The new world of English words, or, A general dictionary containing the interpretations of such hard words as are derived from other languages ... together with all those terms that relate to the arts and sciences ... : to which are added the significations of proper names, mythology, and poetical fictions, historical relations, geographical descriptions of most countries and cities of the world ... / collected and published by E.P.

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• To Coacervate, (lat.) to heap toge∣ther.
• Coaction, (lat.) a compelling or con∣straining.
• Coadjutor, (lat.) a fellow-labourer, an assistant or helper.
• Coadunation, (lat.) an assembling or bringing together.
• Coaetaneous, (lat.) of the same age.
• Coaeternal, (lat.) equal in eternity.
• Coagulation, (lat.) a thickning or curdling together.
• Coalition, (lat.) a growing toge∣ther, an increasing.
• Coaptation, (lat.) a fitting together.
• Coarctation, (lat.) a streightning, a pressing together.
• Coassation, (lat.) a joyning together with boards.
• Coaxation, (lat.) a noise of frogs, a croaking.
• Cobus, a River of Colchis, that hath gol∣den sands, it riseth out of the mountain Caucasus, and gave original to the Fable of the golden Fleece.
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• Coccinean, of a Crimson, or Scarlet die.
• Coccium, an ancient Town of Lanca∣shire, mentioned by the Emperour Antoni∣nus, and thought to be the same with that, which is now called Cockley.
• Cockatrice, a kinde of Serpent, which is also called a Basilisk, ingendred as some say from a Cock's Egg.
• Cocket, a Law Term, being a Seal ap∣pertaining to the Custome-house, also a scrowl delivered by the Officers of the Custome-house to Merchants, to VVar∣rant that their merchandize is Custo∣med.
• Cockle, (Lat.) a Shell-fish, also a Weed called Corn-rose, darnel, or Field-ni∣gella.
• Cocle-stairs, a Term in Architecture, winding stairs.
• Cockney, a vulgar Term given to one born and bred in the Citie, which comes as some think from the River Thames, be∣ing in ancient time called Cockney.
• Cocles, (Lat.) a man born with one eye, also the name of a valiant Roman, who alone fought against all the forces of King Porsenna, upon a Bridge, untill the Bridge it self was cut down, whereupon he threw himself into the River armed, and swom over.
• Coction, (lat.) a seething, also a dige∣stion of the meat in the stomack.
• Cocytus, a River of Hell, running out of the Stygian Lake.
• The Code, a volume of the Civil Law, which contains divers precepts of the Em∣perours. It comes from the Latin word Codex.
• Codeta, certain Orchards about Tiber, wherein grow many shrubs like horses tailes.
• Codicil, a word used in the Civil Law, being a just sentence of our Will, con∣cerning that, which we would have done after our death, without the appointing of an Executor, and is a kinde of supple∣ment to a Will.
• Codiniack, (French) a kinde of Mar∣malade made of Quinces.
• Codrus, a King of the Athenians, who because the Oracle had foretold that the Peloponesians should overcome, if they did not kill the Athenian King, he disguised himself like a beggar, and voluntarily ex∣posed himself to death for the safety of his Countrey.
• Coeliacal Vein, see Vein.
• Coemeterie, (Greek) a Church-yard.
• Coemption, (Lat.) a certain Ceremony used among the Romans, whereby the husband and wife seemed to buy one an∣other.
• Coequal, (lat.) equal one to another.
• Coertion, (lat.) a withholding, or re∣straing.
• Coessential, (lat.) of the same essence.
• Coexistent, (lat.) having a being toge∣ther, or at the same time.
• Coffa, see Cauphe.
• Cofferer of the Kings houshold, a princi∣pal Officer in the Kings Court under the Controller, who hath a special charge over the other Officers of the houshold, and payeth them their wages.
• Cogitation, (lat.) a thinking, or medi∣tating.
• Cognation, (lat.) kindred, or alliance.
• Cognisance, (French) a badge in armes, also an acknowledging of a Fine, also a hearing a thing judicially; moreover, a Cognisance of a Plea is a priviledge that a Citie, or Town hath of the Kings Grant, to hold a Plea of all Contracts, and of Lands, within the Precincts of the Fran∣chise, and that when any man is impleaded for any such thing at the Kings Court, the Mayor, or Bayliffs of such Franchises may ask Cognisance of the Plea, that is, that the matter be determined before them.
• Cognisee, is he, to whom a Fine is ac∣knowledged.
• Cognisour, is he, who acknowledgeth a Fine.
• Cognition, (lat.) a knowing, or judging of a thing.
• Cognitionibus admittendis, a VVrit di∣rected to a Justice, or any that hath power to take a Fine, commanding him to certifie it in the Court of Common-Pleas.
• Cognominate, (lat.) to give a sirname to any one.
• Coherence, (lat.) a sticking unto, an agreeing, or hanging together.
• Cohibition, (lat.) a keeping back, or re∣straining.
• Cohobation, (lat.) a Term in Chymi∣stry, which signifies a powring of the di∣still'd liquor on its faeces, and distilling it again.
• A Cohort, among the Romans, was the tenth part of a legion, and contained five hundred Souldiers.
• Cohortation, (lat.) an exhorting, or per∣swading.
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• Coincident, (lat.) falling out together, hapning at the same time.
• Coines, corners of a wall, also pieces of wood wherewith Gunners mount Ord∣nance.
• Coint, (old word) strange.
• Coition, (lat.) an assembling together, also carnal copulation. Coition of the Moon is also when the Moon is in the same sign and degree with the Sun.
• To Colaphize, (lat.) to cuff or buffet with the fist.
• Colbrand, the Danish Giant who was overcome by Guy Earle of Warick.
• Colchis, a country of Asia, near Pontus, where Aeaetes raigned, with whom the Argonauts made war about the Golden Fleece.
• Collactaneous, (lat.) nursed together, sucking at the same time.
• Collapsed, (lat.) fallen to decay, ruined.
• Collateral, (lat.) equal with either side, Collateral relations or kindred, are brothers or sisters children, or those that descend from them. Collateral security is that security which is given over and above the deed it self.
• Collation, (lat.) a joyning or compa∣ring together, also a Banquet; also Col∣lation of a benefice is the bestowing of a benefice by the Bishop who hath it in his own gift or patronage; whereas the in∣stitution into a benefice is performed by the Bishop at the presentation of another who is Patron of the place, or hath a Pa∣trons right. It is moreover a term used by Booksellers, and signifies a looking upon the letters at the bottom of every page to see that the book be perfect.
• Collative, a unanimous contribution of the people toward any publick work.
• To Collaud, (lat.) to joyn with others in the praise of any one.
• A Colleague, (lat.) a fellow or copart∣ner in any office.
• A Collection, (lat.) a gathering or levie. Collection is when two principal significates do not behold one another, but both of them cast several aspects to a more weighty Planet than themselves, and they both receive him in some of their essential dignities, then shall the Planet which thus collects both their lights, bring the thing demanded to perfe∣ction.
• Collects things gathered out of other mens Works, also certain select prayers in the Common-prayer book, with the E∣pistles and Gospels for such and such dayes.
• Colledge, (lat.) a place set apart for the society and cohabitation of Students.
