These hot youths, I fear, will find a cooling card. B. & F. Island Pr., i, 3. Euphues, to the intent that he might bridle the overlashing affections of Philautus, conveied into his studie a certeine pamphlet, which he tearmed a cooling card for Philautus; yet generally to be applyed to all lovers. Euphues, p. 39. We have no instance of it in the original sense. [But see the following.] + Buc. My lord, lay down a cooling card, this game is gone too far, You have him fast, now cut him off, for feare of civill war. COPESMATE. The same word cope, I'll go seek them out with this light in my hand. Johnson. +COOT. A bird. The name is at pre-COPHETUA. An imaginary African sent given to the water-hen. Glaucium, à glaucis oculis. yλavкíov, quod fuscius genus est plumis pedibusque. A felfare, or (as some thinke) a coote. Nomenclator. But (gentle muse) tell me what fowls are those Du Bartas. COP, or COPPE. The top of anything. The head. It is pure Saxon. It is abundantly illustrated in Todd's John son. Marry, she's not in fashion yet; she wears a hood; + Most like unto Diana bright when she to hunt goth out Whom thousands of the lady nimphes await to do her +To COPART. To share, to sympathise. How say you, gentlemen, will you copart with me in this my dejectednesse? Heywood's Royall King, 1637. COPATAIN. A word hitherto found only in the following passage, but supposed to be made from cop, and to mean high-crowned. [A sugar-loaf hat. A corruption of copped-tank. See COPPED, and COPPLE-TANKT.] Oh fine villain! A silken doublet! a velvet hose! a scarlet cloak! and a copatain hat. Tam. Shr., v, 1. +COPEL. A cape. Fr. pinkinge and racing the doublett, and lininge of ye copell 8s. ffor embroideringe doublett, copell, and scarfe, 21. 10s. makinge the copell 11. 88. : makinge the cloake 98. Account, dated 1619. COPEMAN. The same as chapman, or merchant. From to cope, which meant to exchange: both from ceap, a market. He would have sold his part of Paradise Verstegan gives the derivation thus: king, of whom the legendary ballads told, that he fell in love with the daughter of a beggar, and married her. The song is extant in Percy's Reliques, vol. i, p. 198, and is several times alluded to by Shakespeare and others. The name of the fair beggar-maid, according to that authority, was Zenelophon; but Dr. Percy considered that as a corruption of Penelophon, which is the name in the ballad. The magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua The blinded boy that shootes so trim, In place where he did lye. See Rom. and Jul., ii, 1. According to B. Jonson this king was remarkable for his riches. I have not the heart to devour you, an I might be made as rich as king Cophetua. Ev. Man in his H., iii, 4. It has been conjectured that there was some old drama on this subject, in which these riches might be mentioned. From this play probably the bombastic lines spoken by ancient Pistol were quoted: O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news? Let king Cophetua know the truth thereof. 2 Hen. IV, v, S. And perhaps this : Wits, O. Pl., viii, 429. Spoke like the bold Cophetua's son! The worthy monarch seems to have been a favorite hero for a rant. COPPED. Having a high and prominent top; from cop. These they call first Jemioglans, who have their faces shaven, in token of servitude, wearing long coates and copped caps, not unlike to our idiots. Sandys, Travels, p. 47. With high-copt hats, and feathers flaunt a flaunt. Gascoigne, Hearbes, p. 216. Were they as copped and high rested as marish Rabelais, Ozell, B. II, ch. xii. w hoops. O sweet lady-birds! With copple crowns, and wings but on one side. Ibid. Upon their heads they ware felt hats, copple-tanked, a +COPPRICE-BAG. Gasc. Workes, N, 8 b I know you'l not endure to see my Jack +COPSI-CURSTY. A vulgar corruption COPY. Plenty; from copia. It is several Buskins he wore of costliest cordwayne. Spens. F. Q., VI, ii, 6. times used by Ben Jonson, but is not To CORE. To groan. She was blest with no more copy of wit, but to serve To gain the opinion of copy, utter all they can, how- There sticks an Achelons horne of all, Chapman's Widows Tears, 1612. +CORAGE. And since that physick is not to be used as a continual aliment, but as an adjument of drooping nature at an extremity; and beside that, seeing every nasty and base Tygellus use the pipe, as infants their red corals, ever in their mouths, and many besides of more note and esteem take it more for wantonnes than want, as Gerard speaks. Optick Glasse of Humors, 1639. CORANTO. A swift and lively dance. Courant, Fr.; from correre, Ital. to run written also