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are the wife’s, are the hatband’s; nor hath the wife 
power over herfelf, bat the hulband; and if the hufband 
alien the wife’s larfd, daring the coverture, Ihe cannot 
avoid it during his life ; bat after his death, lt.e may re¬ 
cover by cui in vita. See the article Baron and Feme, 
voL ii. p. 742, &c. 
COU'ESNON, a river of France, which runs into the 
Authion by two ft reams, near Beaufort, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Mayne and Loire. 
COU'ESNON, a river of France, which runs into the 
fea, three leagues north-well of Pontorfon, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Channel. 
COUET', a town of SwiHerland, in the bifliopric of 
Bale : five miles fouth-weft of Delmont. 
To CO'VET, v. a. \_convoiter, Fr.] To defire inordi¬ 
nately ; to defire beyond due bounds : 
■If it be a fin to covet honour, 
I am the moll offending man alive. Shakefpcare. 
O father! can it be, that fouls fublime 
Return to vifit our terrellrial clime ? 
And that the gen’rous mind, releas’d by death, 
Can covet lazy limbs and mortal breath >. Dry den. 
To defire earneftly.—- Covet earneltly the belt gifts. 1 Cor. 
xii. 31.—All things coveting as much as may be to be like 
unto God ingoing ever ; that which cannot hereunto at¬ 
tain perfonaliy, doth feek to continue itfelf another way, 
by offspring and propagation. Hooker.'- 
To CO'VET, v. n. To have a ftrorig defire,—The love 
of money is the root of all evil, which while fome coveted 
after, they have erred from the faith. 1 Tim. vi. 
“ All Co vet all lofe.’' This old proverb is thus fpaken 
inFrench : Qui trap ermraffe, maletreint .- He'who undertakes 
too much, fucceeds ill; or, as we fay, He who has two 
■many irons in the fire mufi letfome of them burn. The Latins 
fay, Duos infequens lepores neutrum capit: He who hunts two 
hares, catches neither. The Greeks, O <wo mur.a.<; huy-av, 
a&Tsfo'v ■/.a.rccha.f/.Qa.vci. Erafnus. —The Scots fay, You take 
more in your mouth than your cheeks car hold. All allufive to 
thole who take more bufinefs upon them than they can 
well manage ; dr who,' by grafping at too much, (like 
riSfop’s dog in the fable,) quit the fubllance to catch at 
the Shadow. The Italians fay as .the French, Chi troppo 
abbraccia, nulla fringe. ■ A 
CO'VET ABLE, adj. To be wifhed for; to be coveted. 
COV.ETINGLY, adv. Ardently.—Moll covetingly rea¬ 
dy. Ben jonfon. 
CO'VETISE, f. \_convoitoife, Fr.] Avarice; covetouf- 
nefs of money. Not in ufe -. 
Moil wretched wight, whom nothing might fuffice, 
Whofe greedy lull did lack in greatell itore ; 
Whofe need had end, but no end covetife. Spenfer. 
CO'VETOUS, adj. \jconvoiteux, Fr.] Inordinately de- 
firous; eager: 
While cumber’d with my dropping cloaths I lay. 
The cruel nation, covetous of prey, 
Stain’d-with my blocd th’ unhofpitable coafl. Dryden. 
Inordinately eager of money ; avaricious.—An heart thdy 
have exercifed with covetous pradtices. 2 Peter, ii. 14.— 
Let never fo much probability hang on one fide of a co¬ 
vetous man’s reafoning, and money on the other, it is eafy 
to forefee which will outweigh. Locke .—Delirous; eager: 
in a good firfe. —He that is envious or angry at a virtue 
that is not his own, at the perfection or excellency of his 
, neighbour, is not covetous of the virtue, but of its re¬ 
ward and reputation; and then his intentions are pol¬ 
luted. Taylor. 
Sheba was never 
More covetous of vvifdom -and fair virtue, 
Than this fair foul lhall be. Skakefpcare. 
The Covetous man, like a dog in a wheel, roalts 
meat for others.” That is, he toils to raife an eltate for 
other people to/njoy. And as the dog is obliged for all 
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his labour to be content with the'fight and the fine!!, fo 
the covetous man becomes a fltve to this fordid vice, 
and has no enjoyment but in counting his money. 
