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.