cocquer 
cocquert, ' * See cocker^. 
cocquett, a. and n. See cocket 3 . 
COCtt, v. t. [< L. cactus, pp. of coquere, boil, 
cook: see cook 1 , r., and cf. concoct, decoct."] To 
boil. 
Cockles from Chios, frank'd and fatted up 
With far and sapa. Hour and coded wine. 
Mi'ldli'ton, Game at Chess, v. 3. 
His physicians prescribe him. on pain of death, to drink 
nothing but water euctrd with aniseeds. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 1. 
COCtible (kok'ti-bl), a. [< L. as if "coctibilis, < 
cnctits, pp. of coi/uerc, cook : see cook 1 , v.] Ca- 
pable of being boiled or cooked. [Bare.] 
COCtile (kok'til), n. [< L. coctilis, burned, 
baked, < coctits, pp. of coquere, cook, bake : see 
coot 1 , r.] Made by baking or exposing to heat, 
as a brick. Also eoctire. 
coction (kok'shon), H. [< L. coctio(n-), < co- 
qucrc, pp. cactus, boil, bake, cook: see cook 1 , v ., 
and cf. coct.] 1. The act of boiling or exposing 
to the action of a heated liquid. 2f. In med., 
that alteration in morbific matter which fits it 
for elimination. 
A coction and resolution of the feverish matter. 
Arbutlinot, Aliments. 
3f. Digestion. 
coctive (kok'tiv), a. [< L. coctivus, easily cook- 
ed, < cactus, pp. of coquere, cook: see coot 1 , v., 
and cf. coct.] Same as coctile. 
coculon (kok'u-lon), n. [F., aug. of cocon, co- 
coon: see cocoon.'] A large cocoon. 
COCUm-butter, COCUm-oil (k6'kum-but"er, -oil), 
. A pale, greenish-yellow, solid oil obtained 
from the seeds of Garcinia Indica, a tree of the 
same genus as mangosteen, used in India to 
adulterate ghee or fluid butter. It is used in 
some pharmaceutical preparations, in poma- 
tums, etc. Also spelled hokum-butter, -oil. 
COCUSt, n. An earlier form of cocoa 1 , coco. 
COCUS-WOOd (ko'kus-wud), n. The wood of the 
green ebony, lirya or Amerimnum Ebenus, a 
small leguminous tree of Jamaica, used for 
flutes, inlaying, etc. 
COCytinid (ko-sit'i-nid), n. A salamander-like 
amphibian of the family Cocytinida;. 
Cocytinidae (kos-i-tin'i-de), n.pl. [NL. (Cope, 
1875), < Cocytinus + -idee.] An extinct family 
of proteoid amphibians, typified by the genus 
Cocytinus. The third pair of hemal branchihyals was 
developed and the first and second pairs were free and 
distinct ; the maxillaries were weak. The species had an 
elongated body and tail, and lived during the Carbonifer- 
ous period. 
Cocytinus (kos-i-ti'nus), n. [NL. (Cope, 1871).] 
An extinct genus of amphibians, typical of the 
family Cocytinida;. 
cod 1 (kod), H. [< ME. corf, corfrfc, < AS. cod, 
codd, a bag, cod, pouch, = MD. kodde, scrotum, 
= LG. koden, kon, belly, paunch, = Icel. Jcoddi, 
a pillow, = Sw. kudde, a cushion, = Dan. kodde, 
testicle (cf. Icel. kodhri, scrotum). Cf. W. cicrf, 
cod, sack, pouch. Hence codling 1 .] If. A bag. 
Halliwell. 
They . . . make purses to put it [the musk] in of the 
skin, and these be the cotlx of niuske. 
Ilakluut's Voyages, II. 242. 
2. A pillow ; a bolster ; a cushion. [Now only 
Scotch.] 
I grete with myn eene 
When I nap on my cod, for care . . . 
And sorrow. Tou'neley Myxtfriea, p. 84. 
3. Any husk, shell, envelop, or case contain- 
ing the seeds of a plant ; a pod. 
