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Coler, n. Fr. a collar, 3239; T. v. 1659.
Colered, part. pa, collared, wearing collars, 2154.
Collation, n. Fr. a conference, 8201.

Collinges, n. pl. Fr. embraces round the neck, T. L. ii.

340.

Coltif, adj. Sax. playful as a colt, 9721.

Columbine, adj. Lat. belonging to a dove, dovelike, 10015.

Combre-world, n. an incumbrance to the world, T. iv. 279.

Combuft, adj. Lat. burnt, 16279 a term in aftrology when a planet is not more than 8° 30' diftant from the fun, T. iii. 718.

Come, for cometh, 15710.

Commenfal, n. Fr. a companion at table, T. L. i. 319.
Commune, n. Fr. commonalty, 7946.

Communes, n. pl. commoners, common people, 2511.
Compaignable, adj. Fr. fociable, 12934.
Compame, for compagne, 3709. See the note.

Compas, n. Fr. a compafs, a circle; the Trine compas 15513, the Trinity; an appellation borrowed, as it feems, from the common emblem of that mystery, a circle circumfcribing a triangle-contrivance, F. i. 461, iii. 80.

Compafment, n. L. W. 1414, contrivance.
Compaffing, n. 1998,

Compafs, v. to contrive, L. W. 1412; he compaffed his
thought, 5011, he contrived in his thought.
Compenable, adj. Fr. 14878, as compaignable.
Compere, n. Fr. a goffip, a near friend, 672, 4417.
Complin, n. Tr. complie, evenfong, the laft fervice of
the day, P. 179—finging in general, 4169.

Comporned, part. pa. compofed, put together, L. W. 2574; F. ii. 521.

Compte n. Fr. account, R. 5026.

Concete, n. Fr. conception, apprehension, Bo. iii. pr. 10.

Condefcende, v. Fr. to yield, 10721.
Condife, n. pl. Fr. conduits, R. 1414.
Confecture, n. Fr. compofition, 12796.

Confufe, adj. Fr. confounded, 2232, 15931; he became
fo confufe, he conneth not loke, P. P. 47, b.
Conjecte, v. Fr. to project, R. 6928.

Conifaunce, n. Fr. understanding, R. 5465.
Conjure, v. Fr. to adjure, 13574.

Conne, v. Sax. to know, to be able; I fhal not conne anfwere, M. 306, I fhall not know how, or be able, to anfwer; thou shall never--con knowen, R.7135, thou fhalt be never able to know-to conne thank, to be pleafed or obliged; feavoir gré, Fr. 1810, 3066; to conne maugré, R. 459, to be displeased, scavoir mal gré, orig.

Confeil, n. Fr. counsel, 9237.

Confentant, part. pr. Fr. confentant of this curfedneffe, 12210, confenting to t. c.

Conferve, v. Fr. to preferve, 15855.

Confiftory, n. Fr. fignifies ufually an ecclefiaftical court, but in v. 12099, 12191, any court of justice. Conftablerie, n. Fr. a ward or divifion of a caftle under the care of a constable, R. 4218. See Du Cange in v. Conftabularius caftri.

Conftantine, pr. n. See the n. on ver. 9684.
Conteke, n. Sax. contention, 2004; T. v. 1478.
Contenance, n. Fr. appearance, pretence, 4419, 16732.
Contract, part. pa. Lat. contracted, P. 172.

Contrariauntes, part. pr. is used in the plural number, according to the French custom, T. L. i. 319, b. oppofing, contradicting.

Contrarie, v. Fr. to contradict, 6626.

Contrarious, adj. Fr. opposite, 6280; perverse, 6362. Contrary, n. Fr. adverfary, 1861.

Contrefete, v. Fr. to counterfeit, imitate, 130, 15327Controve, v. Fr. to invent, R. 4249, 7547.

Contubernial, adj. Lat. familiar, P. 230..

Contune, for continue, R. 4354, 5205,5332. This is one of thofe licences for the fake of rhyme of which fee the n. on ver. 8915. Our Author feems to have been afhamed of it, as I do not recollect to have met with it in The Canterbury Tales. Lydgate has been lefs fcrupulous. See Trag. 2 b. 14 b. 24 b.

Cope, n. Fr. cape, a cloak, 13955.

Coppe, n. Sax. the top of any thing, 556; F. iii. 76. Corage, n. Fr. heart, 22-inclination, 9130-fpirit, courage, 1947, 8096.

Corbettes, n. pl. Fr. niches for statues, F. iii. 214.
Cordeth, for accordeth, T. ii. 1043.

Cordewane, n. Fr. Cordouan, Spanish leather, fo called from Corduba, 13662.

