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with, do not attend, an order will be made for delivering 
it, within a reafonable time. If lie (till negledt to deli¬ 
ver it, the order fliould be made a rule of court; and 
on ferving the fame, and making affidavit thereof, the 
court on motion will grant an attachment. The bill 
being delivered, the client may apply for a judge’s fum- 
1110ns, to fliew caufe why it fliould -not be referred to 
the proper officer to be taxed ; upon which an order will 
be made, the client undertaking to pay what ihall ap¬ 
pear to be due upon fuch taxation. If the attorney do 
not attend, an order will be made of courfe. But the 
client cannot have a fummons for delivery of the bill, 
and taxing it, together. Barnes C. B. 126. 
Costs in' Equity, are allowed for failing to make 
an an fiver to a bill exhibited ; or making an infufficient 
.anfiver: and if a firfl anfvver be certified by a mailer to 
be infufficient, the defendant is to pay forty fhillings 
coils; three pounds for a fecond infufficient anfwer; 
four pounds for a third, &c. But if the anfwer be re¬ 
ported good, the plaintiff (hall pay the defendant forty 
fhillings coils. An anfwer is not to be filed, (till when, 
it is not reputed an anfwer,) until coils for contempt in 
not anfwering are paid. By 4 & 5 Anne, c. 16. if a plain¬ 
tiff in chancery difmiffes his own bill, or the defendant 
■difmiffes the fame for want of profecution, cods are 
allowed to the defendant. In other cafes it feems that 
the matter of cods to be given to either party is not in 
equity held to be a point of right, but merely dif- 
cretionary, under 17 Rich. II. c. 6. according to the cir- 
cumdances of the cafe. Yet the datute 15 Hen. VI. 
c. 14. which requires furety to fatisfy the party grieved 
his damages, on granting the fubpoena, feems exprefsly 
to diredl, that as well damages as cods Ihall be given to 
the defendant, if wrongfully vexed in this court. In 
cafe of a great fraud, a perfon may be obliged to pay 
fuch cods as fliall be afeertained by the injured party on 
oath. 2 Vern. 123. 
COS'TUME, orCoTUME,yi [Fr.] The edablidied 
manners and cudoms of a country. A rule or precept 
in painting, by which the artid is enjoined to make every 
part fudain its proper character. 
COS'TUS, /. [Greek, borrowed from the Arabic.] 
In botany, a genus of the clafs monandria, order rnono- 
gynia, natural order of feitamineae. The generic cha¬ 
racters are—Calyx : perianthium three-toothed, very 
{mail, fuperior. Corolla : petals three, lanceolate, fome- 
what erect, concave, equal; neclary one-leafed, large, 
oblong, tubular-inflated, two-lipped ; lower lip broader, 
longer than the corolla; border fpreading, three-cleft; 
middle divifion three-parted; upper lip lanceolate, fliort- 
efc doing the office of a filament. Stamina : the office of 
a filament is performed by the upper lip of the neCtary, 
to which grows a two-parted anther. Pidillum: germ 
inferior, roundifli; dyle filiform, length of the filament; 
ftigma headed, comprefled, emarginate. Pericarpium : 
capfule roundifli, crowned, three-celled, three-valved. 
Seeds : many, three-cornered. Linnaeus now calls the 
neftary an interior ringent corolla, whole upper lip is 
three-parted, and the middle emarginate. Juflieu calls 
the corolla an interior calyx.— EJfentialCharacter. Corolla, 
inner, inflated, ringent; lower lip trifid. 
Species. 1. Codus Arabicus, or Arabian coflus : leaves 
filky underneath. Root perennial, irregular, two inches 
thick, knotty. Stems annual, Ample, round, three or 
four feet high, near an inch in diameter at bottom, flefliy, 
with a drong bark, lheathed all over. Leaves alternate, 
lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, coriaceous, the larged 
a foot long, on a fliort, thick, Iheathing, petiole ; green 
and fmooth above, paler and very loft underneath. Spike 
very handfome, terminating, fubfeflile, folitary, erect, 
dole, as big as the hand doled. A pair of fpath.es to 
e.ach feflile flower; the outer ovate, acute, concave, co¬ 
riaceous, broad, blood-red; the other oblong, only one- 
third of the breadth, concave, purple at the tip, placed 
011 the right fide of the flower, which it embraces. Calyx 
COT 
in the flower green with a purple tip, in the fruit en¬ 
tirely bloocl-red. Petal and neclary flefli-coloured, fonie- 
times almofl white. Antherse white. Seeds black, with¬ 
out fmell, but having an unpleafant tade ; there is a. 
