Clerical, "clerical manner" (M[8],b),—"a clerical matter" (M[26],a), clerk-like, scholarly, abstruse, learned.
Clothes, "the clothes of thy shoon" (M[35],b), generic for fabric and material as well as for dress and apparel.
Cloutery, (R[263],d). Mr. Magnus glosses this as "mending," and probably he is right. On the other hand, a glance may be given to the Northern clouter = to do dirty work.
Cobs, "the great cobs" (R[232],d), a rich but grasping person, a person of superior rank and power. "Susteynid is not by personis lowe, But cobbis grete this riote sustene."—Occleve, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 267. "But, at leisure, ther must be some of the gret cobbes served likewise, and the king to have ther landes likewise, as, God willing, he shall have th' erle of Kildares in possession, or somer passe."—State Papers, ii. 228 (Nares).
Cock's (passim), God's. Hence Cock's body sacred = God's consecrated body.
Commediens, "as commediens vor us" (R[212],a), commodious.
Commodity (passim), advantage and many allied senses: see other volumes of this series.
Companable, "such as be companable" (N[62],a), affable, sociable, companionable. "Frendly to ben and compaygnable at al." MS. Fairfax 16.
Conformed, see Respublica.
Congy, "a little pretty congy" (N[60],d), bow of salutation.