coy 
2. A decoy. See decoy, n. 
Till thr uiv:il in:i]l;ii ,1 ! ratrh t ill the COW. 
/.>. //,,(. Ahp. Williams, II. 1S3. 
coy- (koi), . [E. dial., prob. < Ml). /,</<, l>. 
kiHii, a coop, cage, fold, Live, hammock, berth 
((f. koine, a cum 1 ), = K. Fries, l.nji , I.-IMH. :\ 
hammock, berth, also an inclnsure, = MLG. 
LG. koje, a cage, stall, berth, > prob. G. knji . a 
bertli, = Dan. /.-:/' :l !>' iih. hammock, = Sw. 
kjn, a bertli, Immiiiurk, also a cage, jail; all 
ult. < L. ciirni (11 lj. i-iirin), a cage, whence 
also E. cage : see cage, cavel, coe%.~\ A cage or 
pen for lobsters. HalliirHI. [Prov. Eng.] 
coy-duckt (koi'duk), n. A decoy-duck. 
His main scope is to show t)mt (Jrutius . . . hath acted 
thi' part of a cmi-ituck, willingly or unwillingly, to lead 
the Protestant^ into i'opery. 
Abf. Rramhall, Works, III. 604. 
coyish (koi'ish), . [< coyi + -isA 1 .] Some- 
what coy or reserved. 
This coyinh paramour. Drant, tr. of Horace, 11. 3, 
coyly (koi'li), arfr. [< ME. coyly ; < coy 1 + -ty 2 .] 
If. Quietly. 
A mes>en^eiv ram the HrehaiKliolis vnto, 
Entrcd lirehaigiie without tarying, 
Kill coylft anil preuiily within entring. 
/<i.i. u/ I'ttrtfiiitii (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2184. 
2. In a coy manner ; shyly; demurely. 
As she i-"iflti li'iiuiil it roiuiil his neck, 
And made him promise sih-nrr. Coleridge. 
COynet, See coigns'*. 
coyness (koi'nes), . The quality of being coy ; 
shyness; modest reserve; baslif illness ; unwill- 
ingness to become familiar. 
When the kind nymph would coynes* feign, 
And hides lint to be found :c.-:i in Dryden. 
= Syn. Dijfideiice, Shynem (see bah/vlnfm), reserve, de- 
mureness. 
coynie, . Same as coigne*. 
coyntet, a. Same as quaint. 
coyote (ko-yo'te), . [< Sp. coyote, < Mex. co- 
yotl.] The Spanish and now the usual name of 
the common prairie- or barking-wolf of west- 
ern North America, Caniu latratis, abundant al- 
Coyote ( Cants latramf). 
most everywhere from the great plains to the 
Pacific. It is alHiut as large as a pointer dog, with full 
pelage, luishy tail, upright ears, ami rather sharp nose, of 
a grayish color, reddening on some parts and darkened 
witll blackish on the back, and is noted for its monotonous 
and reiterated howling at night. Also spelled cajote, en- 
!/"'. and kiote. 
cbypou, coypu (koi'po), . The native name 
or a South American rodent mammal, the Myo- 
COI//IHX. Its heail Is large and depressed, Its 
neck short and stout, iu limbs short, iu tail long and 
Coypou (Myofotamns ceyftts). 
round, and it >wims with great ease. It Is valued for its 
fur, which was formerly IIM'I! largely in the manufacture 
of hats. The length of a full-grown eoypou is about -feet 
(i inelies. See 
We look tn the waters, ami we do not flnd the heaver or 
musk-rat. hut the <".'//"< anil rap> liara. n" lei it sol the \tnri 
iean type. Ittu-irin, Origin of Species. II. :U9. 
COystrelt, COystrilt, . Same us ,;ii.tlnl. 
Yuu . . . braKvrm^' c<n/.-.7/-i7 ' 
/. /"ii.-c,,i. i:\en Man in his Humour, iv. 1. 
COZ (kuz), n. [A bin-, of mrfii 1 , now usually 
spelled i'iiii,iin.] A familiar or fond contraction 
of 
1323 
My deareit coz, 
I pray you, school yourself. 
.>V/.I:.. Macheth, IV. 2. 
Ill not drtaiii you, roz. >/.. . ../an. The Rlvali, I. 2. 
coze, cose ( koz), . [Formed from co:y, .] A n \ 
tlmij,' snti";, comfortable, orcozv; specifically, 
a cozy conversation, or tete-a-tete. [Rare.] 
'i'hey might have a comfortable fuze. 
JHIII- .l"-'-/i Mangtlelit Park, xxvi. 
coze, cose (koz), . . ; pret. and pp. co;i-<i. </,.(/. 
|i|ir. co:iinj, roiling. [Like coze, n., formed from 
m;y, .] To be snug, comfortable, or cozy; 
cuddle. [Rare.] 
