_Cod_, a good sum of Money; also a Fool. _A meer Cod_, a silly, shallow Fellow. _A rum Cod_, c. a good round sum of Money. _A jolly or lusty Cod_, c. the same. _An honest Cod_, a trusty Friend. _Codders_, gatherers of Peascods. _Cod’s Head_, a Fool. _Codsounds_, the Pith or Marrow in the Cod’s Back, esteem’d as choice Peck. _Cofe_, c. as Cove. _Cog_, to cheat at Dice, _Cog a Die_, to conceal or secure a Die; also the Money or whatever the _Sweetners_ drop to draw in the Bubbles; also to wheedle, as _Cog a Dinner_, to wheedle a Spark out of a Dinner. _Cogue_, of Brandy, a small Cup or Dram. _Coker_, c. a Lye, _rum Coker_, c. a whisking Lye. _Cokes_, the Fool in the Play, or Bartholomew-Fair, and hence (perhaps) Coxcomb. _Cold_, shy, or averse to Act. _Cold-Tea_, Brandy. _A couple of cold words_, a Curtain-Lecture. _Cold-Iron_, Derisory Periphrasis for a Sword. _In cold Blood_, when the heat of War, or Passion are over. _The Matter will keep cold_, it will stay a while, and not be the worse for keeping. _Cole_, c. Money. _Coliander-seed_, c. Money. _Collation_, a Treat or Entertainment. _College_, c. Newgate; also the Royal Exchange. _Collegiates_, c. those Prisoners and Shop-keepers. _Collogue_, wheedle. _Colquarron_, c. a Man’s Neck. _Colt_, c. an Inn-keeper that lends a Horse to a Highway-man, or to Gentlemen Beggers; also a Lad newly bound Prentice. _Coltish_, said when an old Fellow is frolicksom or wanton; or he has a Colt’s Tooth. _Colt bowl_, laid short of the Jack by a _Colt bowler_, a raw or unexperienc’d Person. _Colt-veal_, very red. _Come_, c. to Lend. _Has he come it?_ c. has he lent it you? _Comical_, very pleasant, or diverting. _Coming-women_, such as are free of their Flesh; also breeding Women. _Commission_, c. a Shirt. _Commode_, a Woman’s Head-dress, easily put on, and as soon taken off. _Common garden-gout_, or rather Covent-garden, the Pox. _Common Women_, Whores, Plyers in the Streets and at Bawdy-Houses. _Complement_, the Ship’s or Regiment’s compleat Number or Company. _Comfortable Importance_, a Wife. _Conceited_, a Self-lover, and Admirer, Wise in his own Opinion. _Coney-sitteth_. _Confect_, c. Counterfeit. _Conger_, a Set or Knot of Topping Book-sellers of _London_, who agree among themselves, that whoever of them Buys a good Copy, the rest are to take off such a particular number, as (it may be) Fifty, in Quires, on easy Terms. Also they that joyn together to Buy either a Considerable, or Dangerous Copy. And a great over-grown Sea-Eel. _Conjurers_, _Astrologers_, _Physiognomists_, _Chiromancers_, and the whole Tribe of Fortune-tellers, by the common People (Ignorantly) so called. _Consent_, Leave, Approbation, Agreement. _Affected by Consent_, as one Sore Eye infects the other, (unseen) because they are both strung with one Optic Nerve: As in two Strings set to an Unison, upon the Touch of One, the other will Sound. _Consult of Physicians_, Two, or more.