• Collerage, a pecuniary mulct in France exacted for the collars worn by wine-drawing horses or men.
• Collet, the same as Beazel of a ring.
• Collieth, a term in Faulconrie, when they say, the Hawk collieth, and not beaketh.
• Colligate, (lat.) to fasten, or tye to∣gether.
• Collimation, (lat.) an aiming at a mark.
• Colliquation, (lat.) a dissolving or melting,
• Collision, (lat.) a crushing, or bruising together.
• Collistrigium, or Collistridium, a word used in the practick of Scotland, and sig∣nifies a pillory or stocks.
• Collocation, (lat.) a placing in order, a letting out to hire.
• Collock, an old Saxon word, signifying a paile with one handle.
• To Collogue, to flatter, from the Latin word Colloquium, a talking together.
• A Colonel, a Commander in chief of a Regiment or Brigade, from the Latin word Columna a pillar, because he is one of the chief props and pillars of an Army.
• Colloquy, (lat.) a talking of two men together.
• Colluctation, (lat.) a strugling toge∣ther.
• Collusion, (lat.) a dealing▪ deceitfully; in Common-law it signifieth an action commenc't against another on purpose to defraud him.
• Collybist, (Greek) a money-changer.
• Collyrie, (Greek) a term in Physick, signifying a medicinable water for the eyes.
• Colobe, an ancient kind of short coat, reaching to the knees.
• Coloieros, a certain religious Order a∣mong the Greeks.
• Colon, (Greek) a mark or pause of a sentence not fully ended, also one of the three great guts.
• Colony, (lat.) a company of men sent out of one country to inhabite another.
• Coloquintida, a kind of wild gourd, used by Physitians in purging medicines.
• Coloss, a statue of a vast bignesse: the most famous Coloss in the World was that of the Sun in the Port of Rhodes.
• Colostration, a term in physick, being

• a disease in children, caused by sucking bad milk.
• Colpindach, or Cowdach, a word used in the practick of Scotland, signifying a young cow or heifer.
• Colran, a Country of Ireland, anciently called Krine, bordering south upon Tir Oen.
• Colubraria, an Island of the Iberian sea, abounding with snakes, from the Latin word Coluber, a snake.
• Coludum, the ancient name of a Town of the Province of Merch in Scotland, cal∣led also Coldana by Ptolomy Colania, now Coldingham, where there was a famous Monastery, the Nuns whereof with their Prioresse Ebba, cut off their lips and noses to avoid the lustful violence of the Danes.
• A Columbarg, (lat.) a Dove-house.
• Columbine, a kind of Flower so called.
• Column, (lat.) a pillar.
• Columnae Herculis, or Hercules pillars, two mountains in the West, the one in Europe called Calpe, the other in Africa called Abyla, which Hercules separated the one from the other. Others say they were two pillars of Brasse in the Isles of Cades.
• Colures, two great circles in the Globe of the World, which passing through the Poles and the 4 principal▪ points of the Zodiack, cut themselves equally, and di∣vide the Glob into equal parts.
• Colus a beast of whitish colour that hath a head like a hog, and that drinks in water thorough the nostrils.
• Coma Berenices, a figure like a triangle in the tail of Leo.
• Comald, a strict Order of Fryers insti∣tuted in Italy, in the year 1012. by one Romoald of Ravenna.
• Combat, in the Common law signifies a formal trial of a doubtful cause by the sword or bastons of two Champions, wherein if the defendant can defend him∣self till the stars be seen in the firmament, and demand judgement if he ought to fight any longer, then judgement is to be given on the defendants side.
• Combination, (lat.) a joyning together, also a term in law, signifying the entring of two or more into a conspiracy to per∣form any unlawful or mischeivous design.
• Combustible, (lat.) apt to take fire, easily inflamed.
• Combustion, is when any Planet is not distant from the Sun eight degrees and three minutes, either before or after his body, and a Planet still remains under the Sun, until he is fully elongated 17 degrees.
• Comedie, see Comaedie.
• Comessation, (lat.) revelling, inor∣dinate eating and drinking.
• Comestion, (lat.) a devouring or eat∣ing up.
• Comet, (Greek) a certain Meteor cal∣led a blazing Star, being a hot and dry exhalation set on fire in the upper Region and portending many strange events: of their several Sects, Vide Plin. l. 2. c. 25. de Nat.
• Comical, (Greek.) merry, facetious, pertaining to Comedies.
• Comitatu Commisso, is a VVrit, or Com∣mission, whereby the Shriffe is autho∣riz'd to take upon him the sway of the County.
• Comitie, (lat.) courtesie, gentlenesse, civility of behaviour.
• Comitial, (lat.) belonging to a Conven∣tion, or Assembly of people, which is cal∣led Comitium, also in Physick the Comi∣tial disease, signifying the falling sick∣nesse.
• Comma, (Greek) a point in a part of a sentence, without any perfect sense.
• Commaculate, (lat.) to defile, or pol∣lute.
• Commandment, in Common Law, is ta∣ken either for the Commandment of the King, when upon his meer motion he commandeth any thing to be done, or else for the offence of him that willeth another to transgresse the Law.
• Commaterial, (lat.) made of the same matter, or substance with another.
• Commaundry, was in ancient time a Mannour or chief Messuage by which lands belonging to the Priory of St. Johns in Jerusalem were holden in England.
• A Commeatur, (lat.) one that passeth as a messenger from one place to ano∣ther.
• Commemoration, (lat.) a mentioning or rehearsing the deeds of any one wor∣thy of praise.
• To Commence, (French) to begin, also a term in Common law, signifying to pro∣ceed in any action or suite against any one, also to take a degree in the Univer∣sities.
• Commendaces, (French) prayers for the dead, also verses or orations made in praise of the dead.
• Commendam, a word used by Ecclesia∣stical

• Writers, whereby is signified the in∣trusting of a Benefice which is void to the charge and care of a sufficient Clergy∣man, until it can be conveniently sup∣plied.
• Commendation, (lat.) a praising or ex∣tolling.
• Commensal, (lat.) a companion at the Table, a fellow Commoner.
• Commensuration, (Lat.) a measuring one thing with another.
• A Commentary, (French) an explaining or exposition of a thing; it signifieth also metaphorically, a comprehending the depth of any misery.
• Commerce, (French) a traffiquing or exchanging of wares.
• Commigration▪ (Lat.) a removing from one place to another.
• Commination, (Lat.) a fierce and ve∣hement threatning.
• Comminution, (Lat.) bruising or break∣ing to pieces.
• Commiseration, (Lat.) tender-hearted∣nesse or compassion.
• Commissary, according to the acception of the Can••nists, is he who exerciseth Ec∣clesiastical jurisdiction in places of the Diocesse so far distant from the chief Ci∣ty, that the Chancelour cannot call the subjects to the Bishops principal Consi∣story without their great molestation; also an Officer in war, is he who is to look to the distribution of victuals, provided for the Army and Garrisons.
• Commission, (Lat.) a delegation or mandate given for the warrant for the exercising of a jurisdiction given by Let∣ters pattents, or the publick Seal.
