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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,
compounded with mate instead of
man; meaning therefore evidently a
partner or companion in merchandise.
Mishapen Time, copesmate of ugly night.
Sh. Rape of Lucr., Suppl., i, 526.
No better copesmates!

I'll go seek them out with this light in my hand.
All Fools, O. Pl., iv, 146.
See it further exemplified in Todd's

Johnson.
True Tragedie of Ric. III, 1594.

+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
That but even-now from flaggy fenns arose?
Tis th'hungry hern, the greedy cormorant,
The coot and curlew, which the moors doo haunt.

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;
but 't stands a-cop.
B. Jons. Alch., ii, 6.
Wherefore, as some suppose, of copper-mines in me
I Copper-land was call'd; but some will have 't to be
From the old Britains brought, for cop they use to call
The tops of many hills, which I am stor'd withal.
Drayton's Polyolb., 30, p. 1225.
He should have said Saxons, rather
than Britons.

+ Most like unto Diana bright when she to hunt goth out
Upon Eurotas bankes, or through the cops of Cynthus
hill,

Whom thousands of the lady nimphes await to do her
will.
Phaer's Virgil, 1600.

+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
For ready money, had he met a copeman.
B. Jons. Fox, iii, 5.

Verstegan gives the derivation thus:
Ceapman, for this we now say chapman, which is as
much as to say as a merchant, or copeman.
Restit. of D. Int., p. 166.

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
set eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar
Zenelophon.
Love's L. L., iv, 1.
The following lines of the ballad are
alluded to in Romeo and Juliet:

The blinded boy that shootes so trim,
From heaven down did hie;
He drew a dart and shot at him,

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.

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O sweet lady-birds!

With copple crowns, and wings but on one side. Ibid.
COPPLE-TANKT, COPPINTANK, and
COPTANKT, are all of similar forma-
tion.

Upon their heads they ware felt hats, copple-tanked, a
quarter of an ell high, or more.
Comines, by Danet., B, 5 b.
Then should come in the doctours of Loven, [Louvain]
with their great coppin-tankes, and doctours hattes.
Bee-hive of Rom. Ch., I, 7 b.
A coptankt hat, made on a Flemish block.

+COPPRICE-BAG.

Gasc. Workes, N, 8 b

I know you'l not endure to see my Jack
Goe empty, nor weare shirts of copprice bags.
The Citye Match, 1639, p. 33.

+COPSI-CURSTY. A vulgar corruption
of corpus Christi, occurring in old
English plays.

COPY. Plenty; from copia. It is several

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Buskins he wore of costliest cordwayne.

Spens. F. Q., VI, ii, 6.
+By the next opportunity I will send you the cordovan
pockets and gloves you writ for of Francisco Morenos
Howell's Familiar Letters, 1650.
perfuming.
With your favour my good friend, I would willingly
buy three paire of gloves, one of lambes leather, the
other of kid, and a paire of cordivant; but for Gods
sake let us have no ceremonies, nor any biddings off
and on.
The Passenger of Benvenuto, 1612.

times used by Ben Jonson, but is not To CORE. To groan.
peculiar to him; Mr. Todd has quoted
it from the preface to the English
Bible, and Mr. Gifford says that it is
found in Chaucer.

She was blest with no more copy of wit, but to serve
his humour thus.
Er. Man out of H., i,

To gain the opinion of copy, utter all they can, how-
ever unfitly.
Address pref. to the Alchemist.
Cicero said Roscius contended with him, by varietie
of lively gestures to surmount the copy of his speach
[i. e., copiousness].
Puttenham, B. i, ch. 14.
Thou foolish thirster after idle secrets
And ill's abrode; looke home, and store and choke
thee;

There sticks an Achelons horne of all,
Copie enough.

Chapman's Widows Tears, 1612.
To encourage. Heywood,

+CORAGE.
1556.
+CORAL seems to have been employed
from an early period for playthings
given to infants when they were cutting
their teeth.

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.

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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
piety, parts, or person, but for the fourth comprehen-
sive p, portion; the spankers, spur-royals, rose-nobles,
and other coriander seed with which she was quilted
all over.
Ozell's Rabelais, B. IV, ch. ix, p. 123.

+CORINTH. A currant.

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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;
but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy.
1 Hen. IV, ii, 4.
And raps up, without pity, the sage and rheumatic
old prelatess, with all her young Corinthian laity.
Milton, Apol. for Smect.
Corinth was even a current name for
a house of ill repute.

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.

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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

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+CORNER PIE.

He may marry a knights daughter, a creature out of
fashion, that has not one commendable quality, more
then to make a corner pye and a sallad, no manner of
courtship, but two or three dances, as old as mounsier,
and can play a few lessons on the virginalls that she
learnt of her grandam; besides she is simple, and
dull in her dalliance.
The Lost Lady, 1638.

