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28a GLOSSARY
COURT HOLY WATER (fig.), CULLIONLT, scoundrelly; 2. 2.
fair, but empty words, 3°
flattery (see holy water)} 3. CURIOSITY, over-particularity,
2. 10 fastidiousness; 1. I. 6; 1. 2,
COWISH, timid, faint-hearted 4; 1. 4. 71
(see O.E.D. 'cow', 4.), 4. 2. CURIOUS, elaborate, subtle; 1.4.
12 34
COXCOMB, (i) court jester'3 CURST, savagely angry; 2.1. 65
cap, in form of cock's comb j CUTPURSE, thief (who cuts off
I. 4. 96 etc.; (ii) head; 2.4* purses worn at people's
120 girdles); 3. 2. 90
COZEN, cheat; 5. 3. 153
COZENER, one who cheats; 4. DARKLING, in the dark; 1. 4.
6. 162 218
CRAB, small, sour, wild apple} DARNEL='.LO//«»/ temulentum,
i- 5- 15 a grass harmfull to corn'
CREDIT, trustworthiness; .1. (On.). But prob. 'tares'
3
35 (Matt. xiii. 25) is meant
CROAK (of the stomach of (see 1 Hen. FI, G.) though
bowels), make a rumbling in Drayton (Poly-Olb. xv,
noise (O.E.D. 3); 3. 6. 31 166) 'the crimson darnell
CROSS (sb.), thwarting; 5. 3. flower' seems to be the
278; (adj.), zig-zag; 4. 7. 35 common poppy; 4. 4. 6.
CROW-KEEPER, boy with bow DAUB IT, dissemble. 'Daub' lit.
and arrows, employed to ='cover over with white'—
protect the corn from crows; Lat. 'dealbare'—whence
4. 6. 87-8 'cover with plaster', and,
CRUEL (sb.), cruel being. Cf. fig., 'conceal, disguise', etc j
O.E.D. 1 b, but only quote3 4. 1. 51
conventional addresses to a DEADLY, (i) entailing death or
coy mistress; 3. 7. 64 (perh.) damnation; 4. 2. 36;
CRY, beg for; 3. 2. 58; 'cry (ii) death-like; 5. 3. 290
out'=protest, complain; 5. DEAR, (i) precious; 1. 1. 181;
1.23 1. 4. 273; 4. 3. 45; (ii)
CUB-DRAWN, sucked dry by her affectionate; 2. 4. 97; (iii)
cubs, and therefore ravenous; important; 3. 1. 19
3. 1. 12 DEARN, dreary, dread, dire; 3.
CUCKOO-FLOWER, or Lady's 7. 62
Smock (W.A.W., quotes DEATH-PRACTISED, whose death
Gerarde's Herball, 1597, ir, has been plotted; 4. 6. 274
18, that, it flowers 'for the DEATHSMAN, executioner; 4.
most part in Aprill and May, 6.255
when the Cuckowe doth be- DEED, 'my very deed of love' =
gin to sing her pleasantnotes the exact truth about my
withoutstatnmering');4.4.4 love; 1.1. 70