Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
Coke, _s._ a piece of iron used instead of a plough-foot, 4/46. See
above.
Cole, _s._ coal, 19/3.
Coltes euyll, _s._ a disease in colts, 101/1. See G. Markham;
Husbandry, b. i. c. 32.
Combe, _s._ comb, 142/5.
Commons, _s. pl._ common pasture-grounds, 6/10.
Common weale, _s._ general advantage, 151/22.
Compasse, _adj._ circular, encompassing, 136/11.
Conclusion, in, finally, at last, 132/18.
Connynge, _s._ knowledge, 141/22.
Content, _adj._ pleased, 120/17.
Conuenyente, _adj._ fitting, _prol._ 14, 145/15, 146/75.
Conuocation, _s._ gathering, 155/3.
Copyoke, _s._ part of the harness for a waggon, 5/5. Wright gives
_cop_, (1) top ... (7) the part of a waggon which hangs over
the thiller-horse, (8) the beam placed between a pair of drawing
oxen. _See_ Yoke.
Cordes, _s. pl._ cords, a disease in front of a horse’s fore-legs,
92/1. “_Cords_, or string-halt, is an unnaturall binding of the
sinews;” G. Markham, Husbandry, b. i. c. 64.
Corne, _s._ kind of corn, 32/2; cornes, _pl._ grains, 15/4.
Corser, _s._ a horse-dealer, 119/15, 120/4. We also find _scorser_ in
the same sense.
Cotes, _s. pl._ coats, 151/13.
Couer, _v._ cover, a term applied to collecting sheaves by tens, two
of them covering the other eight by being laid across, 31/2.
Couerlettes, _s. pl._ coverlets, 146/80.
Countre, _s._ county, 3/7; countreys, _s. pl._ counties, 2/2, 35/6;
countreyes, 2/28, 3/8.
Courbe, _s._ a curb, a kind of lameness in horses, 107/l.
Cowpers, _s. pl._ coopers, 134/7.
Crabtree, _s._ crabtree, 124/5; crabbe-tree, 137/11.
Cranes, _s. pl._ cranes, 146/29.
Cratches, _s. pl._ racks, mangers, 70/44. F. _crèche_.
Cratches, _s. pl._ scratches, a disease in a horse’s pasterns, 112/1.
Credence, _s._ credit, belief, 141/18.
Crofote, s. crowfoot, 15/22. A _crowfoot_ is a _Ranunculus_; see Dict.
of E. Plant-names.
Croke, _pr. pl._ crook, bend, 27/12.
Croked, _adj._ crooked, 3/39.
Cromely, _adj._ liable to crumble, 100/6.
Croper, _s._ the crupper, 105/2.
Croppe, _v._ to crop, to cut off the top-most shoots or the sprigs,
131/1.
Croppes, _s. pl._ shoots, sprigs, 44/4.
Crosse, _adj._ going across, 5/22.
Crume, _s._ crumb, 11/23.
Cudde, _s._ cud, 17/33.
Culture, _s._ coulter, 3/6, 34, 48; 63/4.
Cure, _s._ endeavour, 146/2.
Currante, _adj._ running, moving, 128/4; sloping downwards, 128/8.
Customers, _s. pl._ customers, 119/13.
Damme, _s._ dam, mother (said of a mare), 68/75.
Dampsons, _s. pl._ damsons, 136/4, 140/1.
Darbyshyre, 17/21.
Darnolde, _s._ darnel, 20/4; dernolde, 20/21.
Dauyd, David, 156/34, 168/17.
Deceypt, _s._ deceit, 146/102.
Declared, _pp._ explained, 147/28.
Dee-nettylles, _s. pl._ purple dead-nettles, 20/47.
Defautes, _s. pl._ defects, faults, 141/54.
Departe, _v._ to part, separate, 145/15.
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