Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and IndexesChaucer, Geoffrey
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes
Chaucer, Geoffrey
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
CLOTE-LEEF, _s._ a leaf of the burdock or clote-bur (see note), G 577. A.S.
_cl[=a]te_, a burdock.
CL[`O]TH, _s._ cloth, garment, R. 234, 1239; D 238; covering, 5. 273;
clothes, D 1881; Clothes, _pl._ clothes, R. 452; 20. 1; L. 1857; E 1960.
See CLOOTH.
CLOTHEN, _v._ clothe, T. v. 1418; Clothe, _v._ R. 95; _ger._ R. 231;
Cladde, _pt. s._ clothed, clad, T. iv. 1690; _refl._ clothed himself, 7.
145; Cledde, _pt. s._ T. iii. 1521; Cladden, _2 pt. pl._ clad, E 864;
Clothed, _pp._ clad, L. 242, 341; A 363; Clad, _pp._ R. 409; A 103, E 376;
covered, A 294; furnished, 3. 352; Clothe, _imp. s._ clothe, 1. 46.
CLOTHERED, _pp._ clotted, coagulated, A 2745. (Other MSS. _clotered_,
_clotred_.)
CLOTHING, _s._ R. 1133.
CLOTHLEES, _adj._ naked, I 343.
CLOUD, _s._ T. ii. 766, 781; iv. 200; Cloude, 3. 343; T. i. 175; sky, T.
iii. 433; Cloudes, _pl._ HF. 966.
CLOUDELES, _adj._ cloudless, B 4. m 1. 14.
CLOUDY, _adj._ darkening, T. ii. 768.
CLOUMBEN; see CLIMBEN.
CLOUT, _s._ bit of cloth, C 736; patch, R. 458; Cloutes, _pl._ fragments, E
1953; rags, B 1. p 3. 30; C 348.
CLOUTED, _pp._ clothed in patched garments, patched up, R. 223.
CLOVEN, _pp. of_ Cleve (1).
CLOWES, _pl._ claws, HF. 1785. See CLAWES.
CLOW-GELOFRE, _pp._ clove, the spice so called, R. 1368; Clowe-gilofre, B
1952. Fr. _clou de girofle_.
CLUSTRED, _pp._ covered with clouds, B 1. m 3. 4. (Lat. _glomerantur_.)
CLYMAT, _s._ a belt or zone of the earth included between two given lines
of latitude, A ii. 39. 18; _pl._ Clymatz, climates, i.e. zones of latitude,
A. i. 3. 3; Clymates, sets of almicanteras calculated for various
terrestrial latitudes, A. i. 14. 2.
CLYVE, _v._; Clyven, _pr. pl._ cleave, keep, B 3. p 11. 104; Clyvinge,
_pres. part._ cleaving, B 2. p 6. 35. See CLEVE (2).
CLYVES, _pl._ cliffs, L. 1470. See CLIF.
COAGULAT, _pp._ coagulated, clotted, G 811.
COD, _s._ bag; used of the receptacle of the stomach, C 534.
COEMPCIOUN, _s._ an imposition so called, lit. joint purchase, the buying
up of the whole of any commodity in the market (see New E. Dict.), B 1. p
4. 59, 63, 64.
CO[:E]TERNE, _adj._ coeternal, B 5. p 6. 39.
COFRE, _s._ coffer, chest, L. 380; A 298, B 26, 1955, E 585; money-chest,
money-box, F 1571, G 836; coffin, 5. 177.
COGGE, _s._ cock-boat, L. 1481. See note.
COGHE, _ger._ to cough. T. ii. 254; Cogheth, _pr. s._ A 3697. See COUGHEN.
COILLONS, _pl._ testicles, C 952. F. _couillon_.
COK, _s._ cock, 5. 350; T. iii. 1415; B 4039; _thridde c._, third cock, A
4233 (see note); Cokkes crowe, cock-crow (see note), A 3675; Cokkes, _pl._
A 3357.
COK! COK! the noise made by a cock, B 4467. See note.
COKENAY, _s._ cockney, effeminate creature, A 4208 (see note).
COKES, _pl. of_ Cook.
COKEWOLD, _s._ cuckold, A 3152, 3226, C 382, D 1214, 1616, E 1306, 2256.
See _Cuckold_ in the New E. Dict.
COKKEL, _s._ cockle, i.e. the corn-cockle, _Agrostemma githago_, B 1183.
COKKES, _a corruption of_ Goddes, H 9, I 29.
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