• Commissure, (Lat.) a word used in Architecture, being a close joyning of planks or stone, or any other material to∣gether.
• Committee, is he or they to whom the consideration or ordering of any matter is referred, either by some Court, or con∣sent of parties to whom it belongeth.
• Commixtion, (Lat.) a mingling toge∣ther.
• Commodious, (Lat.) profitable, gainful.
• Common, signifieth in the Common law, that soile or water whereof the use is common in a Town or Lordship.
• Commonality, (French) the common people.
• Common-pleas, is one of the Courts in Westminster, but in ancient time moveable. It was erected in Henry the thirds time, for the trying of all civil causes, both reall and personal. The cheif Judge whereof is called Lord cheif Justice of the Common-pleas: the rest of the Officers are Custos brevium; four Exigenters, four∣teen Filazers, a Clark of the warrants, a Clark of the jurata writs, Clark of the Treasury, Clark of the Kings Silver, Clark of the Essoynes, and Clark of the Outlawries.
• Commoration, (Lat.) a tarrying in a place.
• C••mmotion, (Lat.) a tumult or up∣roar.
• Commotes, or Commoithes, a word used by the Welch, for a part of a shire, or a hundred, also a gathering made upon the people of a hundred.
• Communication, (Lat.) an imparting one to another.
• Community, or Communion, (Lat.) in∣joying in common, or mutual participa∣tion.
• Communition, (Lat.) a fortifying.
• Commutation, (Lat.) a changing one thing for another.
• Commutative justice, is the justice of a contractor, or his performing a covenant, in buying and selling, lending and bor∣rowing, &c.
• Comaedie, or Comedie, a Stage-play wherein are represented the actions of human life.
• Compact, (Lat.) an agreement.
• Compaction, or Compage, (lat.) a fast∣ning or joyning close together. In Philo∣sophy the contracting of a substance by having lesse parts, or by the more close sticking together of the parts, and it is opposed to diffusion.
• Companage, (Ital.) the same as cates, all kind of victuals eaten with bread.
• A Comparition, (lat.) an appearing to open view.
• A Compasse, a Mathematical Instrument wherewith to make a round Circle; also a Mariners Compasse, is a certain Instru∣ment used by Seamen, for the better guid∣ing and directing them in their Naviga∣tion.
• Compassionate, (French) full of ten∣dernesse and compassion.
• Compatible, (French) which can agree together.
• Compatient, (lat.) suffering together.
• Compatriote, (lat.) one of the same Country, a fellow-Citizen.
• Compeer, (lat.) Compar or Compater)

• a consort, or fellow, also a Gossip, also in the Isle of Zant, those young men invited together to Weddings, are called Com∣peers.
• Compel, (lat.) to force, to constrain.
• Compellation, (lat.) a calling any one by their name, also a mentioning with dis∣grace.
• Compendiousnesse, (lat.) shortnesse, bre∣vity.
• A Compendium, (lat.) an abridgement, also a gaining by thriftinesse.
• Compensation, (lat.) a making recom∣pence, a repaying a good, or bad turn.
• Comperennitation, (lat.) a deferring, or putting off.
• Competency, (lat.) sufficiency, or having enough.
• Competitour, (lat.) a rival, one that seeks after the same thing another sues for.
• Compile, (French) to heap together.
• Compital, (lat.) belonging to the Compi∣ta, or crosse wayes.
• Compitals, certain feasts solemnized in those crosse wayes.
• Complacential, (lat.) milde in behavi∣our, of a curteous or affable nature. Ar∣tamenes.
• Complainant to a Magistrate, making ones case known, suing for relief.
• Complaisance, (French) the same as Complacence, an obliging carriage, an apt∣nesse to comply. Cleopatra.
• Complement, (lat.) a filling up, also Ceremony in speech and behaviour, also a Geometrical Term, signifying those parts of a Quadrangle, which being added to the Gnomon, and the Diagonal make up the whole. Complement of an Angle, is so much as the Angle wanteth of ninty de∣grees.
• The Completes, (Spanish) a piece of ser∣vice said in the evening.
• Complex, (Lat.) compound, containing several things together.
• Complexion, (lat.) the state and consti∣tution of the body.
• Complicate, (Lat.) to wrap, or fold up.
• A Complice, differs from a partner in this, that a partner may be said to be a companion in good, or evil, a complice in evil onely.
• Comportment, (French) carriage, or be∣haviour.
• Composition, (Lat.) a setting together, also a work set forth in any piece of lear∣ning, or art.
• Compotation, (Lat.) a drinking bout, or merry meeting.
• Comprehension, (Lat.) a laying on, also understanding, or finding out the depth of any mystery.
• Compressure, or Compression, (Lat.) a pres∣sing together.
• Comprise, (French) to contain, the same as comprehend.
• Comprobation, (Lat.) a mutual allow∣ing, or approving.
• Compromise, a Term in Law, being a mutual promise of two, or more parties at difference to referre the ending of their controversie to the judgement of Arbi∣trators.
• Compton, in the hole, a Town in War∣wick-shire, which gave name and habita∣tion to the ancient family of the Comptons, advanced by Queen Elizabeth, to the Ti∣tle of Barons.
• Compulsion, (Lat.) a constraining, or forcing.
• Compunction, (Lat.) remorce, or trouble of minde for any crime committed.
• Compurgation, (Lat.) a Term in Law, a justifying by Oath the report, or Oath of another.
• Computation, (lat.) a reckoning, or ca∣sting of account.
• De Computo reddendo, a VVrit compel∣ling a Bayliff, Chamberlain, or receiver to give up their accounts.
• Comrade, the same as Camerade.
• Comus, a certain God among the Hea∣then, that was the chief patron of revel∣lings and debauches.
• Conaught, or Connacht, a Province of Ireland, the people whereof were ancient∣ly called Concani, or Gangani.
• Concamerate, (lat.) a word of Archite∣cture, to make a vaulted roof to Arch.
• Concatenate, (lat.) to chain together.
• Concavity, (lat.) hollownesse.
• Concealers, a Term in Common-law, signifying by Antiphrasis, or contrary speaking, such men as finde out concealed Lands, which are privily kept from the King, or the State by common persons, who have nothing to shew for them.
• Concede, (lat.) to yield, or grant.
• Consent, (lat.) a Harmony, or agreement in Musick.
• Concentricks, (lat.) Sphears, or Circles, having the one common Center.
• Conceptacle, (lat.) a capacious hollow∣nesse, that which is apt to contain, or re∣ceive any thing.
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• Conception, (latin) a conceiving with Childe, also a bringing forth any fancy, or conceit.
• Concern, (lat.) to regard, to belong unto.
• Concertation, (lat.) a striving together.
• Concession, (lat.) a granting, or yield∣ing.
• Concidence, (lat.) a falling together, a a making a Cadence at the same time.
• Conciliate, (lat.) to make to agree, to bring together.
• Concinnate, (lat.) apt, fit, proper.
• Concional, (lat.) belonging to a speech made in publick.
• Concise, (lat.) short consisting of few words.
• Concitation, (lat.) a stirring up, or pro∣voking.
• Conclamation, (lat.) a great noise, or shouting of much people.
