Fouëtter quelqu'un en chien courtaut. To whip one extreamely.
Court-baston. A truncheon, or short cudgell; See Courbaston. Court-d'aleaume. The name of a certaine bitter sweet apple.
Courte-pointe: f. A Quilt, or quilted counterpoint.
Courtes-fesses. A Button-breech; one that is pin-buttockt; or hath but small or slender buttocks.
Court-festu: m. Drawing of cutts.
Courtiban; or Courtibau. A coat-armour, long cassock, or horsemans coat, worne by a Prince, or Commander in an armie.
Courtier. as Courratier; a Broker; Horse-scourser, Messenger.
Courtil: m. A backe-yard; or garden.
Courtilliere: f. A kind of Palmer, or yellowish, and many-legd vermine, that abides almost euer in the ground, and is a great enemie to hearbes (especially Onions) whose roots she gnawes asunder.
Courtinages: m. Curtaines; hangings for beds, or windowes.
Courtine: f. A Curtaine; and (in fortification) the plainenesse of the wall betweene bulwarke and bulwarke. Sous la courtine. Secretly, closely, priuately, vnder-*hand, in corners, in hugger-mugger.
Courtineau: m. A little Curtaine; also, the head-peece, or peece that hangs downe at the head, of a stuffe-*bed.
Courtisan: m. A Courtier.
Courtisane: f. A Ladie, Gentlewoman, or waiting-woman of the Court; also (but leße properly) a curtizan, profeßed strumpet, famous (or infamous) whore.
Courtisanie: f. Court-ship; courtlie behauiour, or humour.
Courtisanne: f. as Courtisane. Courtisanneau: m. A young, little; paultrie, or scuruie, Courtier.
Courtisanner. To play the Courtier.
Courtisé: m. ée: f. Courted, sued vnto; intertained with respectiue complements; also, flattered, fawned on, cogged with.
Courtiser. To court, make court vnto; intertaine with all complements, or offices of respect, and obseruance; also, to flatter, sooth, fawne on, cog with.
Courtois: m. ise: f. Courteous, gentle, debonaire; ciuile; gratious, benigne, affable; tractable, faire-conditioned; complementall. Chambre courtoise. An Aiax; or, as Chambre aisée. Lance courtoise. A tilting-staffe; or, launce with a blunt, or buttoned, head. Qui fut François si fut courtois: Pro. The French were euer full of courtesie.
Courtoisement. Courteously, gently, affably, benignely, ciuilly, gratiously.
Courtoisie: f. Courtesie, ciuilitie, affabilitie, gentlenesse, humanitie, debonaritie, benignitie, graciousnesse; also, a kindnesse, fauour, good office; whence; Courtoisie tardiue est discourtoisie: Pro. A fauour long in comming proues disfauour. Courtoisie qui ne vient que d'un costé ne peut longuement durer: Prov. Courtesies vnrequited continue not.
Couru: m. uë: f. Runne, coursed, hyed, speeded, posted, gallopped; also, hunted, chased, followed hard, hotly pursued; also, ouerrun, ransacked, rauaged.
Fortune luy a couru sus. Fortune hath assaulted, or
afflicted him; a great misfortune is befallen him.
Courvé. as Courbé. Courvée: f. A dayes worke, due by a Tenant vnto his Lord. See Corvée. Il a fait vne grande courvée. He hath done a great dayes worke, he hath made a long dayes iourney; or, he hath dispatched the matter with verie much toyle.
Courver. To crooke, bow, bend, arch, vault.
Cousant. Sewing, or sowing.
Couse: f. A ieast, a toy, a sleight matter.
Cousement: m. A sewing; or, a seame.
Cousin: m. A cousin, or kinsman; also, a Gnat, or Midge. Au prester cousin, au rendre fils de putain: Prov. Some, when they would borrow giue good wordes, but when they should repay, most bad ones.
Cousinage: m. Kindred, consanguinitie, cousinship.
Cousiner. To clayme kindred for aduantage, or particular ends; as he, who to saue charges in trauelling, goes from house to house, as cousin to the owner of euerie one.
Cousinette. The name of a certaine little red apple.
