Glossary. 
Confer, page 2, v. compare. Lat. con- 
jerre. 
Confound, 67/27, v. destroy, spoil. 
Conie, 15/20, s. a term of endearment. 
Conies, 63/10, s. f/. rabbits. Welsh 
cwning. Irish cotnnz. Lat. cnz- 
culus, cognate with Lat. czseus 
(what cleaves, a wedge), and comes 
from the Sanskrit root shaz=to 
dig.—Palmer. 
Conserue, 91/3, s. preserve. 
Constancie, 9/23, s. consistency, firm- 
ness. 
Conster, 113/34, v. understand. 
Conteemne, 106/7, v. pr. ¢. despise. 
Lat. coztemnere. 
Continue, 19/35, v. to breed from, to 
keep up stock from. 
Contrarie, 67/25, v. zp. oppose, con- 
tradict. 
Cooples, 10/6, s. couples, husband and 
wife. 
Coosen, 63/14, wv. cheat, swindle. 
Shakespere’s cozev. 
Copie, 47/8, s. coppice. 
Coresie, 19/24, s. annoyance, trouble. 
Cornet plums, 34/7, s. cornel plums, 
cornel cherries. 
Corneth, 75/8, v. pr. ¢. preserve and 
season, cure. 
Corps, 53/1, s. body. 
Cost, 32/5, s. coast, country. See Coast. 
Costmarie, 42/4, s. costmary, called 
also ale-cost, Balsamita vulgaris. 
Cote, 58/11, v. cogitate, refiect. 
Coted, 2/8, v. Az. ¢. took note of, wrote 
down. ‘* Howe scripture shulde 
be coted (quoted) .”—Skelton, Colin 
Clout, 1. 758. 
Count, 10/21, v. reckon, ‘‘be to counte” 
=be of account, be worth. 
Counterfait, 94/29, adj. counterfeit, 
sham, false. 
Coursest, 55/4, adj. coarsest. 
Court, 86/10, s. account, examination. 
Cousleps, 42/5, s. A/. cowslips. 
Couert, 63/5, s. covert, underwood. 
Couertlie, 9/5, adv. closely. 
Cowlaske, page 4, s. diarrhoea in cattle. 
See Fletcher’s Differences, 1623, 
p- 33- Laske, v. =to re/ax, slacken. 
See Glossary to ‘* William of 
Palemes? BE. E: Dext ‘Soc: edit: 
Skeat. 
Coxcombe, 64/18 ; Coxcome, 10/48, s. 
The cap of the licensed fool had 
often on the top a cock’s head and 
325 
comb and some of the feathers. 
Therefore he ‘‘ strives for a cox- 
come’”’=he will only succeed in 
proving his own folly. 
Crabs, 15/17, s. £2. crab apples. 
Cracketh, 10/37, v. gr. ¢. half breaks, 
injures. 
Cradle, 17/14, s. ‘‘A three-forked in- 
strument of wood, on which the 
corn is caught as it falls from the 
sithe.”—T.R. 
Crake, 18/21, v. brag, boast. 
kraaken. 
Crakers, 54/4, s. p/. boasters. 
Cram, 113/15, v. feed up, satisfy. 
Creake, 47/2, ‘‘to cry creak” =‘‘to be 
afraid,” ‘‘ to desist from any object, 
to repent.”—Halliwell. 
Credit crackt, 4/1, credit or trust broken. 
Creekes, 49/4, s. £7. corners, seek creekes 
=hide herself. 
Creekes, 38/26, s. p/. servants. 
Creepinglie, 9/32, adv. stealthily, by 
degrees. 
Cresies, 40/5, s. cress. Fr. cresson. M. 
Lat. crissomum from Lat. crescere, 
to grow, ‘‘a celeritate crescendi.” 
Crome, 17/19, s. ‘*Like a dung-rake 
with a very long handle.”—T.R. 
Crone, 56/46, v. zp. pick out the crones, 
z.e. the old ewes. The meaning is, 
weed out your fiocks. 
Crones, 12/4, s. pl. ‘* Ewes, whose 
teeth are so worn down that they 
can no longer keep their sheep- 
walk.” —T.R. 
Crooked, 57/46, ad7. deformed. 
Croppers, 18/19, s. the best or most 
productive crops. 
Croppers, 19/20, s. #7. persons who ex- 
tract crop after crop from the land. 
Crosse, 46/9, s. a cross-piece. 
Crosse, 9/29, v. happen, result un- 
favourably. 
Crosses, 9/29, s. troubles, misfortunes. 
Crosserowe, page 3, s. called also 
Christcrossrow ; the alphabet. ‘‘ A 
is the name of the first letter in the 
Crosrowe.” —Baret’s Alvearie. 
Crotch, 51/10, s. ‘‘a curved weeding 
tool.” —T.R. 
Crotches, 60/11, s. A/. crutches. A.S. 
cryce. L. Lat. croccia, crucca. H. 
Ger. kriicke. 
Crotchis, 57/51, s. Z/. crooks, hooks. 
O. Fr. cvoche. 
Crowchmas, 50/36, s. St. Helen’s Day, 
Dutch 
