the falls, are about one hundred feet high. A bridge 
eleven hundred feet long, and twenty-four feet wide, veil¬ 
ing on thirteen piers, was erefted by the American States, 
'at the expence of twelve thoufand dollars, in i 794 > a mile 
below the falls, from which a fpedator commands a grand 
view of them; but they appear molt romantically from 
Lanfinburg-hill, five miles ealtward. 
CO'HOL,/! [from Fra, cohol, antimony.] A collyrium 
for the eyes; lo called from the ulage of the eaftern la¬ 
dies to paint their eye-laflies with antimony very finely 
powdered ; from whence any thing reduced to a molt 
fubtle'powder, or any dry application, was called cohol. 
CG'HONG, a town of Ada, in Thibet: twenty miles 
fouth-welt of Tien-tfang. 
CO'HORN (Memnon), the Vauban of the Dutch, born 
in 1632. His genius for the arts of war, and for con- 
itructing fortifications, difplayed itfelf early in life. Be- 
in" engineer and lieutenant-general in the lervice of the 
flakes-general, he fortified and defended the greater part 
of their garrifons. It was a curious fipectacle, fays the 
prefident Hafpault, to fee, in 1692, at the liege of Na¬ 
mur, the fort Cohorn befieged by Vauban, and defended 
by Cohorn himfelf. He did not iurrender till after he 
had received a wound judged to be mortal, but which, 
however, did not prove to be fo. In 1703 the eledlor of 
Cologne, Jofeph Clement, having efpoufed the part of 
France, and received a French garrifon into Bonn, Co¬ 
horn kept up fuch a ltrong and terrible fire upon the 
place, that the commandant furrendered it three days af¬ 
terwards. This great man died at the Hague in 1704, 
leaving the Hollanders feveral places fortified by his in- 
duftrylmd (kill. Bergen-op-zoom, which he called his 
mailer-piece, was taken, in 1747, by the marlhal de Loe- 
wendahl, notwithlianding its fine fortifications, which 
caufed it to be regarded as impregnable. We have a 
treatife by Cohorn, in the Flemilh language, on the me¬ 
thod of fortifying places. 
CO'HORT,/. [cohort, Lat.] A troop of foldiers in the 
Roman armies, containing about fix hundred foot.—The 
Romans levied as many cohorts, companies, and enfigns, 
from hence, as from any of their provinces. Camden. —In 
poetical language, a body of warriors : 
Tli' arch-angelic pow’r prepar’d 
For fwift defcent; with him the cohort bright 
Of watchful cherubim. Milton. 
COHORTA'TION, / [ cobortatio, Lat.] Encourage¬ 
ment by words; incitement. 
COHUA'GIUM,/. A tribute formerly paid by thofe 
who met promifcuoully in the market or fair; cohua fig- 
r.ifying a prcmifcuous multitude of men in a fair or 
market. 
COHUIX'CAS, a country in New Spain, in which there 
is a confiderable mountain of loadltone, between Tcoil- 
tylan and Chilapan. 
COI'BA, or Quiso, a fmall illand in the Pacific Ocean, 
near the coall of Veragua. Lat. 8. N. Ion. 64.40. W. Ferro. 
COIF, f. [coeffe, Fr. from cofea, for cucufa, low Lat.] 
The head-drefs; a lady’s cap : 
Inllead of bome-fpun coifs were feen 
Good pinners edg’d with colbertine. Swift. 
A title given to ferjeants at law, who are called ferjeanis 
of the coif, from the lawn coif they wear on their heads 
under their caps when they are created. The ufe of it 
was anciently to cover tonfuram clericcdem , otherwife called 
corona clericalis ; becaule the crown of the head was clofe 
ihaved, ahd a border of hair left round the lower part, 
which made it look like a crown. Blount. —The judges of 
the four circuits in Wales, although they are not of the 
fiilt magnitude, nor need be of the degree of the coif, yet 
are they confiderable. Bacon. 
COIF'ED, adj. Wearing a coif. 
