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Show Q (0 go, you cotquean Get you to bed go off, in which cafe it will not be eafy to cotton wit Shakefpeare's Romeo and Fuliet ‘A ftatefwoman is as ridiculous a creature as cotquean : each of the fexes fhould keep within it bounds Addifon You hav hen-pecked of the quit the name o given us a lively picture of hufband but you have never touched upon on different character, and who goes b corquean Addifon Co'rrace n /. [fromcor. mean habitation ; a cot The fea coaft fhall b {fhepherds, and folds fo They were right gla poor coitage, and ther knees Ahut a little houfe dwellings and cortages fo flocks Zeph. ii. 6 to take fome corner of to ferve God upon thei Hooker The felf-fame fun that fhines upon his court Hides not his vifage from our cottage, bu Looks on both alike. Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale Let the women of noble birth and great fortune nurfe their children, look to the affairs of th houfe, vifit poor cortages, and relieve their necef Taylor's Holy Living fities It is difficult for a peafant, bred up in th obfcurities of a cotrage, to fancy in his mind th South {plendors of a court Beneath our humble cottage let us hafte And here, unenvied, rural dainties tafte Pope's Odyfley Co'TT AGER. 7. /. [from cottage. i. One who lives in a hut or cottage Let us from our farm Savift €all forth our cotragers to arms The moft ignorant Irith cottager will not fell hi Swift's Addrefs to Parliament cow for a groat 2 A cottager, in law, is one that lives o the common, without paying rent, an without any land of his own and plowme "The hufbandme be but as thei work-folks and labourers; or elfe mere cotragers which are but houfed beggars. Bacor's Henry VII The yeomenry, or middle people, of a conditio between gentlemen and cottagersBacon's Henry V11 Co'rTier. 7. /. [from cot.] One who inDis habits a cot CO'TTON. #. /. [named, according t Shinner, from the down that adheres t the mala cotonea, or quince, called by th Italian cotton cottone cotogni 3 whenc Ital French. ought to be as thick as a rowling-pin and covered with corton, that its hardnefs may no Wifeman be offenfive 2. Cloth made of cotton Co'rton. # /. A plant "The fpecies are, 1. Shrubby cotton. 2. The mof excellent American cotton, with a greenith feed ugAnnual fhrubby corton, of the ifland of Provi4. The tree cotton. - 5. Tree cotton, wit dence The firft fort is cultivated piena yellow flower tifully in Candia Lemnos Cyprus, Malta Sicily and at 'i‘fai,sles: as alfo between Jerufale Damafous, frog1 Fhence the cotton s brough novalls into thele woridiern parts of Europe cotzan is the Vool which inclofes or wraps u an anTh th feeds, and js coitained in 2 kind of brown nufk or feed-vefled, growing upon this fhrub. It is fro this fort thaf the vaft quantitics of corton are taken which furnifh our parts of th and third foris are annual in the Weft Indies in grea fourth and fifth forts grow i many years, and often arriv magnitude Ty CorToON world. The fecon thefe are cultivate But th plenty. Egypt: thefe abid to be trees of grea Miller V. 7 1. To rife with a knap 2. To cement; to unit word Savift 7o COUCH. w. n. [coucher, French. 1. To lie down on a place of repofe If I court more women, you'll couch with mor men Shakefpeare Doth not the gentlema Deferve as full, as fortunate a bed As ever Beatrice fhall couch upon ? Shake[peare ‘When love's fair goddef Couch'd with her hufband in his golden bed lie dow 2. T Dryden's Ancid on the knees, as a beaf to reft Tree Thefe whe Comes like a ruthing lion, couch like fpaniels With lolling tongues, and tremble at the paw Dryden a can A quarrel will end in one of you being turne till w light of our fairies -' Before each va - "The former wav'd in ai His flaming fword ;3 ZEneas couch'd his Ipear) Dryder's Zneid 8. To deprefs the condenfed cryftallin humour or film that overfpreads th pupi of the eye Thi is improperl called couching the eye, for couching th cataradl : with equal impropriety the fometimes fpeak of couching the patient Comes rufhing on his eyes 4. To lie in a bed, or ftratum Blefled of the Lord be his land, for the dew, an for the deep that coucheth beneath. Deut, xxxiii. 