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COTRONE'I, a town of Italy, in the province of Ca¬ 
labria Ultra : ten miles weft of St. Severina. 
COTRONGIA'NO, a town of the ifland of Sardinia: 
ten miles eaft of SaiTari. 
COTSCJO'PIRI,/. in botany. See Gardenia. 
COTT,/i [Irifti.] A rough kind of boat: 
And what that ufage meant, 
Which in her cott fhe daily practifed. Spenfcr. 
COT'TA (M. Aurelius) a Roman, who oppofed Ma¬ 
rias. He was conful with Lucullus; and when in Afia, he 
was defeated by fea and land, by Mithridates. He was 
funtamed Poriticus, becaufe he took Heraclea of Pontus 
by treachery. Plutarch .—An orator, greatly commended 
by Cicero. A governor of Puphlagonia, very faithful to 
Sardanapalus. Diodorus. 
COT'TA (John), a Latin poet, born in a village near 
Verona, gained confiderable reputation by his talents. 
He followed to the wars Bartholomew" d’Alviano, a Ve¬ 
netian general-who had a regard for him-; but he was 
taken by the French at the battle of Ghiara d’Adda, in 
1-509, and did not regain his liberty for fome time. His 
patron difpatched him to pope Julius II. at Viterbo, 
where he died in 1511, at the age of twenty-eight, of a 
peftilential fever. Several of his epigrams and orations 
are printed in the colledtion, intitled, Carmina quinque 
Poetarum. Venice, 1548, 8vo. 
COT'TA, a,town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and margravate of MeilTen : four miles fouth 
of Pirna, 
COT'TAGE, f. A hut; a mean habitation ; a cot; 
a little houfe.—The fea coaft fital 1 be dwellings and cot¬ 
tages for fliepherds, and folds for flocks. Zeph. ii. 6.— 
Let the women of noble birth and great fortunes nurfe 
their children, look to the affairs of the houfe, vilit poor 
cottages, and relieve their neceflities. Taylor. 
The felf-fame fun that fltines upon his court, 
Hides not his vifage from our cottage , but 
Looks on both alike. Shakefpearc. 
By 31 Eliz. c. 7. cottages were prohibited to be eredted 
without laying at leaft four acres of land to the fame ; 
and divers other reftridtions were thereby injoined. But 
this w r as repealed by 15 Geo. III. c. 32. fetting forth 
that the faid ffatute of 31 Eliz. had laid the induftrious 
poor under great difficulties to procure habitations, and 
tended very much to leflen population ; and in divers 
other refpedts was inconvenient to the labouring part of 
the nation in general. 
COT'TAGED, part. adj. Filled with cottages: 
E’en humble Harting’s cottag'd vale 
Shall learn the fad repeated tale. Collins. 
COT'TAGER,/". One who lives in a hut or cottage: 
Let us from our farms 
Call forth our cottagers to arms. Swift. 
COT'TAM,yi in botany. See Mentha. 
COT'TAN, a tow'n of Afia, in Little Bukkaria ; a 
place of confiderable trade between the Tartars and the 
Indian merchants. 
COT'TEREL (fir Charles), foil of fir Clement Cot- 
terel, of Wylsford in Lincolnfhire, groom-porter to James 
I. He was, in the interregnum, fteward to the queen of 
Bohemia; and, in 1670, when he was created dodtor of 
laws in the univerfity of Oxford, it appears that he was 
mailer of the requefts to Charles II. He pofieffed in an 
extraordinary degree the accomplifhments of a gentle¬ 
man, and particularly excelled in the knowledge of mo¬ 
dern languages. During the exile of his royal mailer, 
he tranflated from the French Calilmdra the famed Ro¬ 
mance, which has been feveral times printed. He had a 
principal hand in tranflating Davila’s Pliftory of the Civil 
Wars of France, from the Italian, and feveral pieces of 
lefs note from the Spaniffi. In 1686, he refigned his 
place of mailer of the ceremonies, and vvas iucceeded by 
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his fon Charles Lodowick Cotferel. He is celebrated 
by Mrs. Catherine Philips under the name ot Poliarchus, 
COT'TILAH, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Mewat: eighty-two miles fouth of Delhi, and feventy- 
two weft of Agra. Lat. 27. 24. N. Ion. 77. 7. E. Green¬ 
wich. 
