Glossary.
Letter C
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- CORRIVAL
- rival
- COSTARD
- the head
- COSTER-MONGER
- peddling, mercenary
- COTE
- a cottage
- COTE
- to quote, instance
- COTE
- to come alongside, overtake
- COT-QUEAN
- an effeminate man, molly-coddle
- COUCHINGS
- crouchings
- COUNT CONFECT
- a nobleman composed of affectation
- COUNTENANCE
- fair shew
- COUNTERFEIT
- portrait
- A piece of base coin
- COUNTERPOINT
- a counterpane
- COUNTERVAIL
- to counterpoise, outweigh
- COUNTRY
- belonging to one's country
- COUNTY
- count, earl
- COUPLEMENT
- union
- COURT HOLY-WATER
- flattery
- COVENT
- a convent
- COVER
- to lay the table for dinner
- COWISH
- cowardly
- COWL-STAFF
- the staff on which a vessel is supported between two men
- COX MY PASSION
- an oath, a euphemism for 'God's Passion.'
- COY
- to stroke, fondle
- to condescend with difficulty
- COYSTRIL
- a kestrel, a cowardly kind of hawk
- COZEN
- to cheat
- COZENAGE
- cheating
- COZENER
- a cheater
- COZIER
- a tailor
- CRACK
- to boast
- CRACK
- a loud noise, clap
- A forward boy
- CRACKER
- boaster
- CRACK-HEMP
- a gallows-bird
- CRANK
- a winding passage
- CRANKING
- winding
- CRANTS
- garlands. A doubtful word
- CRARE
- a ship of burden
- CRAVEN
- a dunghill cock
- CREATE
- formed, compounded
- CREDENT
- creditable
- Credible
- Credulous
- CREDIT
- report
- CRESCIVE
- increasing
- CRESTLESS
- not entitled to bear arms, lowborn
- CRISP
- curled, winding
- CROSS
- a piece of money, so called because the coin was formerly stamped with a cross
- CROW-KEEPER
- one who scares crows
- CROWNER
- a coroner
- CROWNET
- a coronet
- CRY
- the yelping of hounds
- A pack of hounds
- A company, use contemptuously
- CRY AIM
- to encourage
- CUE
- the last words of an actor's speech, which is the signal for the next actor to begin
- CUISSES
- pieces of armour to cover the thighs
- CULLION
- a base fellow
- CUNNING
- skill
- CUNNING
- skilful
- CURB
- to bend, truckle
- CURRENTS
- occurrences
- CURSTNESS
- shrewishness
- CURTAIL
- a cur
- CURTAL
- a docked horse
- CURTAL-AXE
- a cutlass
- CUSTALORUM
- a ludicrous mistake for Custos Rotulorum
- CUSTARD-COFFIN
- the crust of a custard-pudding
- CUSTOMER
- a common woman
- CUT
- a cheat
- 'To draw cuts' is to draw lots
- CYPRESS
- a kind of crape