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confiderable quantities, it provokes vomiting. Thomas 
Bartholin extols the virtues of horfe-radifh in the done 
from experience; he affirms, that the juice of horfe-radifh 
diffolved a calculus or ftony concretion that was taken 
out of a human body. The 1'craped root is ufed for many 
culinary purpofes. An infulion of it in cold milk, makes 
one of the fifed and bed cofmetics. 
7. Cochlearia gladifolia, or woad-leaved fcurvy-grafs : 
ftem-leaves cordate-fagittate, dem-clafping. This fort 
is a biennial plant, which ufually grows about a fpot and 
a half high, with upright dalk's; the flowers are produced 
in loofe fpikes at the end of the branches; they are very 
final!, white, and are fucceeded by fhort oval pointed 
fwelling pods, having no dyle at the end, and filled with 
round feeds. It flowers in May, and the feeds ripen in 
July and AuguA. According to Linnaeus, it has the lta- 
ture of tui ritis. Native of Germany, and the fouth of 
France; flowering from May to July. 
8 Cochlearia draba: leaves lanceolate, dem-clafping, 
toothed. Root perennial, driking deep ; dems feveral, 
upright round below, lomewhat angular at top, herba¬ 
ceous, annual, (lightly villofe, about a foot in height. 
Branches Alike up from the axils of the upper leaves to 
the fame height with the dem, ending in corymbed ra¬ 
cemes, and all together forming a clofe compound co¬ 
rymb. Abundant about Vienna, even in the luburbs; 
flowering from May to July; alfo in feveral parts of Ger¬ 
many, Italy, and France. 
Propagation and Culture. The common fcurvy-grafs is 
propagated in gardens for medicinal ufes, by fowing the 
feeds in July, foon after they are'ripe, in a moid fhady 
fpot of ground ; and when the plants are come up, they 
fliould be thinned, i’o as to be left at about four inches 
didance each way. The plants that are taken out may 
be tranfplanted into other (hady borders, if there is occa- 
iion for them, otherwife they may be hoed out, (as prac- 
tifed for onions, carrots, &c.) and at the fame time all 
the weeds may be hoed down, fo as to clear the plants 
entirely from them, that they may have room to grow 
ftrong. In the fpring thefe plants will be fit for ule; and 
tho.fe that are .differed to remain will run up to feed in 
May, and perfedd their feeds in June. If this plant is 
fown in the fpring, the feeds feldom grow well; there¬ 
fore the bed time is foon after they are ripe. The plants 
rarely live after producing feeds, fo that it Oiould be fown 
every year to have it for ufe. The lea fcurvy-grafs grow¬ 
ing in fait mar flies, and being overflowed, with fea-water 
almod every tide, can hardly be made to grow in a gar¬ 
den,or at mod to ladTonger there than one year. 
Horfe-radifh is propagated by cuttings or buds from 
the fides of the old roots. The bed feafon for this work 
is in OCtober or February ; the former for dry lands, the 
latter for moid : the ground ihould be trenched at lead 
two fpits deep, or more, if it will allow of it. The man¬ 
ner of planting it is as follows: Provide yourfelf with a 
good quantity of offsets, which fliould havea bud upon 
their crowns, but it matters hot how fhort they are; there¬ 
fore the upper part of the roots which are taken up for 
ufe, may be cut off about two inches long with the bud 
to it, which is adeemed the bed for planting. Theh 
make a tren.ch ten inches deep, in which you diould place 
the offsets at about four or five inches diltance each way, 
with the-bud upward, covering them up with the mould 
that was taken out of the trench ; then proceed to a fb- 
cond trench in like manner, and continue the fame till 
'the whole fpot of ground is planted. After this, level 
the furface of the ground even, obferving to keep it clear 
from weeds, until the plants are To far advanced as to be 
ftrong enough to overbear and keep them down. With 
this management the roots of the horfe-radifh will be 
long and draight, and free from fmall lateral roots, and 
the fecond year after planting will be fit for ufe. The 
ground in which this is planted ought to be very rich, 
otherwife the roots will make but a fmall progress. See 
Draba and Mvagrum, 
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COCH'LEARY, ad), [front cochlea, Lat. a fcrew.J 
Screvvform ; in the form of a fcrew.—That at St. Denm , 
near Paris, hath (vreathy fpires, and cochleary turnings 
about it, which agreeth with the defcription of the uni¬ 
corn’s horn in JSlian. Brown. 