• Concl••ve, (lat.) a Closet, or inner Cham∣ber, also an Assembly of the Cardinals, met to consult about any affaire of the Church.
• A Conclusion, (lat.) a shutting up, or ending of a businesse.
• Concoction, (lat.) a seething, or boyling, a digestion of the meat in the stomack.
• Concomitant, (lat.) bearing any one company.
• Concord, (lat.) agreement, in Common-law, it is defined to be an agreement, be∣tween parties that intend the levying of a Fine of Lands one to another, in what manner the Land shall passe, also a perfect Tone in Musick, as an eighth, or a third, &c.
• Concorporation, (lat.) a mixing of bo∣dies together into one.
• Concourse, (lat.) a meeting together of people.
• Concrete, (lat.) joyned, or grown toge∣ther, also a Logical Term, signifying an accident joyned with any subject, whereas abstract is the accident alone.
• Concretion, (lat.) a growing together.
• Concubinage, (French) fornication, also a Term in Common-law, signifying an exception against her that sueth for her Dowry, alleadging that she is not wife, but Concubine to the party, in whose Lands she seeks to be indowed.
• Conculcate, (lat.) to stamp upon, or tread under foot.
• Concupiscence, (lat.) a vehement desire of any thing, but more particularly a lustfull, or venereal appetite.
• The Concupiscible faculty, the sensual part of the Soul, which onely seeks after pleasures and lusts.
• Concurrence, (lat.) a meeting together, also an agreeing.
• Concussion, (lat.) a jumbling together, also extorsion by terrifying.
• Concussionary, an Officer, or Magistrate that by false shew of Authority extorts gifts, and bribes from men.
• Cond, (a Term in Navigation) to lead, or direct a ship, which way she shall go.
• Condensation, (lat.) a making thick.
• Condereum, the ancient name of a Town, in the Bishoprick of Durham, where in old time the left wing of the Astures kept their station, it is now called Chester upon the Street.
• Conders, are those men that stand upon the high places, near the Sea-Coast, at the time of Herring-fishing, to make signes with bough's▪ in their hands unto the fishers, which way the Herrings passe, which they easily discern by the blue co∣lour, which they make in the wate••.
• Condescention, (lat.) a yielding unto, or complying with.
• Condict, (lat.) an appointment, or com∣position.
• Condigne, (lat.) worthy, according to merit.
• Condement, (lat.) seasoning.
• A Condisciple, (lat.) a School-fellow, or fellow Student.
• Condited, (lat.) seasoned.
• Condition, (lat.) nature, disposition, al∣so estate, or fortune. In Common-law it signifies a rate, manner, or Law, annexed to mens Acts, staying, or suspending the same, and making them uncertain, whe∣ther they shall take effect, or no.
• Condolence, (lat.) a grieving with an∣other.
• Condonation, (lat.) a pardoning, or for∣giving.
• Conducible, (lat.) profitable, also to be hired.
• Conduct, (French) a guiding, also a management of any affair. Artamenes.
• Conductour, (lat.) a leader, or guider.
• Condylome, (Greek) an excrescence of flesh.
• Cone, a Geometrical figure, circularly flat at the bottome, and sharpning by de∣grees, till it end in a point at the top, also a Pine Apple.
• Confabulation, (lat.) a discoursing, or talking together.
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• Confar••eation, (lat.) a certain Cere∣mony with a Cake, anciently used at mar∣riages.
• Conf••ction▪ (lat.) a finishing, a mingling of divers things together, a making of Conserves.
• A Confident, (lat.) one that is imploy'd in matters of secresie and trust.
• Configulation, (lat.) a making of earthen ware.
• Configuration, (lat.) a likenesse, or re∣semblance of figures.
• Confines, (French) Marches, or Borders of a Countrey.
• Confirmation, (lat.) a making sure, also a Law Term, signifying a strengthning of an estate formerly had, and yet voidable, though not presently void.
• Confiscation, (lat.) a Law Term, a bring-away a mans goods, as forfeited to the pu∣blick Treasury, from Fiscus a Pannyer, or Hamper, a place where the Kings Trea∣sure useth to be kept.
• Conflagration, (lat.) a great consuming, or destroying with fire.
• Confluence, (lat.) a meeting of divers waters in one, also a great concourse of people.
• Confluxibility, (lat.) an aptnesse to flow together, or to be mingled one with an∣other.
• Confoederate, (lat.) joyn'd together in a league by Oath.
• Conformable, (lat.) agreeable, suitable.
• Confront, (French) to bring face to face, also to compare together.
• Conge, (French) leave, Conge d'Estire, signifies in the Common-law, the Kings permission to a Dean, or Chapter to chuse a Bishop, or to an Abbey, to chuse their Abbot.
• Congenerous, (lat.) of the same sort, of the same stock.
• Congeniality, (lat.) a resemblance of Genius and fancie.
• Congelation, (lat.) a freesing, or con∣gealing.
• Congersbury, a Town in Somerset-shire, so named from one Congar, who liv'd there an Eremite, whom Capgrave an old Wri∣ter affirms to have been the Emperours son of Constantinople.
• Congiary, a gift of a Prince, or great man to the people.
• Conglobation, (lat.) a gathering round into a Globe.
• Conglomeration, (lat.) a rolling up into a heap, a winding into a bottome.
• Conglutination, (lat.) a fastning toge∣ther with Glue.
• Congratulation, (Lat.) a rejoycing with any one for his good fortune.
• Congregation, (lat.) an assembling, or gathering of people together.
• Congresse, (lat.) a coming together, also an incountring.
• Congruence, or Congruity, (lat.) agree∣ablenesse.
• Conical, having the figure of a Cone.
• Conjectural, (lat.) that may be conje∣ctured, or guess't at.
• Conjugal, (latin) pertaining to mar∣riage, belonging to man and wife.
• Conjugates, a Term in Logick, signify∣ing things of the same rank, order, or ori∣ginal.
• Conjugation, (lat.) a deriving of things under the same order, a coupling of verbs with their moods, and tenses under the same theme.
• Conjunction, (lat.) a joyning together, also a Grammatical word, one of the eight parts of speech.
• Conjuration, (lat.) a conspiracy, or plot, also a compact, or bargaining with the Devil, or evil Spirits, to know any se∣cret, or effect any purpose.
• Conizee, and Conizour, see Cognisee, and Cognisour.
• Connacht, see Conaught.
• Connascency, (lat.) a being born toge∣ther, a springing together.
• Conne, to learn without book, from the Dutch word Kennen, to know, or learn.
• Connen, (old word) can.
• Connexion, (lat) a knitting, or joyning together.
• Coninesborough, a Castle in York-shire, where Hengist, after he had been van∣quish't by Aurelius Ambrose, rallied his forces, but being again utterly defeated, he was beheaded.
• Connivence, (lat.) a faigning not to see, a winking at a fault.
• Connubial, (lat.) belonging to wedlock, or marriage.
• Conovium, the ancient name of a Citie, which flourish't in old time in Caernar∣von-shire, and took its name from the Ri∣ver Conovius, now called Conwey.
• Conq••••ssation, (Lat.) a shaking toge∣ther, a dashing in pieces.
