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COW’RING, f. in falconry, the quivering of young 
liawks, which fhake their wings in fign of obedience to 
the old ones. 
COW'KY ,f. A flrel 1 belonging to the genus eyprtea, 
which in many parts of the Eaft Indies, in Africa, and 
South America, is ufed as a circulating medium, or the 
reprefentative of money. In Hiudooltan eighty cowries 
make a pun, value one half-penny ; and fixty puns make 
one rupee, value half-a-crown. In Japan thefe Ihells are 
levigated and made into a delicate varnifh, with which 
the boys and girls paint their faces.' See Conchology, 
p, 24, of this volume. 
COX (Richard), an Englilh bifliop, born about the 
year 1500, at Wluiddon in Buckinghamfhire. He was 
educated at Eton fchool, and thence elected to king’s 
college, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowfliip in 
1519. He was invited by cardinal Wolfey to Oxford, to 
fill up his new foundation; but by favouring Luther’s 
opinions, and fpeaking his mind too freely, he was de¬ 
prived of his preferment, and thrown into prifon. When 
lie had recovered his liberty, he left Oxford ; Yome time 
after was chofen mailer of Eton fchool, which flourifhed 
remarkably under him ; and, by the interefl of Cranmer, 
obtained the archdeaconry of Ely, a prebend’s flail in 
the fame church, and of Lincoln, and the deanery of 
Chriftchurch. He was appointed tutor to prince Ed¬ 
ward; and, on that prince’s acceflion to the throne, be¬ 
came a favourite at court. He was made a privy-coun- 
fellor, and the king’s almoner; and, for the augmenta¬ 
tion of the king’s alms, had a grant made him of all 
goods and chattels of felons. He was e’edled chancellor 
of the univerfity of Oxford in 1547; the next year in- 
flalled canon of Windfor ; and the year following dean 
of Weflminller. About this time lie was appointed one 
of the commiflioners to vilit the univerlity of Oxford ; 
and when the aft palled for giving up all chantries, col¬ 
leges, &c. to the king, the colleges in both univerfities 
were excepted, through his powerful interceflion. 
Upon Mary’s acceflion, he was llripped of his prefer¬ 
ments, and committed to the Marfhalfea: but his con¬ 
finement was not long ; and, as foon as he was releafed, 
forefeeing the impending Itorm, he refolved to take re¬ 
fuge in fome other country. He went to Strafburg in 
order to converfe with his friend Peter Martyr, whom 
he had known intimately at Oxford, and whole learning 
and moderation he highly efteemed. When the bloody 
fcene in England was doled by the death of Mary, he 
returned, and was ope of thole divines who were ap¬ 
pointed to revife the liturgy. Ilis abilities in the pul¬ 
pit, and his zeal for the Englifh liturgy, were foon re¬ 
warded by queen Elizabeth, with the bifhopric of Ely ; 
over which fee he prefided above twenty-one years, and 
was one of the chief pillars and ornaments of the church. 
He enjoyed it till his death, which happened in 15S1, in 
his eighty-fecond year. 
It mult be remembered of tlris bifliop, that he was the 
firft who brought a wife to live in a college ; and that 
he procured a new body of ftatutes for St. John’s col¬ 
lege in Cambridge, of which he was vifitor as bifliop of 
Ely. He was author of feveral things, publifhed chiefly 
fince his deceafe, viz. 1. An Oration at the beginning of 
the Difputation of Dr. Trelham and others with Peter 
Martyr. 2. An Oration at the Conclulion of the fame, 
printed in 1549, 4to. 3, He was principally concerned 
in compiling the Liturgy of the Church of England : and 
when a new tranflation of the Bible was made in the 
reign of Elizabeth, known by the name of the Bifliop’s 
Bible, the Four Gofpels, the Adis of the Apollles, and 
the Epillle to the Romans, were allotted to him. 4. He 
wrote Refolutions of fome Queftions concerning the Sa¬ 
craments ; to be found in the addenda to Burnet’s Hif- 
tory of the Reformation. 5. Several letters and tradls of 
his have been publiflied by Strype in his Annals of the 
Reformation. He alfo had a hand in Lilly’s Grammar. 
