Constable, from comes stabuli, count of the stable.
Coop, anything hollow, like a cup.
Cope, a covering, a cap.
Costermonger = costard-monger—that is, apple-seller, costard being a kind of apple.
Country-dance, a corruption of French contre-danse, a dance in which each dancer stands opposite his partner.
Coward, a bob-tailed hare. Through O. Fr., from Lat. cauda, a tail.
Coxcomb, a corruption of cock’s comb.
Daisy—that is, day’s-eye, so called from its sun-like appearance, or because it closes its flower at night, and opens it again in the morning.
Dandelion, a corruption of French dent-de-lion, tooth of the lion.
Dirge, from dirige (= direct), the first word in the passage beginning Ps. v. 8, sung in the office for the dead.