CO'VETOUSLY, adv. A varicioufiy ; eagerly.—If he 
care not tort, he will fupply us ealily ; if he covetoujly 
referve it, how {hall’s get it \ Shakefpcare. 
CO'VETOUSNESS, f. Avarice; inordinate defire of 
money ; eagernefs of gain.—He that takes pains to fennr 
the ends of covetoufnejs, or minifters to another’s luft, or 
keeps a fliop of impurities or intemperance, is idle in the 
word fenfe. Taylor.—Covetoufnefs debafeth a man’s fpirit, 
and finks it into the earth. Tiliotfon. —Eagertiefs ; delire : 
in a neutralfeuje ; 
When workmen drive to do better than well, 
They do confound their (kill in covetoufnefs. Shakefpcare. 
CO'VEY, f. \_couvee, Fr.] A hatch ; an old bird with 
her young ones. A number of birds together.—A covey 
of partridges fpringing in pur front, put our infantry in 
diiorder. Addifon. —There would be no walking in a fiiady 
wood, without fpringing a xov/y of toads. Guardian. 
COU'FA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the Arabian 
Irak : 122 miles fouth of Bagdat. 
COU'GAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province'of Pe-tche-li : fix leagues north of Pa. 
COUGH, J'. [kuch, Dut.] A conyailfion of the lungs, 
veilicated by fome {harp ferofity. It is pronounced coff. 
For the cure, fee Medicine. -fc-In confumptions of ihe 
lungs, when nature cannot expel the cough, men fall into 
fluxes of the belly, and then they die. Bacon. 
For his dear fake long redlefs nights you bore, 
While rattling coughs his heaving veli'els tore. Smith. 
To COUGH, v. n. [ kitchen , Dut.] To have tlie lungs 
convulfed ; to make a noil'e by endeavouring to evacuate 
the peccant matter from the lungs.—If any humour be 
difeharged upon the lungs, they have a faculty of cafling 
it up by coughing. Ray. 
Thou didd drink 
The dale of horfes, and the gilded puddle 
Which health would cough at. Shakefpcare. 
To COUGH, v. a. To ejedl by a cough ; to expecto¬ 
rate.—If the matter be to be discharged by expectora¬ 
tion, it mud fil'd pafs v into the lubdance of the lungs; 
then into the afpera arteria, or weafand ; and from thence 
be coughed up, and fpit dut by the mouth. Wifeman. 
CO'UGHER,y. One that coughs. 
COU'GIN-PE, a pod of Chinefe Tartary: thirty miles 
fouth of Tchahan Soubarkan. 
COU'HE VERAC, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Vienne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
didricl of Luzignan: three leagues fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Luzignan. 
CO'VIN,/! A term in law for a deceitful compadl be¬ 
tween two or more, to deceive or prejudice others; 
as if tenant for life or in tail conlpircs with another, that 
he {hall recover the land which he the tenant holds, in 
prejudice of him in reveriion. Plowd. 546. Covin is 
commonly converfant in and about conveyances of land 
by fine, feoffment, recovery, &c. And then it tends to 
defeat purchafiers of the lands they purchafe, and credi¬ 
tors of their juft debts ; and fo it is ufed in deeds of gift 
of goods ; it may be likewife ufed fometimes in fuits of 
law, and judgments had in them. But wherever covin 
is, it {hall never be intended, unlefs it appears and be par¬ 
ticularly found ; for. covin ahd fraud tiro ugh proved, yet 
mufi; be found by the jury, or it will not be good. BrownL 
188. If one make a leafe to a perlon by covin, and after 
grant another leafe to another bonafide, but without any 
fine or rent; in this cafe the fecond leffee may not avoid 
the firft leafe,, becaufe he is not a purchafer that comes 
in for money. 3 Rep. 83. On recovery by a good title 
there may be covin; as where tenant for life, by affent, 
&c. fuffers a recovery by nil dicit, without making any 
defence; and if a man hath a rightful and juft caufe of 
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