c o c 
flatti/h, Or nightly deprefled near the hole of the fhell, 
netted all over with arched (freaks, of a brown bay co¬ 
lour. It differs from the_cocoa in the horizontal (itua- 
tion of the embryo. Browne fays, that the hulks both of 
this and the (mall macaw-tree are full of oil, and the nut 
black and {hilling. The negroes fay that it yields the 
true palm-oil. The outfide of the trunk is made into 
laths, bows, and darts. It is common in the Caribbee 
j (lands. 
5. Cocos nypa: unarmed; fronds pinnate; fpadixes 
to the male dowers round, to the females roundilh; drupe 
grooved. This is a very thick palm, only four feet high, 
frequently (hotter, or even without any (tern. Fronds 
fifteen feet long, ahnoft upright, irregularly pinnate, with 
a fubcylindric rachis or midrib. It is very frequent in 
falt-marflies, and at the muddy mouths of rivers in Co¬ 
chin-china, Cambodia, the Philippine illands, the ftraits 
of Malacca, ike. 
Propagation and Culture. The coccoa-tree is propagated 
by planting-the nuts in places where they are defigned to 
.remain; (or it will not bear transplanting, unlefs the 
operation is performed while the trees are very young, 
for their roots (hoot deep and wide; fo that, if thefe are 
cut or broken, the plants feldorn furvive it; which is 
generally the cafe with moll of the palms. Where any 
perfons are defirous of having a plant or two of this fort, 
they (hould procure fome frefh nuts from the nearell place 
of their growth, which, on their arrival in England, fhould 
be buried in a warm bed of tanners’ bark, laying them 
on one fide, that the young (hoot which conies out from 
one of the three holes may not be injured by wet, cover¬ 
ing them about fix inches deep with the tan. In this 
fituation, if the nuts are good, they will put out (hoots 
in fix weeks or two months, fo (hould be then carefully 
taken up, and each planted in a feparate pot filled with 
kitchen-garden earth, and plunged into the tan-bed in 
the (love, where the plants {hould always remain, for they 
are too tender to thrive in any other fituation; but, as 
the plants advance in their growth, they fhould be (hifted 
into larger pots or tubs, being careful not to cut or tear 
their roots in the operation. Few of the nuts that are 
brought to England are ripe, being commonly gathered 
in an unripe (fate, that they may keep during their paf- 
fage. The beft way to bring them for planting, is to put 
fome that are fully ripe in dry fand in a tub, where ver¬ 
min cannot come to them. Thefe will often fprout in 
their paffage, which is an advantage, becaufe they may 
be immediately planted into pots of earth, and plunged 
into the bark-bed. Thefe trees make confiderabie pro- 
grefs in the Weft Indies, but in Europe they are many 
years before they advance to any confiderabie height; 
the young leaves however being pretty large, they make 
a good appearance among other tender exotic plants in 
two or three years. The other forts mull- be propagated 
by feeds in the fame way. 
CO'COS, a fmall ifiand in the Pacific Ocean. Lat. 5, 
15. N. Ion. 72. W. Ferro. 
CO'COS, a fmall ifiand in the eaftern Indian fea, a lit¬ 
tle to the welt of the coalt of Sumatra. Lat. 2. 40. N. Ion. 
95. 25. E. Greenwich. 
COCOXIHUI'TL,/ in botany. See Bocconia. 
COC'TILE, adj. [coflilis, Lat.] Made by baking, as a 
brick. 
COC'TION,/ \_co8io, Lat.] The aft of boiling. It is 
alfo applied to humours when ripened by digeftion.—The 
difeafe is fometimes attended with expectoration from the 
lungs, and that is taken off by a coBion and refolution of 
the feverilh matter, or terminates in fuppurations, or a 
gangrene. Arbutbnot. 
CO'CULA, f. A cogue, or little drinking-cup, in form 
of a fmall boat, tiled especially at fea, and Hill retained 
in a cogue, cag, or kegue, of brandy. 
COCUMO'NT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot and Garonne : two leagues fouth-wefl of Mar- 
mande. 
