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Cornilles: f. Cornill berries.

Cornillier: m. The long cherrie, wild cherrie, or Cornill tree; Cornillier masle. Cornillier femelle. Hounds-tree, Dog-berrie tree, Prick-tymber tree; Gaten, or Gater, tree. Cornillier sauvage. The same.

Corniole: f. Part of a Stags throat; or, as Gargatte, the Vuula; See Gargatte. Cornoaller: m. The Cornill tree; as Cornillier. Cornoalles: f. Cornill berries.

Cornoiller. as Cornillier. Cornoilles: f. Cornill berries.

Cornoüaille: f. Cornewall; one of the shires of England; also, a part of Low Brittaine; whence; Chevalier de Cornoüaille. A Cuckold, a horned beast, one of the forked, or cornuted, Order. Estaim de Cornoüaille. Seeke Estaim. Voyager en Cornoüaille. To weare the horne, to be one of the head men of his parish.

Cornu: m. A kind of Serpent; as Serpent cornu. Cornu: m. uë: f. Hornie, horned; cornuted; hauing hornes; bearing, or wearing hornes; also, crooked, or boughtie, like a horne. Argument cornu. A fantasticall, friuolous, impertinent, ill-made argument. Aspic cornu. Looke Aspic. Astre cornu. The Moone. Baston cornu. A Battle-ax (of the old fashion.) Bonnet cornu. A cornered, or square, cap. Pain cornu. A loafe that is not round, but made with corners, or fashioned illfauouredly, and with vneuen sides. Perle cornuë. A ragged pearle. Pois cornus. A kind of flat, or square, peason; being either Sheepes Ciches, or Dodoneus his Cichelings, called also, flat peason. Serpent cornu. A sand-coloured Serpent, which hath two, or (as Iulius Solinus reports) foure Snayle-like hornes on his head, and his hinder parts full of skales, which make him seeme to hisse as he goes; (his biting is almost incureable.) Bailler des plus cornuës. Il vous en baillera, &c. He will tell you many a loudly. Fust il plus Diable qu'il n'est cornu. Were he more terrible indeed then he is in shew. Ie le rendray plus Diable qu'il n'est cornu. I will put him in greater feare than he puts others. À l'enfourner on fait les pains cornus: Prov. A carelesse, erronious, or ignorant entrance into a busines disorders the whole course of it, and, in conclusion, mars it; of the same sence is; Qui mal enfourne tire les pains cornus: Prov. He that begins vnfeatly ends ill-fauoredly.

Cornuaille. as Cornoüaille. Cornuchet. A little Cornet. Enter en cornuchet. Looke Enter. Cornuë: f. A kind of bending Limbecke (like a Bagpipe) of glasse, varnished, and leaded within; vsed for th' extracting of oyles out of hard and drie things, as wood, mettalls, &c; also, as Malarmat, a kind of Gurnet.

Cornüette: f. The small Pulse called Axe-seed, Axe-*wort, Axfitch, and Hatchetfitch; also, horned wild Cummin .

Corolaire: m. A Corollaire; a surplusage, ouerplus, addition to, vantage aboue measure; also, a small gift, or largesse bestowed on the people at publicke feasts, and playes.

Coronal: m. ale: f. Coronall, Crowne-like; of, or belonging to, a Crowne. Artere coronale. Seeke Artere. Commissure coronale. The Coronall Suture, or seame, which compasses the forehead, or forepart of the scull, in forme of a halfe circle. Os coronal. Seeke Os. Veine coronale. A branch of the hollow veine, so tearmed, because it enuirons the heart in forme of a Crowne; there is also another of that name, a branch of the Spleene veine; as Stomachique. Coronne: f. A Crowne, or Garland, &c; See Couronne. Corp: m. A blackish sea-fish, whose head shineth almost like gold; some tearme it a Cabot.

Corpaut. A pot: ¶Barrag. Corporail: m. The Corporall; the fine linnen wherein the Sacrament is put. Corporalier: m. A Pix, or box for the foresaid linnen, or Sacrament.

Corporance: f. Corporature; the quantitie, fashion, or constitution of the bodie.

Corporel: m. elle: f. Corporall, bodilie, personall. Veine corporelle. as Mediane. Corporellement. Corporally, bodily, personally; in person; without Atturney, or Deputie.

Corporence: f. as Corporance. Corporu: m. uë: f. Corpulent, big-bodied, grosse, fleshie, well fed, of a great stature.

Corps: m. A bodie, a corps; the whole bulk, or substance, of; also, a volume; also, a companie, or corporation; also, as Vaisseau corpulent; also, (in cloth, or stuffe) substance, tacke, stuffinesse. Le corps d'un arbre. The stocke, or bodie of a tree. Vn corps de cuirasse. A Corselet. Corps de garde. A Court of gard, in a Campe, or Fort. Vn corps d'hostel. The bodie, or heart of a house; that part wherein the chiefe roomes, and lodgings, are contriued. Le corps d'un navire. The Hull of a Ship. Femme de corps. A Villeinesse, or woman of a seruile condition. À corps perdu. Desperatly, furiously, headlong, without any care of his owne safetie. Droguer le corps. To make an Apothecaries shop of his bellie. Excuser aucun par son corps. To fight in another mans quarell; to defend another mans innocencie with the hazard of his owne bodie. Logez sous nostre corps. viz. Vnder our roofe, or couert; at our charge, or allowance. Marcher en corps. as la Cour marche en corps; All the Officers of the Court go along together. Mettre corps & coeur. To labour tooth and naile, to indeuour by all meanes possible. Prendre au corps. To arrest; or, take prisoner. Bon chausteau garde qui sçait son corps garder: Prov. Looke Chasteau. Homme endormi corps enseveli: Prov. There is no difference betweene a dead, and a sleepie, bodie; or, as good be dead outright, as aliue, and do nought. Quand les biens viennent les corps faillent: Prov. Most mens liues are neere spent before they haue got any thing to spend.

Corpset: m. A little bodie; also, a paire of bodies, or, a womans bodies.

Corpulence: f. Corpulencie, grossenesse, fatnesse, bignesse of bodie.