Cordileres,n.pl.Fr. Cordeliers, an order of friars, fo call

ed from their wearing a cord for agirdle, R. 7461. Corinne. See an Account of the Works of Chaucer, &c. vol. xiv. p. 10.

Cornervaile, pr. n. Cornouaille in Bretagne, R. 4250. Corniculere, n. Lat. an officer in the Roman government, 15837. See Pitife. Lex. Ant. Rom. in v. Cornicularius.

Cornmufe, n. Fr. a bagpipe, F. iii. 12.

Corny, adj. Sax. ftrong of the corn or malt, 12249, 12390.

Coroune, n. Fr. a crown or garland, 2292, 15689.
Corps, n. Fr. body, 12238, 13836.

Corpus, n. Lat. body, corpus Domini, 13365, God's body; corpus Madrian, 13898.

Corrige, v. Fr. to correct, Bo. iv. pr. 4. pr. 7.
Corrumpable, adj. Fr. corruptible, 3012.

Corrumpe, v. Fr. to corrupt, 2748.
Corfe, v. Sax. to curfe, T. iii. 1707.

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Corfeint, n. Fr. a holy body, a faint, C. D. 940; the corfaynt and the kirke, P. L. 44.

Corven, part. pa. of carve, v. Sax. cut, 2698.

Cofin, n. Fr. a coufin or kinfman: it is fometimes ufed adjectively, 744, 17159; allied, related.

Cofinage, n. Fr. kindred, 13339.

Coffage, n. Fr. coit, expence, 5831, 9002.
Cofieis, v. Fr. to go by the coaft, B. K. 36.
Caflezve, adj. coftly, P. 183.

Coftrell, n. a drinking-vessel, L.W. 2655. Scc Du Cange in v. Cofirellus.

Cote, n. Sax. a cottage, 8274.

Cote, n. Fr. a coat, 8789-cote-armure, a coat worn over armour, upon which the armorial enfigns of the wearer were ufually embroidered, 1018, 2142. Cotidien, adj. Fr. daily; it is ufed as a fubftantive for a quotidian ague, R. 2401.

Couche, v. Fr. to lay, 16620.

Couched, part.pa. laid, 16668; couched with perles, 2163, laid or trimmed with pearls.

Coud, coude, pa. t. of conne, knew, was able, 94, 5. See the Effay, &c. n. 35: it is used as a participle pa. P. 270, to that intlead of always in the note I fhould have faid generally.

Coveite, v. Fr. to covet, R. 6173.

Covenable, adj. Fr. convenient, fuitable, P. 141.
Coverchiefs, n. pl. Fr. headclothes, 455.

Covercle, n. Fr. a potlid, F. ii. 284.

Covert, adj. Fr. fecret, covered, R. 6149.

Covine, n. Fr. fecret contrivances, 606; R. 3799.

Coupe, n. Fr. a fault, P. 172.

Count, v. Fr. to account, to efleem, 4054, 4190. Counterpeife, n. Fr. a counterpoife, a weight which balances another, T. iii. 1413.

Counterpeife, v. Fr. to counterpoife, F. iii. 660.

Counterplete, v. Fr. to plead against, L. W. 476. Countervaite, v. Fr. to watch against, M. 276. Countour, n. Fr. comptoir, a countinghoufe, 13143compteur, an arithmetician, Du. 435.

Countour, 361. See the note.

Countretaille, n. Fr. a tally anfwering exactly to another, hence Echo is faid to anfwer at the countretaille, 9066.

Coure, v. Fr. to fit crouching like a brooding hen, R. 465.

Courtepy. See the note on ver. 292.

Court-man, 9366, a courtier, homme de cour, Fr. Couth, couthe, pa. t. of conne, knew, was able, 392; R. 753-part. pa. known, 14, 8818.

Corvardife, n. Fr. want of courage, R. 2490. As to the etymology of the adj.from which this word has been formed, I think the opinion of Twyfden and Somner [Gloff. ad X Script. v. Fridwite] much the most probable, who derive it from the barb. Lat. culum vertere, to turn tail, or run away. See Du Cange in v. Culverta and Culvertagium, who rejects the opinion above mentioned, but without fuggefting any thing fo plaufible. Culvert (as it is written in the oldeft and beft French mff. that I have feen) might eafily be corrupted, according to the French mode of pronunciation, into couart and couard-I have fomewhere feen the French language feriouíly charged with indelicacy for its frequent and wanton ufe of the word cul in compofition; nor can the charge be faid to be groundlefs. Befide the numerous inftances which will occur to every body, I futpect that this monofyllable makes part of a common and folemn term in our law, imported originally from France. Gulprit seems to me to have been a vulgar name for a prifoner, a person taken by that part

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