Vol. IV. No. 234, 
COD 737 
COCY'TUS, a liver of Epirus. The word is derived 
from nuKvetv, to weep and to lament. Its etymology, the 
unwholefomenefs of its waters, and, above all, its vicinity 
to the Acheron, have made the poets call it one of the 
rivers of hell. Virgil. 
COD, or Codfish, f. in ichthyology. See Gadus. 
COD, f. [cobOe, Sax.] Any cafe or hulk in which feeds 
are lodged.—They let peafe lie in fmall heaps as they are 
reaped, till they find the hawrn and cod dry. Mortimer. 
Thy corn thou there may’ll fafely fow, 
Where in full cods lail year rich peale did grow. May. 
To COD, <v.n. To inclofe in a cod.—All codded grain 
being a deftroyer of weeds, an improver of land, and a 
preparer of it for other crops. Mortimer. 
COD ROY, a river of Newfoundland, which runs into 
the fea, between Cape Ray, and Cape Anguille. 
COD’s-HEAD, a cape on the fouth-wefl: cohft of Ire¬ 
land. Lat. 51.36. N. Ion. 9. 59. W. Greenwich. 
CODA'GA-PAT A, f. in botany. See Nerium. 
CODA / GA-PILA / VA,/ in botany. See Morin da.' 
CODAGA'M,/'. in. botany, See Htdrocotylp 
COD'BECK, a river of England, in the north riding 
of Yorkfhire, which palfes by Thirflc, and joins the Wii- 
lowbeck about two miles below that town, and both to¬ 
gether fall into the Swale about two miles after the union. 
COD'D A-PAN'NA,/ in botany. SeeCoRYPHA. 
COD'DAM-PUL'LI, / in botany. See Cameogia. 
COD'DED-CORN-VlO'LET, f. in botany. See Cam¬ 
panula Hybrida. 
COD'DERS,/. Gatherers of peafe. 
CODE,/ \codex, Lat.] A book of rules or regulations. 
A book of the civil law. We find in the Theodofian and 
Juftinian code, the intereft of trade very well.provided tor. 
Arbutbnot . 
Indentures, cov’nants, articles, they draw, 
Large as the fields themfelves; and larger far 
Than civil codes with all their glolfes are. Pope. 
CODECEI'RO, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira : fix miles fouth from Guai da. 
CO'DEN, a town of United America, in the (late of 
Virginia: nine miles fouth-eaft of Cumberland. 
CODE'S/ a town of European Turkey, in the province 
ofEpire: fixteen miles eaft of Valona. 
CO'DI-AVANACU',/. in botany. See Tracia. 
CO'DIA, / [from a little ball; the flowers 
growing in a fmall head.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
oftandria, order digynia. The generic charafters are— 
Calyx: common, four-leaved; leaves reflefted below the 
head; proper, four-leaved; leaflets elliptic, ereft. Co¬ 
rolla: petals four, linear. Stamina: filaments eight, fili¬ 
form, two, each growing to the bafe of a petal, longer 
than the corolla; antherae ovate-angulate. Pirtillum: 
germ very fmall, fuperior, extremely villole; ftyles two, 
Tubulate, the length of the ftamens ; 'lligmas fimple. Re- 
ceptaculum : common, villofe. It has a very great affi¬ 
nity to brunia. The fruit, when known, mult determine 
whether it be a feparate genus. Many of the brunias have 
two ftyles ,—EJfential CharaBer. Calyx ; four-leaved ; pe¬ 
tals four; common receptacle involucred. • 
There is but one fpecies called codia montana. Leaves 
oppofite, petioled, elliptic, very fmooth, entire, obtufe ; 
heads globular, terminating, and axillary, very (hort, pe- 
duncled ; perhaps a fpecies of brunia ; a flirub, native of 
New Caledonia; found there the 8th of Sept. 1774. 
CODI.fiE'UM,/in botany. See Croton. 
CO'DICIL, /. [ codicilius, Lat. from codex, a book, or 
writing.] A (ch’edule or lupplement to a will, where any 
thing is omitted which the teftator would add, or where 
he would explain, alter, or retraft, what he hath done. 
See the article Will, 
CODIL'LE,/. [ coddle , Fr. codillo, Span.] . A term at om¬ 
bre, when the game is won : 
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