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doore; any base scoundrell, or scuruie fellow; also, as Egau. C'est vn grand cas la fureur de deux coquins à vne porte. A prouerbe meant, as well of th' ordinarie iarring, and thwartings that passe between two ambitious Competitors, as of the scoulding, or other scuruie sturre made by two hungrie, and enuious beggers at a mans doore, Il n'est vie que de coquins: Prov. There's no life to the beggers; Looke Vie. Il vaut mieux estre coquu que coquin: Prov. Better be a cuckold than a beggerlie knaue.

Coquin: m. ine: f. Beggerlie, needie; lousie; roguish, vagabond-like. Mouton coquin. A Bell-weather. Pigeon coquin. A tame Pigeon. Elle entrejetta la jambe coquine. She interposed her wanton, lasciuious, or harlots, leg.

Coquine: f. A begger-woman; also, a cockney, simperdecockit, nice thing.

Coquineau: m. A scoundrell, base varlet, beggerlie rascall, beastlie fellow.

Coquiner. To beg, to craue like a begger; to play the rogue, or base rascall.

Coquinerie: f. Beggerie, begging; also, roguerie, knauerie, basenesse; or base humors; also, meats that are more toothsome than holesome; forced meats.

Coquiol: f. A degenerate Barlie, or weed, commonly, growing among Barlie, and called, Hauer-grasse.

Coquu. as Cocu. Cor: m. A Hunters horne; a Bugle, or Hutchet; also, a corne in the foot; also, the hard, and hornie swelling in horses, tearmed, the Sit-fast. Cors. The broches of a Deers head; all the pegs ther-*of from the second, or third vpwards. Cor de mer. The Sea-horne; a shell-fish that somewhat resembles a horne. À cor & à cry. By Proclamation; also, by might and maine, with heaue and hoe; eagerly, vehemently, seriously.

Corail: m. Corrall; (growes in the sea, like a thicke shrub, and is then of a greenish colour; taken thence, it waxeth verie hard, and (after it hath been dressed) becomes red, and smooth; (There is also a white, a black, and a yellow, kind of Corrall.)

Coralin: m. ine: f. Corralin, of Corrall, like vnto Corrall.

Coraline: f. Sea-mosse, Corralline, or Corrall-mosse.

Corapei. A Princes cloth of Estate.

Corbat pescheret. A Cormorant: ¶Dauph.

Corbature. as Courbature.

Corbau: m. The Cabot fish; or, as Corp.

Corbeau: m. A Rauen; also, a Corbell (in Masonrie;) and, a bracket, or shouldering peece (in timber worke;) also, a certaine warlike instrument; also, the broyled bone of a leg, or shoulder, of mutton, hauing some flesh left about it.
  Corbeau d'eau. A Cormorant.
  Corbeau de mer. The same; or, the sea-Rauen.
  Corbeau de nuict. The Night-Rauen.
  Corbeau pescheret. A Cormorant.
  Repaistre les corbeaux. To hang in chaines; or, to lie vnburied in the fields.
  Tromper vn corbeau à bouche beante. To cousen a greedie fellow of a bit which he gapes after; or, as in Tromper.
  De mauvais corbeau mauvais oeuf: Pro. Of an ill bird, an ill brood.

  La censure tourmente les pigeons laissant aller les corbeaux libres: Prov. Censure torments Pigeons, and frees Rauens; and hence are Lawes compared vnto Cobwebs; little flies are caught in them, great ones breake through them.

Corbeil. The name of a towne that is not far from Paris; and hence the prouerbiall phrase; Prendre Paris pour Corbeil. To take an apple for an oister; to mistake the matter quite and cleane.

Corbeille: f. A wicker basket, or maund; also, a dosser. Qui fait corbeille il fait panier: Pro. He that makes a basket makes a pannier; he that can do one thing can do another.

Corbeillée: f. A basket-full of.

Corbeilleux: m. euse: f. Belonging to a basket or maund; also, full of baskets, &c.

Corbeillon: m. A little basket, pannier, or maund.

Corbieu. Gogs heart.

Corbigeau: m. A Cormorant, or Sea-Rauen.

Corbillat: m. A yong Rauen.

Corbillon. as Corbeillon. Corbin: m. A (carrion, or carre) Crow. Bec de corbin. A Pentioners halberd, or pollaxe; also a Chirurgions toole, called a Crowes-bill; See Bec. Os corbin. A certaine hollow bone in the crupper of a Deere. Pied de corbin. The hearbe Crow-foot, Kings-cob, Gold-cups, Gold-flower, Butter-flower.

Corbiné: m. ée: f. Stollen, filtched, purloined, lurched; also, polled, exacted, extorted; extreamely vsed.

Corbiner. To steale, filtch, purloine, lurch; also, to poll, extort, or exact more than is due.

Corbinerie: f. Stealing, filtching, lurching; also, polling, exaction, extortion.

Corbinet: m. The crooking of Rauens, or Crowes.

Corbineur. A filtcher, lurcher, poller, exacter. Corbineurs du Palais. Lawyers, and Clerkes; which ordinarily fleece, lurch, poll, and spoile, poore suiters.

Corcalihat: m. The crie of Quailes.

Corcesque: f. A kind of broad-headed Jaueline, or dart.

Corchiere: f. The battlement of a wall; also, (in a gallie) as Coursie. Cordace. A kind of countrey daunce: ¶Rab. Cordage: m. Cordage, ropes; or stuffe to make ropes of.

Cordaille de navire. Tackling.

Corde: f. A cord, rope, halter; a twisted string, band, or line; also, as Tendon.
  Corde de bois. A certaine measure, or quantitie, of wood (whether fagots, or billets) laid together; eight, or ten foot in length, about foure in height, and hauing at either end two stakes to hold it in.
  Corde du bras. The greatest, and most notable, branch of the shoulder veine.
  Corde d'un Cordelier. A grey Friers girdle; or, the knotted cord wherewith he girds himselfe.
  Cordes du iarret. The ham-strings.
  Haut mal de la corde. A hanging.
  Homme de sac & de corde. One for whom the gallowes grone; Looke Sac.
  Avoir deux cordes à son arc. To bee furnished with two helpes, to haue a double hope of successe, in his businesse; (we also vse the same phrase.)
  Bailler à vn la corde pour se pendre. Cunningly to giue one an aduantage which if he vse will turne to his preiudice.