Couvre-ordure. Gold; also, a womans Maske.
Couvre-rive. Banke-couering, shoare-surrounding.
Couvrir. To couer; vayle, cloake; hide, conceale, stop, or close vp; to hoodwinke, ouerspread, ouercast, ouershadow; also, to cloath, apparrell, attire all ouer; also, a dog (or such like beast) to lyne a bitch; (Jn which sence, Aligner is the word for Wolues; and Saillir for Horses, Bulls, and such other great beasts.) Couvrir le feu de son fivatier. A Lord to seise, or make an entrie vpon, his tenants land for default of payment of the rents, rights, and seruices due vnto him; which, as it seemes, is done by raking out, or couering ouer, the fire found in the tenement. Couvrir la jouë à. To giue a box on the eare vnto. Couvrir son mommon à. To tickle a wench. Couvrir leur rastelier. Seeke Rastelier. Se couvrir d'un sac mouillé. To colour his hard, or ill dealing with idle, and insufficient pretences; to alledge for himselfe excuses, which rather condemne, then cleere, him.
Couyol: m. as Coyon. Coy: m. A Sinke; or, as Fosse coye. Coy: m. coye: f. Quiet, still, peaceable, calme, restfull, husht; See Quoy. Fosse coye. A Priuie, Jakes, house of Office.
Coyau: m. A returned, or hip, Rafter.
Coyed. as Cayer. ¶Pic. Coyement. Quietly, peaceably, stilly, calmely; soberly; patiently.
Coymeaux: m. A kind of Cherries.
Coyon: m. A coward, cullion, scowndrell, base fellow, faint-hearted companion.
Coyonnade: f. A cowardlie, or cullionlie tricke, a base, or dastardlie part.
Coyonnerie: f. Base roguerie, cowardise, cullionnerie.
Coypellé: m. ée: f. Chipped; also, thwyted, whitled, or cut as a sticke, &c.
Coypeller. To chip; also, to thwyte, or cut a sticke, &c.
Coyraul. See Coiraux. Coyté: f. Quietnesse, calmenesse, peaceableneße, gentlenesse; patience; soberneße.
Coytes: f. Tackes; great Ropes vsed about the (maine) sayle of a ship.
Coytis. as Coytes. Ticke; or, the blew-rewed stuffe whereof Tickes for beds are made; also, a bed-Ticke.
Coyts. as Coytes. Crabbat: m. ate: f. Comelie, proper, decent, handsome, gracious, of a sweet presence, pleasing to the eye.
Crabron: m. A Hornet.
Crac: m. A cracke, or thing that crackes.
Crachard. as Crachat. Crachat: m. Spittle, or spit; also, a spitting.
Craché: m. ée: f. Spet, or spatled out; spattered, bespawled. C'estoit luy tout craché. He resembled him in euerie part; he was as like him as if he had beene spit out of his mouth.
Crache-en-ruelle. A spawling, or spattering fellow.
Crache-fil. Thread-spinning (the Epithete of a spider.)
Crachement: m. A spitting, spatling, spattering, spawling.
Cracher. To spit; spawle; spattle, bespatter.
Cracher au bassin. To pay downe readie coyne; to giue readie money; to come off with round fees; to bestow a reward in hand; also, to spit (as a man may doe with
his mouth shut) into a fleshlie basen; also, to play a mad, fond, retchlesse, or carelesse, part. Cracher vn Iacobin. Looke Iacobin. Cracheur: m. A spitter, spawler, spatterer.
Cracquer. as Craquer. Crage: f. as Croye. Chalke; (a rusticall word.)
Craie: f. as Croye. Chalke.
Craies. Wild Peares, choake Peares.
Craignant. Dreading, fearing, doubting, redoubting, standing in awe of.
Craillement: m. The croaking of a Rauen, or Toad.
Crailler. as Croailler. Craindre. To dread, feare; doubt, redoubt; stand in awe of. Il ne craind ny les rez, ny les tondus. He respects no man, feares no bodie, is awed by no creature liuing; Looke Rez. Craine: m. The skull, or braine-pan of the head.
Crainser. To shrinke in, or together; (also, to crackle) as Parchement, &c, throwne into the fire.
Craint: m. ainte: f. Dreaded, feared; doubted, redoubted.
Crainte: f. Feare, dread; awe, doubt of, redoubting.
Craintif: m. iue: f. Fearefull, dreading, timerous; bashfull, cowardlie, dastardlie, faint-hearted, white-liuered.
Craintivément. Fearefully, timerously, with a faint heart.
Craïon. See Crayon. Cramaillere: f. The pot-hanger, or pot-hookes.
Cramas: m. Stones torne from rockes by tempests, inundations, or the violent working of the sea.
Cramoisi: m. Crimson colour. Sot en cramoisi. An Asse in graine.
Cramoisi: m. ie: f. Crimson, Crimson-coloured, of a Crimson hue.
Crampe: f. The Crampe. La crampe du pied d'un cheval. A horses hoofe. Les gouttes crampes. Convulsions; tensions, or stiffenesse of the muscles, caused by sharpe, and große vapors inclosed among the Membranes.
Crampelle: f. A Grampell, Grit, or Pungar-fish.
Crampon: m. A Cramp-yron; a hooke, or crampe of yron, &c. Crampon de cuir. A loope, or tab, of leather. Les crampons d'un fer de cheval. Caulkes; or, caulkings.
Cramponné: m. ée: f. Ioyned, or fastened with Cramp-yrons; also, tatched, hasped, hooked; looped; caulked.
Cramponner. To ioyne, or fasten together with Cramp-yrons; also, to tatch, haspe, hooke; loope; caulke.
Cramponnet: m. A little Cramp-yron; tacke, or loope.
Crane: m. The skull, braine-pan, or bone of the head.
Cranequin: m. The Gaffle of a Crosse-bow; or, as Crennequin; also, an Engin for batterie, vsed in old time.
Cranequinier: m. A Croße-bow man (whether he serue on horseback, or on foot) or, as Crennequinier; also, an (inferior) Officer, that had, in old time, the conduction of warlike Engines.
Crannequin. as Cranequin.
Crapaud: m. A Toad.
Crapaud de mer. The sea-Toad; an ouglie, and vnholesome fish; or, the full-rowed bellie of the Dog-fish, &c.
La danse des crapauds. A State, or Gouernment wherein knaues, and fooles are supported.
Il en estoit chargé comme vn crapaud de plumes. He was little burthened, nothing troubled, withall.