COIF'FUltE, f. [coeffure, French.] Head-drefs.-^I am 
C O I 
pleafed with the coiffure now in fafhion, and think it (hews 
the good fenfe of the valuable part of the lex. Addifon. 
COIF'FY-la-VILLE, a town of France, in thedepait- 
ment of the Upper Marne, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftridt of Bourbonne-les-Baines: three miles fouth- 
weft of Bourbonne. 
COIGNE,/ [an Irifh term.] Fitz Thomas of Defmond 
began that extortion of coigne and livery, and pay ; that 
is, he and his army took horfe meat and man's meat, and 
money at pleafure. Davies. 
COIGNE,/. [French.] A corner: 
No jutting frieze, 
Buttrice, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird 
Hath made his pendant bed. Sbahefpeare. 
A wooden wedge ufed by printers. 
To COIL, v. a. [cueillir, Fr.] To gather into a narrow 
compafs; as, to coil a rope, to wind it in a ring.—T he 
lurking particles of air, lo expanding themlelves, mult 
necelfarily plump out the fides of the bladder, and fo keep 
them turgid, until the prelfure of the air, that at full coiled 
them, be re-admitted to do the fame thing again, Boyle. 
COIL,/, [kolleren, Germ.] Tumult; turmoil; buttle 5 
flir; hurry; confufion: 
In that fleep of death, what dreams may come, 
When we have Ihuffled off this mortal coil, 
Mull give us paufe. Sbakefpeare. 
A rope wound into a ring. 
COILAN'THA,/. in botany. See Gentiana. 
COILTMA,/ [from koiAio., the bowtjls.] A fudden 
fweliing of the bowels from flatulency. 
COILOPHIL'LUM./ in botany. See Sarr.acenia. 
COILOb' I’OMY, / \coilofomia, Lat. from x.01 Ao?, hol¬ 
low, and s-oy-a, the mouth.] i lie del’edt of Ipeaking from 
the palate, or through the nofe. 
COILOTAPA'LUS,/. in botany. See Cecropja. 
COILPET'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatice 
forty-fix miles louth of Madura, and twenty-five north of 
Palamcotta. 
COIMBETO'RE, a province of Hindooftan, in the 
Myfore, and fouthern part of the dominions of Tippoo 
Sultan. The country is Teparated from Travancore, Co¬ 
chin, and the Nayrs, by lofty mountains, called the Wef- 
tern Gauts, a continuation of which alio bounds it on the 
north ; on the eaft it is bounded by the Carnatic, and on 
the fonth by the province of Dindigui. Towards the 
fouth-welt is an opening of the mountains, through which 
the river Paniany palfes to the lea, on the weltern coall. 
If is fertile, and well watered by feveral rivers : the prin¬ 
cipal towns are Coimbetore, Erroad, and Carroor. 
COIMBETO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, and capital of 
the province to which it gives name, fitunted at the foot: 
of the Weltern Gauts, on the river Noyel. This town 
was taken poflefiion of by General Meadows, on the 22d 
of July, 1790, having been evacuated by Tippoo Sultan, 
who left behind him a quantity of grain and military 
Itores. It was defended by a mud fort, but not capable 
of making a long refiltance. It was retaken by Tippoo 
the year following, and confirmed to him by the peace 
-which enfued. In the fucceeding war with Tippoo, ini 
which this prince was killed, and his capital, Senngapa- 
tam, taken by the Englifh troops under general Harris, 
on the 4th of May, 1799, the city and province of Coim¬ 
betore fell, with the other dominions of Tippoo Sultan, 
into the hands of the Englilh Eaft-India company. It is 
252 miles fouth-welt of Madras, and ninety louth of Se- 
ringapatam. Lat. 10,58. N. Ion. 77. 7. E. Greenwich. 
COIM'BRA, a city of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira, fituated on a mountain, near the river Mondego, 
built by the Romans about 300 years before Chrilt; the 
lee of a bilhop, fuffragan of Lilbon, with a celebrated uni- 
verfity. It contains eighteen colleges, in which are 4000 
ftudents, nine churches, eight convents, and about 12,600, 
4 inhabitants. 