Coussegail: m. Messelin, corne mingled. ¶Langued. Cousser. To butt, or iurre, as Rammes doe.
Cousseur: m. A butter, a iurrer.
Coussi: m. The name of a small (but excellent) blacke Grape.
Coussin: m. A cushion to sit on.
Coussinet: m. A cushinet, or little cushion; also, a stuffing, or boulstering vsed in womens garments, when one shoulder is higher then another, to make them seeme straight though they be not; also, a cushinet, or boulster of folded linnen, layed on the plaister of a wound. Coussinet de la fesse. The fleshie tip, or muscle of the buttockes. Coussinet de la trompe. The first bed, or couching of stones, on the right hand of the vault of the out-iuttying roome Trompe. Coussineux: m. euse: f. Full of, or stored with, cushions; also, soft as a cushion; fit to vse as a cushion.
Cousson: m. The gußet of a shirt, or smocke; also, a Mite, or Weeuill.
Coust: m. Cost, charges, expence.
Coustange: m. as Coust. Coustangeux: m. euse: f. Deere, costlie, chargeable.
Coustau: m. A little hill, or rising of ground; a Downe, or high ground. Coustau de montaigne. The side, or skirt of a mountaine. Cousté. (The Participle of Couster;) cost.
Cousteau: m. A knife, or whittle; also, a sword, or any such cutting weapon; also, the principall feather in a Hawkes wing, tearmed by our Faulkoners (in short-*winged Hawkes) the Cut, or Cuttie.
Cousteau marin, ou de mer. The Pyrot, or Hag-*fish; a long and round shell-fish, of a bright, and shining colour; Jn some parts of France, the Sleeue-fish, and by some French Authors, the Sword-fish, are also called so.
Cousteau des moissons. Corne-Sedge, Corne-Flags, Corne-Gladen, the right Gladen.
Cousteau à pied. A Shoomakers round cutting-knife.
Cousteau à rongner. The knife wherewith Booke-*binders cut the leaues of their bookes.
Cousteau de tripiere. A (fashion of) two-edged knife; and by Metaphor, one that playes Iacke on both sides.
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Bois de coupe. Wood thats betweene ten, and thirtie, yeares growth.
Tel bois à la coupe rouge. Such wood cuts red.
Coupé: m. ée: f. Cut; clouen, sliced; hacked, slashed, hewed; carued, grauen, intailed; sl1t, launced; pruined, lopped, felled, as a tree; mowed as grasse. Croix coupée. A crosse-humet; Blazon. Coupcau: m. The top, head, or top of a thing. Coupcau de bois. A chip. Coupcau d'oignon. The head, or peele of an Onyon. Coupeau de la teste. The Crowyn, or Noddle. Piquant coupeau. A kind of pricklie thistle, tearmed thus about Paris.
Coupe-aureille. See Coupe-oreille. Coupe-bourse: m. A Cut-purse. Hardi en coupe-bourse. as bold as a Cut-purse.
Coupelle: f. A Coppell; the little Ashen pot, or vessel wherein Goldsmiths melt, or fine their mettals. Argent de coupelle. Siluer that hath beene tested, or tryed; fine siluer.
Coupement: m. A cutting, slicing, hewing, slashing; a cleauing, slitting; launcing, incision-making; also, a pruning, lopping, or felling of trees; a sheering of corne, mowing of grass; also, a diuiding, sundering, seperating.
Coupe-oreille: f. A (fashion of) sharpe, and thin-bladed French knife, wherewith the eares of rogues, and pettie theeues are cut off.
Coupe-queuë. Deux mots à coupe-queuë. Two short, and soone-done words; two words, and there's an end; but two bare words, and no more.
