Cnawyng, _sb._ knowledge, A. 859. Cnoken, knock, A. 727. Cob-hous = cov (cow)-house (?), B. 629. _Cob_ may be another form of Prov. Ger. _colb_, a heifer. Cof, quickly, B. 60, 898; quick, B. 624. A.S. _cáf_, quick, expert. {Cofer, Cofere,} coffer, chest, coffin, A. 259; ship, ark, B. 310, 339; jewel box, 1428. Fr. _coffre_. Cofly, quickly, B. 1428. Coge, boat, C. 152. _Cogges_ with cablis cachyn to londe, T. B. 1077. Cokreȝ, cockers, a kind of rustic high shoes or half boots fastened with laces or buttons, B. 40. “_Cocur_ boote. Ocrea. coturnus.” (Prompt. Parv.) The term is still used in the north of England = gaiters, leggings. Cole, coal, B. 456. Cole, cool, C. 452. Colde, great, severe, A. 50; “_careȝ_ colde,” great sorrow, A. 808. Coler, collar, B. 1569, 1744. Colored, B. 456. Colour, A. 753. Coltour = coulter, (of a plough), B. 1547. Fr. _coultre_. Lat. _culter_. Colwarde, deceitful, B. 181. See note on this word. Cf. _kolsipe_ (col-ship), deceit. Comaunde, B. 1428. Combre, to trouble, destroy, B. 901, 1024. Du. _kommer_, _kombre_, loss, adversity, care, grief. Combraunce, trouble, B. 4. See T. B. 726. Come, _sb._ coming, arrival, A. 1116; B. 467 “Of his _come_ fayne.” --(T. B. 975.) Comende, B. 1. {Comfort, Comforte,} _sb._ A. 55, 357. {Comly, Comlych,} comely, A. 259; B. 546. Commune, common, A. 739. Comparisune, _vb._ compare, B. 161. Compas, A. 1072, B. 319, 1455. Compast, B. 697. Compaynye, company, B. 119. Comyne, B. . See T. B. 12863. Con = can, did (used as an auxiliary of the past tense), A. 453; B. 1561; _coneȝ_, didst, A. 482. Conacle = canacle, cup, B. 1515. Conciens, conscience, A. 1089. Concubine, B. 1353. Condelstik, candlestick, B. 1275. Confourme, conform, B. 1067. {Coninge, Connyng,} wisdom, science, B. 1611, 1625. Conquere, B. 1431, 1632. Conquerour, B. 1322. Conquest, conquered, B. 1305. Consayue, conceive, B. 649. Conterfete, counterfeit, feign, B. 13. Contraré, contrary, B. 4, 266; in _contrary_, opposite, B. 1532. Controeued, contrived, B. 266. Contryssyoun, contrition, A. 669. Conueye, guide, B. 678, 768. Coosteȝ, properties, B. 1033. Coperounes, tops, B. 1461. “_Coporne_ or _coporoun_ of a thyng (_coperone_, K. H. _coperun_, P.), capitellum.” (Prompt. Parv.) “The Catholicon explains _capitellum_ as signifying merely the capital of a column, but in the Medulla it is rendered ‘_summa pars capitis_.’” (A. Way, in Prompt. Parv.) Coppe, top; “hyl _coppe_,” A. 791. A.S. _copp_, head, top, apex. “Now bowis forth this baratour and bidis na langir, Up at a martene mountane, he myns with his ost, And viii daies bedene the driȝe was and mare, Or he miȝt covir to the _copp_, fra the cave undire.” --(K. Alex. p. 163.) Corage, heart, B. 1806. Corbyal, raven, B. 456. Cordes, C. 153. Coroun, _sb._ A. 237; _vb._ A. 415, 767.