He coueitide to fllle his wombe of the coddit [AS. of 
thtim betin-codtlum, of the bean-cods] which the hogg'is 
eeten. Wyclij, Luke xv. 18. 
A certaine tree or brier . . . bearing on cilery branch a 
fruit or cod round, which when it commeth to the big- 
nesse of a wall-nut, openeth and sheweth forth the cotton. 
1'urchas, Pilgrimage, p. 392. 
4. The scrotum. 5. The belly; paunch. 6. 
pi. The testicles. [Vulgar.] 7. The narrow 
part at the extremity of a trawl-net, usually 4 
or 5 feet wide and 10 feet long. See trawl-net. 
cod 1 (kod), v. ; pret. and pp. codded, ppr. corf- 
ding. l<.cod l ,n.] I. trans. To inclose in a cod. 
II. intrans. To form an involucre; become 
a codling: said of an apple. 
Apples in June, when, in the language of our old writers, 
they had scarcely codded, either hot or cold, would have 
proved no great temptation to ladies of such exquisite 
taste as the fair What-d'ye-lacks of Cheapside. 
Dycc, Note in Ford's Plays, III. 207. 
COd 2 (kod), n. [< ME. cod (rare ; cf. dim. eorf- 
KngV), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a particu- 
lar application of ME. corf, a shell, husk, bolster: 
see cod 1 , n. Wedgwood cites Flem. kodde, a club, 
and compares It. mazza, a club, with mazzo, a 
bunch, alsoacodfish; It. testuto, F. testu, applied 
to the codfish (and other fish), It. testa, F. teste, 
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head. The orig. L. sense (testa, pot, shell, etc.) 
would support the derivation from corf 1 , shell.] 
1. The common English name of the <l/i</ii.i 
morrhua, an anaeanthine fish of the family 
Gadidfi;, and its best-known representative, it 
is a valuable food-fish, and is widely distributed through- 
out the northern and temperate seas of hoth hemispheres, 
but does not enter the Mediterranean, though found as 
Cod (Gadiis tnorrhua). 
(From Report of U. S. Fish Commission, 1884.) 
far south as Gibraltar. The principal cod-fisheries are on 
the banks of Newfoundland and the coasts of New England, 
but very valuable ones also exist on the coasts of Norway. 
It is a very voracious fish, living in water from 25 to 50 
fathoms deep, where it always feeds close to the bottom, 
and will take almost any kind of bait which may be ottered. 
The cod reaches maturity at the end of the third year, when 
it usually measures about 3 feet in length and weighs from 
12 to 20 pounds; individuals, however, have been taken 
weighing from 50 to more than 100 pounds. The cod is of 
great commercial importance both as a food-flsh and as 
the source of cod-liver oil, which possesses nutritive and 
therapeutic qualities of much value. Some variations in 
the size or quality of cod are indicated by terms expressive 
of the location in which they are taken, as deep-water or 
shoal-water cod, shore or inshore cod, etc. The name is also 
extended, as a popular family term equivalent to (iailiilir, 
to all the species, and in different English-speaking coun- 
tries is misapplied to various species of scorpfcnids, chi- 
rids, serranids, sparids, percophidids, and ophidiiils. 
2. A chiroid fish, Ophiodon elotigatux, of the Pa- 
cific coasts of North America, universally called 
corf and codfish where the true cod is unknown. 
Also called cultus-cod. 3. A serranoid fish, 
Polyprion oxygeneios, of New Zealand, properly 
called hapnka Bank COd, a commercial term for cod 
caught on the banks of Newfoundland, of superior value. 
Black rock-cod, an Indian sparoid fish, Sparutt berda, 
considered to be an excellent food-flsh. [Madras Presi- 
dency.] Blue-cod, (a) In the United States, the cultus- 
cod. (l>) In New Zealand, the rock-cod. Brown cod, cod 
of a dark color living near shores. Buffalo-cod, the cul- 
tus-cod. Clam-cod, inshore cod which feed on clams. 
