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CONFERENCE, talk, conversation; COUNTENANCE, favour, patronage;
3. 1. 1, 188 4. 2. 15
CONFINE (sb.), prison cell, place of COUNTER (adv.), a hunting term, lit.
confinement; 1.1.1555 2.2.249 in the opposite direction to the
CONGRUE, to agree, accord (cf. course taken by the game;
L.L.L. 1. 2. 13; 5. 1. 89 4. 5. n o
'congruent'); 4. 3. 63 COUNTERFEIT (past part.), repre-
CONJUNCTIVE, (a) closely united, sented in a picture or image;
{b) a technical term of astrology 3- 4- 54
used of two planets in close COUPLETS, the two fledglings of the
proximity; 4. 7. 14 dove; 5. 1. 281
CONSCIENCE, consciousness, 'spe- COURAGE, a brave, a spark (of a
culative reflexion' (Herford); person), v. note; 1. 3. 6 j
3.1.83 COUSIN, kinsman (of any kind
CONSIDERED, suitable for thought; except parent, child, brother or
2. 2. 81 sister); 1. 2. 64
CONSONANCY, agreement; 'con- COZEN (vb.), cheat; 3. 4. 77
sonancy of our youth,' being of COZENAGE, (a) cheating, decep-
the same age; 2. 2. 288 tion, {b) with a poss. quibble
CONSTANTLY, steadily; 1. 2. 235 on 'cousinage' = kinship; 5. 2.
CONTINENT (sb.), (i) receptacle, 67
cover, anything that contains or CRACKED WITHIN THE RING, (a) of
covers; 4. 4. 64; (ii) (a) sum- a coin cracked within the circle
mary, embodiment, (i>) geo- surrounding the head of the
graphical continent (to suit sovereign and therefore no
'card'); 5. 2. 115 longer legal tender, (6) of a boy
CONTRACTION, good faith, con- singer's voice, liable to crack on
tractual relations in general a high note. Cf. Beaumont,
(v. note); 3. 4. 46 Remedy of Love (ed. Dyce, xi.
CONVEYANCE, (i) convoy, conduct; 477) 'If her voice be bad,
4. 4. 3; (ii) legal document for erack'd in the ring'; 2. 2. 433
the transference of land; 5. 1. CRANTS, garland. The word (from
107 German 'Kranz' or Danish
CONVOY (sb.), means of conveyance, 'Krans') was in fairly common
transport (cf. All's Well, 4.4.10 use in England in the sixteenth
'We have convenient convoy'); and seventeenth centuries
(N.E.D. quotes Hardman, Our
i-3- 3
OPE (vb.),E (vb.), encounter, meet;
COP Prayer Book (1890) 'the
'
„ 3> Z 5 3 "crants" were garlands which
it was usual to make of white
COTE, to outstrip (a coursing term); paper and to hang up in the
2. 2. 321 church on the occasion, of a
COUCH (vb.), lurk, hide; 5. 1. 216 young girl's funeral....Some of
COUNSEL, (a) advice, (b) secret; these were hanging up in Flam-
4. 2. 11 borough Church, Yorkshire, as
COUNT (sb.), account, reckoning; late as 1850'); 5. 1. 226
4. 7. 17