Chapter L: B. conquestus, id

_Quon. Attach._

CONRYET, _pret._ Perhaps, disposed.

_Wallace._

O. Fr. _conraer_, to prepare, whence _conroi_, order of battle.

CONSTABLE, _s._ A large glass, the contents of which he is obliged to drink, who has not drunk as much as the rest of the company, S.

CONSTERIE, CONSTRY, _s._ Consistory.

_Forbes._

_To_ CONSTITUTE, _v. a._ To open an ecclesiastical court with prayer, S.

CONTAKE, _s._ Contest.

_Douglas._

CONTEMPTION, _s._ Contempt.

_Bellenden._

_To_ CONTEYNE, _v. s._ To continue.

_Wallace._

_To_ CONTENE, _v. n._ To demean one's self.

_Barbour._

~Contening~, _s._

1. Demeanour.

_Barbour._

2. Military discipline.

_Barbour._

CONTENEU, _s._ Tenor.

_Complaynt S._

Fr. _contenu_, id.

CONTER. _A conter_, to the contrary.

_Ross._

Fr. _contre_, against.

CONTERMYT, _part. pa._ Firmly set against.

_Wallace._

Fr. _contremet-tre_, to oppose.

_To_ CONTINUE, _v. a._ To delay.

_Spotswood._

CONTRIMONT, _adv._ The contrary way.

_Douglas._

Fr. _contremont_, directly against the stream.

CONTRAIR, _adj._ Contrary, Fr.

_Baillie._

_To_ ~Contrare~, ~Conter~, _v. a._ To thwart, to oppose, S.

_Wyntown._

Fr. _contrar-ier_, id.

~Contrare~, _s._

1. Opposition of any kind.

_Douglas._

2. Something contrary to one's feelings or hopes. _Conter_, S. B.

_Ross._

_To_ CONTRUFE, _v. a._ To contrive; _contruwit_, part. pa.

_Douglas._

Fr. _controuv-er_, id.

~Contruwar~, _s._ A contriver.

_To_ CONVENE, CONVEANE, CONUEIN, _v. n._ To agree.

_Forbes._

Fr. _conven-ir_, Lat. _conven-ire_, id.

~Conuyne~, ~Conuene~, ~Conwyne~, ~Covyne~, ~Cowyne~, ~Cuwyn~, _s._

1. Paction, convention.

Fr. _convent_, id.

_Douglas._

2. Condition, state.

_Barbour._

3. Stratagem, conspiracy.

_Wyntown._

O. Fr. _convine_, _couvine_, pratique, intrigue.

_To_ CONVOY, _v. a._ To accomplish any purpose, especially by artful means.

_Douglas._

~Convoy~, _s._

1. Mode of conveyance.

_Baillie._

2. A trick.

_Poems 16th Cent._

~Conwoy~, _s._ Mein, carriage.

_Dunbar._

COODIE, CUDIE, _s._ A small tub, also _cude_: _quiddie_, Aberd.

_Ramsay._

Isl. _kutte_, tonnula, Gael. _ciotad_, a tub.

COOF, CUFE, _s._ A silly dastardly fellow, S.

_Burns._

Su. G. _kufw-a_, to keep under, Isl. _kueif_, one who is cowardly
and feeble.

_To_ COOK, COUK, _v. n._

1. To appear and disappear by fits.

_Burns._

2. To hide one's self.

_Kennedy._

Isl. _kvik-a_, moto, _qvika_, inquieta motatio.

COOKIE, _s._ A species of fine bread used at tea, of a round form, S.

Teut. _koeck_, libum.

COOLRIFE, _adj._

1. Cool, cold, S.

_Ross._

2. Indifferent, S.

V. ~Cauldrife~.

COOM, _s._ The wooden frame used in building the arch of a bridge, S.

_Statist. Acc._

Allied perhaps to _Queme_, q. v.

COOP, COUP-CART, _s._ A cart made close with boards, S.

_Statist. Acc._

Teut. _kuype_, a large vessel for containing liquids.

COOT, _s._ The ancle.

V. ~Cute~.

COOTH, _s._ A young coalfish.

V. ~Cuth~.

COOTIE, _adj._ A term applied to fowls whose legs are clad with feathers, S.

_Burns._

COP, COPE, _s._ A cup or drinking vessel.

A. S. _cop_, Isl. _kopp_, id.

_Dunbar._

COPOUT. "_To play copout_," to drink off all that is in a cup or drinking vessel; _cap-out_, S.

_Douglas._

COPE, _s._ A coffin; "a _cope_ of leid," a leaden coffin.

V. ~Caip~.

_Knox._

_To_ COPÉ _betuene_, to divide.

_King Hart._

Fr. _coup-er_, to cut, to cleave.

COPER, _s._ A dealer.

V. ~Couper~.

COPY, _s._ Plenty, abundance.

_Wyntown._

Lat. _copia_.

COPPER, _s._ A cupbearer.

_Palice of Hon._

Evidently from A. S. _cop_, a cup.

COPPIN, _part. pa. Coppin in hevin_, elevated to heaven.

_King's Quair._

A. S. _cop_, the summit.

CORANICH, CORRENOTH, CORRINOCH, _s._

1. A dirge, a lamentation for the dead, S.

_Lyndsay._

Ir. Gael. _coranach_, from _cora_, a _quoir_, Lat. _chorus_.

2. A cry of alarm, a sort of war-cry.

_Bannatyne Poems._

3. A proclamation of outlawry by means of the bagpipe.

_Warton._

CORBIE, CORBY, _s._ A raven; Corvus corax, Linn, S.