corranto. And teach lavoltas high, and swift corantos. Which saint George seeing, upon the suddaine thrust his sword into his greedy throat, and overthrew him; at which the monster yels and cores forth such a ter rible noyse, as if the center of the earth had crackt, that with the uncouth din thereof, the neighbouring hils, woods, and valleyes, seemed to tremble like an earthquake. Taylor's Workes, 1630. CORIANDER SEED. A familiar and jocular term for money. The seeds of coriander being hemispheres, flattened on one side, may perhaps have given some rude idea of pieces of money. Which they told us was neither for the sake of her +CORINTH. A currant. A brief abstracte of the accompte of the Corynthes for 2 yeares ending at Michaelmas 1606.-The net produce of the farm on the duties on currants was, during this period, 28457. CORINTHIAN. A wencher, a debauched man. The fame of Corinth as a place of resort for loose women was not yet extinct. It had flourished from the times of ancient Greece. And tell me flatly I am no proud Jack, like Falstaff; Would we could see you at Corinth! Tim. of Ath., ii, 2. +CORK-BRAINED. Light-headed. Ibid. And howsoever we are slightly esteem'd by some giddy-headed corkbrains or mushrom painted puckfovsts. Taylor's Workes, 1630. Why you shall see an upstart corkebraind Jacke Will beare five hundred akers on his backe, And walke as stoutly as if it were no load, And beare it to each place of his aboad. +CORNELIUS. The name of the individual who is said to have introduced the discipline of the tub for the venereal disease. See TUB. A And, where they should study in private with Diogenes in his cell, they are with Cornelius in his tub. Armin's Nest of Ninnies, 1608. CORNEMUSE, or CORNAMUTE. bagpipe. The French Manuel Lexique, by the Abbé Prévost, defines it exactly as a bagpipe: "Instrument de musique champêtre, à vent et à anche. Il est composé de trois chalumeaux, et d'une peau remplie de vent, qui se serre sous le bras pour en jouer, en remuant les doigts sur les trous des chalumeaux." Drayton rather inaccurately speaks of it as distinct from the bagpipe, in reciting country instru +CORNER PIE. He may marry a knights daughter, a creature out of †To CORNUTE. To cuckold. This to the poorest cuckold seemes a bliss, That he with mighty monarchs sharer is, That, though to be cornuted be a griefe, Yet to have such brave partners is reliefe. Taylor's Workes, 1630. +CORNWELL. Cornhill is so called in Deloney's Strange Histories, 1607. In the following passage, we have a pun upon (probably) Cornwall. For millions of men that have beene married, Have unto Cornwell without boat becne carried. Pasquil's Night Cap, 1612. +CORNY. Hard, like horn? Also Ipocras saith, that a woman being conceived with a man-child is ruddy, and her right side is corny about, but if she bee conceived with a maid-child, she is blacke, and her left pap is corny about. Rather than want. Temp., iv, 1. CORONAL. A crown, or garland. Now no more shall these smooth brows be girt With youthful coronals, and lead the dance. Fl. Faithf. Sheph., i, 1. So Spenser in his pastorals. CORONEL. The original Spanish word for colonel. This fully accounts for the modern pronunciation of the latter word, curnel. Afterwards their coronell, named Don Sebastian, came That is, as a good travelling name, Our early dictionaries also give coronel for colonel. +CORONICH. A cornice. There was presented to sight a front of architecture with two pillasters at each side, and in the middle of the coronich a compartement with this inscription. Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour, 1635. A high CORPUS CHRISTI DAY. festival of the church of Rome, held annually on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, in memory, as was supposed, of the miraculous confirmation of the doctrine of Transubstantiation under pope Urban IV. This was the usual time for perform- This devyll and I were of olde acqueyntance, The Chester Mysteries were also famous, and were performed at the same feast, and sometimes at Whitsuntide. A few copies of the latter have been printed for the members of the Roxburghe Club, by James Heywood Markland, Esq., from an Harleian MS., with an excellent preliminary discourse. This was in 1818. +CORRASIVED. An old form of corrosived, common in early plays. CORRIGIBLE, for corrective. Having the power of correction. This sense is clearly improper, yet Mr. Todd has shown that it was used by Jonson as well as Shakespeare. The power and corrigible authority of this, lies in our A very fit and proper house, sir, +COSHERING. A pet animal? I would not leave a head to