"My lord, lay down a cooling-card; this game is gone too far."
True Trag. of Rich. III. 1594.
Copetain, T. of Sh. v. 1 (from cop, i.e. top), high-crowned, coned, or sugar-loaf. It seems to be a corruption of coppletankt, coppintank, or coptankt, all signifying the same—"Galerus acuminatus," Junius: "Upon their heads they wore felt hats copple-tanked, a quarter of an ell high or more" (Comines, by Danet).
Cophetua (L. L. L. iv. 1, 2 Hen. IV. v. 3), the name of an African King, in the ballad, who married a beggar-girl.
Coranto (H. V. iii. 5), a lively, gliding kind of dance, in which the dancer had, as Davies says, "with best order all order to shun," and "wantonly range everywhere."
Corporal of his field (L. L. L. iv. 1). Singer remarks, from Lord Strafford's Letters (ii. 199), that this was a kind of aide-de-camp employed "in taking and carrying to and fro the directions of the general or other higher officers of the field." The ordinary corporal was, as now, the lowest officer. See Nares, v. Gentlemen of the Round.
Cotsall (M. W. i. 1), Cotswold-downs in Gloucestershire, where there used to be various sports at Whitsuntide. They were instituted by Mr. Robert Dover, an attorney in the reign of James I., and continued till after the Revolution. "The sports were football, skittles, quoits, shovel-board, cudgel, and single-stick; bull-baiting, cock-fighting, bowling, wrestling, leaping, dancing, pitching the bar, horse-racing, ringing of bells, jumping in sacks," etc. See Notes and Queries, 3 S. ix. 80, 100, 353.
Counter (C. of Err. iv. 2). Hounds were said to run counter (contra) when they ran back, instead of forward, on the scent.
Counterfeit, likeness, portrait; also same as slip, false coin: R. and J. ii. 4, Tr. and Cr. ii. 3.