cos 
and yielded generous wine. Strabo. It bonded of Hip¬ 
pocrates and Apelles; and was the country of Philetas, 
an excellent elegiac poet, who fiourifhed in the time of 
Philip and Alexander : tire preceptor of Ptolemy Phila- 
delphus : fo thin and light, that he w r as obliged to wear 
lead to prevent being carried away by the wind. The 
veftes Cone, made of lilk, were famous for their finenefs 
and colour. In the fuburbs of Cos flood the temple of 
AEfculapius, a noble ftrudture, and extremely rich. 
COS, or Cos Turcica, the hone, or whetftone. See 
T urkey-stone. 
CO'SA, fee Coosy. 
CO'SACS, or Cosaques, a people fituated originally 
on the confines of Poland, Rullia, Tartary, and Turkey, 
between the Jaic and the Dniefler. The name implies 
bands or troops of horfe. They are divided into three 
branches, called CoJ'akkifa-P orovi, or Cofacks on the Bo- 
riftheues. Thefe, in the year 1562, entered into an al¬ 
liance with Poland; and in 1674 a part of the territory 
came under the dominion of Ruflia. Taking the part 
of Charles XII. of Sweden, a great number of them 
were'maifacred by Peter the Great after the battle of 
Pultowa. They are now entirely fubjedt to Rullia; 
and their country, heretofore the Ukraine, is become a 
government, under the name of Ekatcrinojlav . The Co- 
iakki-Donlki, or the Cofacks on the Don, are fubjeft to 
Ruffia, and inhabit a province called the Country of the 
Cofacks, on the fides of the Don. The Cofakki-Jaiki, or 
Cofacks on the Jaik, inhabit the borders of the Ural or 
Jaik, and the north coal! of the Cafpian Sea, and are 
fubjeef likewife to Ruftra. 
COSA'LE, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Abruzzo Citra: fix miles fouth- 
eaft of Civita Borella. 
COSCI'NOMANCY, or Coskin omancy,/! [year. mov, 
a fieve,.and patina, divination.] The art of divination 
by a fieve, a fuperflitious contrivance to find out perfons 
unknown, and alfo to difeover the fecrets of thole who 
were known. The manner of performing it was as fol¬ 
lows : the fieve being fufpended, the diviner rehearfed a 
formula of words, and taking it between two fingers 
only, repeated the name of the parties fufpecied, and 
when at the mention of any name the fieve turned, 
trembled, or (hook, the perlon fufpeffed was pronounced 
guilty of the evil concerning which the enquiry was 
made. The fieve was fometimes fufpended by a thread, 
or fixed to the points of a pair of fiiears having room 
left to turn, and then the names of perfons fulpedted 
were rehearfed. After this manner it is Hill faid to be 
pradlifed by the ignorant and fuperftitious. It is a very 
ancient practice mentioned by Theocritus. 
COSE'CANT, COSINE, COTANGENT, CO¬ 
VERSED SINE.y: are the fecant, fine, tangent, and 
verfed fine, of the complement of an arch or angle : co 
being, in this cafe, a contradfion of the word comple¬ 
ment, and was firft introduced by Gunter. 
COSEIR'. See Cossir. 
COSEL', or Kozle, a town of Silefia, in the princi¬ 
pality of Oppeln, near the Oder, belonging to Prulfia, 
and fortified by Frederic II. thirty-two miles eaft-fouth- 
eaft of Neifs, and thirty w r eft of Beuthen. 
CO'SENAGE, f [cmifnage, Fr.] In law', a writ that 
lies where the trefail, that is, the father of the befail, 
or great grandfather, being feifed of lands and tene¬ 
ments in fee at his death, and a ftranger enters upon the 
heir and abates ; then fhall his heir have the writ of cofi- 
nage. Brit. c.89. F.N.B. 221. 
CO'SENING,_/l an offence againft the law, where any 
tiling is done deceitfully, whether belonging to contracts 
or not, which cannot be properly termed by any fpecial 
name. 
COSEN'ZA, a towm of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Calabria Citra, fituated on feven 
fmall hills at the foot of the Apennines ; the fee of an 
archbifhop, who has for his fuffragan the bifhops of 
Vol. V. No. 270. 