wag upon a shoulder of our generation, from my mother's sucking-pig at her nipple to my great grandfather's coshering in the peas-straw. Shirley's St. Patrick for Ireland, v, 1. Yet Shakespeare has also used it COSIER. See COZIER. rightly: Bending down his corrigible neck. Ant. & Cleop., iv, 12. And that same bitter cor'sive which did eat Ibid., IV, ix, 15. Harringt. Ariost., xliii, 83. B. Jons. Er. Man out of H. He feels a corzie cold his heart to knaw. Harr. Ariost., xx, 97. I thought once this might be put His perplexed mother was driven to make him by The discontent You seem to entertain, is merely causeless;- †CORSICK. Grieved. Alas! poore infants borne to wofull fates, What corsicke hart such harmelesse soules can greeve. Great Britaines Troye, 1609. CORTINE, for curtain. Cortina, Lat. Only an antiquated spelling. Talk of the affairs The cloudes, the cortines, and the mysteries, Fleming's Nomencl., p. 247, b. +COSHER. To entertain a guest, COSSET. A lamb, or other young I shall give thee yon cosset for thy payne. A pet of any kind. And I am for the cosset, his charge; did you ever see a fellow's face more accuse him for an ass? B. Jons. Barth. F., i, 1. COST. A rib. From the Latin costa. It is an automa, [automaton] runs under water, With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles Betwixt the costs of a ship, and sinks it straight. B. Jons. Staple of News, iii, 1. This is like some modern projects. COSTARD. A man's head; or a large kind of apple. Which is the original sense, is not yet settled. Mr. Gifford positively says the apple (Note on the Alchemist, act v, sc. 1): and certainly we do not find it used for a head, except in ludicrous temptuous language. It occurs five times in Shakespeare, and always in that way. Yet Skinner tells us that coster meant a head, and derives that His from coppe: quasi, copster. authority has been generally fol lowed. or con Ise try whether your costard or my bat be the harder. 'bout your costard, sir. B. Jons. Tale of Tub, ii, 2. Once we find it used for the covering Take an ounce from mine arm, and, doctor Deuzace, 13 Apples be so divers of form and substance, that it were infinite to describe them all; some consist more of aire then water, as your puff's called mala pulmonea; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters, called hydrotica. Muffett's Health's Improvement, p. 196. The wilding, costard, then the well-known pomewater Drayt. Polyolb., 8. +COSTARD-JAGGER. Another name, Her father was an Irish costar-monger. Costermongers were usually noisy, Their And then he'll rail, like a rude costermonger, That school-boys had couzened of his apples, As loud and senseless. B. & Fl. Scornf. Lady, iv, 1. They were general fruit-sellers. The costard-monger in Jonson's Barth. Fair cries only pears. COSTER-MONGER, jocularly used as an adjective. Anything meanly mercenary, like a petty dealer in apples, whose character was bad in various ways. See APPLE-SQUIRE. Virtue is of so little regard in these coster-monger times, that true valour is turned bear-herd. 2 Hen. IV, i, 2. Where note, that times is not in the two folios, but is supplied from the quarto, and that bear-herd should probably be bear-ward, the quarto having berod. Bear-herd occurs, however, in other passages. COSTMARY. The herb balsamita vul garis, called also alecost, as it was frequently put into ale, being an aromatic bitter. Costmarie is put into ale to steep; as also into the barrels and stands, amongst those herbes wherewith they do make sage ale. Johns. Gerrard, B. ii, ch. 208. The purple hyacinth, and fresh costmarie. Spens. Gnat. +COT. Apparently a jocular term for a citizen. Too much like a citizen, or a cot, as the women call it." Commentary upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, p. 12. To COTE, To pass by, to pass the side of another. Costoyer, old French, in which the s was soon dropped, and is now not written. The same as to coast. We coted them on the way, and hither they are Her amber hair for foul hath amber coted. That is, hath so far passed amber, as to make it seem foul. The buck broke gallantly; my great swift being disadvantaged in his slip was at first behind; marry, presently coted and outstripped them. Ret. from Pern., Orig. of Dr., iii, p. 238. This is exact, first coted, i. e., went by the side, then outstripped them. Chapman is also quoted by Johnson. [See Chapm. Hom. Il., xxiii, 324, and Od., xiii, 421.] It was, however, a common sporting term, and by that probably made familiar to Shakespeare. Drayton has it, where he particularly professes to give the account of coursing in its |