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c.o.c.kIELEEKIE, _s._ Soup made of a _c.o.c.k_ boiled with _leeks_, S.

c.o.c.kIELEERIE, _s._ A term expressive of the sound made by a c.o.c.k in crowing, S.

Teut. _k.o.c.keloer-en_, to cry like a c.o.c.k.

c.o.c.kLAIRD, _s._ A landholder, who himself possesses and cultivates all his estate, a yeoman, S.

_Kelly._

c.o.c.kLE, c.o.kKIL, _s._ A scallop, Fr. _coquille_.

The _Order of the c.o.c.kle_, that of St Michael, the knights of which wore the scallop as their badge.

_Complaynt S._

c.o.c.kROSE, _s._ Any wild poppy with a red flower. _Coprose_, A. Bor.

c.o.c.k-PADDLE, _s._ The Lump, a fish, Cyclopterus lumpus, Linn., _The Paddle_, Orkn.

_Sibbald._

c.o.c.kS. _To cast at the c.o.c.ks_, to waste, to squander, S. from the barbarous custom of throwing for a piece of money at a c.o.c.k tied to a stake.

_Ramsay._

c.o.c.k-STULE, CUKSTULE, _s._

1. The cucking-stool or tumbrell.

_Bur. Lawes._

Teut. _kolcken_, ingurgitare, or _kaecke_, the pillory.

2. This term has accordingly been used, in later times, to denote the pillory, S.

_Ramsay._

COD, _s._ A pillow, S. A. Bor.

_Compl. S._

A. S. _codde_, a bag. Isl. _kodde_, a pillow.

~Codware~, _s._ A pillow-slip, S.

A. S. _waer_, retinaculum, Su. G. _war_, id. from _waeri_, to keep, to cover.

CODBAIT, _s._

1. The Lumbricus marinus, Loth.

2. The straw-worm, ibid.

A. S. _codd_, folliculus.

CODE, _s._ A chrysom.

V. ~Cude~.

_To_ CODLE (corn), _v. a._ To make the grains fly out of the husks by a stroke, S. B. perhaps from _cod_, the pod.

CODROCH, _adj._

1. Rustic, having the manners of the country, Loth. Fife.

_Ferguson._

2. Dirty, slovenly, synon. _hogry-mogry_, Loth.

Ir. _cudar_, the rabble.

COELTS, _s. pl._ Colts.

_Monroe._

_To_ COFF, COFFE, _v. a._ To buy, to purchase, S., most commonly in the pret. _coft_.

V. ~Coup~, _v._

_s.h.i.+rrefs._

Germ. _kaufte_, bought, from _kauf-en_, Su. G. _koep-a_, to buy.

~Coffe~, ~Cofe~, ~Coife~, A merchant, a hawker; _pedder coffe_, a pedlar.

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