The sailors cane round the Are with wife and child. 
Kinti'l'-ii. Two Years AKO, iii. 
COZen 't, . An obsolete spelling of cousin 1 . 
cozen 2 (kuz'n), v. [Early mod. E. also eosen, co- 
xin, roiwn, coosen, eooxin, couzen, cousen, cowtin, 
being orig. identical in form and connected in 
sense with cousin, a relative ; < F. eousiner, call 
"cousin, "claim kindred for advantage, sponge, 
< cousin, cousin : seec*ii. H .andr.] I. trans. 
1. To cheat; defraud. 
A statelier resolution anna my conAdence, 
To cozen thee of honour. t'urd, Broken Heart, Iv. 4. 
O lover, art thou grown too full of dread 
To look him In the face whom thou feared'st not 
To cozrn of the fair thing he had got? 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 364. 
2. To deceive ; beguile ; entice. 
Children may lie cozened Into a knowledge of the letters. 
Lucke, Education. 
II. >n i i-ii a.--. To practise cheating; act dis- 
honestly or deceitfully. 
Home cogging, cozening slave. SAat., Othello, IT. 2. 
What care I to see a man run after a Sermon, if he 
Cmizen and Cheats as soon as he comes home '! 
Seldrn, Table-Talk, p. 76. 
cozenage 1 1, . See cousinage 1 . 
cozenage- (kuz'n-aj), . [< cozen'* + -age.'] 
Trickery; fraud; deceit; artifice; the practice 
of cheating. 
All that their whole lives had heap'd together 
By cozenage, perjury, or sordid thrift. 
Masrinyrr, Duke of Milan, iii. 1. 
Tile art of getting, either by violence, cozenage, flattery, 
lying, or by putting on a guise of religion. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, i. 
Betray not by the cozenage of sense 
Thy votaries. Wordsworth, Powerof .Sound, vl. 
cozener (kuz'n-er), H. [Early mod. E. also cos- 
ener, coosener, eousiner, cmisner, etc. ; < coroi 2 + 
-w 1 .] One who cozens; one who cheats or de- 
frauds. 
Sir, there are cozeJtm abroad ; therefore It behoves men 
to be wary. Shalt., W. T., Iv. 3. 
cozening (kuz'n-ing), n. [Verbal n. of cozen"*, 
v.] Cheating; defrauding, 
coziert, See cosier. 
cozily, cosily (ko'zi-li), adv. In a cozy man- 
ner; snugly; warmly; comfortably, 
coziness, cosiness (ko'zi-nes), n. The quality 
or state of being cozy. 
COZy, cosy (ko'zi), a. and n. [Also written cozey. 
coney, cozie, cosie ; orig. Sc., and perhaps related 
to fii.-sli, neat, snug, comfortable, quiet, social : 
see cos/t 2 .] I. a. Snug; comfortable; warm; 
social. 
Some are cozif. I' the neuk, 
And foriuin' assignations. 
Burnt, Holy Fair. 
After Mr. Bob Sawyer had informed him that he meant 
to be very rowy, and that Ins friend Ben was to be one of 
the party, they shook hands and separated. 
Ihclcent, Pickwick, \\v 
How cozy and pleasant it Is here ! Harper's Mag. 
II. n. A kind of padded covering or cap put 
over a teapot to keep in the heat after the tea 
has been infused. 
C. P. An abbreviation of Common Pleas and 
of Court of Probate. 
0. P. 0. An abbreviation of Cleric of the Priry 
('lllUICil. 
0. P. S. An abbreviation of the Latin Custog 
1'rirnti Sii/illi, Keeper of the Privy Seal. 
Or. 1. A common abbreviation of credit and 
i-fii/itor. 2. In cltem., the symbol for chro- 
mium. 
0. R. An abbreviation (a) of the Latin Custos 
Hntuloriim, Keeper of the Rolls ; (6) of the Latin 
Carolns Rex, Charles the King, or of Carolina 
lirilina, Caroline the Queen. 
crab 1 (krab), n. [Earlv mod. E. crabbe, < MK. 
cnihlu; < AS. ,-rnMiii = f>. krab = MLG. krabbe(> 
(i. l.rnlilic, and prob. the earlier G. form Arn;(/if. 
= F. crnbe) = loeL knihlii = Sw. krrtbba = Dan. 
km bite = (with iliff. suffix) OHG. chrrhi;. crrlii: 
(> ult, E. rrmriixli, rmyfixli. i|. v.), MHG. kre- 
bc:. krrl':i. <i. kri-l* (>t)an. krebs) = D. kn-rft 
crab 
= Sw. kra'fta, a crawfish. Perhaps connrrti-il 
with OIK;. i-ln-ii)ifi>, a hook, claw, and thus nit. 
