Sound all the lofty instruments of war, And by that musick let us all embrace; For, heav'n to earth, some of us never shall A second time do such a courtesy. Shakspeare. Other states, assuredly, cannot be justly aceused for not staying for the first blow; or for not accepting Polyphemus's courtesy, to be the last that shall be eaten up. Bacon. 3. The reverence made by women. Some country girl, scarce to a court'sy bred, Would I much rather than Cornelia wed; If, supercilious, haughty, proud, and vain, She brought her father's triumphs in her train. Dryden's Juvenal. The poor creature was as full of courtesies as if I had been her godmother: the truth on 't is, I endeavoured to make her look something christian-like. Congreve's Old Bachelor. 4. A tenure, not of right, but by the favour of others: as, to hold upon courtesy. 5. COURTESY of England. A tenure by which, if a man marry an inheritrix, that is, a woman seised of land, and getteth a child of her, that comes alive into the world; though both the child and his wife die forthwith, yet, if she were in possession, shall he keep the land during his life, and is called tenant per legem Anglia, or by the courtesy of England. Corvell. T. COURTESY. v. n. [from the noun.] 1. To perform an act of reverence: it is now only used of women. Toby approaches, and court'sies there to me. The petty traffickers, Shakspeare. That court'sy to them, do them reverence. Shakspeare. 1. To make a reverence in the manner of ladies. If I should meet her in my way, We hardly court'sy to each other." COURTIER. 7. s. [from court.] aish, as courtlike as the French, and as amerous as the Italian. Camden's Remain Co'URTLINESS. n. s. [from courty Elegance of manners; grace of mint; complaisance; civility. mess. The slightest part that you excel in, is courtie Lord Digby to Sir Kencim Diy COʻURTLING. n. s. [from court.] A courtier; a retainer to a court. Courtling, I rather thou should'st utterly Dispraise my work, than praise it frostily. Bea Fam COURTLY. adj. [from court.] Relating or retaining to the court; elegant; scii; flattering. In our own time (excuse some courtly stars No whiter page than Addison's remains. Pe Co'URTLY. adv. In the manner of courts; elegantly. They can produce nothing so scurtly wr which expresses so much the conversation & gentleman, as sir John Suckling. Dryda Co'URTSHIP. n. s. [from court.] 1. The act of soliciting favour. He paid his courtship with the crowd Sa As far as modest pride allow'd. 2. The solicitation of a woman to mar riage. 3. Be merry, and employ your chiefest the To courtship, and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there. She In tedious courtship we declare our paia, And, ere we kindness find, first meet disda Every man in the time of courtship, and in ta first entrance of marriage, puts on a behaved like my correspondent's holiday suit. d Civility; elegance of manners. My courtship to an university, D Prier. COUSIN. n. s. [cousin, Fr. consanguini, Latin.] 1. One that frequents or attends the courts of princes. He hath been a courtier, he swears. If any man doubts that, let him put me to my purgation. I have trod a measure; I have flattered a lady; I have been politick with my friend, smooth with mine enemy; I have undone three taylors; I have had four quarrels, and like to have fought one. Shakspeare. You are a flattering boy; now, I see you'll be a courtier. Shakspeare. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in stateaffairs. Bacon. The principal figure in a picture is like a king among his courtiers, who ought to dim the lustre of his attendants. Dryden. 2. One that courts or solicits the favour of another. 1. Any one collaterally related more re motely than a brother or a sister. Macbeth unseam'd him.Oh valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Shate Tybalt, my cousin! O, my brother's child: Unhappy sight! alas, the blood is spill'd Shakjes Of my dear kinsman. Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's auth And cousin german to great Priam's seed. Shor 2. A title given by the king to a nobl man, particularly to those of the council. COW. n. s. [in the plural anciently or keen, now commonly cows; cu, S. koe, Dutch.] The female of the bull; the horned animal with cloven feet, kept for her milk and calves. We see that the horns of oven and ces, fr the most part, are larger than the bulls; is caused by abundance of moisture, wh the horns of the bull faileth. After the fever is diminished, asses and go To Cow. v. a. [from coward, by contrac tion] To depress with fear; to eppress with habitual timidity. COW Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripp'd -Accursed be that tongue that tells me so! For it hath cow'd my better part of man. Shak. By reason of their frequent revolts, they have dpon themselves the pressures of war so often, that it seems to have somewhat cored Horvel's Vocal Forest. their spirits. For when men by their wives are cow'd, to tend cows. You must house your milch-cows, that you give hay to, in your cozu-house all night. Mortimer. COW-LEECH. n. s. [coa and leech.] One who professes to cure distempered cows. To CoW-LEECH. v. n. To profess to cure COWS. Though there are many pretenders to the art of farriering and core-teeching, yet many of them are very ignorant, especially in the country. Mortimer's Husbandry. Cow-WEED. n. s. [cow and weed.] A species of chervil. Cow-wHEAT. n. s. [cow and wheat.] A plant. CO'WARD. n. s. [couard, Fr. of uncer tain derivation.] 1. A poltroon; a wretch whose predominant passion is fear. Pyrocles did such wonders, beyond belief, as was able to lead Musidorus to courage, though Sidney. he had been born a corvard. There was a soldier that vaunted, before Julius Cæsar, of the hurts he had received in his face. Cæsar, knowing him to be but a coward, told him, You were best take heed, next time Bacon. you run away, how you look back. Some are brave one day, and cowards another; as great captains have often told me, from their own experience and observation. Temple. A corcard does not always escape with disgrace, but sometimes also he loses his life. South. Tremble ye not, oh friends! and cowards fly, Doom'd by the stern Telemachus to die! Pope. 2. It is sometimes used in the manner of an adjective. Having more man than wit about me, I drew, And rais'd the house with loud and corvard cries. Shakspeare. Invading fears repel my coward joy, Certes, sir knight, ye been too much to blame, Fairy Queen. Gallant and fearless courage will turn into a native and heroick valour, and make them hate Milton. the cowardice of doing wrong. None was disgrac'd; for falling is no shame, This great, this holy, this terrible Being, is present to all our affections; sees every treacherous inclination of our heart to desert his serice; and treasures up, against the day of his wrath, the secret cozvardice which deters us from asserting his cause, which prevails on us to com pliment the vices of the great, to applaud the libertine, and laugh with the prophane. Rogers. CO'WARDLINESS. n. s. [from cowardly.} Timidity; cowardice. Co'wARDLY. adj. [from corvard.] An Egyptian soothsayer made Antonius I do find it corwardly and vile, Shakspeare. Let all such as can enlarge their consciences like hell, and style a cowardly silence in Christ's cause discretion, know, that Christ will one day South. scorn them. Co'wARDLY, adv. In the manner of coward; meanly ; vilely. He sharply reproved them as men of no coprage, who had most cowardly turned their backs Knolles. upon their enemies. Co'WARDSHIP. n. s. [from coward.] The character or qualities of a coward; meanness. Not in use. A very paltry boy, and more a coward than a hare his dishonesty appears in leaving his friend here in necessity, and denying him; and Shakspeare for his cowardship, ask Fabian. To Co'wER. v. n. [currian, Welsh; courber, Fr. or perhaps borrowed from the manner in which a cow sinks on her knees.] To sink by bending the knees; to stoop; to shrink. Let the pail be put over the man's head above water, then he cower down, and the pail be Bacon pressed down with him. The splitting rocks cow'r'd in the sinking sands, And would not dash me with their ragged sides. As thus he spake, each bird and beast beheld, Our dame sits cow'ring o'er a kitchen fire; The terms cowkeeper and hogherd are not to I. A monk's hood. You may imagine that Francis Cornfield die scratch his elbow, when he had sweetly invented, to signify his name, saint Francis with hie Camden. friery cowl in a cornfield. What differ more, you cry, than crown and corvi? I'll tell you, friend: a wise man and a fool. Pope. 2. [Perhaps from cool, cooler, a vessel in which hot liquor is set to cool.] A Co'wSLIP. n. s. [paralysis; curlippe, Sax. as some think, from their resemblance of scent to the breath of a cow; perhaps from growing much in pasture grounds, and often meeting the cow's lip.] Coruslip is also called pagil, grows wild in the meadows, and is a species of primrose. Miller. He might as well say, that a corvslip is as white as a lily. Sidney. Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. Shakspeare. Thy little sons Philips. COWS-LUNGWORT. n. s. A species of mullein. Jason is as coy as is a maide; He looked piteously, but nought he said. Chaure 2. Reserved; not accessible; not easily condescending to familiarity. And vain delight she saw he light did pass, A foe of folly and immodest toy; Still solemn sad, or still disdainful coy. Spenser Like Phœbus sung the no less am'rous boy: Like Daphne she, as lovely and as coy. Waller. At this season every smile of the sun, like the smile of a coy lady, is as dear as it is uncom mon. Pape Grainger The Nile's coy source. To Cox. v. n. [from the adjective.] I. To behave with reserve; to reject fə miliarity. What, coying it again! Dryden No more; but make me happy to my gust, With one who knows you too! Ro 2. To make difficulty; not to condescend willingly.. If he coy'd To hear Cominius speak, I'll keep at home. Shakspeare's Coriolanet. To Coy. v. a. [for decoy.] To allure. Not in use. I'll mountebank their loves, Coy their hearts from them, and come home be loved Of all the trades in Rome. Shakspears Co'xCOMB.n.s.[cock and comb, corrupted Co'yLY, adv. [from coy.] With reserve; from cock's comb.] 1. The top of the head. As the cockney did to the eels, when she put them i' the pasty alive; she rapt them o' th' coxcombs with a stick, and cried, Down, wantons, down! Shakspeare. The comb resembling that of a cock, which licensed fools wore formerly in their caps. There, take my coxcomb: why, this fellow has banished two of his daughters, and did the third a blessing against his will; if thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb. Sbaks. 3. A fop; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments. I sent to her, By this same coxcomb that we have i' th' wind, It is a vanity for every pretending coxcomb to make himself one of the party still with his betters. L'Estrange. They overflowed with smart repartees; and were only distinguished from the intended wits by being called coxcombs, though they deserved not so scandalous a name. Dryden. Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools; And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope. A kind of red flower. COXCO'MICAL. adj. [from coxcomb.] Foppish; conceited: a low word, unworthy of use. Because, as he was a very natural writer, and they were without prejudice, without preposession, without affectation, and without the influence of coxcomical, senseless cabal, they were at liberty to receive the impressions which things Dennis. naturally made on their minds. COY. adj. [coi, French; from quietus, Latin.] 1. Modest; decent. with disinclination to familiarity. This said, his hand he coyly snatch'd away From forth Antinous' hand. Chapman. CO'YNESS. n. s. [from coy.] Reserve; unwillingness to become familiar. When the sun hath warmed the earth and water, three or four male carps will follow a female; and she putting on a seeming coymers, they force her through weeds and flags. Walton. When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden. CO'YSTREL.n.s. A species of degenerate hawk. One they might trust, their common wrong to wreak: The musket and the coystrel were too weak, Too fierce the falcon. Dryde Coz. n. s. A cant or familiar word, con tracted from cousin. morrow. Be merry, coz; since sudden sorrow Serves to say thus, some good thing comes to Shakspear To CO'ZEN. v. a. [To cose is in the old Scotch dialect, as Janius observes, to chop or change; whence cozen, to cheat; because in such traffick there commonly fraud.] To cheat; to trick; to defraud. Spe Let the queen pay never sa fully, let the muster-master view them never so diligently, let the deputy or general look to them never exactly, yet they can cazes them all. Goring loved no man so well but that be would cogen him, and expose him to publicx Clarends mirth for having been cezened. He that suffers a government to be abused by carelessness or neglect, does the same thing with him that maliciously and corruptly st himself to cozen it. L'Estra You are not obliged to a literal belief of stat the poets says; but you are pleased with the image, without being cozened by the fiction. Ꮯ Ꭱ Ꭺ What if I please to lengthen out his date Dryd. A day, and take a pride to cozen fate? Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters; and be taught to read, without perLocke. ceiving it to be any thing but a sport. Co'ZENAGE. n. s. [from cozen.] Fraud; deceit; artifice; fallacy; trick; cheat; the practice of cheating. They say this town is full of cozenage; As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Disguised cheaters. Shakspeare Wisdom without honesty is meer craft and ozenage; and therefore the reputation of honesty must first be gotten, which cannot be but by living well: a good life is a main argument. Ben Jonson's Discoveries. There's no such thing as that we beauty call, It is meer cozenage all; For though some long ago Like certain colours mingled so and so, That doth not tie me now from chusing new. Suckling. Imaginary appearances offer themselves to our impatient minds, which entertain these counterfeits without the least suspicion of their cozenGlanville's Scepsis. age. Strange cox'nage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; And from the drags of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. Dryd. Aur. But all these are trifles, if we consider the fraud and cozenage of trading men and shopkeepers. 1. Peevish; morose; cynical; sour. Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed; That was when Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death, Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, How charming is divine philosophy! Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, Dryden. Prior. Your crabbed rogues that read Lucretius 2. Sourness of countenance; asperity of Co ZENER. n. s. [from cozen.] A cheater; a defrauder. Shaks. Indeed, sir, there are coxeners abroad, and therefore it behoves me to be wary. CRAB. n. s. [eɲabba, Sax. krabbe, Dut.] 1. A crustaceous fish. Those that cast their shell are, the lobster, the crab, the crawfish, the hodmandod or dodman, and the tortoise. The old shells are never found; so as it is like they scale off, and crumble Bacon's Nat. Hist. away by degrees. The fox catches crab fish with his tail, which Olaus Magnus saith he himself was an eye-witDerbam. ness of. 2. A wild apple; the tree that bears a wild apple. Noble stock Was graft with crab tree slip, whose fruit thou art. Shakspeare. Fetch me a dozen crab tree staves, and strong Shakspeare. enes; these are but switches. When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl. Shakspeare. Tell why a graft, taking nourishment from a crab stock, shall have a fruit more noble than its nurse and parent. Taylor. 3. A peevish morose person. 5. The sign in the zodiack. Then parts the Twins and Crab, the Dog divides, And Argo's keel that broke the frothy tides. Creech. 3. Difficulty; perplexity. CRA'BER. n. s. rat. n. s. The poor fish have enemies enough, beside such unnatural fishermen ; as otters, the cormorant, and the craber, which some call the waterWalton's Angler. Whitish bodies, CRABS-EYES. rounded on one side and depressed on the other, heavy, moderately hard, and without smell. They are not the eyes of any creature, nor do they belong to the crab, but are produced by the common crawfish: the stones are bred in two separate bags, one on each side of the stomach. They are alkaline, absorbent, and in some degree diuretick. Hill. Several persons had, in vain, endeavoured to Boyle. store themselves with crabs-eyes. CRACK. n. s. [kraeck, Dutch.] I. A sudden disruption, by which the parts are separated but a little way from each other. 2. 3. The chink, fissure, or vacuity, made by disruption; a narrow breach. Contusions, when great, do usually produce a fissure or crack of the skull, either in the same part where the blow was inflicted, or in the conWiseman. trary part. At length it would crack in many places; and those cracks, as they dilated, would appear of a pretty good, but yet obscure and dark, Newton's Opticks. sky-colour. The sound of any body bursting or falling. If I say sooth, I must report they were As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks. Shakspeare's Macbeth. Now day appears, and with the day the king Whose early care had robb'd him of his rest Far off the cracks of falling houses ring, And shrieks of subjects pierce his tender breast. Dryden. 