COSTEIE. An old English word for going by the coast.
COSTERA. A law archaism for the sea-coast.
COSTS AND DAMAGE. Demurrage is generally given against a captor for unjustifiable detention. Where English merchants provoke expense by using false papers, the court decrees the captors their expenses on restitution. (See [Expenses].)
COT. A wooden bed-frame suspended from the beams of a ship for the officers, between decks. It is inclosed in canvas, sewed in the form of a chest, about 6 feet long, 1 foot deep, and 2 or 3 feet wide, in which the mattress is laid.
COTT. An old term for a little boat.
COTTON, Gun. See [Gun-cotton].
COTTONINA. The thick sail-cloth of the Levant.
COUBAIS. An ornamented Japanese barge of forty oars.
COUD. An old term used for conn or cunn.
COULTER-NEB. A name of the puffin (Fratercula arctica).