COTTIWAR', a circar of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Guzerat. 
COT'TON,y. [named, according to Skinner, from the 
down that adheres to-the mala cotonca, or quince, called by 
the Italians cotogni-, whence cottorc, Ital. cotton, Fr.] The 
down of the cotton-tree.—-The pin ought to be as thick 
as a rowling-pin, and covered with cotton, that its hard- 
nefs may not be offenfive. Wijeman. —Cloth made of 
cotton. 
To COT'TON, v. n. To rife with a knap. In allufion 
to which fenfe early writers ufed it metaphorically for 
to turn out right. —This geer cottons. Beaumont and Fletcher. 
To cement; to unite with: a cant word. — A quarrel will 
end in one of you being turned off, in which cafe it will 
not be eafy to cotton with another. Swift. 
COT'TON, f. in botany, the tree and plants which 
produce cotton. The fpecies are, 1. Shrubby cotton. 2. 
The molt excellent American cotton, with a greenilh feed. 
3. Annual Ihrubby cotton, of the ifland of Providence. 4. 
The tree cotton. 5. Tree cotton , with a yellow flower. 
The firft fort is cultivated plentifully in Candia, Lem¬ 
nos, Cyprus, Malta, Sicily, and at Naples.; as alfo be¬ 
tween Jerufalem and Damafcus, from whence the cotton 
is brought annually into thefe northern parts of Europe. 
The cotton is the wool which inclofes or wraps up the 
feeds, and is contained in a kind of brown hulk, or leed- 
veftel, growing upon this flirub. It is from this fort 
that the vaft quantities of cotton are taken, which furnifh 
our parts of the world. The fecond and third forts are 
annual : thefe are cultivated in the Weft Indies in great 
plenty. But the fourth and fifth forts grow in Egypt : 
thefe abide many years, and often arrive to be trees of 
great magnitude. Miller. 
Cotton makes a very confiderable article in commerce, 
and forms, at the prefent time, one of the moft important 
manufactures in Great Britain. The raw material is 
diftinguilhed into cotton-wool and cotton-thread. Cot¬ 
ton-wool is the material moftly employed in our manu¬ 
factories, and is produced by the cultivation of th e gqf 
fypium, or cotton-tree. Of this there are various fpecies, 
which differ in ftaple and in texture. That fpecies 
known by the name of vine-cotton, from its being a low 
fpreading ftirub, courting the ground like a repent 
plant, produces a wool fuperior to all the others. For 
the propagation and culture of this invaluable plant, fee 
the article Gossypium. 
Cloths made of cotton came into ufe in England early 
in the feventeenth century. They were a great article 
of importation from the Levant, during that period for 
which the trade with Turkey brought fo much wealth 
into London. The raw material, as'well as the goods 
made of it, was. imported, even in the feventeenth cen¬ 
tury, in fmali quantities ; but it did not immediately 
enter into manufacture in this country, fo as to rife into 
any competition with our manufactures of linens and 
woollens. When our trade with the eaft became more 
extenfive, our importation of cotton-ftuffs continually 
increafed; they came gradually to be a general and fa¬ 
vourite article of drefs both in England and the reft of 
Europe. Calicoes and muffins were preferred in female 
drefs to worfted-ftuffs, linfey-wolleys, linen gowns, and. 
cambrics. Still, however, great difficulty was found in 
the attempt to fpin or weave this material, in fuch a 
manner as to produce fabrics which might be, with any 
advantage, offered to fale in the markets,.in competition 
with thole of India and Turkey. In the art of dying 
cottons, too, we long found it impoffible to rival the 
people of the Levant. Muffins, though of very inferior 
excellence of fabric') were, however, introduced, by de¬ 
grees 
