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  Ia ne chante le coq si viendra le iour: Pro. Though the cocke neuer crow, day will come.

Coqu: m. A cuckow, or cuckold; See Cocu. Coquäge: m. Cuckoldrie, the state of a cuckold.

Coquar: m. An egge; or egge shell; or, as,

Coquard: m. A proud gull, peart goose, quaint fop, saucie doult, malapert coxcombe, rash or forward cokes. Mieux vaut l'ombre d'un sage vieillard que les armes d'un ieune coquard: Prov. The shadow of an aduised grandsire is better than the sword of an aduenturous goosecap.

Coquard: m. Coquarde: f. as Coquart. Coquarde. bonnet à la coquarde. A Spanish cap, or fashion of bonnet vsed by the most substantiall men of yore; (Tearmed so (perhaps) because those that wore of them grew thereby the prouder, & presumed the more of themselues) also, any bonnet, or cap, worne proudly, or peartly on th' one side.

Coquardeau: m. A proud asse, bold goose, fond sauce-*box; one that hath more wealth than wit, or is much more forward than wise.

Coquardise: f. Fond pride, saucinesse, presumption, malapertneße; vnaduised peartnesse, iollitie, chearefulnesse, cocketnesse.

Coquart: m. arde: f. Foolishly proud, saucie, presumptuous, malapert; vndiscreetly peart, cocker, iollie, cheerfull; more bold than welcome, forward than wise.

Coquasse: f. A kettle, or chafer.

Coquassier: m. A seller of egge-shells; also, a maker, or seller of kettles, or chafers.

Coquatris: m. A Basiliske, or Cockatrice.

Coque: f. A cockle; also, a bump, or knob on the forehead; also, an egge-shell, &c. Coque de Levant. The small medicinable shel called in shops, Vnguis odoratus. Nulle noix sans coque: Prov. No nut without a shell.

Coquefredouille: m. A meacocke, milkesop, sneaksbie, worthlesse fellow.

Coquelicon: m. Cocke-crowing; the song of a cocke.

Coquelicoq. as Coquelicon; Also, the wild Poppie, Corne-rose, red Corne-rose.

Coqueliné: m. ée: f. Dandled, fedled, cockered, pampered, made a wanton of.

Coquelinement: m. A dandling, fedling, cockering.

Coqueliner vn enfant. To dandle, cocker, fedle, pamper, make a wanton of, a child.

Coquelineux: m. euse: f. Fantasticall, brainesicke, bumorous, moodie, giddie, shittle-headed; whose head is full of crochets.

Coquelourdes: f. The Wind-flower; also, the bastard Wind-flower, Passe-flower, Pasque-flower, Flaw-flower; also, the flower called, Rose-campion.

Coqueluche: f. A hood; also, the Coqueluchoe, or new disease; which troubled the French about the yeares 1510, and 1557; and vs but a while agoe.

Coqueluchon: m. The Capuche, or hood of a cloke; also, a weather-hood.

Coqueluchonné: m. ée: f. That weares a hood, or a Spanish Capuche.

Coquemare: f. The disease called the Night-mare.

Coquemart: m. A brazen pot, or chafer, hauing a couer.

Coqueplumet. A proud cockescombe, a scarrecrow; a wag-feather; one that swaggers, or stalkes vp & down the streets, with a top like a fore-horse; or, one who, by th' authoritie of his high feather, presumes be may ouer-*rule, or put downe, a whole street.

Coquer. To play the cocke, to tread hennes like a cooke. Se coquer contre. To knocke himselfe, or runne his head against.

Coquerelles: f. Red Night-shade, Alkakengie, Winter-cherries.

Coqueret: m. The name of a certaine red, and verie sweet apple, thats ripe about Allhallowtide.

Coquerets. des co. as Coquerelles. Des Coquerettes. The same.

Des Coquerez. The same.

Coques. des coques: f. Cockles.

Coquet: m. A Cocke-boat; also, a weather-cocke.

Coqueté. Cackled, or chucked; also, strowted, or swaggered.

Coqueter. A cocke to call his hennes; or to chucke, as a cocke among hennes; also, to swagger, or strowt it, like a cocke on his owne dung-hill.

Coquetier: m. A seller of egges, or of egge-shels.

Coquette: f. A pratling, or proud gossip; a fisking, or fliperous minx; a cocket, or tatling houswife; a titifill, a flebergebit.

Coquillade: f. A certaine little, slender, scalesse, small mouthed, and grey-eyed sea-fish, liuing among rocks.

Coquillage: m. Shell-worke; worke made of, or trimd with, shells.

Coquillant. Making, or vaulting, like a shell.

Coquillard. as Coquardeau; Also, a small vessell wheron, in Paris, they serue reare egges vnto the table.

Coquillard: m. arde: f. Shellie, full of shells.

Coquille: f. The shell of a fish; of a snaile; of a nut; or of an egge; also, a boat-bason, or any open vessell thats fashioned like a bason, or Scallop-shell; also, a French-hood; also a measure containing fiue spoonefuls. Coquille de S. Iacques. The Scallop fish; also, a Cockle. Coquille de S. Michel. A Cockle. Coquille de Prestre. The hearbe Chickeweed; or a kind thereof, held by Dodoneus to be the right Mouse-eare. Coquille sabottée. The Yealke; a shell-fish called so, because it somewhat resembles a Top. Large coquille. A Scallop. Bailler de coquilles. A cousener, cheater, conie-catcher, impostor, mountebanke; Hence, also, Dresser vne coquille. To deuise a gulling tricke; to inuent a cheating deuise; to lay a snare for a foole. A qui vendez vous vos coquilles? followed by, à ceux qui viennent de S. Michel? Why should you thinke to cousen vs, that are as cunning as your selues? tis ill haulting before a criple.

Coquillé: m. ée: f. Set thicke with shells; also, made, or fashioned, like a shell. Pain coquillé. A fashion of an hard-crusted loafe, somewhat like our Stillyard Bunne.

Coquiller. To vault, bow, or fashion, a thing like a shell; also, as Recroquiller. Coquilleux: m. euse: f. Shellie, full of shells.

Coquillier: m. ere: f. Hauing a shell, or bearing a shell; of, or belonging to, a shell.

Coquilliere: f. A woman that (now) makes biggens, and caps; (but whose chiefest worke, in times past was the French-hood Coquille.)

Coquillon: m. A little shell; or hood; also, a fooles hood; or a hooded foole.

Coquimbert qui gaigne pert. A game at cards; like our loosing Lodam.

Coquin: m. A beggar, poore snake, needie wretch, tattered rogue, lousie vagabond that begs from doore to