• Conquest, a Term used in the practick of Scotland, and differs from heritage in this, that ••eritage signifies Lands & Goods pertaining to any person, as general Suc∣cessour

• to his father, or any other pre∣decessour. Conquest signifies those which any one possesseth by his own private Title, or by gift, or by any other single contract.
• Conquestion, (lat.) a complaining to∣gether.
• Conradus, (Germ.) Able counsel; the name of several German Emperours.
• Consanguinity, (lat.) nearnesse in blood, kindred.
• Consarcination, (lat.) a patching or sowing of several pieces together.
• Conscention, (lat.) a climbing or mount∣ing.
• Conscious, (lat.) inwardly guilty, pri∣vy to ones self of any fault or errour.
• Conscription, (lat.) a registering, or inrolling.
• Consecration, (lat.) a setting apart to the service of any one.
• Consectary, (lat.) that which follows from the demonstration of an argument.
• Consecution, (lat.) an immediate follow∣ing. Month of consecution is a term in Astrology, signifying the space between each conjunction of the Moon with the Sun.
• Consequence, (lat.) that which follow∣eth of necessity, also a businesse of conse∣quence is a businesse of weight and mo∣ment.
• Consequent, (lat.) following, also be∣ing taken substantively it signifies the last proposition of an enthymeme, the first being called an antecedent.
• Conservation, (lat.) a keeping or pre∣serving.
• Conservator of the peace, signifieth in Common law, him that hath a special charge by vertue of his office, to see the Kings peace kept.
• Conservator of the truce and safe con∣ducts, was an officer appointed in every Port of the Sea, to inquire of all offences done against the Kings truce and safe conducts upon the main-sea, out of the Countries and out of the Franchises of the Cinque Ports.
• Conserves, (French) fruits conserved or condited.
• Considerable, of no mean degree, of more than ordinary quality. Cleopatra.
• Consideration, (lat.) an advising or ta∣king heed; also a term in Common law, signifying the material part of a contract, without which no contract standeth or bindeth. Consideration is either expres∣sed, as when a man bargaineth to give a certain sum for any thing, or else imply'd as when the law inforceth a considera∣tion.
• Consignation, (lat.) a signing of a bill with ones own hand.
• Consimilarity, (lat.) a likenesse or a∣greeing together.
• Consistence, (lat.) a being or setling.
• Consistent, an epithite belonging to dry bodies, and opposed to Fluid.
• Consistory, (lat.) an assembly of Pre∣lates, a Council-house of Ecclesiastical persons.
• Consition, (lat.) a planting together.
• Consolation, (lat.) a comforting, or putting in good heart.
• Consolidation, (lat.) a sodering, strength∣ning, or making solid; also a term in Common law, signifying a joyning of two benefices into one, and in the Civil law, a uniting of possession, occupation, or pro∣fit, with the property.
• Consomniation, (lat.) a sleeping or dreaming together.
• Consonant, (lat.) sounding together, or agreeing; also substantively taken, it sig∣nifieth a letter which hath no sound of it self, but as it is joyned with a vowel.
• Consort, (lat.) a fellow, companion, or mate, also a set or company of Musi∣tians.
• Consound, (lat. Consolidum) an herb o∣therwise called Backwort or Cumfry.
• Conspersion, (lat.) a bedewing or sprink∣ling.
• Conspicuous, (lat.) cleer, manifest.
• Conspiracy, (lat.) a plotting or secret consultation; but in Common law it is alwayes taken in the evil part, and signi∣fieth an agreement of such as bind them∣selves by covenant or other allyance, that each of them shall assist the other maliti∣ously to indite, or falsely to move and maintain pleas; also such as cause chil∣dren within age to appeal men of felony, and such as receive men in the Countries, with liveries and fees to maintain their malitious enterprises.
• Conspiratione, a Writ that lies against Conspiratours.
• Conspurcation, (Lat.) a defiling, foul∣ing, or polluting.
• Consputation, (Lat.) a spitting upon.
• Constable, quasi comes stabuli, or Master of the Kings horse, or as others say, de∣rived from the Dutch word Konnin-Stable, i. e. prop and stay of the King. This

• word is diversly taken in Common law, either for the Constable of England, a place formerly of great Dignity, or for an office belonging heretofore to the Lords of certain Mannours, and at length there came to be ordained others of an inferiour rank, as Constables of Hundreds, or Fran∣chises who were appointed for the con∣servation of the peace, and called high Constables; and under these the Con∣stables of every Town or Parish, who are called pety-constables.
• Constant, (Lat.) standing firm to ones duty or principles.
• Constantinople, see Byzantium.
• Constantinus, the son of Constantius and Helena, he was the first Roman Emperour that profess't Christianity, and for his great deeds, was called Constantine the Great.
• Constellation, (Lat.) a company of Stars embody'd together and represent∣ing some figure.
• Consternation, (Lat.) amazement, or astonishment.
• Constipation, (Lat.) a close embody∣ing together.
• Constitution, (Lat.) an appointing or ordaining; also constitution of the body, the state and complexion of the body.
• Constraint, (French) a forcing or com∣pelling.
• Constriction, (Lat.) the same, also a binding together.
• Construction, (Lat.) a placing or set∣ting together; also a term in Grammar, signifying the right placing of words or sentences.
• Constupration, (Lat.) a ravishing or deflowring a Virgin.
• Consubstantial, (Lat.) of the same Es∣sence with another.
• Consuete, or Consuetudinal, (Lat.) usual or accustomed.
• Consuetudinibus & servitiis, a Writ that lieth against a Tenant who deforceth his Lord of the rent or service due unto him.
• Consul, from the Latin word Consulere, to give counsel; it was a place of highest dignity among the Romans, brought in af∣ter the expulsion of their Kings, and at this present day the chief Governours of divers Cities, are called Consuls.
• Consultation, (Lat.) a taking counsel, also the name of a Writ, whereby a cause being formerly removed by prohibition from the Ecclesiastical Court to the Kings Court, is returned thither again.
• Consummation, (lat.) a fulfilling or finishing, also a making up an account.
• Consumption, (lat.) a falling away, or consuming, also a disease which dries and wastes the body.
• Contabulation, (lat.) a fastning of planks or boards together.
• Contaction, (lat.) a touching of two things together.
• Contagion, (lat.) infection, the spread∣ing of a disease.
• Contamination, (lat.) a polluting or defiling by touch.
• Conteke, (old word) strife or contention.
• Contemeration, (lat.) a deflowring.
• Contemplatives, certain Fryers of St. Mary Magdalens Order, who wear black upper garments, and white under∣neath.
• Contemplation, (lat.) a deep considering.
• Contemporal, or Contemporary, (lat.) of the same time with another.
• Contemptible, or Contemptuous, (lat.) worthy of disesteem and scorn.
• Contenement, a term in law, being the freehold land which lieth to a mans house or tenement.
• Contention, (lat.) a striving.
• Contermination, (lat.) a bordering upon, or lying near.
• Conterpleted, (old word) controlled.
• Contesseration, (lat.) a entering into league or amity with strangers.
• Contestation, (lat.) a calling to wit∣nesse.
• Context, or Contexture, (lat.) a wea∣ving together, also the stile or form of a processe or discourse.