Couper. To cut, slice, hacke, slash, hew; to cleaue, slit; launce, make an incision; alsb, to carue, graue, intayle; also, to prune, lop, or fell trees; mow corne, or grasse; also, to diuide, sunder, seperate. Se Couper. To cut himselfe; also (in speaking) to trip. Couper broche à. To preuent, cut off, cut short. Couper chemin à. To stop, crosse, forestall, preuent, let from proceeding any further. Couper de deux costez. To deale on both hands, to intertaine both sides with promise of his assistance. Couper l'herbe sous les pieds à. To supplant, undermine; marre the market of; set beside the cushion. Couper les ongles de prés à. To curbe very short; to keepe very bare, or neere; to restraine, impouerish, yeeld hard, or scant allowance to; or withdraw most of his meanes, or allowance from. Couper la queuë à. To desist, giue ouer, leaue off from; (and particularly) to breake off talke with. Couper la queuë au ieu. To leaue playing with one whose money he hath woon; to giue ouer a winner. Couper le vin. To leaue blowne drinke; or to drinke but part. Il a vn nez qui coupe. He hath a most searching wit, a most piercing spirit. Se Couper foy mesme par ses defenses. To speake against, in thinking to defend, himselfe. Il fe coupe de son propre cousteau. He wounds himself with his owne weapons; as does a learned Diuine that fals into heresie; an eloquent speaker, that wrests or peruerts the Law; a beautifull person that grows dissolute, or effeminate; a wealthie man that becomes either a miser, or an vnthrift, &c.
Couperet: m. A Butchers Knife, or Cleauer.
Couperose: f. Copres; also, extreame rednesse of the
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*face, accompanied with many pimples, and rubies, especially about the nose.
Couperosé: m. ée: f. Mingled, seasoned, or dressed with Coperous; also, Crimson-faced, Copper-nosed, red, ruddie.
Coupet: m. The top, head, height, cop, crest, ridge, of. Coupet de cheveux. A tuft, or topping, of haire.
Coupeur: m. A cutter, cleauer; hacker, hewer; caruer, intayler; launcer, slitter; mower; lopper, feller of trees; and most particularly, a reaper or cutter of grapes, in the time of Vintage. Coupeur de bourses. A Cut-purse; whence; Estonné comme vn coupeur dc bourses pris sur le fait; Amazed like a Cut-purse, taken in the manner. Coupeur de vuir. A Cut-purse.
Copeure: f. See Coupure. Coupeuse: f. A woman that reapes, or cuts grapes in the time of Vintage.
Coupeux: m. euse: f. Cutting; or, full of cutting; or fit to cut. Dents coupeuses. The fore-teeth.
Coupier: m. A cup-bearer; one that waiteth on his masters cup.
Couple: f. A couple; a paire, also, a paire of dogge-couples. En couple. Coupled by paires, two and two together.
Couplé: m. ée: f. Coupled; yoaked, united, ioyned; grapled, together.
Coupler. To couple, ioyne, yoake, unite together; also, to coape, or graple together, as in fight.
Couplet de chanson. A Staffe, or Stanza of a Poeme, or Song.
Couplot de bois. A woodden sole, or Nut for a Scrue; the foot of a Scrue, &c.
Coupon: m. A great Cup, or Bowle; also, a Tray of wood, &c; also, a cut of; or, a thicke and short slice, or peece cut from, a thing. Coupon de drap. A shred of cloth.
Coup-orbe. Red pimples on the face.
Couppe. as Coupe. Couppe-bourse. as Coupebourse. Couplettes de gland. Akorne cups.
Couperet: m. A Butchers Knife, or cleauer.
Couppier: m. A cup-bearer, or one that waiteth on his masters cup.
Couppon. as Coupon. Coupure: f. A cutting ; slicing; cleeuing; launcing; lopping; sheering (&c. as in Coupement;) also, a cut (&c. as in Coupe;) and hence; Par coupures. Peece-meale; by peeces; in slices; by shreds.
Cour: f. A Court of law, or Iustice; any Session, or Assemblie of Iudges; or the place wherein they vse to assemble; also, the Court of a Prince; or of a priuat house. See Court.
Cour des Aides. A soueraigne Court, wherein all causes that concerne the Aides, Tailles, &c, are heard, and determined: (Some report, that King Iohn, others that Charles the fist, about the yere 1380, erected that which is at Paris; Charles the seuenth erected another at Montpelier, Anno 1437. There be others also, at Roan, and at Montserrant in Auvergne; and one at Boardeaux, the which was first at Perigueux.)
Cour fuedale. A Court Leet, or Baron; the Lords Court, whereto his uassales and tenants owe their suit, and seruice.
Cour fonciere. A Court Baron; or, Court of base iurisdiction.
