[Costard], a clown in "Love's Labour Lost," who apes the affected court-wits of the time in a misappropriate style.
[Costello, Louisa Stuart], an English authoress; her descriptive powers were considerable, and her novels had a historical groundwork (1799-1870).
[Coster], alias Laurens Janszoon, born at Haarlem, to whom his countrymen, as against the claims of Gutenberg, ascribe the invention of printing (1370-1440).
[Cosway, Richard], a distinguished miniature portrait-painter, born at Tiverton; Correggio his model (1740-1821).
[Côte d'Or], a range of hills in the NE. of France, connecting the Cévennes with the Vosges, which gives name to a department (376) famed for its wines.
[Cotentin], a peninsula NW. of Normandy, France, jutting into the English Channel, now forms the northern part of the dep. La Manche, the fatherland of many of the Norman conquerors of England.
[Cotes, Roger], an English mathematician of such promise, that Newton said of him, "If he had lived, we should have known something" (1682-1716).
[Côtes du Nord] (618), a dep. forming part of Brittany; the chief manufacture is linen.
[Cotin, the Abbé], a French preacher, born in Paris; a butt of the sarcasm of Molière and Boileau (1604-1682)
[Cotman, John Sell], an English painter, born at Norwich; made Turner's acquaintance; produced water-colour landscapes, growing in repute; has been pronounced "the most gifted of the Norwich School" (1782-1842).