4. Any sudden and quick sound. A fourth?-start, eye! What, will the line stretch out to th' crack of doom? Shakspeare. Vulcan was employed in hammering out thunderbolts, that every now and then flew from up the anvil with dreadful cracks and flashes. Addis. 5. Change of the voice in puberty. And let us, Paladour, though now our voices Have got the mannish crack, sing him to th' ground. Shakspeare. 6. Breach of chastity. I cannot Shakspeare. Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress, So sovereignly being honourable. 7. Craziness of intellect. 8. A man crazed. I have invented projects for raising millions without burthening the subject; but cannot get the parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector. 9. A whore, in low language. 10. A boast. Addison. Leasings, backbitings, and vain-glorious cracks, All those against that fort did bend their batteries. II. A boaster. phrase. Spenser. This is only in low To CRACK. v. a. [kraecken, Dutch.] 1. To break into chinks; to divide the parts a little from each other. Look to your pipes, and cover them with fresh and warm litter out of the stable, a good thickMortimer. ness, lest the frost crack them. 2. To break; to split. O, madam, my heart is crack'd, it's crack'd. Shakspeare. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for tracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes. Shakspeare. Should soine wild fig-tree take her native And heave below the gaudy monument, Donne. Honour is like that glassy bubble That finds philosophers such trouble; Whose least part crack'd, the whole does fly, And wits are crack'd to find out why. Hudibras. 3. To do any thing with quickness or smartness. Sir Ealaam now, he lives like other folks; He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes. -Pope. 4. To break or destroy any thing. You'll crack a quart together! Ha, will you not? Shakspeare. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father. Shakspeare's King Lear. 5. To craze; to weaken the intellect. I was ever of opinion, that the philosopher's stone, and an holy war, were but the rendezvous of cracked brains, that wore their feather in their heads. Bacon's Holy War. He thought none poets till their brains were Roscommon. crackt. To CRACK. v. n. 1. To burst; to open in chinks. By misfortune it cracked in the cooling; where by we were reduced to make use of one part, which was straight and intire. 2. To fall to ruin. 3. Boyk The credit not only of banks, but of exche quers, cracks, when little comes in and much Dryden goes out. To utter a loud and sudden sound. I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shakspeare. 4. To boast: with of To look like her, are chimney-sweepers black, And since her time are colliers counted bright; And Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack: Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light. Shakspeare. CRACK-BRAINED. adj. [crack and brained.) Crazy; without right reason. We have sent you an answer to the ill-grounded sophisins of those crack-brained fellows. Arbuthnot and Pape. CRACK-HEMP. n. s. [crack and hemp.) A wretch fated to the gallows; a crack. rope: furcifer. Shakspeare. Come hither, crack-bemp. -I hope I may chuse, sir. -Come hither, you rogue: What, have you forgot me? CRACK-ROPE. n. s. [crack and rope.] A fellow that deserves hanging. CRACKER. n. s. [from crack.] 1. A noisy boasting fellow. What cracker is this same, that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath? Shakspeare's King Jel 2. A quantity of gunpowder confined so as to burst with great noise. The bladder, at its breaking, gave a grad report, almost like a cracker. Caught her dishevell'd hair and rich attre; Her crown and jewels crackled in the tire. Dryden's Envil Marrow is a specifick in that scurvy which o casions a crackling of the bones; in which case marrow performs its natural function of mat ening them. Arbuthnot en Alimet. CRACKNEL. 1. s. [from crack.] A hard brittle cake. Albee my love he seek with daily sute, His clownish gifts and curtesies I disdain, His kids, his cracknels, and his early fruit. Spenser Pay tributary cracknels, which he s:lls; And with our offerings help to raise his valls Dryden's Jerusal CRA'DLE. n. s. [cɲadel, Saxon.j 1. A moveable bed, on which children or sick persons are agitated with a smoo'ǹ and equal motion, to make them skoop |