• Contignation, in Architecture signifies the floor-work.
• Contiguity, (lat.) a nearnesse or close touching.
• Continent, (lat.) temperate, contain∣ing ones self from any thing; also sub∣stantively taken it signifies the firm or main land.
• Contingency, (lat.) a hapning by chance.
• Continual claim, a term in Common law, signifying a claim made from time to time within every year and day, to land or any other thing, which at present we cannot attain without danger.
• Continuance, seemeth to signifie in Com∣mon law, the same as prorogation in the Civil law, as continuance until the next Assises when it chanceth that a Record cannot be found.
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• Continuation, or Continuity, (lat.) a lengthning, or going on with any thing, a holding out intire.
• Contorsion, (lat.) a pulling awry, a wresting.
• Contrabanded, prohibited, from the Ita∣lian word Bando, a Proclamation, as con∣trabanded goods, are goods forbidden by Proclaimation to be imported.
• Contract, (lat.) a bargaining or ma∣king a match, as contract of marriage; in Common law it is a covenant or agree∣ment with lawfull consideration or clause.
• Contractation, or Contratation, (lat. and Span.) a contract or bargaining.
• Contraction, (lat.) a drawing toge∣ther.
• Contradiction, (lat.) a gainsaying.
• Contra formam collationis, a Writ a∣gainst an Abbot for him that hath given lands to an Abby, and findeth that the Abbot hath made a feoffment thereof.
• Contra formam feoffamenti, a Writ for the Heir of a Tenant infeoffed in certain lands by Charter of feoffment, by a Lord to do certain services to his Court, and afterwards is distrained for more than is contained in the Charter.
• C••ntramure, a term in Architecture or fortification, signifying an out-wall built about the wall of a City, a counter-scarfe.
• Contrasto, (Spanish) contention or strife.
• Contr••ctation, (lat.) a wanton hand∣ling of a woman.
• Contribution, (lat.) a joynt giving of money or supplies towards any businesse of importance.
• Contributione facienda, a Writ that lieth in case more are bound to one thing, yet the whole burthen is put upon one.
• Contristation, (lat.) a making sad.
• Contrition, (lat.) remorce or peni∣tence.
• Controller, an officer who keepeth a Roll of other officers accounts. Control∣ler of the Hamper, an officer in Chancery, who takes all things sealed from the Clark of the Hamper inclosed in leather bags, and takes a special charge of them. Controller of the pipe, an officer in the Exchequer, who writes summons to the Sheriffs to levie the debts of the pipe. Controller of the Pell, an officer of the Exchequer who keeps a controlment of the Pell of receipts and goings out.
• To Controve, (old word) to de∣vise.
• Controversie, (lat.) contention in di∣spute.
• Contumacy, (lat.) stubbornnesse, re∣bellion.
• Contumely, (lat.) injury, reviling.
• Contumulation, (lat.) an intombing to∣gether.
• Contusion, (lat.) a bruising, or beating in pieces.
• Convalescency, (lat.) an increasing in health or strength.
• To Convene, (lat.) to warn into any Assembly.
• Conveniency, (lat.) fitnesse, or meet∣nesse.
• Convent, or Covent, a great Assembly of people, also a Society of Religious men dwelling together in a house.
• Conventicle, (lat.) a private Assem∣bly.
• Conventual, (lat.) belonging to a com∣pany of religious persons. Conventual Church a Parish Church.
• Conversation, (lat.) a keeping company, or being familiar with any.
• Conversion, (lat.) a changing from one state to another, especially from bad to good.
• Convexity, (lat.) the outside of a globous body which is hollow.
• Conviction, (lat.) in Common law, is the proving a man guilty by the verdict of a jury, or when a man that is outlaw'd appeareth and confesseth.
• Convivial, (lat.) belonging to a feast.
• Convocation, (lat.) a calling, or assem∣bling together, convocation house, the house where the Clergy assemble, to con∣sult about Ecclesiastical affairs.
• Convoy, (French) a guide, or con∣duct.
• Convulsion, (lat.) a violent pulling to∣gether, also a disease wherein the sinews are shrunk up, and drawn together.
• Cooperate, (lat.) to bear another com∣pany in the same work.
• Coote, a kinde of bird, otherwise called a Moorhen.
• Copal, a kinde of white Rosin brought from the Indies, which they use for a perfume.
• Cope, a Cloak, also a vestment, that Bi∣shops were wont to wear.
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• Coparceners, or parceners, signifie in Common-law, such as have equal share in the inheritance of their ancestours.
• Copia libelli deliberanda, a Writ that ly∣eth in a case where a man cannot get the Copy of a Libel, at the hands of a Judge Ecclesiastical.
• Copyhold, signifieth in Common-law, a Tenure for which the Tenant hath no∣thing, but the Copy of the Rolles made by the Steward of his Lords Court, this is also called a base Tenure, or Tenure in Villenage.
• Copious, (lat.) plentifull.
• Copise, from the French Couper, to cut down, a little Wood, which consists of underwoods that are to be cut down be∣fore they grow to be great Trees.
• Copperas, a kinde of mineral, otherwise called vitriol, being mixed of humours, strained by drops into small holes.
• Copthall, the name of a stately house, belonging in ancient times to the Fitz∣auchers, and afterwards very much beau∣tified by Sir Thomas Heneage.
• Copulation, (lat.) a joyning, or coupling together.
• Coquettery, (French) a pratling like a a Gossip.
• Coquination, (lat.) a dressing, or Cook∣ing of meat.
• Cor Scorpii, the heart of the Scorpion.
• Coraage, in Common-law, is a certain extraordinary imposition upon certain measures of Corn, which is upon some un∣usual occasion.
• Coral, a certain Maritime plant grow∣ing under water, which when it is taken out, petrifies, and becomes red.
• Coralline, a kinde of plant, called Sea-mosse, or Coral-mosse.
• Coralyse, chaffe, or drosse of Corn.
• Corban, an Hebrew word, signifying a a gift dedicated to God.
• Corbel, or Corbet, a Term in Archite∣cture, signifying a shouldering piece in Timberwork, a jutting out like a bragget.
• Corbets, the name of a very ancient fa∣mily in Shropshire, who about the coming in of the Normans, held divers Lordships by the service of Roger Mountgomery.
• Corciousnesse, (old word) corpulency.
• Corck, or Orchall, a kinde of blue co∣lour, used in painting.
• Cordage, the tackle of a ship, a word used in Navigation, also stuffe to make ropes on.
• Cordelier, a Gray Fryer of the Order of St. Francis, so called because he wears a cord full of knots about his middle.
• Cordial, (latin) comfortable to the heart.
• Cordon, an old English word, signifying reward, in like manner also the French word Guerdon is used by us.
• Cordovan leather, leather made of Goat-skins, so called from Corduba, a Citie of Andaluzia in Spain, where the best sort of that kinde of leather is made.
• Cordwainer, or Cordiner, (French) a shooe-maker.
• Corinaeus, one of the companions of Bru∣tus, whence Cornwall is said to have ta∣ken its denomination, being in old time called Corinaea, it is fabulously reported of him that he fought with a Gyant, cal∣led Gogmagog, and threw him down a steep Rock.
