~Cout-evil~, _s._ A disease incident to young horses, Border.; E.

_strangles_.

_Polwart._

COUTCHACK, _s._ The clearest part of a fire, S. B.

_Journal Lond._

COUTCHIT, _part. pa._ Inlaid, stuffed.

Fr. _couch-er_, to lay.

_Douglas._

COUTH, _aux. v._ Could.

_Barbour._

A. S. _cuthe_, novi, from _cunn-an_, noscere.

COUTH, _part. pa._ Known.

_Douglas._

COUTH, _s._ Enunciated sound; a word.

_Popular Ball._

Isl. _qwaede_, syllaba, _qwed-a_, effari.

COUTH, COUTHY, COUDY, _adj._

1. Affable, facetious, familiar, S.

_Ramsay._

2. Loving, affectionate, S.

_Burns._

3. Comfortable.

_Popular Ball._

4. Pleasant to the ear, S. B.

_Ross._

5. Ominous of evil; _no coudy_, Ang.

A. S. _cuth_, familiaris; Teut. _koddig_, facetus.

~Couthily~, _adv._ Kindly, familiarly, S.

_Ross._

~Couthiness~, ~Coudiness~, _s._ Facetiousness, kindness, S.

COUTTERTHIRL, _s._ The vacuity between the _coulter_ and the ploughshare, S.

V. ~Thirl~.

_To_ COW, _v. a._

1. To poll the head, S.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

2. To clip short, in general.

_Polwart._

3. To cut, to prune, to lop off.

V. ~Coll~, _v._

_To cow out_, to cut out.

4. To eat up as food, S.

_Popul. Ball._

5. To be _cowit_, to be bald.

_Dunbar._

6. It occurs as signifying shaven; applied to the Roman tonsure.

_Cleland._

Isl. _koll-r_, tonsum caput.

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