Coucher sous corde. In game, &c, to stake downe readie coine; from Tennis-players, that lay the money they play for vnder the line. Elle n'est si fine que la corde n'y apparoisse. As cunning as shee thinkes her selfe, her tricks may be discerned: (a metaphor from cloth, whose thread may be seene.) Il est au bout de sa corde. He is at the end of his meanes; he hath shewed his vtmost skill in the matter; he can do no more to it, say nought else of it, goe no further in it. Il y aura beau ieu si la corde ne rompt. Wee shall haue good sport if the line breake not; s. if all things continue as they are, or hold, that are now, good. Pendant que la corde est au puis. While the matter is hot; while there is opportunitie; while your hand is in. Plus couste la corde que le fardeau. Said when the charges of law, or trafficke, &c, exceed the principall, or diminish ones stocke. À grosse larron grosse corde: Prov. A strong halter for a strong theefe. À longue corde tire qui d'autruy mort desire: Prov. Hee that longs for another mans death, hath a long (or a cold) suit of it; We say, he that waits for dead mens shoone shall goe long barefoot. Qui plus qu'il n'a vaillant despend il fait la corde à quoy se pend: Pro. Who more than he is worth doth spend, he makes a rope his life to end.
Cordé. Corded; twisted as a cord; bound with cords; also, out of season; (a Metaphor from Lampreyes, which being out of season haue a hard string in their backes.)
Cordeau: m. A Carpenters chalked, or Oakered, line. Cordeau courant. A Gardeners line; the line wher-*with he measures out his plots, and beds. Cordeau volant. The same.
Cordée: f. A string-full of; also, a ranke, row, list, file.
Cordelé: m. ée: f. Twisted, or made into cords.
Cordeler. To twist, or make roapes; or make into cords, ropes, &c.
Cordelette: f. A small cord; a twine, or packthread; a twisted lace, line, or string.
Cordeleux: m. euse: f. Cordie, cord-like; full of cords.
Cordelier: m. A Grey Frier (of the Order of S. Francis) a Cordelier; also, twist. Monnoye de Cordelier. Thankes; or a Benedicitee; (for Grey Friers are to carrie no money about them.)
Cordeliere: f. A Grey Friers girdle (made of a peece of a rope full of equally-distant knots;) Hence, any knotted thread, or string; and the blacke, and knotted necke-lace (no better than a string) worne by some Gentlewomen; also, knotted cord-worke in Jmbroderie, &c; also, a Nunne of Saint Francis his Order; also, a row, file, course, ranke of seuered, or seuerall things; and hence; Vne longue cordeliere de montaignes. Cordelle: f. as Cordelette; A little cord, or twisted string. Tirer en sa cordelle. To win vnto his faction; allure, or draw, vnto his side.
Corder. To twist, or make ropes; also, to bind, or packe vp with ropes, or cords; also, to measure with ropes, or cords.
Cette Lamproye se corde. This Lamprey is out of season; (by hauing a hard string in her backe.)
Cordeur de terres. A Surueyor; or Measurer of lands.
Cordial: m. ale: f. Cordiall, heartie; sincere, vnfained; affectionate; also, heart-strengthening, heart-comforting. Les trois fleurs cordiales. Roses, Bourage, and Buglosse.
Cordiale: f. The hearbe Motherwort, (good against the throbbing, or excessiue beating of the heart.)
Cordialement. Cordially, heartily; truly, faithfully, with the whole heart.
Cordialeusé: m. ée: f. Heartie, cordiall; full of heart, or heartinesse; also, heartened, cheered; well comforted, or encouraged.
Cordialité: f. Cordiallneße, heartinesse, heartfulnesse.
Cordiaque: com. Cordiall, heart-comforting, mind-cheering.
Cordier: m. A Roper, a Cord-maker. Desmarche de cordier. A stepping, or going, backwards.
Cordillat d'Espagne. A kind of twisted stuffe made of fine wooll.
Cordilles. The yong frie of Tunnie.
Cordon: m. A string, twine, twist; one of the twists of a rope, or corde; also, a wreath; and, thence, an out-standing wreath, or edge of stone (commonly distinguishing the seuerall stories) on th' outside of a building. Cordon de chapeau. A (wreathed) hatband. Cordons d'une trompette. The cordines, or strings of a Trumpet. Tel larron tel cordon: Prov. Such theefe, such halter; a punishment befitting th' offence.
Cordonné: m. ée: f. Twisted, twined, plaited; wreathed; also, made as, or into, a cord.
Cordonner. To twine, twist, plait; wreath; also, to make as, or into, a cord.
Cordouan: m. Cordouan leather; (which is properly, a Goats skin tanned.)
Cordouannerie: f. Shoo-making, the trade of a Shoomaker; also, the part of a towne wherein Shoomakers worke; Shoomaker-row, Shoomaker-street.
Cordouannier: m. A Shoomaker; a Cordwainer.
Cordouanniere: f. The wife of a Shoomaker; or woman that is a Shoomaker.
Cordueil: m. Hearts-griefe, teene, anguish, heartie sorrow.
Cordule: m. A kind of verie small water-Newt, or Lizard, mistaken, and oft mis-used, in stead of the Scinque. Core: f. The broad peece thats betweene the crosse-bars of the hilt of a sword.
Corée de pourceau. A swines gullet, or a hogs haslet.
Corgeal: m. ale: f. Choaking; of a choaking propertie, or qualitie.
Coriace. (The feminine of Corias;) as tough as a hide; as hard as leather.
Corial: m. A Singing-man, Quire-man, or Quirrester.
Coriandre: m. The hearbe, or seed Coriander.
Corias: m. ace: f. As tough as leather, as hard as a hide.
Corions de souliers: m. The latchets of shooes.
Corlieu: m. A Curlue.
Corlis. as Corlieu.