Cloudy bay-cod. See bay-cod, Fresh-water cod, a 
name of the burbot, Lota macitlona. George's COd, cod 
from George's Bank (one of the banks of Newfoundland), 
or cod like them. They are very fat fish with white napes, 
and considered to be of superior quality. This name is 
becoming a commercial term to describe codfish of the 
finest quality in the United States. Herring-cod, a va- 
riety of cod of southeast Maine. Murray cod, a serra- 
noid fish, Oligorus maquarie nsis, of the Australian rivers. 
Native COd, cod living near the shore : distinguished from 
bank cod. Night COd, cod that will bite at night. Pine- 
tree COd, cod living along the southeast coast of Maine. 
Red rock-cod, in New South Wales, species of Srorptena, 
S. cardiiMlix, S. cruenta, and S. bynoeiiris. Rock-cod. 
(a) Cod living on a rocky bottom. (Ii) Misapplied at San 
Francisco to a sebastine fish, Seoastichthys flavidue, and 
about Puget Sound to a chiroid fish, Hfxagrammn deca- 
grammus. 
The name Rock cod applied [along the Pacific coast] to 
other Chiroids-and to Sebastichthys, and thence even 
transferred to Sen-anus, comes from an appreciation of 
their affinity to Ophiodon, and not from any supposed re- 
semblance to the true codflsh. Jordan. 
(c) A serranoid fish, Sen-antM (?) cuvieri, of South Africa. 
id) A percophidoid fish, Perci* colias, of New Zealand. 
School cod, cod occurring in large schools. Worm- 
cod, cod feeding largely on worms and found near shore. 
(See also cultus-cod, torn-cod.) 
cod 3 (kod), t'. ; pret. and pp. codded, ppr. corf- 
ding. [Origin obscure.] I. trans. To make fun 
of or play practical jokes upon. [Slang.] 
II. intrans. To play practical jokes. [Slang.] 
COd 3 (kod), n. [< corf 3 , c.] A practical joke ; a 
guy; a grind. [Slang.] 
0. 0. D. An abbreviation of adult (or collect 
payment) on delivery: as, the package was for- 
warded C. O. D. 
coda (ko'dii), n. [It. (dim. codetta), < L. corfa, 
later spelling of cawrfo, tail: see cawrfa and 
queue.] In music : (a) The tail or stem of a 
note. [Bare.] (6) A passage added to a com- 
position for the purpose of bringing it to a com- 
plete close : it is especially important in works 
that are constructed in canon, rondo, or sonata 
form. 
codaga-pala bark. Same as Conessi bark (which 
see, under bark 2 ). 
codamia (ko-da'mi-a), . [NL.] Same as co- 
damine. 
codamine (ko'da-min), . [< eod(eine) + amine.] 
An alkaloid (C^oI^sNO^) of opium, isomeric 
with laudanine. It forms large colorless six- 
sided prisms. 
cod-beart (kod'bar), n. A pillow-case. See pil- 
low-bear. 
codd (kod), n. A codger. [Slang.] 
code 
The Cistercian lads called these old gentlemen [the pen- 
sioners of Grey Friars' hospital] Coddx, I know not where- 
fore. Tlick<'ray, Newcomes, Ixxv. 
COddeM, A Middle English form of corf 1 . 
C0dde' 2 t, n. [ME., an aceom. of L. codex, stem, 
trunk: see caudex, codex.] The stem or trunk 
of a tree. 
In Wynter to his codde [L. codifi] an heep of stonys 
Is goode. rallatliui, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 144. 
codded (kod'ed), a. [< corf 1 + -erf 2 .] 1. In- 
closed in a cod: in her., applied to beans, peas, 
etc., borne in the cod. 2f. Bearing cods or 
seed-vessels. 
This herbe is a added herbe full of oily seed. 
llakluyt's Voyage*, II. 103. 
COdderH (kod'er), n. [< corf 1 + -er 1 .] A gath- 
erer of cods or peas ; especially, a woman who 
gathers peas for the London market. [Eng.] 
The women who gathered pease for the London markets 
were called coddertt ; a name which they still retain. 
Dyce, Note in Ford's Plays, III. 207. 
