An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

To COT with one, v. n. To cohabit, S. B. q. to live in the same cot.

COTTAR, COTTER, s. One who inhabits a cot or cottage. S.
Statist. Acc.

L. B. cottar-ius, Fr. cottier, id. Hence S. cotterman, cotterfouk, &c.

COVAN, s. A convent.
Dunbar.
Anciently written covent.
Sir Gawan.

In S., caivin is still used for convent.

COUDIE, adj.
V. [Couth].

COUATYSE, COVETISE, COWATYSS, s.
1. Covetousness.
Douglas.

O. Fr. couvoitise, id.

2. Ambition, or the lust of power.
Barbour.

COUBROUN, adj. Uncertain, both as to signification and etymon.
Lyndsay.