white fungore fubdance adhering to the bafe, by which 
they are connebled together. Native of the Ead Indies ; 
cultivated in 1752, by Mr. Miller. The roots were 
formerly imported from India, and were much ufed in 
medicine ; but of late years they have not been regard¬ 
ed, the roots of ginger being generally fubdituted for 
them. 
2. Codus glabratus, or fmooth codus : leaves fmooth 
on both fides; fpike few-flowered; feales leafy at the 
tip, the upper ones fadigiate. Spike or head of flowers 
imbricate, with ovate, blunt, concave feales, each one- 
flowered, permanent, green, not coloured. Native of 
the Wed Indies. 
3. Codus fpicatus, or fiiarp-pointed codus: leaves 
fmooth on both fides ; fpike many-flowered, fubovate, 
clofely imbricate ; feales ovate, Ample. Root perennial, 
flefliy, white ; dents fomewhat jointed, almod upright, 
round, fmooth, one or two feet in height; flowers yel¬ 
low, without feent, quickly withering. Native of the 
Caribbee illands, by the fide of torrents. In Martinico 
it is called canne de riviere, and a decodtion of the roots 
and dalks is often given in the gonorrhoea, &c. as a cool¬ 
ing drink. 
4. Codus Malaccenfis, or Malacca codus : leaves very 
finely tomentofe underneath, raceme terminating, bunches 
fix-flowered. Stems feveral, approximating, upright, 
Ample, a little comprefled, fmooth, clothed with the 
flieaths of the leaves, half as high again as a man, fome¬ 
what incurved towards the top. Native of thick woods 
near Tling, in the neighbourhood of Malacca. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe are propagated by part¬ 
ing the roots ; the bed time for doing this is in the lpring, 
before the roots put out new dalks. The roots mud not 
be divided too fniall, becaule that will prevent their 
flowering. They fliould be planted in pots, filled with 
light kitchen-garden earth, and plunged into the tan-bed 
in the dove, where they fliould condantly remain, and 
may be treated in the fame manner as the ginger, which 
is fully treated of under the article Amomum. 
COS'WICK, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and principality of Anhalt Zerbd ; fituated 
on an eminence near the Elbe, with a chateau, the refi- 
dence of the dowager princeires : twelve miles fouth-ead 
of Zerbd, and fix ead of Deffau. 
COT, Cote, or Coat, at the end of the names of places, 
come generally from the Saxon cor, a cottage. Gibfon. 
COT, f. [cor, Sax. cwt, Welfli.] A fmall houfe; a 
cottage ; a hut ; a mean habitation.—Hezekiah made 
himlelf flails for all manner of beads, and cots for flocks. 
2 Chronicles, xxxii. 28. 
As Jove vouchsaf’d on Ida’s top, ’tis faid, 
At poor Philemon’s cot to take a bed. Fenton. 
COT, f. An abridgment of cotqucan. A bed-frame 
with a canvas bottom, fufpended from the beams of a 
fliip, for the officers to deep in between the decks. 
CO'TA (Rodriguez), a Spanifli poet of the fixteenth 
century, author of the Tragi-comedia de Calido y Me- 
liba, which has been mandated into Latin by Gafpar 
Barthius, and into French by James de Lavardin. The 
Spaniards let a great value on this performance. 
CO'TA, f. in botany. See Anthemis. 
CO'TA-TEN'GAH, a town of the illand of Borneo : 
thirty miles north of Banjar Maflin. 
COTABAM'BO, a jurifdiftion in Peru, South Ame¬ 
rica, fubjedt to the bifliop of Cufco, twenty leagues 
fouth-wefl of that city. It abounds in grain, fruits, and 
cattle. Its rich mines are now almod exhauded. 
COTAN'GENT. See Cosecant. 
COTANTIN', or Coutantin, or Cotentin, be¬ 
fore the revolution, a country of France, in Lower Nor¬ 
mandy, 