Martorano and Cafiano. The metropolitan is the only 
church within the walls ; but there are three parilh 
churches in the fauxbourgs. There are twelve con¬ 
vents. The environs are beautiful, populous, and well 
cultivated, producing abundance of corn, fruit, oil, 
wine, and (ilk. Cofenza has frequently fullered from 
earthquakes,.particularly in the year 1638 : one hundred 
and forty-five miles fouth-eaft of Naples. Lat. 39. 22. N. 
Ion. 34. S. E. Ferro. 
CO'SEUS, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the Arabian 
Irak: eighty miles fouth of Bagdat. 
COSH'ERING, f. in the feudal cufioms, a pretended 
right of the lord to fealt himfelf and his followers at the 
tenants’ houfes. The word is perhaps derived from the 
old Englifh co/he, a cot or cottage. 
CO'SIA DI DONNA, a fmall ifland near the weft 
coal! of Sardinia: fix leagues weft-fouth-well of Bofa. 
CO'SIER,y: [from confer, old Fr. to few. ] A botch¬ 
er. Hamncr. —Do you make an alehoufe of my lady’s 
houfe, that ye fqueak out your coficr catches, without any 
mitigation or remorfe of voice ? Shakefpeare. 
CO'SIMO (Andrew and Peter), Italian painters, of 
whom the former excelled in the claro-obfcuro, and the 
other in Angular compofitions. The genius of the lat¬ 
ter, fertile in extravagant conceptions, brought about 
him all the young men of his time, for the fake of get¬ 
ting fubjedls for ballets and mafquerades. His applica¬ 
tion was fo ftrong, that he fometimes even forgot to take 
his meals. Among his fcholars were Andrew del Sarto, 
and Francis de Sangallo. He died in 1521, at the age of 
eighty, of the effedfs of a paralytic ftroke. He was a 
man of a lingular charadter, and of very irritable nerves. 
The crying of infants, the noife of bells, the coughing 
of people that had colds, were fufficient to ruffle Iris 
mind. On the other hand, to walk in a fhow'er of rain 
was agreeable to him ; but thunder fo alarmed him, that 
even a long time after the ftorm, he has been found in 
an oblcure corner of a cellar, muffled up in his cloak. 
CO'SINE, lee Cosecant. 
COSINESS A, a fmall ifland in the Grecian Archipe¬ 
lago. Lat. 36. 36. N. Ion. 43. 28. E. Ferro. 
COS'LI, a town of European Turkey, in the province 
of Bulgaria : fifty-two miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Siliftria. 
COSLI A'CO, a town of Auftrian Iftria : twelve miles 
weft of St. Veit. 
COSLI'N, fee Cosslin. 
COSME'TIC, adj. [y.oo-^ma, from to adorn.] 
Having the power of improving beauty; beautifying. 
Cofmetics are medicaments that whiten and ibften the 
lkin, or in general any thing helping to promote the 
comelir.efs or good appearance of the perfon w ho ufes it, 
as waflies, waters, pomatums, paftes. Bailey. —No better 
cofmetics than a fevere temperance and purity, modefty. 
and humility : no true beauty without the fignature.s of 
thefe graces in the very countenance. Ray. 
Firft, rob’d in white, the nymph intent adores, 
With head uncover’d, the cofmetic pow’rs. Pope. 
COS'MICAL, adj. [xocof Gr. the 
world.] Relating to the world; riling or letting with 
the fun ; not acronicai. 
COS'MICAL ASPECT, in aftrology, is the afpedt 
of a planet with refpeeft to the earth. Cofniical rijing, 
or fetting, is faid of a liar when it riles or lets at the 
fame time when the fun rifes. But, according to Kepler, 
to rife or fet cofmically, is only limply to rife or fet, 
that is, to afeend above, or delcend below, the horizon ; 
as much as to fay, to rife or fet to the world. 
COS'MICALLY, adv. With the fun; not acroni-- 
cally.—From the riling of this ftar, not cofmically, that, 
is, with the fun, but heliacally, that is, its emerlion 
from the rays of. the fun, the ancients computed their: 
canicular days. Broom. 
COS'MIN, or Kosmin, a town of Poland, in the pa¬ 
latinate of Kalilh : fixteen.miles fouth-weft of Califli. 
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