• Corinth, a Citie of Achaia in Greece, in ancient time called Ephyre, which after it had been destroyed, was restored by Co∣rinthus, the son of Marathon, or as some say of Pelops, and by him called Corinth.
• Corinthian order, a Term in Archite∣cture, signifying an adornment of Pillars, after the Corinthian manner, there being five orders of pillars in Architecture, Do∣rick, Ionick, Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite.
• Coritani, a people anciently inhabiting that part of this Island, which containeth Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland∣shire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire.
• Cork, a County of Ireland, in old time reputed a Kingdom, the people whereof were anciently called Vodiae & Coriondi.
• Cormorant, a Sea Raven, Metaphorical∣ly taken for a glutton.
• Cornage, is in Common-law a certain Tenure, whereby in the North, men used to hold their Lands, which was to blow a horn when any invasion of a Northern enemy was perceived.
• Cornalin, a kinde of precious stone, which some think to be the same with Corneol.
• Cornavii, the name of a certain people, who in ancient times possessed that part of this Island, containing those Counties which are at present called Warwick-shire, Worcestershire, Stafford-shire, Shrop-shire, Cheshire.
• Corn-flowr, a kinde of flowr, called blue-bottle.
• Cornelian, the same as Corneol,

• a kinde of precious stone, also Cornelian Law, was a Law made by Cornelius Sylla, that any who would follow him in, should be capable of Office before they had at∣tained their full years.
• Cornelius, (lat.) a proper name of men, from Cornu, a horn.
• Cornel, an old word, signifying a cor∣ner, also the fore-part of a house.
• Corneol, a kinde of precious stone, apt to be ingraven, and therefore much used for the making of seals: It is also called a Sardy, or Onyx.
• Corneous, (lat.) of a horny substance.
• Cornet, (French) a kinde of black Taf∣fata, which Doctors of Physick, or Law used to wear on the collar of their robes as an Ensign, or badge of their degree, al∣so the Ensign of a Troup of horse, so called because it was used to be made of that kinde of Taffata.
• Cornice, a Term in Architecture, signi∣fying the crests, or flourishing work at the upper end of a pillar, it is also called a frize.
• Cornigerous, (lat.) wearing horns, an Epithet of Bacchus.
• Cornil-tree, a Tree called a Horn-tree, because its branches are hard like a horn.
• Cornimuse, (lat.) a kinde of musical in∣instrument, which some take for a kind of Bag-pipe.
• Cornix, see Cornalin, and Corneol.
• Cornucopy, a horn which Jupiter gave to Amalthea, whereby she injoyed plenty of all things, it is Metaphorically taken for plenty.
• Cornuted, (lat.) horned.
• Corody, from the Latin word Corrodo, it signifieth in Common-law, a summe of money, or allowance of meat and drink, toward the maintenance of any of the Kings servants out of an Abby, or religi∣ous house, whereof the King is the foun∣der.
• Corodio habendo, a Writ for the exact∣ing a Corody out of an Abby, or religious house.
• Corollary, an advantage above the or∣dinary measure, also a gift bestowed on the people at publick feasts.
• Corona, by the Greeks called Halo, that is to say a clear Circle appearing in a Cloud about the Sun, or any other bright Star, but especially about the Moon, also a coelestial constellation upon the shoulder of Bootes.
• Coronal Suture, this is by Chirurgons called the formost seam of the skull, pas∣sing from one bone of the Temples to the other.
• Coronation, (lat.) a Crowning.
• Coroner, an ancient Officer belonging to the Crown, and Common-wealth of Eng∣land, his Office, is to enquire of every man that is slain, or cometh to an untimely end, and what Corn, Cattel, or free∣hold, the Felon had at the time of the fact committed, and to seize them to the use of the King, or State, there are four of these Officers in every County.
• Coronet, a little Crown, or Chaplet.
• Corporal, (lat.) belonging to the body, also a Commander, or band of ten Soul∣diers, also the fine linnen wherein the Sa∣crament is put.
• Corporation, (lat.) in the Civil Law, signifieth a body politick, authorised by the Kings Charter, to have a Common Seal, one, or more head Officers, and Members able by their common consent to grant, or receive in Law any thing within the compasse of their Charter.
• Corporature, (lat.) the form, or consti∣tution of the body.
• Corporeal, (lat.) of a bodily substance.
• Corporeity, or Corporeature (lat.) Philo∣sophick Term, Corporeature, bodily sub∣stance.
• Corps, (Fr.) a carcasse, or dead body.
• Corps du guard, (French) a Term in Military Discipline, signifying a Compa∣ny of Souldiers set to watch.
• Corpulency, (lat.) fulnesse of body.
• Corpus Christi, a Colledge in Oxford, built by Richard Fox, Bishop of Winche∣ster.
• Corpus cum causa, a Writ issuing out of Chancery to remove, both the body and the record touching the cause of any man lying in execution upon a judgement for debt into the Kings Bench.
• Corr, a certain measure containing two quarts.
• Corrade, (lat.) to scrape together, to extort.
• Correction, (lat.) an amending, also a chastising.
• Correctour of the Staple, a Clerk be∣longing to the Staple, that recordeth the bargains of Merchants there made.
• Correlatives, (lat.) a Term in Logick, signifying things that have mutual rela∣tion one to another, as Master and servant, father and son, &c.
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• Correption, (lat.) a snatching suddenly away.
• Correspondency, (lat.) a holding mutual Commerce and familiarity, an answerable∣nesse, or proportion of one thing to an∣other.
• Corridor, a Term in fortification, other∣wise called Cortina, or Curtain.
• Corrigible, (lat.) easie to be corrected, or made better by correction.
• Corrival, a competitour, one that makes suit in the same businesse.
• Corroboration, (lat.) a strengthning or making firm.
• To Corrode, (lat.) to gnaw, to fret.
• Corrosive, (lat.) having a gnawing or fretting quality; it is spoken of those things which are used in physick, to gnaw or eat into any part of the body.
• Corrugation, (lat.) a contracting toge∣ther, a drawing into wrinkles.
• Corruption, (lat.) a tainting or depra∣ving. Corruption of the blood, signify∣eth in law an infection of the blood, grow∣ing to the estate and issue of a man taint∣ed with treason, whereby he looseth all to the Prince, and both he and his heirs are made ignoble.
• Corsary, (French) a Courrier.
• Corse praesent, law-term, the body of a beast or some such like offering, given to the Priest out of a dead mans goods. It is also called a Mortuary.
• Corslet, (Ital.) the same as Cuirasse in French, armour for the back and brest.
• Corsure, or Courser (old word) a Broaker.
• Corstopitum, the ancient name of a Town in Northumberland, mentioned by Anto∣nine. Some think it to be the same with Ptolemies Curiae Ottadinorum, now called Corbridge.
• Corticated, (lat.) covered with a bark or rind.
• Corven, (old word) carved.
• Corvine, (lat.) belonging to a Crow or Raven.
• Corviser, see Cordwainer.
• Coruscation, (lat.) lightning, a flash∣ing or glimmering of light.
• Corybantes, the Priests of Cybele, who used to celebrate the Feasts of Cybele with dancing and ringing of Cymbals; they were thought to be the same with the Curetes and Idaei Dactyli.