†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.
The Pathway to Health, f. 53.

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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
forth to intreat that they might part with their armes
like souldiers.
Spenser, State of Ireland.
He brought the name of coronel to town, as some did
formerly to the suburbs that of lieutenant or captain.
Flecknoe's Enigm. Characters.

That is, as a good travelling name,
for disguise.

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-
ing the mysteries, or sacred dramas, of
which, in England, those of Coventry
were particularly famous, as is related
in Dugdale's Warwickshire, p. 116.
They are thus alluded to in an old
drama:

This devyll and I were of olde acqueyntance,
For oft in the play of Corpus Christi
He hath play'd the devyll at Coventry.
Four Ps, O. Pl., i, 86.

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
will.
Othello, i, 3.
Do I not bear a reasonable corrigible hand over him,
Crispinus?
Poetaster, ii, 1.

A very fit and proper house, sir,
For such a worthy guest to cosher.
The Irish Hudibras, 1689.

+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.
CORSEY, COR'SIVE, and CORZIE.
All, I believe, corruptions of corrosive ;
meaning therefore, as a substantive,
anything that corrodes. Corrosive
itself was used as a substantive,
and spoken as two syllables, even
when written without contraction.
Whereas he meant his córrosives to apply,
And with streight diet tame his stubborne malady.
Spens. F. Q., I, x, 25.
Elsewhere Spenser writes it so:

And that same bitter cor'sive which did eat
Her tender heart, and made refraine from meat.

Ibid., IV, ix, 15.
And more than all the rest this greev'd him cheefe,
And to his heart a cor'sive was eternell.

Harringt. Ariost., xliii, 83.
For ev'ry cordiall that my thoughts apply
Turns to a cor'sive, and doth eat it farder.

B. Jons. Er. Man out of H.
This was a cor'sive to old Edward's days,
And without ceasing fed upon his bones.
Drayt. Leg. of P. Gav., p. 571.
We find it written corzie:

He feels a corzie cold his heart to knaw.

Harr. Ariost., xx, 97.

I thought once this might be put
for coryza, or rheum; but the simi-
larity of the two passages from this
author shows plainly what he meant.
In one place it seems to mean distress
or inconvenience.

His perplexed mother was driven to make him by
force be tended, with extreme corsey to herselfe, and
Pembr. Arcad., L. 3, p. 297.
annoyance to him.
Here also it is much the same:

The discontent

You seem to entertain, is merely causeless;-
-And therefore, good my lord, discover it,
That we may take the spleen and corsey from it.
Chapman's Mons. D'Olive, Anc. Dr., iii, 348.
The editor's note is quite erroneous.
To have a great hurt or domage, which we call a
corsey to the herte.
Eliotes Dictionarie, 1559.

†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,
That are afoot. B. Jons. Masq. of Neptune's Triumph.
Cortina striata, a pleited or folded cortine, or a cortine
that hath long strakes in it.

Fleming's Nomencl., p. 247, b.

+COSHER. To entertain a guest,

COSSET. A lamb, or other young
animal, brought up by hand. Being
a rustic word, I cannot believe that it
had an Italian derivation.

I shall give thee yon cosset for thy payne.
Spens. Shep. Kal, Sept.

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.
Lear, iv, 6.
Well, knave, an I had thee alone, I would surely rap
thy costard.
Gamm. Gurt., O. Pl., ii, 66.
That I may hear and answer what you say,
With my school-dagger

'bout your costard, sir.

B. Jons. Tale of Tub, ii, 2.

Once we find it used for the covering
of the head, the cap:

Take an ounce from mine arm, and, doctor Deuzace,
I'll make a close-stool of your velvet costard.
B. & Fl. Woman's Prize, iii, 4.
The modern editors of these plays
have made foolish work, in changing
custard to costard, where the former
was right. Loyal Subj., ii, 5. To
"crown with a custard," means to
clap a custard on his head, the effect
of which must of course be ludicrous.
As a species of apple, it is enumerated
with others, but it must have been a
very common sort, as it gave a name
to the dealers in apples:

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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,
apparently, for costard-monger.
Coblers, or tynkers, or else costard-jaggers.
Barclay's Fyfte Eglog., n. d.
COSTARD-MONGER, or COSTER-
MONGER. A seller of apples; one,
generally, who kept a stall. They
seem to have been frequently Irish.

Her father was an Irish costar-monger.
B. Jons. Alch., iv, 1.
In England, sir, troth I ever laugh when I think on't;
-Why, sir, there all the coster-mongers are Irish.
2 P. Hon. Wh., O. Pl., ni, p. 375.

Costermongers were usually noisy,
whence old Morose in Epicone is said
to swoon at the voice of one.
bawling was proverbial:

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.

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+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
coming.
Ham!., ii, 2.
Love's L. L., iv, 3.

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

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