COX'COMB, f. Jock and comb, corrupted front cock's 
Vol. V. No. 275. 
COY S13 
comb .] The top of the head.—As the cockney did to the 
eels, when flie put them in the pally alive ; fite wrapt 
them o’ th’ coxcombs with a flick, and cried, Down, wan¬ 
tons, down ! Shakefpcare. —The comb refembling that of 
a cock, which licenfed fools wore formerly in their caps. 
—There, take my coxcomb: why, this fellow lias banilhed 
two of Iris daughters, and did the third a bleiTing again!! 
his will : if thou follow him, thou mull needs wear my 
coxcomb. Shakejpcare. —A fop : a fuperficial pretender to 
knowledge or accomplilhments.—It is a vanity for every 
pretending coxcomb to make himfelf one of the party Hill 
with his betters. L'EJrange. 
Some are bew ilder’d in the maze of fchools, 
And fome made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope. 
A kind of red flower. See Celosia. 
COX'COMBLY, adj. Conceited.—:She is a mod en¬ 
gaging creature, if Ihe were not fo fond of that damn’d 
coxcombly lord of hers. Congreve. 
COXCO'MICAL, adj. Foppifli ; conceited : a low 
word, unworthy of vfe .—Becaufe, as he was a very natural 
writer, and they were without prejudice, without pre- 
pofleflion, without affectation, and without the influence 
of coxcomical fenfelefs ‘cabal, they were at liberty to re¬ 
ceive the impreflions which things naturally made on 
their minds. Dennis. 
COX'HALL, a townfliip of the American States, in 
York county, diflriCt of Maine, containing, by the cen¬ 
sus, 775 inhabitants. 
COXSA'KIE, a townlhip of the American States, in 
the weftern part of Albany county, New York, contain¬ 
ing 3406 inhabitants. Of the citizens 613 are electors, 
by the cenfus of 1796. 
COX'WYCK, a town of Norway : forty-four miles 
north-north-eafl of Romfdal. 
COY, adj. \_coi, Fr. quietus, Lat.] Modelt; decent: 
Jafon is as coy as is a maid ; 
He looked piteoufly, but nought he faid. Chaucer. 
Referved ; not acceflible ; not eafily condefcending to 
familiarity.—At this feafon every fmile of the fun, like 
the fmile of a coy lady, is as dear as it is uncommon. Pope. 
Like Phoebus fung the no lefs am’rous boy: 
Like Daphne Ihe, as lovely and as coy. Waller. 
To COY, v. n. To behave with referve ; to rejedt fa¬ 
miliarity : 
What, coying it again ! 
No more; but make me happy to my gull, 
That is, without your ftruggling*. Drydcn. 
To make difficulty ; not to condefcend willingly : 
If he coy'd 
To hear Cominius fpeak, I’ll keep at home. Shakcfpeare, 
To COY, v. a. [for decoy. To allure. Not in ufe: 
I’ll mountebank their loves, 
Coy their hearts from them, and come home belov’d 
Of all the trades in Rome. Skakefpeare . 
To ftroke lovingly: 
Come, fit thee down upon this flow’ry bed, 
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy. Shakcfpeare. 
COY'AU, a fettlement of the American States, on 
Tennelfee river, thirty miles below Knoxville. 
COYE'GEM, a town of Flanders: one league and a 
half from Furnes. 
COY'ER (l’Abbe), born at Baume-les-Nones in Fran- 
che-Comte, died at Paris July 18, 1782, in an advanced 
age, was for fome time a jefuit. Having quitted that 
fociety, he repaired to the capital about 1751, and fought 
a livelihood by his pen. He began his career by certain 
fugitive pieces, whereof fome, as the Difcovery of the 
Philofopher’s Stone, in imitation of Swift, and the Mi¬ 
raculous Year, had the mod fuccefs. Thefe trifles were 
collected under the title of Bagatelles Morales. Some 
of the pieces in this collediion are written with eafe, de- 
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