' 
with K. n-iiiii/il : el'. W. <,,</. .-l:,u- ,n- talons, 
rrnl'ii, serateh. i-nilniii; n iTiih. Tin- L. romlm.- 
(see I'nriihiis) is not akin.] 1. A popular name 
for all the stalk-eyed, ten-footed, ami slimt 
tailed or Hurt-tailed crustaceans coiiHtilutiiig 
the subclass 1'iulnjtkthalmin, order l>i-<-ninitlii, 
inn! suborders l!r<n-lii/nr<i and .lunnmm : dis- 
tinguished from lobsters, shrimps, prawns. 
crawfish, and other long-tailed or macrurous 
crustaceans, by shortness of body, the abdomen 
or so-called tail being reduced and folded un- 
der the thorax and constituting the apron, or 
otherwise modified. See cut under Krachyura. 
The anterior limhs are not used for progression, lief ng che- 
late or furnished with pincer like claws, and cnnMltiilhiu 
chellpeds. The hinge like jolnUof the ambulatory liiuii- 
are so disposed that the animal can move on land in any 
direction without turning ; but its commonest mode of pro- 
gression is sldewise, cither to the right nr the left. The 
eyes are compound and set on movable eye-stalks or oph 
thalmites. (ee cut under ilnlk-ei/ed.) The c ..... in. in edi 
ble crab of Europe Is Cancer payunt*. A smaller specie* 
also eaten is the shore-crab, or green crab, Carcinu* m<r- 
naji. The common blue or edible crab of the I nit e.l States 
is Lupa diacantha, now called Callinrcte* hojitatun or Xt-p- 
I'/in/n hantatug ; when molting, it is called soft -she! led crab. 
The small crabs found In oysters are species of finiintheH- 
</"'. called pea-crabn. Those which have soft tails and live in 
univalveshellsare hermit-crabs, I'aguridce. Tree-crabsare 
of the genus Birgiu. Land-cra)is constitute the family tie- 
carcintdtf. Spiaer-cralisareof thegemiH Maia, as.V.oui- 
nado, the corwich of Europe; and the name is extended to 
many other maloid forms, among them the largest of crabs, 
sometimes from 12 to 18 feet across the outstretched legs. 
Fiddler-crabs belong to the genus Gelatitinu, of the family 
Ocypodida, which also contains the racer-cralw or horse- 
men, species of Oci/pitda, so called from their swiftness. 
Rock*rab is a name of various species of Canerida? proper. 
Box-crabs belong to the family Cala}tpidtK. Porcelain-crabs 
are small bright-colored species of Purcellanidcr. Some 
handsome species of /VrftmtVta' are called lady-crabt; and 
members of this family are also known as tirimminy 
crab*, paddle^rabs, nhutlle-crabtt, etc., the hinder legs 
being broadened and flattened to serve for swimming, as 
In our common edible crab. Tile red crab Is Cancer pro- 
dmtut. Many other crabs are distinguished by qualify- 
ing terms. See the compounds am) the technical names. 
Crabbe is a manere of tlssce in there sea. 
Old Eng. Homilies, p. 51. 
You yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if, like a crab, 
yon could go backward. Shat., Hamlet, II. 2. 
2. Some crustacean likened to or mistaken 
for a crab: as, the glass-crab* / the king-cro6. 
See the compounds. 3. A crab-louse. 4. 
I <''/'] Cancer, a constellation and sign of the 
zomac. See Cancer, 2. 5f. An arch. 
This work 1s isett upon sixe crabbet (Latin cancrotj thewe 
of hard marbilston. 
Trcmsa, tr. of Higden's Polychronlcon, I. 221. 
6. pi. The lowest cast at hazard. 
I ... threw deuce-ace ; upon which the monster In the 
chair bellowed out "Crab*,' and made no more ado. hut 
swept away all my stakes. T. Hook, Gilbert Ouruey, I. vi. 
7. A name of various machines and mechanical 
contrivances, (a) An engine with three claws for 
launching ships and heaving them In the dock, (b) A pil- 
lar sometimes used for the same purpose as a capstan. 
It is an upright shaft, having several holes at the top, 
through which 1 Baring-levers are thrust, (c) A kind of 
portable windlass or 
machine for raising 
weights, etc. Crabs 
are much used in 
building operations 
for raising stones or 
other weight*, and 
In loading and dis- 
charging vessels. 
I'hey are also ap- 
plied in raising the 
weights or rammers 
of pile-driving en- 
gines. (<f)A machine 
used in rope-walks 
for stretching the ,-. 
yarn to its fullest 
extent before it is worked InUi strands, (e) A claw used 
to tcmjHirarily secure a portable machine to the ground. 
Also called crab-mnch. (f) An iron trivet to set over a 
tire. | Prov. Eng. I Crab's claws, iii ,iintr,-ia infdica, 
the tips of the claws ..f the c nun crab, formerly used 
