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licacy, and fprig.htlinefs. Befides t’liefe, the abbe alfo 
wrote, i. The Hiftory of John Sobiefki, 3 vo!s. 121110. 
1761. a very interefting work. 2. Travels in Italy and 
Holland, 1775, 2 vols. 121110. 3. New Obfervations on 
England, 1779, 121110. which is little elfe than an abridg¬ 
ment of Grotley’s London. A coliedtion in 2 vols. 121110. 
has been made of the Bagatelles Morales, the Nobleffe 
Commeryante, Chinki, and another work in tit led O11 
Preaching, in which the author attempts to prove the 
inutility of preaching to the corredtion and improvement 
of mankind. 
COYL, a river of Hindoodan, which rifes twenty miles 
north from Cliuta Nagpour, in the province of Bahar, 
and joins the Soank, thirty-four miles fouth of Conjoor; 
they both together form the -Brantnee. 
COY'LY, adv. With referve ; with, difmclination to 
familiarity : 
T his laid, his hand he coyly fnatch’d away 
. From forth Antinous’ hand. Chapman. 
COY 'NESS, f. Referve; unwillingnefs to become fa¬ 
miliar.—When the fun hath warmed tile earth and water, 
three or four male carps will follow a female : and die 
putting on a feeming coynejs, they force her through 
weeds and flags. Walton. 
When the kind nymph would ccynrfs feign, 
And hides but to-be found again. Drydm. 
COY'PEL (Charles Antoine), the fourth celebrated 
painter of that name, bor-n at Paris in 1694, died there 
in 1752, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. The family 
of the Co.ypels had long been famous, for producing 
painters. Noel Coypel, the grandfather, was director of 
the academy at Rome ; Antoine Coypel, the father, was 
principal painter to the French king, and the duke of 
Orleans, and at the fame time furveyor of painting and 
ficulptufe ;• and Noel Nicolas Coypel, the uncle, profef- 
for of that academy. Antoine Coypel was admitted into 
the academy of painting in his twentieth year, where he 
had already executed feveral pictures of great merit; his 
fon, to whom he left his name, his talents, his know¬ 
ledge, and virtues, enjoyed the lame, good fortune in his 
ivventy-firft year: he was firft painter to the duke of Or¬ 
leans, and, in 1747, to the king. Though his perfonal 
qualities and endowments had already made him a wel¬ 
come guelt with princes and great men of the court, yet 
tins lalt appointment increased his reputation. He had 
the merit of erecting a preparatory fchool at Paris for 
the young pupils, who went to Rome, where they (tudied 
liiftory, and exercifed themfelves under able matters. To 
him likewife the public were indebted for the exhibition 
of the pictures in the Luxembourg gallery. He was au¬ 
thor of feveral theatrical performances ; and the well- 
known Don Quixote is by him. But not plays alone 
came from the pen of Coypel ; we have feveral diflerta- 
tions of his on the art of painting,'and academical lec¬ 
tures, which are now in print. He wrote the life of his 
own father, which excels no lefs by the delicate manner 
in which he criticifes his father, than-by the modelty 
with which he fpeaks of himfelf. His acquaintance was 
very much fought after ; and. he was remarkable for his 
liberal fpirit. He caufed a houfe that had been blown 
down to be rebuilt at his own expence, without the im- 
poverifhed owner’s ever knowing to whom he was in¬ 
debted for the bounty. He annually laid by two thou- 
fand livres for works of charity ; and requefted the duke 
of Orleans to employ the expence of the coach which 
that prince kept for him, in alms to the poor. 
COY'SEVOX (Anthony), an ingenious French fculp- 
tor, born at Lyons in 1640; died chancellor and regent 
of the academy of painting and fculpture in 1720. Ver- 
failles boafts his bed works. We have, betides, the figure 
of that great minifter, M. Colbert, on his tomb, in the 
church of St. Euftachius ; the two groups of Renown, 
and Mercury, in the Thuilleries; and the player on the 
fiute, in the Janie garden. The Neptune and Amjphy- 
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trite, .at Marly, with many very fine buds, are the works 
of this artid, who was endowed with a mod fruitful 
imagination, and an admirable execution. 