_Henrysone._

Fr. _corbeau_, Ital. _corvo_, Lat. _corv-us_, id.

_Corbie-Aits_, _s. pl._ A species of black oats, denominated perhaps from their dark colour, S. B.

~Corbie Messenger~, A messenger who either returns not at all, or too late, S.

_Houlate._

CORBIE-STEPS, _s. pl._ The projections of the stones, or the slanting part of a gable, resembling steps of stairs, S.

Fr. _corbeau_, a corbeil in masonry.

CORBIT, _adj._ Apparently, crooked.

_Maitland._

Fr. _courbé_, id. _courbette_, a small crooked rafter.

CORBUYLE, _s._ Leather greatly thickened and hardened in the preparation, jacked leather.

_Douglas._

Fr. _cuir bouilli_, corium coctum.

CORCHAT, _s._ Crotchet, a term in music.

_Dunbar._

CORCOLET, _s._ A purple dye, Shetl.

CORDYT, _pret. v._ Agreed.

_Wallace._

Fr. _accordée_.

CORDON, _s._ A band, a wreath.

Fr. id.

_Z. Boyd._

CORDOWAN, _s._ Spanish leather, Gl. Sibb. Tanned horse leather, S.

CORDS, _s. pl._ A contraction of the muscles of the neck; a disease of horses, A. Bor.

_Polwart._

CORE, _s._ A company, a body of men, often used for corps.

_Hamilton._

CORF, _s._ A basket used for carrying coals from the pit, Loth.

Belg. _korf_, Isl. _koerf_, Lat. _corb-is_, id.

CORF, _s._ A temporary building, a shed.

_Bannatyne Poems._

A. S. _cruft_, a vault, Teut. _krofte_, a cave.

~Corf-House~, _s._ A house, shed, erected for the purpose of curing salmon, and for keeping the nets in, S. B.

_Courant._

CORFT, _part. pa. Corft fish_ are fish boiled with salt and water, S. B.

CORKY, _adj._ Airy, brisk.

_Sir J. Sinclair._

CORMUNDUM. _To cry Cormundum_, to confess a fault.

_Kennedy._

In allusion to one of the Penitential Psalms.

CORNCRAIK, _s._ The Crake or land rail, Rallus crex, Linn.

V. ~Craik~.

_Houlate._

Probably denominated from its cry.

CORNE PIPE, _s._ A reed or whistle with a horn fixed to it by the smaller end.

CORNYKLE, _s._ A chronicle.

_Wallace._

CORP, _s._ A corpse, a dead body.

~Corps-Present~, _s._ A funeral gift to the church, for supplying any deficiency on the part of the deceased.

_Knox._

Fr. _corps_ and _present-er_, q. to present the body for interment;
or Fr. _present_, a gift.

CORRACH, CORRACK, _s._ A pannier, _Ang_.

Su. G. _korg_, a pannier or basket.

CORRIE, _s._ A hollow between hills, or rather in a hill, Gael. also _corehead_, S.

_Statist. Acc._

CORS, CORSE, _s._ Market place, S.; from the _cross_ being formerly erected there.

Sw. _kors_, id.

CORS, CORSS, _s._ An animated body.

Fr. _corps_.

_Douglas._

CORSBOLLIS, _pl._ Crossbows.

_Complaynt S._

CORSES, _s. pl._ Money, from its bearing the firm of the cross.

_Dunbar._

CORSSY, _adj._ Bigbodied, corpulent.

_Douglas._

CORSYBELLY, _s._ A shirt for a child, open before, S. B.

_Ross._

Q. A shirt that is folded _across the belly_.

CORTER, _s._

1. A quarter, corr. from _quarter_, Aberd.

2. A cake, because quartered, ibid.

_Journal Lond._

CORUIE, _s._ A crooked iron for pulling down buildings.

_Hudson._

Fr. _corbeau_, "a certaine warlike instrument;" Cotgr.

CORUYN, _s._ A kind of leather.

_Douglas._

Corr. from _Cordowan_, q. v.

COSCH, COSHE, _s._ A coach.

_Bruce._

Fr. _coche_.

_To_ COSE, COSS, COISS, _v. a._ To exchange; _coss_, Loth.

_Wallace._

~Cossing~, _s._ The act of exchanging.

_Skene._

COSH, _adj._

1. Neat, snug; as denoting a comfortable situation, S.

_Ferguson._

2. Quiet, without interruption, S.

_Minstrelsy Border._

3. In a state of intimacy, S.

Isl. _kios_, a small place well fenced.

~Coshly~, _adv._ Snugly, S.

_Ferguson._

COSIE, COZIE, _adj._ Warm, comfortable, snug, well-sheltered, S.

_Burns._

This seems radically the same with _Cosh_.

~Cosiely~, _adv._ Snugly, comfortably, S.

_Ramsay._

COSINGNACE, _s._

1. A relation by blood, a cousin.

_Bellenden._

2. A grand-daughter; or a niece.

_Bellenden._

_To_ COSS, _v. a._ To exchange.

V. ~Cose~.

COST, _s._ Side.

V. ~Coist~.

COSTAGE, _s._ Expence.

_Douglas._

_To_ COSTAY, _v. n._ To coast.

_Wyntown._

COSSNENT, _s. To work at cossnent_, to receive wages without victuals, S.

_To work black cossnent_, to work without meat or wages, Ayr.

Fr. _caust aneanti_, cost abrogated, q. expences not borne.

_To_ COT _with one_, _v. n._ To cohabit, S. B. q. to live in the same _cot_.

COTTAR, COTTER, _s._ One who inhabits a _cot_ or cottage. S.

_Statist. Acc._