13 Dennis; ‘Whether. the cataract be wafted by being fepa-rated from its vefiels, I have never known pofi- tively, by diffeCting one that had been couched Shak. Merry Wives of Windfor pafied over for dead, until a horfe was brought fo Hayward his efcape CoucH Sbarpe #n. [ [from the verb. From his uneafy ftation, and upbore Thefe couchings, and thefe lowly curtefies Might ftir the blood of ordinary men Shakefpeare's Fulius Cafar Iffachar is a ftrong afs couching down betwee Genefis, xlix. 14 two burdens Milton's Paradife Regained, To loll on couches rich with citron fteds And lay their guilty limbs in Tyrian beds Dryden's Virgil's Georgicks It is at this day in ufe at Gaza, to couch pottherds, or veffels of earth, in their walls, to gathe the wind from the top, and to pafs it down i fpouts into rooms Bacon's Natural Hiftory 4. To involve; to include ; to comprife But who will call thofe noble, who deface Shake[peare's Haml Dire was the toffing, deep the groans! defpai Tende Arrerbury's Sermans 5. To include fecretly; to hide : with zzder The foundation of all parables, is fome analog or fimilitude between the topical or allufive part o intende and the thing couched under it, an South by it There is all this, and more couched under this allegory that lies naturail L'Eftrange The true notion of the inftitution being loft, th tradition of the deluge, which was couched unde it, was thereupon at length fufpended and loft 6. To lay clofe to another An over all with brazen fcales was arm'd Like plated coat of fteel fo couched near That nought might piersc the fick, bufieft from couch to couch Forfook his early couch at early day 3 Milton's Paradife L This gentle knight, infpird by joily May Dryds Fables A layer, or ftratum This heap is called by maltfters a couch, or bed Mortimer's Hufbandry of raw malt Co'UCHANT. adj. [couchant Lying down ; {quatting French. no i wer ye Judah o coa th wer Tio i o couchan rathe bu probabl Browt dormanta As a tiger, who by chance hath fpy'd rampant a lio In fome purlieu two gentle fawns at play Milton's Partzdgff Laf His couchant watch Is couch'd in the dead letters of their name Dryden's Juvenal That great argument for a future ftate, whic St. Paul hath couched in the words I bave read t the parable Let not the royal bed of Denmark b A couch for luxury and damned inceft Straight couches clofe ; then rifing, changes of By meaner atts, the glories of their race Whofe only title to their fathers" fam you 2. A bed ; a place of repofe require it, we {pread it on the floor much thinner Mortimer's Hufbandry to hide in another body A Woatch round his conch, and foften his repofe Addifor's Caro If the weather be warm, we immediately couc malt about a foot thick; but if a hotter feafo 3. To bed O ye immortal pow'rs, that guard the juft ina bed, o The fea and the land make one globe; and th waters conch themfelves, as clofe as may be, to th As on a floating couch, through the blithe air 7o CoucH. @. a 1. To repofe; to lay on a place of repofe any thin So Satan fell 5 and ftraight a fiery glob Of angels on full fail of wing flew nigh Who on their plumy vans receiv'd him fof fear, in pain, in refpect 2. To lay dow ftratum 1. A feat of repofe, on whichit is commo to lie down dreffed ftoop, or bend down ; to lower i Where unbruis'd youth, with unftuft'd brain Doth ceuch his limbs, there golden fleep doth reign Shake[peare Couches the catarats, and clears his fight, " And all at once a flood of glorious ligh fee th The earl of Angus couched in a furrow, and wa 5. T Pric forth the aery knights, and couch their f Till thickeft legions clofe Milton's P‘zzrdéiffifoj;' 3. To lie down in fecret, or in ambufh We'll couch v th® caftle-ditch fpea Some artift, whofe nice han deat Woodward's Natural Hiffory with The knight *gan fairly couch his fiea And fiercely ran at him with 'rigo}ous‘vggfigr?' and loll'd thei Dryden's Virgil tygers couch'd around fawning tongues Fierc fix the {pear mtheré@,"i pofture of attack fing hi hi bent their heads to hea Wrongs centre of this globe, in a fpherical convexity Burnet's Theory of the Earth 1. The down of the cotton-tree The pi another 7. T Spenfer CO'UCHEE. n. /. [French.] Bedtime the time of vifiting late at night None of her fylvan fubjeéts made their covrt Levees and couchees pafs'd without refort Co'vcuER 7. f. [fro Drydz' couch.] He tha couches or deprefies cataracts Co'ucHFELLOW. 7. /. [couch and fellow Bedfellow; companion I have grated upo my good friends f;Ol' thre reprieves for you, and your couchfllond 1_\lm; or elfe you had looked through the grate like a ge d Sbakefpeare miny of baboons Co'ucHGRrASS 7 [ A weed rob infeafibl year firf for/t;) couchgrafs Th moft plants in fandy grounds apt to graze erq Mo COVE. 1. 1. A fmall creek or bay 2. A ‘thelter; a cover CO'VENANT |