COCHLEA'TA,/. in botany. See Medicago. 
COCH'LEATED, ad), [from cochlea, Lat.] Of a 
fere wed or turbinated form.—Two pieces of done, llruck 
forth of the cavity of the umbilici of fhells, of the fame 
fort with the foregoing: they are of a cochleated figure. 
Woodward. 
COCH'LITES, f An appellation given to the petri- 
'fied (hells of the cochleae or fnails. 
• COCH'RAN (Robert), of the ancient family of Dun- 
donald in Scotland, and educated at Padua in Italy, 
where he ipent feveral years in the dudy of the fine arts, 
particularly architecture, in which he excelled. On his 
return to Scotland, he was employed by James III. as 
his architect to conduct and improve fome public build¬ 
ings ; vvhen fuch honours were heaped upon him; that 
he became an objeCt of jealoufy to the Scots nobility, who 
conlidered him as too much in the royal confidence. At 
lad the factious nobles entered into a confpiracy againd 
fir Robert Cochran, who had been created earl of Mar, 
and hanged him over the bridge at Lauder, in 1484. 
COCIN'TUM, in ancient geography, a promontory of 
the Bruttii, reckoned the longed in Italy; and which 
Holdenius and Voflius have rcltored to Ovid, reading 
Cccintia for Ceurania, Metam. XV. v. 704. Cocintum, alio 
a town, twenty-two miles to the fouth of Scylaceum, al¬ 
mod on the fpot where now Stilo frauds; from which the 
oppofite promontory Cocintum is commonly called Capo 
de S/ilo. 
COCK, f. [cocc, Sax. coq, Fr.] The male to the hen ; 
a doinedic fowl, remarkable for his gallantry, pride, and 
courage. For its natural tiiftory, fee Phasianus. — Cocks 
have great combs and fpurs; hens, little or none. Bacon. 
True cocks o’ th’ game, 
That never a(k for what, or whom, they fight; 
But turn ’em out, and (hew ’em but a foe, 
Cry liberty, and that’s a caufe of quarrel. Dryden. 
The careful hen' 
Calls all her chirping family around, 
Fed and defended by the'fearlefs cock. 'Tboinfon. 
The male of any fmall birds.—Calves and philofophers, 
tygers and datefinen, cock fparrows and coquets, exactly 
relembleone another in the formation of the pineal gland. 
Arbutbnot. —The weathercock, that (hews the direction of 
the wind by turning: 
You catarafts and hurricanoes, fpout 
Till you have drench’d our deeples, drown'd the cocks ! 
Shakcfpeare. 
A fpout to let out water at will, by turning the (top: the 
handle had probably a cock on the top. Things that were 
contrived to turn, feem anciently to have had that form, 
whatever was the reafon : 
Thus the fmall jett, which hady hands unlock, 
Spirts in the gard.’ner’s eyes who turns the cock. Pope. 
The notch of an arrow. The part of the lock of a gun 
that (trikes with the flint; [from cocca, Ital. the notch 
of an arrow. Skinner. Perhaps fyom the aition, like that 
of a cock pecking; but it was probably fo called before it 
had its prefent form.]—A feven-fhot gun carries powder 
and bullets for feven charges and difeharges. Under the 
breech of the barrel is one box for the powder; a little 
before the lock another for the bullets ; behind the cock 
a charger, which carries the powder from the box to a 
funnel at the further end of the lock. Grew. —A con¬ 
queror; a leader; a governing man : 
My fchoolmader call’d me a dunce and a fool; 
But at cuffs I was always the cock of the fchooi. Swift. 
Cock- 
