coffrer, v.a., (fam.) to imprison, lock up.

coffret, n.m., little chest or trunk, casket.

coffretier (-tié), n.m., trunk-maker.

cofidéjusseur, n.m., joint surety.

*cognasse, n.f., wild quince.

*cognassier, n.m., wild quince-tree.

cognat, n.m., cognate.

cognation, n.f., cognation.

*cognée, n.f., ax, hatchet. Mettre la — à l’arbre; to lay the ax to the tree; to begin an enterprise. Aller au bois sans —; to go to sea without biscuit (i.e. to be unprepared). Jeter le manche après la —; to give a thing up in despair.

*cogne-fétu, n.m., (, or —-—s) (pop.) great worker, little doer; fussy-do-nothing.