Mignon de couchette. A Carpet-Knight, one that euer loues to be in womens chambers.
Coucheur: m. A coucher, staker; layer downe of; also, a Bedfellow.
Couchille. The tree that beares the graine Kermes, wherewith Skarlet is dyed; wee call it, the Skarlet Oake.
Couchine. The name of a certaine apple.
Coucombre. A Cowcumber. See Concombre. Coucon. The little bottome, or clue of silke spunne by the silkeworme.
Coucou: m. A Cuckoe. (I'ay beau luy remonstrer;) ie ne fais no plus que le coucou aux cannes. No wordes terrifie him, or preuaile with him.
Coucourbe. as Coucourde. Coucourde: f. A round Gourd; also, a kind of large Stillitorie; or, as Courge. Coucourelle. The name of a certaine Fig.
Coude: m. The elbow. Coude de la branche. The elbow, or out-bearing of the branch of a Bit. Os du coude. The vnder bone of the arme, from the elbow to the wrist. Il y a mis la main iusques au coude; &, il a entré en la paste iusques aux coudes. He hath gone very farre in the matter; he is vp to the eares in it. Plier le coude. To drinke hard, to ply the pot apace; or, to fall to chat seriously, to settle himselfe to talke; (for, such as doe so, commonly leane vpon their elbowes.) Poulser du coude. Proudly to iustle, and shoulder euerie one that comes in his way.
Coudé: m. ée: f. Bowed, or crooked, or standing, elbow-*wise.
Coudée: f. A cubit; (extends from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; and is in ordinarie measure, a foot and a halfe.) Coudées franches. Elbow-roome, free libertie. Coudée Geometrique. Containeth six ordinarie cubits. Coudée royale. is three fingers longer then the ordinarie one.
Coudéer. To iog, or ioult with the elbow.
Coudepied. The instup.
Coudoyer. as Coudéer. Coudraye: f. See Couldraye. Coudre: m. A Hasell; a small Nut tree; a Filberd tree; (for this word comprehendeth all those kinds of small Nut trees.)
Coudre: f. A small Nut, a Hasell Nut; and a Filberd; (for it comprehends them all.) Coudre franche. A Filberd.
Coudré: m. ée: f. Tanned, steeped in a Tanfat.
Coudre. To sow; to stitch together. Coudre la peau de regnard à celle de lion. To attempt that by craftie, which he cannot get by forcible, meanes. Ie ne sçay quelle piece coudre à cecy. I know not what remedie to apply vnto this, not what art to vse in the repaire of it.
Coudrer. To tanne; to steepe, or stiffen, in a Tanfat.
Coudrier: m. A small Nut tree, of what kind soeuer.
Coudroir. A Tanfat, or Tanpit.
Couë: f. as Queuë; a tayle.
Coué: m. ée: f. Tayled, hauing a tayle.
Couënne de lard. The skin of Bacon.
Couët: m. (The name of) a certaine little apple.
Couëts. Two ropes belonging to the mizen sayle of a ship.
Couëtte: f. A ticke (to ly, or sit on;) as Coitte. Coufler. To swell, or be puffed vp.
Cougourde: f. A Bottle-Gourd; the round Gourd whereof Bottles are made.
Cougourle. The same.
Couhourde. The same.
Couillage: m. A Tribute payed in times past by Priests for Licences to keepe wenches.
Couillards: m. as Clides; or, certaine round, and ringed pieces of yron, which in old time they vsed to shoot out of ships.
Couillatris. Well hangd (betweene the legs.)
Couille: f. A mans yard; also (but lesse properly) a cod, ballocke, or testicle; also, a long, lanke, and lubberlie coward; a heartlesse, faint-hearted, or white-liuered slimme. Couille barbe. A certaine little apple, which is red on the one side; and yeelds an excellent Cyder. Couille de belier. A kind of ball made of a Rammes cod. Couille au chien. as Couillon de chien. Couille à l'Euesque. A kind of sallet hearbe. Couille au loup. Wild Prickmadame, Wormegrasse, great Stonecrop. Les couilles luy pendent à faute de gibbeciere. He hath taken too much of the lower sheet; or he is tame enough by this time: (Spoken of a young man, after hee hath beene married some two or three moneths.)
Couille-barbe. See Couille. Couilleu. Stoned; or, that wants not his stones.
Couillon: m. A cod, stone, testicle, cullion. Couillon de bouc. Goats stones, Goats cullions; (an hearbe.) Couillon de chien. Dogs-stones, Dogs cullions, Gandergoose, Standlewort, Standergrasse, Ballock-grasse, Adders grasse, bastard Satyrion. Couillon de prestre. Spindletree, Prickwood, Prick-*tymber.
Couïnne. as Couënne. The skin of Bacon.
Couïonnade. as Coyonnade. Coulac. The Shad fish; (called so in Bourdeaux.)
Coulagion: f. The running of a sore, &c.
Les Coulans d'un jardinier. A Gardeners lines, where-*with he measures out his beds, and plots.
Coulant: m. Le c. d'une Riviere. The streame of a riuer. Vn coulant d'eau de mer. An arme of the sea.
Coulant: m. ante: f. Gliding, slipping, flowing gently along. Vaine doucement coulante. A sweet smooth veine in Poetrie, &c.
Coulde. as Coude. The elbow.
Couldée. as Coudée; also, a certaine crooked toole belonging to Masons.
Couldier: m. A dwarfe; one thats no higher then three horse-loaues, one thats but a shaftment high.
Couldoye. à c. Made with an out nooke like an elbow.
Couldrasse: f. A hedge toad, or land toad.
Couldray: m. as Couldraye. Couldraye: f. A Wood, Groue, or Orchard, of Hasell, or of small Nut, trees; a Hasell wood, or Hasell groue.
Couldre: m. A Hasell tree, a small Nut tree, of what kind soeuer.
