les sonnettes (common: literally bells); les frères siamois (popular: an allusion to the Siamese twins); les prunes (common); les grains (leger de deux grains = an eunuch).

German Synonym. Dickmann (also 'an egg,' and 'the penis.' Dick = enciente; dick machen, to deflower and quicken. Dick means literally 'thick').

Spanish Synonym. Cojones.

2. (old).—See quot.

1871. Bookseller, 4 Nov. The Cods and Hooks were the Whigs and Tories of Dutch William's land.

Cod's-Head, subs. (old).—A stupid fellow; a fool.—See Buffle and Cabbage-Head.

1675. The Woman turn'd Bully. Dash. Sweet sir, I think it is neer octa hora. Your servant, gentlemen. Good. Farewell, cods-head.

1694. Dunton, Ladies' Dictionary. You confounded toad, you, where were your eyes, in your heels? that you should be such a bungling cods-head to see no better.

Cofe.—See Cove.

Coffee, subs. (American thieves').—Beans.

1859. G. W. Matsell, Vocabulum, or Rogue's Lexicon, p. 19, s.v.

Greased coffee, subs. phr. (American).—Pork and beans.

Coffee-House or Coffee-Shop, subs. (common).—1. A water-*closet. For synonyms, see Mrs. Jones, and Cf., Bury a Quaker.

2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable.

Coffee-Housing, subs.—See quot.

1877 Hawley Smart Play or Pay ch. iv. 'Not going to hunt? Why Miss Bazing told me you had a regular string of horses coming down!' 'Ah, Bessie's wrong. I always was a changeable beggar, you know. The string consists of a hack, just good enough to do a little bit of coffee-housing occasionally.