COdder 2 (kod'er), . [< corf 2 4- -er 1 .] A per- 
son engaged in fishing for cod ; a vessel used 
in fishing for cod. [Amer.] 
coddingt (kod'ing), a. [< corf 1 , n., 4, + -</ 2 .] 
Wanton ; lecherous ; lustful. 
That codding spirit had they from their mother. 
Shale., Tit. And., v. 1. 
Coddington lens. See lens. 
coddle 1 (kod'l), v. t.; pret. and pp. coddled, 
ppr. coddling. [Also corfte, E. dial, quoddle; not 
recorded in ME. ; prob. < Icel. kvotla, dab- 
ble, = G. dial, quatteln, wabble : appar. a word 
of popular origin, orig. imitative of the gur- 
gling sound of agitated water. Erroneously 
referred (by Skinner, Bailey, etc.) to ML. or 
NL. "coctulare, *coctillare, boil gently, dim. of 
L. coquere, pp. cactus, boil, cook: see cook 1 , v. 
The supposed connection with codling 1 , an un- 
ripe apple, is doubtful : see codling 1 , n., 2. The 
sense of coddle may have been partly influenced 
by caudle, a hot drink.] To boil gently ; seethe ; 
stew, as fruit. 
If . . . codling every kernel of the fruit for them would 
have served. B. Jontton, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1. 
It [the guava] bakes as well as a pear, and it may be 
coddled, and it makes very good pies. Damyier, Voyages. 
I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling. 
Thoreau, Walden, p. 256. 
Dear Prince Pippin, 
Down with your noble blood, or as I live 
I'll have you codted. 
Beau, and Fl., Philaster, v. 1. 
[In the last extract the sense is somewhat uncertain ; 
probably a figurative use equivalent to 'tame.' Skeat ex- 
plains it as 'castrate,' and refers it to codi, n., 4.] 
coddle 2 (kod'l), v. t. ; pret. and pp. coddled, ppr. 
coddling. [Also corffe, prob. the same as E. dial. 
caddie, caress, fondle, coax: as noun, one su- 
perfluously careful about himself (a coddle) ; 
cf. OF. cadcler, cocker, pamper, cherish, make 
much of ; cadel, a castling, a starveling, one that 
needs cockering ; appar. ult. < L. cadere, fall. 
Connection with carfe 1 uncertain. This verb, 
added by Todd (1818) to Johnson, is usually, 
but erroneously, merged with coddle 1 , stew, 
whence by assumption the senses 'warm,' 'cher- 
ish,' 'pamper.'] To make effeminate by pam- 
pering; make much of; treat tenderly as an 
invalid ; humor ; pamper. 
The codled fool. 
Cat of Gray Hairs (1688), p. 169. (Halliwell.) 
He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation. 
Southey, Quarterly Rev. 
Such coddling as he needed, such humoring of whims. 
C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 277. 
How many of our English princes have been coddled at 
home by their fond papas and mammas. Thackeray. 
coddle 2 (kod'l), . [E. dial, caddie: see the 
verb. Cf. mollycoddle.] An over-indulged, pam- 
pered being ; a person or animal made weak 
or effeminate by tender treatment. [Recent.] 
What coddles they [horses] look on these flue autumn 
mornings covered with clothing ! Whyte Melville. 
COddyif (kod'i), a. [< corf 1 + -y 1 .] Husky. 
Slterwood. 
COddy 2 (kod'i), a. [Origin uncertain.] Small; 
very little. [Prov. Eng.] 
COddy-moddy (kod'i-mod"i), n. [Prob., like 
other familiar riming names, fancifully varied 
from an obscure original. Cf. hoddy-doddy, 
hodmandod.] A gull in its first year's plumage. 
code (kod), . [< F. corfe, < L. codex, later form 
of caudex, the trunk of a tree, a wooden tablet 
for writing on, perhaps orig. 'scaudex, a shoot 
or projection, related to cauda, orig. "scauda, 
a tail (see cauda, etc.), = E. scut, q. v. For 
the use of wooden tablets in writing, cf. fioofc, 
liber, bible, paper. See codex.] 1. In Horn. Inir. 
