knappe (A.S.) 133, _a knop, a button_ knave (A.S.) 14, 66, _a servant lad_ +knoppede (A.S.) 476, _full of knobs_ knowelichen (A.S.) _to acknowledge_. _pret. s._ kneweliched, 239, 407. _part. act._ knowelichynge, 400 knowes (A.S.) 98, _knees_ knowen, knowe (A.S.) 408, _to know_, _pres. pl._ knowen. _pret. s._ knew, 232. _pl._ knewen, 237. _part. pas._ knowen, knowe coffe (A.S. ?) 120, _a cuff_ +cofrene (A.N.) 455, _to put in a coffer_ coghen (A.S.) 367, _to cough_ coke (A.S.) _a cook_ cokeney (A.N.) 134, _some kind of meager food, probably a young or small cock, which had little flesh on its bones_. This meaning of the word (which has been misunderstood) may be gathered from a comparison of the passage in Piers Ploughman with one in the "Turnament of Tottenham," where the writer intended to satirize the poorness of the fare:-- At that fest were thei servyd in a rich aray, Every fyve and fyve had _a cokeney_. Heywood, in his Proverbs, part i, chap. xi, gives a proverb in which the word is evidently used in the same sense, and appears to be intentionally contrasted with a _fat hen_:-- --Men say, He that comth every daie shall have _a cocknaie_, He that comth now and then, shall have a fat hen; But I gat not so muche in comyng seelde when, As a goode hens fether or a poore egshell. I think that _cokenay_ in Chaucer is the same word, used metaphorically to signify a person without worth or courage (C. T. 4205):-- And when this jape is tald another day, I sal be hald a daf, _a cokenay_. coker (A.S.) 120, _a short stocking, or glove, a sheath_ coket (A.N.) 135, _a kind of fine bread_ cokewold (A.N.) 75, _a cuckold_ cole (A.N.) 134, _cabbage_ coler (A.N.) _a collar_ collen (A.N.) 203, _to embrace, put one's arms round a person's neck_, in French, _accoller_ colomy (A. .) 267 (?) colvere (A.S.) 319, _a dove, pigeon_ come (A.S.) 416, _to come_. _pres. s._ he comth, 18, 332. _pret. s._ cam, kam, coom, 168, com, 400. _pl._ comen, 438, come, 235, 237, 430, coome, 416, coomen, 438. _subj._, til he coome, 328, er thei coome, 353 comsen (A.N.) 23, 24, 49, 77, 81, 119, 136, 152, 244, 372, _to begin, commence, to endeavour_. _pret. s._ comsede, 402, 403. comsynge, 382 comunes (A.N.) 80, 420, _commons, allowance of provision_ confus (A.N.) _confused_ congeyen, congeien (A.N.) 258, _to give leave, dismiss_ congie (A.N.) 258, _leave_ konne (A.S.) 401, 408, 437, _to learn, know_. _pres. s._ kan. _pret._ kouthe, 411, koude. _subj._ in case that thow konne, 424, and thou konne, 397, _if thou know_. _pret. act._ konnyng, 206, _knowing_ konnynge (A.S.) 409, _knowledge, science, cunning_ contenaunce (A.N.) 2, 203, _appearance, gesture, carriage_ contrarien (A.N.) 367, _to go against, vex, oppose_ contree (A.N.) _a country_ contreve (A.N.) _to contrive_. contreved, _contrived_ conying (A.N. ?) _a rabbit_ copen (A.N.) 51, _to cover with a cope, like a friar_