_Content_, a thick Liquor, made up in Rolls in imitation of Chocolate, Sold in some Coffee-Houses. _Contre-temps_, making a Pass or Thrust without any advantage, or to no purpose. _Convenient_, c. a Mistress; also a Whore. _Conveniency_, c. a Wife; also a Mistress. _Conundrums_, Whimms, Maggots, and such like. _Cony_, a silly Fellow, _a meer Cony_, very silly indeed. _Cook-ruffin_, c. the Devil of a Cook, or a very bad one. _Cool-crape_, a slight Chequer’d Stuff made in imitation of Scotch Plad. _Cooler_, a Woman. _Cool-Lady_, a Wench that sells Brandy (in Camps). _Cool nantz_, Brandy. _Cool Tankard_, Wine and Water, with a Lemon, Sugar and Nutmeg. _Copper-nos’d_, extremely Red. _Coquet_, a flippant, pert Gossip. _Corky-brain’d_ Fellow, silly, foolish. _Corinthian_, a very impudent, harden’d, brazen-fac’d Fellow. _Cornish-hug_, a hard gripe, or squeeze. _Corn-jobber_, an Enhancer of the Price, by early buying, monopolizing, and sharp tricks. _A great Harvest of a little Corn_, a great adoe in a little Matter. _He measures my Corn by his own Bushel_, _he muses as he uses_, he thinks me Bad because he is so himself. _Cornuted_, made a Cuckold of. _Corny-fac’d_, a very Red or Blue pimpled Phiz. _Cosset_, a Fondling Child. _Cosset-Colt or Lamb_, brought up by Hand, made Tame, and used to follow any Body about the House. _Costard_, the Head, _I’ll give ye a knock on the Costard_, I’ll hit ye a blow on the Pate. _Coster-monger_, a Wholesale Dealer in Apples, Pears, _&c._ _Cot_ for _Cotquean_, a Man that meddles with Womens matters. _Cotton_, _they don’t cotton_, they don’t agree well. _Cote_, a sorry, slight Country-House or Hovel, now a _Cottage_. Hence the Compounds yet in use, of _Dove-cote_, _Sheep-cote_, &c. _Couchee_, going to Bed _I was at Court at the Couchee_, I attended the King at his going to Bed. _Couch a Hogs-head_, c. to go to Bed. _Cove_, c. a Man, a Fellow, also a Rogue. _The Cove was bit_, c. the Rogue was out-sharp’d or out-witted. _The Cove has bit the Cole_, c. The Rogue has Stolen the Money. _The Cove’s a rum Diver_, c. that Fellow is a cleaver Pick-pocket. _Covey of Whores_, a well fill’d Bawdy-house; also of _Partridges_, a Nest or Brood. _Counterfeit-cranks_, c. the Twentieth Rank or Order of the Canting Tribe. _Counterfeit_, a Cheat Or Impostor. _A Counterfeiter of Hands_, a Forger. _A Counterfeiter of Persons_, a Sham. _Counterfeit Gemms or Jewels_, Bristol-stones. Counterfeits, for the most part exceed the Truth. Thus a Flatterer pleases more than a Friend; a Braggadochio-coward thunders more than a Hero; a Mountebank promises more than a Doctor, and a Hypocrite over-acts a Religious Man, as a Counterfeit Gem is often fairer than a True one. _Country-put_, a silly Country-Fellow. _Couped up_, Imprison’d, Environ’d, Surrounded Pent up.