COY'STREL, or Kestrel, f. A fpeeies of hawk. 
See Falco, 
One they might trud, their common.wrongs to wreak: 
The mufquet and the coyfacl were too weak, 
Too fierce the falcon. Drydcn. 
COZ, f. A cant or familiar word, contra feed from 
coufin: 
Be merry, coz ; fince fuddeii forrovv 
Serves to fay thus, lome good thing comes to-morrow. 
Shakefpcare. 
COZE', a town of Fra nee, in the department of the 
Lower Charente, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trict of Saintes: four leagues fouth-fouth-weft of Saintes. 
'/b- CG'ZEN, v.a. [To co/e is in the old Scotch dialed!, 
as Junius-bbfefves, to chop or change; whence cozen, 
to cheat ; betaufe in fucli traffic there is commonly 
fraud.] To cheat; to trick; to defraud.—Let the queen 
pay never fo hfjly, let the muber-mafter view them never 
fo diligently, let the deputy or general look to them 
never fo exactly, yet they can cozen them all, Spenfcr. 
What if I pleafe to lengthen out his date 
A day, and take a pride to cozen fate. Drydcn. 
CO'ZENAGE, f. Fraud ; deceit; artifice ; fallacv ; 
trick; cheat; the practice of cheating.—Wifdom with¬ 
out honefty is mere craft and cozenage. Bui Jonfoh.- —Ima¬ 
ginary appearances offer themfelves to our impatient 
minds, which entertain thefe counterfeits, without the 
lead fufpicion of their cozenage. Glanville. 
They fay this town is full of cozenage, 
As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, 
Difguifed cheaters. ' Shakcfpcarc. 
CO'ZENER,y. A cheater; adefrauder.—Indeed, fir, 
there are cozeners abroad, and therefore it behoves men to 
be wary. Shakefpcare. 
CO'ZUMEL, an idand of North America, near the 
ead coad of Yucatan, inhabited by native Indians; the 
country is fertile, and abundant in fowl and cattle : forty 
miles long, and from three to ten wide. Lat. 19. 40. N. 
Ion. 70. 5. W. Ferro. 
COZZA'NO, a town of the ifland of Corlica : t.wenty- 
one miles ead of Ajaccio. 
CRAB,_/. [cjtabba, Sax. krabbe , Dut.] A crudaceotis 
fifli; the daws of which are fometimes ufed in medicine. 
See the article Cancer, vol. iii. p. 704.—The fox catches 
crab- filh with his tail, which Olaus Magnus faith he him¬ 
felf was an eye-witnefs of. Der/iam. —A wild apple; the 
tree that bears a wild apple.—Tell why a graft, taking 
nourilhment from a cra^-dock, ihall have a fruit more 
noble than its nurfe and parent ? Taylor. 
When roaded crabs hifs in the bowl, 
Then nightly dngs the daring owl. Shakefpeare. 
A peevifli morofe perfon. A wooden engine ufed for 
launching of blips, or heaving them into the clock. It 
is alfo ufed for mounting guns on their carriages ; and 
on-board blips, for heaving in the cable. A lign in the- 
.zodiac : 
Then parts the Twins and Crab, the Dog divides, 
And Argo’s keel, that broke the frothy tides. Creech. 
CRAB, adj. It is ufed by way of contempt for any 
four or degenerate fruit; as, a crab-c berry, a cra^-plum : 
Better gleanings their worn foil can boad 
Than the crab vintage of the neighb’ring coad. Dry den. 
CRAB’s-EYES,y. A whitibi body, rounded on one 
fide, and depreffed on the other, heavy, moderately hard, 
and without fmell. They are not the eyes of any crea¬ 
ture, nor do they belong to the crab, but are produced 
by the cornrhon crawfidi : they are bred in two leparate 
bags, one on eacli fide of the domach. They arc alka¬ 
line, . 
