An Universal Dictionary of the Marine / Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.

by William Falconer

CORRECTIONS, the methods of correcting the errors of a dead reckoning, by observations and allowances, as prescribed by the rules of navigation.

CORSAIRE, a privateer, also a pirate.

CORVETTE, a sloop of war.

COSSE, a thimble; also a bull’s eye, or traveller. See Margouillet.

COTE, the sea-coast, the shore.

Côte en écore, a bluff or bold shore.

Côte qui court nord-sud ou est-ouest, a coast which lies north and south, or east and west.

Côte saine, a safe coast, where there is neither rocks or sand-banks, that may render the access dangerous to shipping.

Donner à la Côte, ranger la Côte. See Donner and Ranger.

Côté du vaisseau, the side of a ship.