• Coscinomancy, (Greek) a divination by a seive.
• Cosenage, a Writ that lieth where the father of the Great grandfather is seized in his demesu as of fee at the day of his death, of certain lands and tenements, and he dying, a stranger entereth and in∣trudeth. Then shall his heir have this Writ of Cosenage.
• Cosh, or Cotterel, (old word) a Cot∣tage.
• Cosham, a Town in Wiltshire, in ancient times the Mansion house of King Ethel∣red.
• Cosier, (old word) a Botcher, called also a Sowter.
• Cosmical, (Greek) belonging to the World. Cosmical rising of a Star, is a term used in Astronomy, signifying a Star rising at the same time with the Sun.
• Cosmography, (Greek) a description of the World, with the Climates and Circles marked upon the Globe and in Maps.
• Cosmometry, (Greek) a measuring of the World by degrees and minutes, be∣ing a part of Geography or Cosmogra∣phy.
• Cost, a term in Blazon, being the fourth part of the Bend or half the Gartier.
• Costive, (from the Latin word Consti∣patus,) having the belly bound.
• Costmary, an herb called Balsamine, or Alecoast.
• Costrel, (old word) a wine-pot.
• Cote, a kind of refuse or clotted wool, also a cottage or sheepfold.
• Coteswold, (old word) a company of sheepcotes, and sheep feeding on hills.
• A Cottager, signifieth in Law he that dwelleth in a Cottage or house without land, or at most having but 4 acers be∣longing to it.
• Cotterel, see Cosh.
• Cotton, a kind of stuff, otherwise called Frize or Bombasin.
• Couchant, (French) lying or squat∣ting close to the ground, a word often used in Heraldry to expresse that po∣sture.
• Covenable, or Convenable, (old word) suitable or convenient.
• Covenant, (French) a bargain, pact, or agreement, also Covenant in Law is that which the Law intendeth to be made though in words it be not exprest, also the name of a Writ that lyeth for the breach of any.
• Covent, see C••nvent.
• Coventry, a famous City in Warwick∣shire, so called from a Covent of Monks

• that was anciently there. The first Lord of this City is said to be one Leofric, who imposing heavy taxes upon the Citizens, remitted them at last at the earnest inter∣cession of his wife Godiva, upon condition she would ride naked thorough the chief street of the City, which she performed, but so covered with her long hair, that no body could discern her.
• Covercle, or Coverkill, (old word) a lid or cover.
• Covert, (French) an ombrage or sha∣dy place for Deer or other beasts.
• Coverture, in Common law is the con∣dition of a married woman, who by the Laws of England, is under Covertbaron, and so disabled to make any bargain with∣out her husbands consent.
• Coughton, a place in Warwickshire, the principle Mansion of the Throgmortons, a very ancient Family.
• Covie, (French) a term in fouling, signifying a nest or brood of Partridges.
• Covin, fraud, from the Latin word Con∣venire, it signifieth in Common law, a deceitful agreement between two or more, to the prejudice of another.
• Coulant, (French) flowing or gliding along.
• Couldray, (French) a hazel grove.
• Coule, a vessel to carry water in, also a roab which Fryers use to wear, called in Latin Cucullus.
• Coulter, (Lat.) a plough-sheare.
• Councel with a c. (lat. Concilium) an as∣sembly of Counsellours.
• Count, (French) an Earle, also a Law Term coming from the Latin word Com∣putatio, and signifies the Original decla∣ration in a processe chiefly in real actions.
• Countercomponed, a Term in Armory, as a bordure countercomponed is a bor∣dure compounded of two colours coun∣terly placed.
• Counteurs, or Conteurs, are those which a man setteth to speak for him in Court as Advocates, whereas Plaideurs speak as Counsellours at law for one, who is pre∣sent himself.
• Countenance, (French) the face, or vi∣sage, also estimation, or credit, also a Term in Law, signifying the favour that is shew'd to poor men that will swear, they have nothing whereof they may make fine.
• Counter, a Trades-mans chest, where he puts his cash, or money, also a prison in London, where men are put for debt, from the French word Compter, or from the Dutch word Cantor, a secluded place, al∣so Counters are certain little things to cast account with.
• Counterfeit, (French) to feign.
• Countermaund, (French) a revocation of a former command.
• Countermure, a word in fortification, a Wall, or Bank opposite to the Town Wall.
• Counterpain, one of the Copies of a pair of deeds, or indentures, so that one party may keep one part, and the other the o∣ther.
• Counterplea, signifieth in Common-law, that, which the demandant alleadgeth against a Tenant in courtesie, or in dowr, who prayeth in aid of the King, or him, who hath the reversion for his better de∣fence.
• Counterpoint, opposition, also a Term in Musick, being a composing of parts toge∣ther by setting points one against another, also a Term in Needle-work, called back∣stitch, or quilt-stitch.
• Counter-round, a Term in Military Dis∣cipline, signifying a certain number of Of∣ficers going to visit the Rounds, or the Sentinels.
• Counter-scarf, (a Term in fortification) that side of the moat, which is opposite to the Fortresse.
• Counter-tail, or Counter-tally, one of the two tallies, or pieces of wood, whereon any thing is scored, whereof one party keeps one piece, and the other the other piece.
• Countervail, (French) to be of equal price.
• County, or Shire, a certain portion, or circuit of the Realm, into which the whole land is divided.
• County-court, a Court held every moneth by the Sheriffe, or his Deputy the under Sheriffe.
• Coup, (old word) a piece cut off, or cut out.
• Coupant, (French) cutting, or lop∣ping.
• Couple-close, a Term in Blazon, being the fourth part of a Cheveron.
• Courfine, (old word) fine heart.
• Courser, (French) a horse of service.
• Court, the house (where) a King hath his present residence, also a place where justice is judicially ministred, from the Latin curia, or from the Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. a Lord.
• Courtbaron, a Court that every Lord of

• a Mannour hath within his own pre∣cincts.
• Court of requests, a Court of Equiry of the same nature with the Chancery, onely this Court instead of a Subpoena useth a privy seal.
• Courtesie of England, is a certain Te∣nure, whereby a man marrying a woman seized of Land in Fee-simple, or Fee-tail general, if he have a childe by her, which cometh alive into the world, though she and the childe die immediately, yet if she were in possession he shall hold the land during his life, and is called Tenant per legem Angliae, or the courtesie of Eng∣land.
• Courtilage in Common-law, is a Garden, or piece of void ground lying near a mes∣sage from Curtis, a mansion house, and le∣gere to gather.
• Courtisan, (French) a Court-lady, it is also commonly taken for a strumpet.
• Courtlasse, or Coutelasse, a short sword.
• Couth, quasi K••nnouth, knew, from the Saxon word Ken, to know.
• Coutheutlaugh, (Saxon) he that recei∣veth, cherisheth, or hideth an out-law.
• Cowde, (old word) a gobbet.
• Cowre, to kneel, to fall down for fear from the Italian word Covare.
• Cowneer, the hollow arching part in the ship stern.
• Coy, or Coyen, (old word) nice dainty, also to quiet, to flatter.